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!

he always needed me to do things that were rather risky before....i wonder if he'll want the same now i'm so much older...

moomin, meant to say ...is your man a londoner?

He certainly is, Polly, but I wouldn't call him a man, even if he is old enough to be hanged (don't worry, he isn't).

Er, another clue, please. I'm feeling a bit challenged in the brain department tonight!

Just popping in to say I'm baffled by Moomin's young shaver and Polly's misty-eyed employee ... and to ask what happened with Polly's strange grandchildren - did we ever work out who they were?

moomin....is he a dickensian boy?

i must say that i am no longer misty eyed about my boss.....though his real life is all a bit hazy...

Moomin ... or is he an habitué of Baker Street?

Polly, what happened to the grandchildren?!!

Oi,CJ those are my grandchildren what you are referring to!
...the youngest one now has a hobby - she is fishing in a bucket(a low stress occupation)...
Maybe they are the new beekeeper - do you all give up?
Baffled still by everyone's - but my brain has been switched off by work and the heat,so I'm off to bed with book and cup of tea!
Goodnight!

No, he's not one of Sherlock's irregulars nor does he appear in Dickens. The author has been compared to Dickens though.

Bah, I am baffled by everybody's. Perhaps the washing-up will prove inspirational!

Moomin, are you having trouble reading this document? You'd better find someone to help you ...

CJ, yes, that's the problem. I can't read so I don't know what's on the 'dockiment' and who can I trust to read it for me? And the sinister coves are after me now...

Pogle, are your GCs inadvertent arsonists in addition to all their other weird foibles?

Pogle, your poor exiled grand-daughters!!! They would have loved this thread.

Hi everyone - nice to see things are still going strong on this thread. I'm off on hols after today, I trust the thread will still be here after

no notion about the others yet

Actually, my DS and his friend used to sit at the bottom of the stairs, both of them fishing in a bucket, very cute aged 2 (very sentimental face). Hard to reconcile with the hulking great 14 year olds they are now....

Hello again, well done,Snow and Moomin,and poor Big Grandma,losing all her books..
and I've realised that I do know who you are Moomin,you have a very common name,don't you?

Oh of course Pogle! never thought of him

pogle....i've still no idea even if the others seem to have got it!

moomin....are you in the moonstone?

i still don't think i was unreasonable in my youth....he was the only other person i knew in that country....but now i'm older wiser and i've made a life for myself in english suburbia and i don't trust him further than i can throw him...

Aww, I've got a lovely mental picture of two chubby toddlers solemnly fishing in a bucket, Snow . And you missed Black Maria - I was expecting you to jump in any minute! Have a great holiday. We will be here time-wasting when you get back, no doubt!

Pogle, I have to confess to cheating by Googling. But it sounds great. Another for the lengthy 'to buy or borrow' list.

And yes, you've all got me, my hero is Smith, the illiterate but very talented pickpocket. And I wouldn't trust him with something as valuable as the moonstone for a milli-second.

AIBU to resent my DH going on holiday with his friends again?

Pogle, what was yours, please? I am none the wiser ...

Wave from place of midnight twilight and Nobel-prize-dishing royalty, where I am apparently the only person past infancy who wears a sun hat, having got here via land of indecisive royalty...

Sorry for disappearing; OH was too techie for his own good and installed things that were so super-duper geeky that wireless wouldn't work (oh and forgot to pack the cable for connection by traditional method)

Hah. So much for 'should have internets'!

Must give laptop back now; hope to have a peek later and catch up

Hope you are all well and Being Reasonable!

Hope you're having a smashing time. Watch out for little girls with odd stockings and bright red pigtails.

and little old ladies who shink to the size of a pepperpot...

Oooh, I love Mrs Pepperpot, and so does DD1 now, fortunately

Mine was The Exiles (another by Hilary Mackay) - highly recommended ,especially if you need cheering up,it and The Exiles at Home which follows it are just so funny!(IMHO!)
Hi,llandb,hope you're enjoying yourself!

Hi Poledra, hope everyone's on the mend now.

Polly, more help please.

...On the other hand I think I shall be able to persuade the DH to pay for a new bathroom, a new stove and a new piano if I let him go on holiday with his friends...

moomin....sounds like an expensive holiday your dh is having, where is he going?

i am russian...though you probably wouldn't guess that now.....i met my boss who is english (at least i think he is) in paris at the outbreak of WW2......