AIBU Books Game Part 5

[MoominMymbleandMy]

Now we've made it to a fifth 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 set all my sights on getting a rich husband?

cj are you the head of a school under the influence of miss jean brodie?

...I'm actually pretending to be ill to get out of doing an exam...

treacle, have you got 'laryngitis'?

No, I'm not at Miss Brodie's school.

Afternoon all!

Yes indeed, well done, Sticky, I was being Constance from No Talking After Lights Out.

Treacle, are you the awful Gwendolen Mary Lacey and faking a dodgy heart to get out of School Cert, by any chance?

NIMC on everyone else's, having an awful time getting to grips with this laptop - the keys are in the wrong places - but happily about to disappear to the Cotswolds for a week. Yippee!

Oooh, the Cotswolds - sounds very nice

...No, I actually want to do the test, but something bad will happen if I do...

It wouldn't be a skating test, would it, Treacle?

CJ, are the children golden-eyed?

I'm not feline, aged under three, a real commando, or in the way of fancying the person I'm sneaking up on! In fact I hope that the railway inspector won't catch me swapping his wood chip sample...

Cotswolds! (Add to jealous clamour; does this mean no internets?)

MCP!a

Oooh, hemoticoms!

Yay halloween! When shall we start our scary theme?

Yes, moomin, it was a skating test - on reflection, maybe putting my thermometer on the hot water bottle wasn't such a bright idea...

NIMCP!

Moomin, you are so clever ... you would be a shining addition to my class, I'm sure. They win the Form Prize every year, you know. But I'm not so sure about this year's lot ...

Oops, forgot to add a Hallowoticon

Are you demonic, CJ?

And AIBU to want to bash my boss and everyone they work with round the head with the fax machine for keeping me here late on a Friday?

Not a book, btw - just a question!

Treacle, YANBU for the most part, but it could damage the fax machine, and think of the poor cleaners!

...Curse our luck, it's the only cronk log we've had. Now I hope he's distracted for long enough for me to substitute this Iron-Bark Chip....

Aw, CJ, I'd be in the corner with a dunce's cap, I think. Your one is ringing a very, very faint bell but more clues please.

Llandb, trying to conceal a spot of inferior workmanship, are we? Most U. And, yes, I think I am going to be internetless - I will have to talk to my family, or read

Let's do the scary ones in Witch Week!

What in all unreasonableness is Witch Week? Googling just leads me to some book; that sort of thing is of no interest here

Is it the week leading up to hhalloween?

Ah Moomin, ya caught me fair dinkum, but luckily for me an' me dodgey mates, the inspector didn't! Happy reading and conversing

AIBU to marry a clergyman?

NIMCP!

Witch Week runs from Halloween to Bonfire Night and is the most magical week of the year, according to Chrestomanci .

If you're Miss Price I'd say the clergyman was more U to marry you but I doubt it's that easy.

Witch week? not too scary,please!

Talking to your family,Moomin? Reading? Well,really! (hope you have a great time - I'm jealous too!)

CJ,there aren't shades of "blood for breakfast",here,are there?
though if there are,I don't know which book it's from - have gone temporarily blank

Absolutely, Pogle - there is always blood for breakfast if pupils don't toe the line in my class. I usually enjoy being LIVA's form mistress, but this year they've done nothing but get into trouble.

Yey!
But you should be proud really - they are a quirky lot,and pretty intelligent! I was thinking of the bit where they got her a single orchid(if I'm remembering correctly) and someone (Rowan?) imagined weeping and jealousy in the staff room,because other staff had recieved inferior gifts! Or am I still in completely the wrong book.....??

I think you are - I think that was Miss Latimer in Upper IVA, but then again I am a bit sad and have no life.

No, it wasn't! It was whoever they had in Third Remove, prompting Sixth Form comments about what an odd lot they were. They didn't have money for a bouquet because they'd spent it all on sets and costumes for the Prince and the Pauper ... Now if I could just remember her name!

Ohhh! We're back at Kingscote and it's end of term and you are old Ironsides, CJ!

And I am procrastinating over the packing.

Btw, Antonia Forest adored Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series.

Miss Cartwright got the orchid!

Thanks, Moomin - I knew you'd know it!

Because I, too, am a bit sad and have no life!

Run Away Home was on Ebay for a comparative song the other day and I missed it - grrr.