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!

Afternoon all!

Well done, Pogle, I am indeed poor Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat. I remember crying over that, as did the DD when I read it to her.

And you were still right about Nurse Matilda because Nanny McPhee was what they renamed the character when they made a film loosely based on the books.

Esther's Room, was really enjoyable and very AF in style but Patrick and a condom! He's so RC he disapproves of Vatican II. Yuck!

I need to do some pondering but in the meantime AIBU to not want my friend to bring the giant tortoise with us?

Pogle, another clue, please?!

Stripey, this sounds very Victorian, but I can't place it, perhaps a bit more detail, please?!

AIBU to want to kill my ex-husband? (Oops, sorry, wrong thread - not having a good day in RL)

Start again ... AIBU to think my husband's a bit obsessed with planting trees?

Hi CJ, have a non-MN hug on the sly. RL is a PITA at times.

Might your DH's obsession be something to do with a maze?

Cj,do you live in Australia? Still baffled by Stripey's,and Moomin's - Giant Tortoise??!
I should do this job as I am the youngest,but my friend is smaller,so I think it would be alright for him to swap...

Well, I am flattered that my friend should want to name the tortoise after me but it must weigh a ton! Where are we going to store it?

Pogle, are you at a famous public school?

Lurking, puzzled

moomin...thank you for explaining that nanny mcphee came from nurse matilda....i thought i'd just got it wrong!

cj are you living in elizabethan times?

Polly, no problem. I think there are three Nurse Matilda books and one bonus of the film is that they've just been reprinted.
They're by Christianna Brand and they've got gorgeous illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.

I can think of a couple of possible candidates for Pogle and CJ's, so I just need them to turn up and tell me I'm on the wrong track!

...well, how do you transport a live one-ton tortoise on a ship? It may well be an undiscovered species, but it isn't what you'd call portable...

Hi all,

Thanks Moomin for the hug, have had a shit day so it makes all the difference. Hopefully the MN police won't be patrolling this thread ...

Utterly befuddled by your tortoise, I'm afraid. And Pogle's schoolboy ...

I'm neither Elizabethan nor in Australia. Very English, brought up nicely though a bit wild. He's planting the trees because he loves me!

Hi CJ, nice to see you back although, as I suspected, you have just knocked down all my candidates for tree planters like a row of skittles!

Hmm, might your lad have had a stint in South America before embarking on the planting for love?

...I think we will have to take my namesake tortoise. It has cheered up my friend no end and he's been through a rough time lately. He was wounded in a duel and operated on himself to remove the bullet...

hmm.. clue?

1 - Oh what a tangled web we weave when there is No-one to unravel them and set the trapped souls free.

2- its fantasy fiction btw.

CJ - I might be barking up the wrong tree here but did he spell your name in flowering cherries in the wood he planted?

Quattro, you are bang on the nose - he did indeed.

Night, all.

Stripey, Eeek! Not Wilkie Collins then!

Night all, I'll hope some inspiration strikes during slumber.

...I wonder if there's anything in Admiralty regulations about keeping giant tortoises on board...

moomin was the tortoise carried on a ship named after a breed of dog?

Evening all! Pollywobbledoodle,that puts things in a whole new light - my mental picture for Moomin's was more along the lines of a childrens picture book by Judith Kerr - which explains why I was getting nowhere!

I am not at a famous public school - but I'm not at a 'normal'school either.Keep getting into trouble now - people come to get me when they really want my friend.We have found a secret passage...

Gaaaah, this thread is not good for my health - I know I know StripeyOss's, but I'm damned if I can think of it. It's like an itch you can't scratch! Is it by Orson Scott Card by any chance?

Moomin, no idea 'bout your tortoise but sounds interesting.

pogle you're assuming it is on the right lines

have no idea about any of the others!

stripeyoss love your name....i have the tshirt...are you from the black country by any chance? [that is you, not your character btw}

Good evening all

Pogle, sorry, I need to beg more help. CJ, what is the cherry tree one? I'm glad your hero didn't consult me when choosing because the last cherry tree I bought turned out to be remarkable for the splendour of its bark...and the meagreness of its blossom.

Polly, no, our ship isn't the Beagle but a rather more astonishing vessel!

ah, well.....moomin is your ship alive?

Polly, no, she's a 28-gun frigate. Not very big as ships go so you can understand my concerns about the tortoise. Still, "Testudo aubreii", does have a fine ring to it...

Moomin, your name is Jack! (And I am a shameless googler ... sorry but I couldn't stand it any longer.) I have never read these books - worth a try?

The cherry trees were planted for Calypso in The Camomile Lawn. A bit cheesy but I still enjoy it and love that image.

Pogle, I am still bloody stumped. Cluuuuuueeee?

Hi CJ, oh yes, Patrick O'Brian is definitely worth a try. The first one, Master and Commander, has a lot of technical/nautical detail, which is a bit off-putting, but you can either skip or plough doggedly through those bits, and it is such a fantastic series - gripping, historically detailed and so funny.

I've read the whole lot, one after another, about three times now and I'll certainly be re-reading them over and over again in the future.

The Camomile Lawn! Oh, I've read that! I even tried to grow a (small) camomile lawn (the slugs ate it) some years ago because the description in the book was so enticing. And I don't remember anything about the cherry trees! If your clue had been AIBU (and greedy) to shag twins at once I'd have had no problem!

Pogle, vague thought, are you a bit villainous?