AIBU Books Game Part Six

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Now, we're on thread number six!

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 think I'm seeing a ghost?

Happy Monday, All!

Elephants, when I was 16, a goatkeeping chef called Dave told me that his woodwork teacher told him that it's better to ask a stupid question than make a stupid mistake. Somehow I've always followed Goatherd Chef Dave's woodwork teacher's advice (Not a remark on the value of your questions, BTW )

As for RL, how are the mice (real and otherwise?) No mice here, but large slugs, who come up the water meter pipe into the kitchen cupboard and then escape (ewww).

But as I'm actually adrift in briney brine with these AIBUs, you'd think they'd stay away!

As for my benignly child-disliking retired maths teacher, who doesn't let on to the kids about not being fond of them, but sets a quiet activity and pretends a headache.

Well, the eldest great-niece is such a good, quiet, dutiful girl. A bit unhinged by her family tragedy, but makes good fudge and toffee. Her younger sister is more of a handful, but very fond of reading. Mostly Robert Louis Stevenson.

Pogle, MCP!

SDTG, is the baby a human baby, or some kind of endangered wildlife?

Evening!

So llandb the goat keeping chef stuff isn't part of your AIBU??
Yuck to the slugs - I think I'd prefer mice!

I'm not sure I can manage any more clues! Would you like a brief overview of the '45 from the point of view of a british officer with the Duke of Cumberland's army?
Or from the viewpoint of a highlander whose chief is currently being hunted for high and low in the hills round Loch Arkaig?

MCP!

Evening, all! Sorry I haven't been around - RL has taken over a bit (though mice don't seem to have returned) but I have largely been stumped so haven't been able to stammer out a single idea. Pathetic.

So yes, I fancy my best friend. Problem is, I'm a bit square and he is really quite cool these days, so although he always turns to me for a chat or a friendly drink, he's far more interested in glamorous media types. I don't stand a chance - I'm only a waitress.

MCP!

Hi CJ! RL - what would we do without it?

I did wonder a while back if your fancying your best friend might lead to the unexpected patter of tiny feet,but I have absolutely no memory of whether that person was a waitress...!

MCP!
(though I am off now to watch Grumpy Old Women with DH - I'm sure I am older and grumpier than some of them already!)

Just a quick marker to remind me where I'd got to (though it doesn't really make any difference as I ain't really got a clue!).

CJ, all sympathies on the mice - my parents get mice every year, when the harvest is taken in from the field next to them. Dad swears he gets 5 every year - mum, dad and kids, in his opinion!

Sorry, Pogle, forgot you'd asked the question. No patter of tiny feet, although when I'm older I'd quite like children. But I'm still only in my twenties. Wondering if my career will ever kick off - in the meantime I serve crappy Mexican food ...

Pol, I think it's sort of acceptable to have mice if you live near a farm! I am in a village, to be fair, but no farms around. Anyway, only got the one (so far).

Hmm... completely stuck here so just popping in to say good morning!

And AIBU to desert these children?

LLandb - it's a human baby - a little girl, actually. And now I'm worried about the older children who are staying with me - they are both going to work in the local mill, and it is a terrible place to work - the Health and Safety Inspector would have an absolute fit if he saw the working practices there!!

Pogleswood - I'm not sure of the character, but is there a hunt for gold going on?

Mornin' All!

Pogle, more or less same q as SDTG but no idea which book as don't think I've actually read anything set there 'n' then. And Google isn't helping me much with my reduction process (but has given me many to add to virtual tottering pile)

Erm, stumped with CJ and SDTG.

And yes, Dave the goatkeeping chef and his woodwork teacher were RL

...that younger great-niece is quite taken with the exploits of Scott, too - ah, kids, always copying their heroes - she practices holding her breath underwater in the pool....

Morning!

No gold in this book - though I think it features in the sequel.Sadly,though my friend Ewen Cameron of Ardroy will be in that book I won't as I am about to be stabbed by his foster brother...

I did think this might be a bit too obscure!

CJ,did you have a career in mind to replace waitressing?

MCP,SDTG,llandb and Treacle! (Deserting children? Sounds pretty U - are there extenuating circumstances?)

The baby's been left with me because her parents fear she wouldn't survive the rigours and unhygienic conditions of the voyage to Australia. The other two children were the wards of the man who won my house from my husband by cheating in a race. He died in the fire that burned the house down and left the children homeless.

Would your initials be RR, by any chance, Pogleswood - and TC the initials of the book?

And if STDG has guessed correctly, Pogle, then would the author be N.M.? (Not that I've read it, but is on cheatin' with Google list - sounds rollicking stuff!)

Hmm, SDTG, are the police going to be involved?

That great-niece sure has a determined streak about her. She and her friend have been stalking that trailer trash family all summer, for some reason....

MCP!

Morning!
Sorry,not the above - I will put all of us out of our misery I think...
It was The Flight of the Heron,by DK Broster - I think they are old books but I read them at school and my current omnibus edition was published mid 1990's - so not completely antique!
Now you can both tell me what you thought it was please - the only scot I can come up with for RR is Rob Roy...
Thanks and MCP!

I thought it was Rob Roy, from the book 'The Clansma' by Nigel Tranter.

SDTG, I tried to read Tranter when I was a teenager (Dad loved them) and gave up. Are they worth another bash now I is old mature?

I have to admit that I found The Clansman as a possibility by googling, and haven't actually read them myself.

hello everyone!

lost in a mist of confusion here, as per usual...

...I just think they stand a better chance of survival without me...

And I have read some Nigel Tranter books but have no memory at all of what they were like - though I don't remember actively seeking them out,and as I was addicted to historical fiction at school that probably means I didn't like them much...

SDTG,yours does sound as if it should be very recognisable.
llandb,does the phrase "trailer trash" mean your lot are in the US??

MCP,all!

I'm not just a lady, I'm a Lady. I am still worried about the children working in the mill - though it is better than their previous occupations (trawling the sewers for items of value to sell, and collecting cigar butts to dry out and re-roll into cigars to sell). The little girl is proving very quick and adept at the job she's been given - she's even invented a tool to stop her fingers getting nipped and to enable her to go faster.

Thanks for putting us out of our misery, Pogle - and adding to the virtual tottering pile!

Treacle, are you going to have more children with more husbands and desert them, too? If not, then MCP

And yes, Pogle, we are in Mississippi. Of course, we are from the faded gentility side of the tracks.

In fact the late father of the trailer trash used to work as a groundsman for my father, before the family home burned down.

(And I'm not completely sure about my character being a retired maths teacher - and hence NBU to dislike children, job requirement, y'know . Can't check as Google isn't helping me here, and the book is several piles deep under the bed , but very sure I am or was a teacher of some sort)

MCP please!

Ooh SDTG, x-posted - now yours does sound very familiar. But not as something I've read - as something I've read about (therefore, stumped). Off to google-cheat...

SDTG, you are Eulalia Murgatroyd and I claim my £5!

A bit of a cheat really, as we had this one quite recently but I have been trying to remember it for months so am very glad to see it again.

It haunted me when I was younger.

I'm still waitressing in the crappy Mexican restaurant, by the way. I'd like to be a writer some day, but I just don't have the confidence. My best friend, meanwhile, has become a tv presenter and is shagging everything that moves. I'm worried that he's taking too many drug, though.

drugs

Yay - well done CJCregg!! Just wait a mo whilst I photocopy this fiver......

Now - am I being unreasonable to be scared of the Abbey church at the top of the hill, and to refuse to go in?