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?

Same rogueish begging fer Polly if ye were thinkin' o' a non-Penzancical family

Llandb, slit my gizzard but I'd say the U-ness was more on your parents' side to leave you and your brothers home alone in the evening.

And if they are so stingy as to employ a dog as a nanny, why lock her in a kennel.

...My brother thinks he's found a much better site for father's new house. It would mean the old one wouldn't have to be knocked down...

True, Moomin, anything could have happened - I could have flown away with a boy and met a pirate with a missing hand!

And now, Arr IBU to discuss money?

No idea about anything else

yo ho ho and a flavour of rum.....

llandb, sorry to disappoint but i wasn't actually thinking of a book just stabbing in the dark at the last one.....now this one....it is always wrong to ask for a ransom

no other ideas me hearties....trying hard to think of piratey type books...

Arrr, s'pose askin' fer a ransom would be wrong. But in my case, I just can't stop banging on about money. In fact, I'm quite specific about the currency and I talk of little else!

Avast and belay there, but I have not a blessed clue on your money-grubbing pirate, Llandb!

But I have a lovely one of my own in the works!

Anyway, on with the current one, not a sniff of a pirate, alas, but one minor character does get nabbed by the Press Gang!

...They're going to build the house on my brother's site! That means the old hall won't be pulled down. And Sir Humphrey is so pleased with my brother for saving his daughter from drowning and the old hall from burning down, he's persuaded my father that he should go to Oxford, just like his hero Sir Christopher Wren...

Avast! llandb, I think you're a parrot, shiver me timbers!

Don't know anyone else's, not a landlubbin' clue ...

(By the way, Moomin, you were - of course - quite right about A Traveller in Time, sorry forgot to acknowledge)

CJ, peg me leg, yer' right! I be t'other Cap'n Flint - Long John Silver's pet!

Pieces of eight to ye!

Moomin', I'm ashamed to say that the only Sir Humphrey I can think of is Appleby

Cap'n Flint, doh and damn your eyes, my cully!

So shall I abandon Barbara and her brother Geoffrey contemplating the plans for Sir Humphrey Ainsley's new house in the latest 17th Century style? It does seem to be a Beekeeper!

Ok,not sure I can manage the piratical talk,fine with the rum and the jigs though!

Moomin,is this The Great House,by Cynthia Harnett? Can't be intelligent about the plot,as if I've read it it was a long time ago,but I was brooding on Cynthia Harnett books,and was hoping someone could remind me about the plot of The Writing on the Hearth,so this rang faint bells...

Yes, well done, Pogle, I thought you would recognise it!

Hah, hah, me hearties, now that Pogle has knocked my troublesome AIBU on the head I can do my own pirate one!

AIBU to think every voyage we make is doomed?

Arr, a clue, please?

And now, whatever 'goodnight, All' is in Pirate!

I think it is probably a hog-like snore as they fall into a rum-induced coma on the deck.

...We have had ship after ship sunk under us. Perhaps we're not cut out for piracy...

Off to seek my hammock, cullies!

Avast there,and greetings to you all on this fine morning!

Are you being sunk by the same people time after time,Moomin?

Can't think of any pirate tales at all,myself!

Arr, Pogle! You've met 'em, then? A big fat fellow and a little 'un!

That'd be them! Well,as me old captain used to say "beware of Gauls bearing gifts," - no,tell a lie - it was just "beware of Gauls"...

Morning, all! Gosh, what a lot to catch up on... Am embarrassed that I didn't get yours, CJ - A Traveller in Time is one of my all-time favourites and I only re-read it this summer!

Am quite excited by this pirate theme

Arrr I bein' unreasonable to not want a gang of pesky children on my boat?

Arr, Pogle, I do beware of Gauls but there's no gettin' away from that pair, damn their eyes!

Treacle, I'd make 'em walk the plank but why did you let 'em on in the first place?

AIBU to think I do all the work on this ship?

...Well, the rest o' me crew seem to like 'em, and I suppose we could do with a few more cabin boys on this voyage, especially since they're so good at readin'...

be ye a woman moomin?

be ye a woman moomin?

:D and yo-ho-ho at polly - sounds plausible! But I be stumped as me leg an' need clues!

I be a boy, Polly! A cabin boy!

Treacle, I'm stumped too!