AIBU Books - Part 3

[MoominMymbleandMy]

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!

Probably you shouldn't open it, CJ, but go on anyway. There might be a clue (I could do with one or more)!

I am mystified that GGB aren't keeping the Marlows in print. You would think it was a licence to print money at these prices.

...We wouldn't have minded so much if they had even tried to send us to the same orphanage after our aunt (yes, another one!) died. So, we're going to find our uncle...

Hello! this orphanage stuff sounds vaguely familiar,unlike CJ's castle - I agree with Moomin about opening the book!

...Sent the GC's out for the day while I went shopping,complete with food ,saucepan,frying pan so they could cook - they have left them buried on the beach..absolutely no sense at all...

Oh blimey, Pogle, the grandchildren are seriously weird! And the little wretches aren't ringing any bells with me.

...We've never met our uncle. He used to send our aunt a Christmas card every year. But she never let us see what was written in it so we think she disapproved of him...

See! I'm not BU to think they need taking in hand,am I?
Going away again to think about yours..

Grrr ... I'm not getting any further with these grandchildren. And, Moomin, I absolutely know yours but am fumbling, fumbling, just can't grasp it.

Do none of you recognise mine? Am I the new beekeeper?!

The book is huge and there's some sort of inscription here. I might as well read it out loud ...

I'm hoping it's not a beekeeper, CJ, but beginning to fear it. Anyway, on with the inscription, please.

...A nice man's helped us pawn a watch and bracelet to get money to buy tickets, and he thinks he knows where we can find our uncle. So we're off to Kings Cross to catch the train...

moomin will the children disappear through the back of a wardrobe at any point?

others....no idea

(please tell me what i promised to do.....was i under the influence??)

Afternoon Polly, no wardrobes involved, I'm afraid.

You might have been under the influence because you promised to swing from the chandeliers!

...So here we are in Bridlington and disaster strikes. Our uncle won't be here until tomorrow! What are we going to do?

Moomin, this is driving me insane. I know I know it!

I have read out the inscription, and something really strange seems to be happening now - I seem to be actually sinking into the pages of the book ...

ah is that all moomin.....i've got my sparkly leotard on......weeeeeeee!

cj it isn't a book that neverending story was based on is it?

Hi Polly, no it's not, I'm afraid. I don't think I can come with any more clues, to be honest!

Now please come back, ladies - I really don't want to do the ironing ...

CJ, I'm so sorry I have been reduced to shameless Googling and can't come up with anything. But it is definitely going on the "to buy or borrow" list because it sounds great fun.

Now Polly, the sparkly leotard (and very fetching too ) is actually amazingly appropriate for my one! But you would be swinging from something other than a chandelier.

moomin, so is there a circus involved?

Bang on the nose Polly! Up you go on the trapeze!

Gnash ... and I said Thursday's Child, and you didn't even snigger.

Well, I'm going to throw in the towel. Mine is Jane's Adventures In and Out of the Book, and it's brilliant. She sinks into whichever page the book is open at, and has all sorts of wonderful adventures. There are two more, apparently, but I don't remember them as well as the first. I still have my original copy!

What author please, CJ? I've never heard of it. Now, you're going to tell me it's out of print and costs £50 a copy, aren't you?

Umm, it isn't Thursday's Child but you're right that you are now very warm indeed.

I know (now), but only because Polly got it - I meant that I should have got the Noel Streatfeild connection, the minute you mentioned orphanages ...

Jane's author is Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy. Amazon have a hardback edition of all three books together here, not outrageously priced but only two left - I might have to rush to get one, too!

Sorree, CJ! I shall go and price it. The DD's birthday is coming up - any excuse!

AIBU to think I might be better off going home to Cleveland?

Give San Francisco a bit longer!

That was breathtakingly fast, CJ! Very, very well done you.

AIBU to keep the bit of paper the old gent got done in for?

Feel like a bit of a cheat, though - I've just started rereading them!

Are you Scudder?

Not cheating at all! What do you think put Mary-Ann Singleton into my head?

More spooky synchronicity!

...I don't know any bloke called Scudder. All I know is I took a dip in the old gent's pockets and then these sinister types came up and stabbed him...

morning!
on a roll!......next time i'll be wearing a thong and nipple tassles

aibu to love my boss?

i don't think i was unreasonable the first time but that was years ago....now he has shown up out of the blue again and my daughter is visiting....

Evening all!

But they have to be sparkly ones, Polly!
OK, well you're not Jane Eyre then. Another clue, please?

...Then the sinister coves searched the old gent. But they didn't find what they were looking for. I think it was the paper I got out of his pocket. I bet it's worth a fortune...