Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

Is Cold Comfort Farm the most quotable book ever?

29 replies

notnowImreading · 31/01/2015 20:42

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

OP posts:
PostcardsFromAbovetheChemist · 31/01/2015 20:54

Might be! I often think of it when I'm clettering the dishes with my little mop.

Original poster
notnowImreading · 31/01/2015 21:02

Tes prettier nor apple blooth, that liddle mop.

OP posts:
TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 02/02/2015 17:36

Flora did not cah to dig.

hackmum · 02/02/2015 18:38

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort.

cosmicglittergirl · 02/02/2015 18:43

There's something nasty in the woodshed.

hackmum · 02/02/2015 18:45

"One o' they Ford vans..."

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

Seriouslyffs · 02/02/2015 18:50

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

TywysogesGymraeg · 02/02/2015 18:52

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

EhricLovesTheBhrothers · 02/02/2015 18:55

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

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

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 02/02/2015 19:21

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

reynoldsnumber · 02/02/2015 19:23

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

I can't think of a quote though.

LifeHuh · 03/02/2015 21:16

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

Trumpton · 03/02/2015 21:23

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 .

Footle · 08/02/2015 10:27

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Only1scoop · 08/02/2015 10:32

Op are you the 'Robert Post child'?

Trills · 08/02/2015 10:39

I do love eating things with a spoon.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 08/02/2015 11:07

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

Footle · 08/02/2015 12:01

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

RhinestoneCowgirl · 08/02/2015 12:04

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...

cheapskatemum · 09/02/2015 22:24

"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.

Footle · 10/02/2015 00:17

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

CuttedUpPear · 10/02/2015 00:35

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

CameliousHumph · 10/02/2015 00:48

The sukebind is in bloom.

Footle · 10/02/2015 07:50

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

CameliousHumph · 10/02/2015 09:23

Big Business. Feckless, Useless and Hopeless.

Didn't one of their legs fall off?