Is this Peak Jilly?

[JoyousAsOtters]

I have just made myself an omelette using wild garlic foraged from the woods on a walk with my labrador. I can confirm wild garlic is quite whiffy, not sure I’d go so far as to describe it as a ‘sexy reek’.

Have I reached Peak Jilly or is there anything else I could be doing this afternoon that would be Jillicious????

Do you know a Rupert you could romp with?

BTW your omelette sounds jolly nice.

Marking place in the hope that someone else explains what's going on........

Only if you now freshen up by dousing yourself in Diorissimo whilst downing a large gin to steady your nerves before going out to bonk the local horse trainer/jockey/director/conductor/delete as appropriate.

Alas the only Ruperts I know are under 10 years old.

Also unfortunately the farmer I got the eggs from is of the ancient snaggle toothed ferret smuggling variety, not sexy smouldering troubled landowner type at all.

Perhaps I should wash my fringe?

Vodka and iced tea, a roll in some long undergrowth and a heart to heart with your 30yr old stepfather will sort you out

Wash your fringe after you've cut it yourself. After you douse yourself liberally in scent.

I hope if you had a glass of something with lunch you're not feeling tight

Ah my people!
You could have washed the omelette down with some Champagne drunk from a tooth mug?

Take a long bath this afternoon and emerge reeking of Fracas, then sit on your bed wrapped in a navy blue towel

Hmmmmm. Such a glorious day. I really need to take the garden rubbish to the tip though. Pretty sure Diorissimo or Joy (what’s with the Dior?????) would be wasted on the chaps there.

I DO have navy blue towels!

Perhaps I should wash my fringe?

I read this as "should I wash my minge?" and I thought that if you were having a Jillyesque afternoon this would indeed be a wise idea

If you have a hangover from too many quadruple vodkas last night, you could have a Fernet Branca and shake your head a few times-it’ll be like a horror movie in reverse!

Did you put the plate in the washing up machine?

waahhh I read this just seconds before I went to wash my fringe! (don't have time to wash whole head). Spooky. and lazy I'm also going on a forage as we have our own little wood here...

But are you a humongous, thunder thighed size 10, op?

That's the question.

Rupert only likes willowy bits of, well, willow

I'm home alone all day and all night with sunshine, gin and wine. Could really do with a Rupe wandering through my garden with Badger, looking for a jolly afternoon

Am supposed to be working from home but apparently we all get so restless in the country ...

I’ve been having Jilly flashbacks ever since we moved here (Gloucestershire) last year. I always loved the books and hadn’t realised how much I’d absorbed (no doubt utterly,utterly) until we were house hunting. Poor DH and DC would stare at me uncomprehendingly in the car as I exclaimed things like:

‘Oh my god - Old Man’s Beard’
‘Look - France-Lynch is a place!’

I adore your username joyousasotters !

I am doing a thorough re-read for the 5000th time.

Can we just take a minute to appreciate how much of a whining arsehole Emerald Cartwright/Belevdon is?

Ughhhh yes Emerald.

I loved Caitlin in Rivals though, shame she didn’t reappear as a heroine in a later book.

I also always love the animal’s names - I really wanted to call our lab Norman, but no one else could see the appeal. Right, best just go and load the washing up machine 😉

Did you look utterly ravishing in a shirtwaister whilst you did these things OP?

Where do you stand on elasticated waists?

It's the right time of year for shagging under a magnolia tree. Wearing Fracas, obviously.

Best get on the scales and cry bitter tears if you’re over 8 stone.

I have not weighed anywhere near 8 stone since I was about 13 and this always made me feel like shit.

Me too Hairq. The female characters must be about 4 ft tall.