AIBU Books Game Part Seven

[CJCregg]

Hi all, here we are again ...

As always, everyone welcome to pile in with AIBU book synopses, as long as you bring ice cream or something equally tempting for when we're stuck.

To continue mine - I'm in charge but it's terribly difficult to keep control. I don't know how long I can keep their respect. I didn't ask to be in charge ...

Cruella de Vil, Miss Murdstone, the Empress Livia, Miss Minchin and now, CJ Cregg, the latest villainess in the literary pantheon.

Umm, is this ill-starred Romance on Exmoor, Elephants?

I'm sure you would enjoy mine, CJ, and I'm pretty sure you've read some of her others.

...A Leys student wouldn't commit murder, surely? Not just for a post at Arlinghurst...

Ooh google-permitting, Moomin, are you feeling rather well Disposed?

...Not Exmoor, but in any case I have left my home behind and am bravely travelling across the lonely countryside with my loyal servant. Or not so lonely as it happens, my suspicions of my true love have been confirmed!

Oh,rude word (don't want to corrupt any lurking DCs!) - all the way down the thread ,catching up,thinking "I know Moomin's" to find out on THE VERY LAST POST that Elephants has googled it!
Bah

Isn't that always the way, Pogle! I was waiting for you to pop up and identify it from almost the first clue.

Oh dear, wrong star-crossed lovers then! Gissa 'nother clue, please, Elephants!

AIBU not to want to live in Birmingham?

Oh, and have a free course of physical training for your prize, Elephants!

Oh noooo I'm so sorry Pogle! I assume (probably wrongly) that when people start mentioning Proper Nouns that they'd like someone to Relieve Them Of The AIBU.

Hello btw.

Moomin - pass my (no doubt excellent) prize over to Pogle please

ooh x-post (SOOOOO glad I gave away the prize now) :o

NBU at all to want to avoid Birmingham.

Sorry...was that a book one or just honest question?

...Imagine my shock when I found he was under the same roof as me, with another woman! Well I'm off to London to forget this whole sorry business...

Poor Pogle, she'll run off and never come back again with that hanging over her!

Purely for AIBU purposes I assure you, Elephants, I've no desire to be flamed as a southern snob by a horde of enraged Brummies.

So is your one a 'norty' book then?

...I'm supposed to be going to live with my cousins...

I forgive you,Elephants!

And,um,..er thanks for the free physical training course - I'm sure it will be very useful...

I feel I should know about Birmingham,but don't yet - MCP!

AIBU to encourage them to include a bit more fruit in their diet?

I was going to ask whether you were preparing for an important ballet exam, Moomin, but not sure that's Birmingham...

...Naughty? Indeed not, I am as pure as the driven snow, and am thankfully dwelling with my kinswoman in London. She appears to be very busy with letters and appointments all of a sudden, I wonder if she has a new beau?

... Ballet ! They want to send me to Birmingham because they can't afford to keep me!...

By the way, the awful prospect hanging over Pogle's head was, of course, the free physical training and not Elephants' beautifully handcrafted mobile.

Alas, no ideas on the fruit or the allegedly not fruity lovers.

Don't mention warm lamb or CJ will start "bathing" it in some kind of delicious fragrant marinade bath oil.

PMSL at the awful mobile prospect - you've seen some of my creations before then? :o

....Oh no, still no sign of my true love, the cheating rogue, but I have a new admirer who is being very forceful...

Well,you do seem to be leading a complicated life,Elephants - sadly not one that suggests anything in particular yet...

And it's a lovely mobile

...yes,I do think it'd be good for them - and the fruit seems to be going to waste at the moment...

MCP!

moomin - have you got too many brothers and sisters? sorry about the ballet

...My goodness! New admirer was trying to take my virtue to force me to marry him, luckily at that very moment my DDad burst in! I'm amazed he's left his beloved hounds for long enough to visit the city...

Pogle - is this the right size but wrong type of fruit in the Big Apple?

I'm not sure you're old enough to be reading this one, Elephants, whatever it is!

MCP all!

...I haven't any brothers and sisters. I'm an orphan and I've always lived with my grandfather and my aunt. ...

...no,not right size ,wrong fruit.They've been told to leave it alone,but really,what's the problem? Fruit is good for you,right?...

How terribly melodramatic! You should be serialised for sunday evening telly,I think - have you been serialised?

Still no idea though...MCP!

Coffee and stuff - great! As it looks as if I may be going to spend the whole day on MN I might as well be well fed

I hope you aren't getting crumbs and coffee stains on that,Moomin

Pogle, are they trying to resist temptation?

Not as hard as they should be,CJ!

Have a lovely apple...or would you prefer a print of an angel with a flaming sword barring the way into Eden?

Should you mutter about Moomin while she still has most of your AFs,do you think?

She won't hear me over the bleating and snoring