AIBU Books Game Part Six

[MoominMymbleandMy]

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?

Hello everyone!

Sorry, sorry, sorry for vanishing in the middle of an AIBU - we have been lurgy-ridden and snowed under with boring RL stuff at the same time.

I've no idea where you've all got to but I'm promising myself a good catch-up tonight!

In the meantime, if anyone remembers mine...

...After all, how were we going to get anyone to come to our model railway (and buy cream teas) if he's managed to get a lot of live ones running around his? We had no choice but to steal them...

Mooooooooooooommmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnn!

So good to see you back! I have absolutely NI (MCP) but am still here.

Hey,you are back,Moomin! (see,we did notice you weren't here!)

Perhaps an "RL becoming overwhelming - back in a few weeks" emoticon (needing only one key press!) is called for..

And can I interest you in an almost complete
scanned copy of Run Away Home? (details above....somewhere..)

CJ,I hope you haven't emailed me cos if you have I haven't received it!

MCP all!

Good God, Pogle, completely forgot. So sorry. Am going to do it NOW.

Back later!

welcome home moomin!

what was yours llandb? sci-fi/childrens story?

she's from these parts but wants to be a journalist in NY really...she is just naive and hasn't thought it through....anyway, i agreed to talk to her and she is now starting to realise how dangerous it is for me and for her to be involved in the project....if anyone-was to see us sitting at my kitchen table i'm sure i'd be lynched... and if they worked out what we were talking about it would bring the KKK out...

Was that a nursery rhyme, llandb?

Moomin! Hello! Lurgeys are evil and should be banned

Mine is here, as performed by me bestust mate Lew (my own rendition is much faster and I don't play the ukulele; nor will it ever go on the internets ).

OK, so I was naughty with genre, but am going to plead the 'it's in various books, right?' excuse

No idea what your cream teas are, Moomin, but I do fancy one IRL - perhaps you could send some out to the drifting boat of NIMCP?

Ah, i knew it was familiar but haven't heard it probably since the age of about 18 months

MCP if that's quite all right with you all.

Humph, continuing lurgys (DCs are little germ bombs) and other RL stuff have prevented me from my promised sit down and catch up, so I still have no idea what you are all on about!

But it is lovely to be back, thank you all , and tomorrow I will bribe the DCs with trashy telly or something and see if I can get a few brain cells firing

And Pogle, yippee! Have a thread medal for services to literature and AF addicts!

In the meantime...

...But they escaped! They made a hot air balloon and flew out of the window. And now they'll go back to Abel Pott, and everyone will go and see his model railway with live inhabitants and not ours...

Moomin, when you say you stole them - are you sure you didn't just borrow them?

Well,Moomin ,I had firmly fixed in my mind that what you'd stolen were dinosaurs - obviously this was a subtle hint that completely passed me by cos now I'm with tortoise...!

I hope things are getting back to normal in Moomin Valley,hopefully the lurgies will be retreating now spring is (nearly)here.Muchos grattas for the thread medal - when you've got a spare minute email me (forester1485 at sky.com) and we can sort out details.

MCP,polly!

Hi all!

Moomin, hope the DCs are a bit better. Stick them in front of something dreadful and email Pogle! I have been up for the past three nights gorging on Run Away Home ... not just a thread medal, I think she deserves something more - a title, perhaps? LadyPogleOfAIBUBooks?

MCP ...

No ideas here, just wanted to offer my sympathies to Moomin of the Lurgy-Ridden-Children. They're just little petri dishes of germs, aren't they?

I'm not bitter that I got their vomiting bug last weekend and DH missed it, oh no.

Aw shucks ,CJ! All this gratitude is lovely (and far exceeds any gratitude shown by my dear family for all the wonderful things I do for them...) But any chap in my position would've done the same!

Hope your vomiting bug has gone now ,Pol! Better perhaps that your DH stayed healthy to look after the rest of you??

Greetings! I can't say "Evening!", not at this time of night.

What a very clever Tortoise! There most certainly was some Borrowing involved.

Yep, Pol, and the worst bit is that when lurgy-ridden DCs, especially small ones are bouncily convalescent and raring to make up for lost time, we are invariably going down with it ourselves. And we are old and creaky, and no one will bring us drinks and let us watch our favourite videos ad infinitum.

Yes, you are absolutely right CJ, such munificence on Pogle's part deserves more than a mere thread medal. How about Dame Pogleswood of Kingscote (and the e-mail biting your hand off follows tomorrow, your worship )!

I will catch up tomorrow, I will! But in the meantime:

AIBU to think we really need to move house?

Depends why, Moomin. Is your house too small?

I've totally lost where everyone else is up to. But, would I BU to wish that my parents were less embarrassing?

Could you maybe do with some family planning advice, Moomin? (bookwise, not in real life )

Hope everyone feels better soon x

Parents can be embarrassing - can you be any more specific as to what they are doing,tortoise? Or is it everything?

Big wave of lurgey-commiseration and NIMCP

are they hippies, tortoise?

is your house spooky, moomin

....surprisingly most of my friends have gotten behind her and they are telling their stories of life serving white folks ..

(beats a retreat in case bugs travel via modems)

So,polly - might your friends be described as "the help" ? (wild guess here,as I haven't read it but have got it coming from the library as my DSis told me I should read it!)

If bugs travel via modems we are all doomed

Must go to bed,night all!

Not hippies, polly. But I do wish they'd act their age and wear sensible clothes instead of tight leather jackets and blue jeans. What's wrong with a nice cardigan from John Lewis?

they certainly would, pogle...hurrah!
i hope you enjoy it, i really got absorbed in it...

tortoise, are you a brummie?

Yey!

Yes,I'm looking forward to it arriving - we don't have very similiar taste in books though and the last thing she raved about was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which didn't quite do it for me...

tortoise,are you condemning your youngish parents to "nice cardies fron John Lewis" - or are they genuinely of an age where that would be appropriate?? Be honest...

No, not a brummie, born and bred in the Midlands. Pogles, if you're balding, disabled and unemployed, you're old enough for a nice cardigan, surely? The problem is they are in denial about their age.

I'm trying to bring my sons up differently, but it's hard not seeing them very often.