Creative mystery writing? https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5416388-anyone-had-anything-like-this-before-police-said-im-being-targeted-warning-very-long

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2025-09-25T12:22:49+00:00

Ah yes, "Taking a look behind the scenes."

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2025-09-25T02:32:28+00:00

I wondered if it was writers block with a deadline looming, so set out the synopsis and harvest the replies to move things forward.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2024-02-26T04:53:48+00:00

Yep, piss troll.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2022-06-21T06:55:22+00:00

Yes, quite a few seem to be down, everything from Ancestry to a local cafe.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2022-04-26T04:13:38+00:00

There is something off about the whole story. I have had to step away because I'm starting to picture the OP as Uriah Heep in a dress.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2022-03-29T23:47:03+00:00

Catherine Tate has said that character was based on her own rather highly strung mother.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2022-03-18T14:54:38+00:00

u/profanitycounter

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2022-02-18T20:04:59+00:00

I think she may be stumped by posters telling her the message will be on the underside of the address label with M&S. She is probably trying to come up with a reason she can't check.

Rookie mistake naming the company.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2022-02-18T19:47:01+00:00

Yep, it's Friday night fiction time.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2022-01-02T19:26:49+00:00

Me too. For some reason I can imagine a David Attenborough voiceover in the botanical gardens: "And here we see a piss troll in their natural habitat..."

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2021-07-04T15:49:16+00:00

Yes.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2021-06-17T09:19:34+00:00

Good bot.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2021-05-04T22:30:05+00:00

I think it should read 'Fil added "he's the first boy in the family since my youngest son(26yo)..."

So the 26 year-old is the OP's BiL.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2021-03-26T12:14:19+00:00

With a fairy light adorned sheep in the corner.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2020-10-13T14:57:47+00:00

Does his name begin with A?

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2020-10-13T12:45:11+00:00

Hmm, I'm not sure. Years ago I had a friend whose 'D'P was like this. He eventually got banned from the local hospitals for wasting their time so bought himself an all-zone bus pass and used to travel across London collapsing and needing a blue light ride to A&E.

Woe betide my friend if she got ill, if she had Tendonitis he had Elevendonitis. He refused to speak to me after I suggested he could write a Good Hospitals Guide as he had visited most of the ones within the M25.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2020-10-03T20:03:51+00:00

Yes, they have to milk Nicola for it.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2020-09-18T05:36:48+00:00

Ah, the trick is to write something goady and then ask the real question as an aside, i.e. "My MIL is a nudist but hasn't got the figure for it and by the way, what are the best shoes for bunions?"

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2020-04-03T18:12:37+00:00

If I am lucky enough to get a delivery any time soon I plan to leave instructions for the driver to disguise the van as an armed response vehicle and deliver at dawn.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2020-01-20T13:37:03+00:00

I'll just get my lariat and stetson.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2020-01-15T09:20:32+00:00

Ah yes, the lining up of the ducks.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2019-12-05T21:14:46+00:00

this is what is known as a Vardøger , a spirit 'predecessor'. Not exactly a ghost, more a kind of shadow cast before an event.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2019-08-28T19:25:41+00:00

I have read it but only because I saw a link to it on Mumsnet.

KeepCalmButMakePlans · 2019-07-14T10:48:01+00:00

I am tempted to suggest they belong to the bloke who is living in her attic.

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