AIBU Books Game Part 4

[MoominMymbleandMy]

Well, we made it to a fourth thread!

As before, we frame an AIBU from the point of view of a character in a book and everyone tries to guess the book and/or the character.

Everyone welcome to play/time-waste as much or as little as they please.

New thread, new AIBU...

AIBU to refuse to read aloud?

Nope, rhymes with 'pixie'! Not strictly a spy, though I suppose my snooping could annoy.

Aha! Can't you bring Bobby with you? I'm sure he'd enjoy himself.

...And now they're taking her away. I'm going to be in so much trouble if I can't get Adelaide back...

Good idea, Moomin - I, Trixie Belden, may just do as you suggest and then he can cheer us up!

Still stumped over yours despite the biiig clues...

more clues please!

they are treating me as if i am so delicate, wrapping me up in cotton wool....

Hmm, I thought you must be some sort of 'critter', Polly, as you live on the allotment but perhaps I'm on the wrong track if you're being wrapped in cotton wool. OK, I haven't a clue. Help, please.

...They left her at the church porch. We can get her back...Oh no, it's the wrong baby!

the prince isn't keen on getting married, he'd rather have a gap year but he doesn't want his pocket money stopped

Bless me, Polly, you have me utterly stumped. A lot bit more help, please.

...We'll just have to take this baby home instead. Perhaps they won't notice the difference. All babies look the same, don't they...

am absolutely sure i've never read yours moomin, think it would have stuck in my mind!

the queen is getting fed up now because he's been looking for a bride for a year now...unsuccessfully...so now she's bringing me in to show him...

Still not ringing any bells with me, Polly. Another clue or three please?

...They noticed! It was a boy so I suppose it's not surprising. They're making an awful fuss. But they don't know I lost her and I know where she is! She's in the poorhouse in Brighton so Bostock and I can go and get her back...

I have not the faintest idea what any of you are talking about

Black horses, with plumes, I think ...

Blimey, CJ, are you an undertaker?

I'm not, Moomin, no, but I am about to engage the services of one, although he is a bit odd!

Lots going on here then! Stumped by Polly and CJ - more,more clues please!

Yours is a bit of a strange affair ,isn't it,Moomin?

People are trying to convince me that my wife is having an affair - AIBU to disbelieve them?

Oh very well done, Pogle, I was beginning to fear it was a beekeeper! You're not in Venice, are you?

Still getting nowhere with CJ's and Polly's.

AIBU to enter a shop-bought quiche in the village baking competition?

Right, well I don't think I've read any of yours!

Except possibly Pogle's - clue, please, Pogle?

Actually, clues all round, please?

WIBU to become a professional fruit-picker?

Are you and your colleagues living in two caravans, llandb?

...My successful PR career didn't give me the chance to learn to bake but now I've retired to the Cotswolds I want to make my mark...

Nope...

... it's because I have a special aptitude for apple-picking. Unlike most people, I don't have to faff about climbing a ladder!

An aptitude for apple picking?? Yep,more clues all round would be nice! Oh - are you not having problems with ladders because you can fly,llandb?

...They say she is involved with my closest friend...

And I may be on a roll here - why a quiche,Moomin - wouldn't something with raisens in be more appropriate?

And on a separate note I can just see myself baffling someone years ahead by saying 'I thought this would turn out to be a beekeeper' about some puzzle no-one knows the answer to!!

llandb are you a giant?

moomin...sounds like the sort of thing jilly cooper heroine would do(if you have not lost your raisin)

now they are putting me in the princes bed for a trial!!!

Does your unusual attribute mean you have a sideline in washing windows, llandb?

Polly, I'm not sure you're old enough to be reading books like that!

Pogle, yes, I can see the beekeeper becoming Moominfamily language too!

More clues, please. And yes, bang on the nose, Pogle and Polly. Wasn't it a shame some villain exposed my clever ploy by poisoning the quiche?! I suppose it was bad luck for the man who died too.

AIBU to think our parents are so useless they wouldn't notice if one of us disappeared?

it's all right, they've put plenty of layers on me