Is Cold Comfort Farm the most quotable book ever?

[notnowImreading]

There's rich soul here if you cah to dig for it.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Lol, yes.

People who lead 'rich emotional lives'. I think about that one a lot on Mumsnet.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Aimless, Graceless, Pointless and Feckless?

DH and I tend to call our boats after Cold Comfort Farm things. He used to have an Enterprise called Speed Cop after Charles' plane and I had an out-of-action wooden dinghy we never sailed which we called Ada Doom because it was something nasty in the woodshed. One day we want to get a Mirror dinghy (they have flat fronts) called Pointless.

[CameliousHumph]

Seth and Reuben too. Send gumboots.

[CameliousHumph]

Big Business. Feckless, Useless and Hopeless.

Didn't one of their legs fall off?

[CameliousHumph]

The sukebind is in bloom.

[CuttedUpPear]

My favourite book ever.
I buy copies to give to people who have never heard of it.

[cheapskatemum]

"it's not enough to keep one in stockings and fans!" love, love, love that book, despite it being a set text, and use the above quote often when discussing paltry sums.

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

Have been known to clettle the dishes. I also sometimes call DD my liddle marsh-tigget.

Doesn't the mother at one point declaim that 'my body is a used gourd', quite like that one...

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Flora would have loved giving advice on Mumsnet. You can just imagine her posts.

[Trills]

I do love eating things with a spoon.

[Only1scoop]

Op are you the 'Robert Post child'?

[Trumpton]

Ha ! DGD 2.6 ran to me today " brother is tickle me ! I a feared ! "
I replied " oh darling , was there something narsty in the woodshed ?"
She looked blankly at me while DD and I cracked up.
Must improve her bedtime reading.

And the year 5s at school all love " A handbag ! " done in the poshest outraged voice .

[LifeHuh]

Definitely! Anyone may do anything they please as long as I am left alone with my sorrow....

[reynoldsnumber]

I love that book. It's one of the few I read over and over again!

I can't think of a quote though.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

My favourite bit is,
'seth, my son, do you want to break my heart?'
'Yes,' said Seth with elemental simplicity.

[EhricLovesTheBhrothers]

Oh yes! Love this book. And the tv adaptation rufus Sewell fwooaarr

I saw something nasty in the woodshed! I shall go mad!

[TywysogesGymraeg]

God! I've not read that book in years - loved it though

[Seriouslyffs]

I've not read it, but I recognise the quotes.
The Importance of Being Earnest is teeming with quotes.

[hackmum]

"One o' they Ford vans..."

OK, I love Cold Comfort Farm, but I'm no good at remembering quotes from it.

[cosmicglittergirl]

There's something nasty in the woodshed.