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If you met Rupert Campbell=Black - you WOULD punch him on the nose and call him a wanker

164 replies

MamaGrr · 02/02/2007 12:29

...so why did I quiver over him as a teen, reading JC?

WHY?

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fishie · 05/02/2007 22:20

oooh sophable have you read scruples? i got that second hand in bognor in 1983.

turquoise · 05/02/2007 22:20

Rivals definitely the best - though I really identified with Fen in Riders.

There's a book out of 'selections' from Scruples, JC, Judy Blume etc, called "Dirty bits for girls" or similar - edited by India Knight I think! Might be quite amusing from a nostalgia pov.

pooka · 05/02/2007 22:18

"cock fault. Your cock was at least 10 inches over the line"

tortoiseSHELL · 05/02/2007 22:16

Chessie and Bart were in the helicopter.

tortoiseSHELL · 05/02/2007 22:16

Oh stop, I'm going to have to reread them, I threw away all my trash novels, but couldn't part with my jilly coopers. Love the bit where Taggie calls the firebrigade cause Rupert's burning the stubble in the fields, and they arrive and find him playing nude tennis with Sarah Stratton. And the bit where he finds Taggie under the table at Patrick O'Hara's birthday party and kicks the drunk out of her bed and tucks her up for bed.

To Perdita 'Stylistically, you're not too bad. YOu've got most of the shots. Shame you're so fucking useless at deciding which one to play when!'

pooka · 05/02/2007 22:15

Rupert may be a Tory but he voted against the death penalty being brought back - to the disdain of Maggie. And of course, he was then invited by the Labour party to be an impartial Minster of Sport (he declined, despite being touched by the gesture).

I have read them far too much!

Chessie - yuk. Into masochism. Ended up running off with her step-son.

Janey - was it her who shagged Kevin Coley in a helicopter? Or was that Chessie and Bart Alderton?

Still think Rivals was the best.

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:11

Soph, I don't remember ANYTHIGN about them except that they were, indeed, titilating when you were 12 or something. Bet I'd recoil at them now.

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:11

I don't remember Lovett-Standing but ha ha ha!

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 22:10

flowers in the attic and ESPECIALLY my sweet audrina are SICK SICK SICK

but tittilating if you are 12.

NorksBrideOHara · 05/02/2007 22:09

Favourite Jillyisms:

Tony B "I see the devil has cast it's net"
Rupert "If the holes in his net were as big as your mouth, we'd all escape".

Didn't Miss Lovett-Standing live with another female teacher in a two-bedroom house with a spare room?

Ha ha ha!

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:09

No, haven't read any Judith Kranz but Ooo err at described scene! We had Flowers in the Attic being passed around when I was at school. And The Fog and The Rats. Bloody scary!

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 22:06

i'll be orf then.

princess daisy has a 12 page older woman/princess daisy scene that was formative for me...but hey....i'm a freak!

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:05

love ya too btw Soph!

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:05

Nope, Gerrof this thread with yer Judith Krantz! She is not in the same LEAGUE as Jilly!

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 22:02

oh...www i love you even more now.

ok...deep breath.

what about judith krantz? princess daisy? anyone remember Ram?

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:02

And there's ALWAYS

"there was the rank sexy stench of wild garlic"

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:01

Yes Soph, tis me. Rupert is of course a Tory which is a shame but hey, I think I could compromise on this one Glad you like it

MamaCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 22:00

D'you remember the teacher called Miss Lovett-STanding

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 21:59

is www wickedwaterwitch?

oh i DO so hope so....i love the guardianista/jillycooper loving juxtaposition....say it is so!

tribpot · 05/02/2007 21:58

Plus two of the most classic Cooper puns:

  • "talk about the pot calling the kettle Campbell-Black" and
  • "let's not get Le-Carréd away"
NorksBrideOHara · 05/02/2007 21:53

'There's a focking chicken on my manuscript' growled Declan, swiping at it with his battered first edition Yeats.

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 21:49

absolutely pmsl www

MamaCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 21:48

MamaCB wandered over and said "its my focking thread, I should have had the starring role" before running to the stables, sobbing into Rocky's mane

WWWCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 21:46

"NorksbrideOHara idly wondered if she should shave her legs before going for a swim but decided they looked pretty good actually, still tanned from the Christmas break in the Caribbean so she decided she could get away with it for another day.

Wandering through the still unpacked but enormous farmhouse kitchen she glanced through the window and spotted Rupert's royal blue helicopter taking off from the golden valley shimmering in the sunlight below. God, but he was sexy; she couldn't stop thinking about him. The look he'd given her when she'd disagreed with him about hunting would have terrified lesser women but it hadn't stopped Norksbride fantasising madly about how Rupert would be in bed. The tic in his cheek had hammered furiously for a second before he'd drawled bitchily "must go, there's a bitch in heat I need to deal with" before squealing off in his Silver Porsche.

Norksbride's thoughts were interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Declan, who declared himself "focking furious at those fockers at Baddinghams" as he helped himself to smoked salmon and cold Pouilly Fume from the fridge before putting his feet up on the scrubbed kitchen table.

etc etc

MamaCampbellBlack · 05/02/2007 21:26

me too