AIBU Books - Part 3

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I can't get into the old thread so I think we filled it up! I hope everyone finds the new one.

So nice, shiny new thread, nice shiny new AIBU.

AIBU to be jealous of my DH's correspondence with a stranger?

Pogle, I feel I ought to know yours but I'm not getting anywhere.

Maria, this isn't ringing bells at all now. Doh!

Thank you,thank you

I am definitely interested in your Lothario,CJ - I've just got no idea who he is! And I don't know if YABU to follow the shadows - but it sounds like a bad idea,along the lines of 'let's split up and search for whatever's been killing us...' in films!

So llandb,a bit forgetful,are you??

Meow!

Oh, haven't you all been busy tonight!

Pogle, you are a minx, but a very clever one.

llandb, I seem to remember someone protesting her AIBUs were not cat-ridden

I have no clue on CJ's shadows or Lady G's fog but they both sound sinister.

But I am wondering if the Lothario is about to sit his 'O' Levels.

...Hooray! I'm visible again. My auntie was so glad to have me back. But I think it was a bit silly of one of my new friends to put on the ring himself. Guess what happened...

Night all!

Lady G, are you at sea?

Doh! and I was just last night reading a certain thread in Childrens' Books without making any connection at all with this!

Morning, all!

Moomin, are you in an enchanted castle?

My Lothario (he'd be so chuffed with that name, if he knew what it meant) has done his O' Levels. And his A's. It's his first year exams I'm worried about.

I'm going to follow the shadows. They can't take the entire front of my house and get away with it!

Morning all

Have been in MIA due to 3yo with chicken pox and a heavy cold, and the baby and I have the cold too - coughing fits at 2am anyone ? Anyway, Moomin, are you Mabel by any chance?

Oh dear,Poledra,that sounds rough.Hope you're all beginning to feel better...

Hi Pol, what a nightmare ... hope you're all feeling a bit better now.

Morning all!

Hi Poledra, it sounds like you've been having a really horrible time. Hope everyone's on the mend now.

And you and CJ are both absolutely spot-on because I am Mabel, niece to the housekeeper at Yalding Towers, otherwise known as The Enchanted Castle.

Bah, I thought I was on to something with the Lothario but it was a complete dead end.
And the shadows are just mystifying. Hang on, are you actually human, CJ (in your shadow AIBU, I mean)?

Pogle, please desist from battering yourself and contemplate your Thread Medal instead!

Now, AIBU to devote my retirement to growing dahlias?

I'm human, Moomin - and it turns out the shadows are too. But they're all girls ... not sure if I want to join them now, although they look quite exciting.

Oh no! Another blind alley. CJ, I need more clues, and to both of them, please!

...A career in banking doesn't involve risk-taking (well, it didn't in my day!) so I think I shall be quite content with the garden and bridge once a week at the Conservative Club...

Oh Poledra, poor all of you - you are doing fantastically to be here under the circs!

Moomin, whoops, it must be because I'm so forgetful...

As an aside, I recently had the opportunity to re-read Mog and thought, hmmm, the illustrations look an awful lot like the ones in The Tiger Who Came to (or was it for?
) Tea - must be the same illustrator. Commom authorship had completely passed me by

Moomin, dahlias annoy me but other than that, I need more clues - and from you, too, please, CJ!

Moomin, I have no idea who you are but am wondering if I might be going down the right route if I ask whether you might be about to embark on some unexpected detective work?

I am going to go with these strange girls. On their ship. I have no idea where we're going, or what the front of my house has to do with it ...

Things are hotting up with the Lothario. I've invited him to stay in the Christmas holidays. Wonder if he'll get on with Mummy and Daddy? And the team's really improving now, although the captain is a bit of an arse.

Moomin, yes, I am at sea, but we didn't mean to go.

Oh dear, now I'm really at sea! I shall ponder on the school run.

...But a day trip to Brighton with my aunt should make for a pleasant interlude. And I certainly have no plans to take up detection, especially after that unpleasant business with the police...

Ok,still baffled - except by Lady G's - are you still at sea about that ,Moomin,or did that comment refer to the others? Cos I assumed you'd solved it! You've gone to Holland,haven't you,Lady G ,when you were told no night sailing and stay in the harbour? well,better drowned than duffers...

Hi Pogle, no, We Didn't Mean to go to Sea is the only one I'm recognising at the moment. It's CJ's horrors that have me at sea!

...I've never had my tea leaves read before. They say I'm going on a long journey with a lady. How absurd...

Yes, indeed you got the book right, but who is my character?

I really feel I ought to recognise CJ's character, but it's just out of reach.

CJ,your Lothario - has sport actually been mentioned? Cos if not is your team rather more on the intellectual and challenging side?

You sound like Susan,Lady G ! Are you?

I assumed Susan because she is a fuss-pot from what I remember.

So,AIBU to make my friend take me abroad with him? He really doesn't want to...

Yes, I am Susan the sensible. Stumped on CJ and Moomin though - obviously not as well read as I thought I was.
Need more to go on, Pogle.
AIBU to try to persuade a determined young man to change his mind?

Moomin,have googled salient points from yours....How could you?!?
Have not read the book so will say no more!

More clues please,Lady G!

....He thinks I'm a child - I'm fifteen!...