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AIBU Books - Part 3

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MoominMymbleandMy · 07/05/2009 21:07

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!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 15/05/2009 13:24

Oooh CJ, trust Mr Blunden and it will all end more happily than you ever dreamed of! I loved that book!

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CJCregg · 15/05/2009 15:24

I knew you'd get it, Moomin!

Have to go and make chocolate chip cookies with DD now ...

Pogleswood · 15/05/2009 19:08

I'm amazed no-one has read mine(refuse to contemplate the alternative,that my clues were deficient!)
It's A Swarm in May,by William Mayne...

Pogleswood · 15/05/2009 19:15

Hardly dare to post again,but AIBU to want to provide my daughter with her dream house,even though I have no money?

CJCregg · 15/05/2009 19:17

No, Pogle - have never heard of it, I'm sure your clues were brilliant! Am going to track it down now, though.

CJCregg · 15/05/2009 19:18

AIBU to resent not being invited to the frankfurter roasts?!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 15/05/2009 20:26

I remember reading Earthfasts but I have never even heard of a Swarm in May, Pogle, so I'm sure your clues were well up to your usual high standard. I think it will be tricky to get hold of books by William Mayne now.

Anyway, how about a clue or two on the dream house and the frankfurters, please?

No takers on my kidnapped, seasickness sufferer?

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 02:48

Moomin, does a painting in the spare room have any significance?

It's not just the frankfurter roasts ... I don't get invited to marshmallow toasts, either!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 10:57

Clever CJ! Yes it does, and I am, indeed, Eustace Scrubb. How would that go down on the baby naming threads!

Your one is American, I'm guessing, from the choice of food, but it isn't ringing any bells yet. Another clue, please?

AIBU to be very annoyed with my DD. I asked her to take the baby out for an airing and she forgot to bring him home!

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 11:45

Hurrah! Vague evidence of mojo returning ...

Re the frankfurters etc, have you noticed how neatly they rhyme?

More clues on forgetful DD, please?

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 12:44

Oh! oh! oh! CJ, you are a plain-bellied Sneetch! Good old Dr Seuss.

...the DD left the poor baby asleep in his pram in an abandoned mill while she went blackberrying...

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 13:12

I do love the Sneetches, even the snotty ones.

Not sure about your DD, vague memories whispering but can't place it. Probably totally wrong, but you don't live in One End Street, do you?

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 13:40

Not One End Street, no, but it does sound exactly like something Kate would have done.

We live in a little village 'oop North' and my DH is a plumber.

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 13:57

Nope, I'm not getting any closer I'm afraid!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 14:02

....And she is forever mooning about in the graveyard! It isn't normal!

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 14:15

grrr ...

CJCregg · 16/05/2009 14:41

Wait! Lizzie Dripping!

I knew I knew it ... please tell me I'm right!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 15:35

Oh well done, CJ! I didn't even have to mention the fibs about the witch.

And on a similar theme, AIBU to leave the baby outside in the pram while I change my library book?

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 17:34

Really, Moomin, that is just too vague. I'm going to have to start bashing my head and looking for my mojo again.

AIBU to think that today is going awfully slowly?

Poledra · 16/05/2009 17:44

God, you lot have memories like elephants! I read Lizzie Dripping more than once when I was younger, but I could not have told you what it was about at all.

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 18:09

Hi Poledra, you most certainly aren't rubbish at this game. I can rememer you getting and setting some horrors!

And, as for being older, I do have the advantage of having read a lot of this stuff to the DD fairly recently, as well having read it for myself when I was younger...which probably makes me much older than you!

CJ, this is one of those irritating, tantalising ones, which seems almost familiar. 'Nother clue, please!

...my sister and brothers think I was BU to leave the baby. But how was I to know he would vanish? This is Hampstead, after all...

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 18:13

Or even remember

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 18:24

Well, I've done the shopping ...

Moomin, yours is really annoying me now. I'm so sure I know it, but inspiration has flown out of the window.

Good to see you, Poledra!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 16/05/2009 18:30

Hee hee, I'm pretty sure you know it too, CJ!

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CJCregg · 16/05/2009 18:43

I do know it, I know I do ... one more clue?

As I said, I've done the shopping ...

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