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????

I've always wanted to try Jilly's miracle hangover cure, Fernet Branca. I have never seen it on sale anywhere.

It’s frah-ca

I've just ordered the dupe for 2.25!

fracas dupe

sorry, fracas dupe

I did buy a tester for Fracas from eBay once (classy!) but lost it. Must get another! Never come across Quercus though...
And what is fernet branca? off to google

Last year I booked a holiday cottage. The owner mentioned that her dog was called Culprit. Soooooo Jilly Cooper. I knew I would like said owner, and I did.

I wonder how many of us have done things Because Jilly Said So?

Apparently Caitlin Moran named herself after the character in Rivals.

Fernet Branca is a digestif liqueur like an even grosser jagermeister

I too have a garden stuffed full of her recommendations (which world really well btw - she should do a gardening book)

I can’t folllow her politics as I’m pretty sure we’re poles apart - doesn’t stop me loving the books though!

I wear Fracas You can get it at Liberty and online I'm sure. And today I am going to make sloe gin. Love this thread.

Apparently Penhaligon’s Quercus smells just like CK One

Joyous of course ay ripped out that fraightful old oak panelling and put in some naice modern pvc windows at Green Lawns as quickly as I could. Rag rolling is next on the agenda.

I remember getting Quercus scented stuff in a hotel on honeymoon and being in raptures...although in fact I found it very lemony and masculine and didn't like it at all! Still tempted to order the fracas dupe though because I am a sucker for all things Jilly. My planting schemes are definitely influenced by her - someone needs to release a Jilly gardening book!

Fernwt branca is disgusting

@fazackerly did you have some for breakfast?
After your friends found you asleep in the stables in your ball dress and chucked a bucket of freezing horse trough water over you?

There’s a spring flower and plant sale in the village hall today so that sounds promisingly Jillyesque doesn’t it?

What should I wear????

You could slap on some base, pull on an ancient pair of jeans and a cuddly jumper. Or go a bit racy in some velvet shorts from Jigsaw (hardly appropriate!).
I'm orf to a garden centre shortly with Mother but haven't even bothered with base!
What should we buy?
Sex freesias or look for the mythical Paradise Pearl wisteria?

Reading this thread inspired me to cut the fringe back in that I've been growing out! Didn't use bacon rindy scissors though, just the ones I trim the horses manes with Surely that gives me some points on the Jillyometer?!

Not for nothing was he known as the James Galway of cunnilingus

Ooh that's got to be Viking !

I think you should wear hot pants to show off your long tanned legs topped with a cashmere sweater left behind by your lover and still smelling of quercus and cigarettes. You should look for some love-in-a-mist.

@DameDaffodil fantastic commitment with the horse clippers, well done. Alas I don't have my own horse (although there is a very lovely one that lives in the field behind my house and comes to talk to JoyousDog over the fence), perhaps I could brush my hair with the dog's comb?

@70isalimitnotatarget nope, not Viking (sigh, that peat-soft voice...), guess again!

Alas no love-in-a-mist at the plant sale, JDog and I were a bit late so we'd missed the judging of the various plants and lots had already been sold. They seemed a very competitive lot I must say! And quite a few would doubtless be described as whiskery old trouts in the books.

Absolutely no crumpet unless you count the really quite delicious tea and cakes.

if Fracas has top notes of hyacinth I certainly won't be purchasing the dupe.
I'd honestly prefer notes of garlic and horse.
AllToo cat stinks permanently of horse anyway, with all his stable romps.

You could definitely brush your hair with the dog's brush otters as long as you do it absent mindedly.

Fracas smells of tuberose and vanilla. Madonna's Truth or Sare fragrance is a perfect dupe (Fracas was her mother's favourite perfume)

Sare =Dare

I feel I have scored quite a few Jilly points. I have lived in both Gloucestershire and Rutland- making Rutshire obviously!

I have 2 ponies- not quite a string but still!

We used to live in a pretty-on-the-outside cottage that truly had a Jillyesque bathroom. (ie a bit grotty). I always was imagining myself in the books when I was in the bath.

And I have bought myself a cashmere jumper in Cavendish House! About 25 years ago....

I love Jilly as she campaigned stridently for my daughter's school to remain open- and it did.

Does anyone have a favourite Jilly character? Did love Lizzie Vereker and Flora. Bloody hated Helen though....

Caitlin and Flora are my favourite characters

I love Kitty, Daisy and Hermione- she's horrible but so much fun to read. I love Lysander too and Ricky. I had a teacher like Rachel, unwashed and aggressively eco friendly, and can only see her when I read MWMHJ. Puts me off a bit.