to be bored with myself and to want to become a Jilly Cooper character for the winter?

[BalloonSlayer]

I want to sit in front of a fire of apple logs, wearing only a Dark Blue towel.

I want a rosy-cheeked face which I have to tone down with green foundation, instead of looking like a corpse unless I put on loads of blusher.

I want to drink three quarters of a bottle of Moet before doing ANYTHING. (Including: getting up in the morning or taking an important exam.)

I want an Absolutely Filthy Mini instead of a people carrier.

I want DH to do thumb exercises so that the ball of his thumb becomes pudgy because apparently that's sexy or something .

I want to lose loads and loads of weight every time I am a bit sad about something, so that everyone who thought I was a minger before is suddenly struck by my beauty, instead of eating cakes to cheer myself up and getting fatter.

AIBU?

[alltoomuchrightnow]

Sad to hear her husband cheated on her

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2060095/Jilly-Cooper-silenced-Womans-Hour-question-husbands-love-affair.html

Love Jilly, this thread has brought it all back,I want to re read them all

[Shimshiminysheroo]

I love this thread.
Must dig out that blue towell but be sure to have moet and fish pie in the larder. Just in case of glamorous, male, polo playing droppers in. You never know.

[UsernameInvalid66]

kittens what a great idea! I've just read the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Mary Sherwell-Fowler here, with a cloud of fading red hair, an impressive "bulk" and a 20-odd-year-old crush on Luke. My other favourite JC men are bit-parts - the hapless Mike in Polo, George in Appassionata and lately Young Eddie. I can't stand Rupert!

[explodingkittens]

Am reviving this thread as post-Christmas blues have made me want to retreat into some guilty pleasures, and have been meaning to buy some JC for years but have not got around to it. I read Riders/Rivals/Polo as a teenager and have never quite forgotten them.

So...may I present Annie Montague-Churchill, sadly no longer quite as ravishing as once she was, but nevertheless still a dab hand with a beef daube and terribly fond of drenching herself in Diorissimo...

[teddybearsbear]

Beyond excited to hear that Jilly is releasing a new book and RCB is back!!

[JoelyB]

I'm not awfully happy with Audrey Pig-West.
I think I'll adapt to Mother's first name, School house hyphenated with dog's name. Feel free to adopt if it suits you better.
Yours, Clarissa Clarendon-Morse. x

[MizK]

I love my new name, Eileen Edwards-Irwin. Possibly a batshit older lady who swig gin from morning to night and has lipstick on her teeth and lots of incontinent little dogs. So The Dream, really.

Am rereading TMWMHJ and it's a perfect Christmas read. I love her ability to create cosiness and comfort; her descriptions of interiors, gardens and meals are perfect. She's an amazing woman IMO.

[JoelyB]

I read 'Polo' shortly before going out to groom in Florida, and actually sat squeaking with excitement in Cobblestones (which was real) with my fellow grooms!

[PoppieD]

Ooh love JC! Always wanted to be Perdita with her effortless control of huge steeds and looking fabulous in anything- even when sick as a dog from the champagne hangovers!!

[JoelyB]

I've just found this thread and am overjoyed. I wanted to be Taggy but am old enough now to be her granny!
However I do have a Taggy daughter and a Perdita type daughter (though not conceived via an orgy with RCB I fear)
What a joy dear Jilly is.
(although I drew the line at Wicked, can't be doing with that weird kid and teacher stuff, sadly.)

[Stratter5]

Good Lord, this means I've been here over 5 years

[tiredvommachine]

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

I'm going to be Tory wolfing cornflakes with double cream .

[backtowork2015]

Thats Crashing at my rib cage! Ceashing?

[backtowork2015]

I would have to be Podge the groom, being led into the wooded glade to be photographed nude by Rupert Campbell Black with my heart ceashing against my rib cage as he gazed at my glorious breasts...full and sloping downwards (bit wierd phraseology but still floats my boat!)

[MmeGuillotine]

'Everything I know about sex, I learned from Coma' has a great ring to it. ;)

[Stratter5]

Ohh, I became me on this thread

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

I love Jilly !

[pandarific]

Is there ever an exotic foreigner? I could be an exotic foreigner...

[Doilooklikeatourist]

Hallo , Isabel Greenfield Pembroke here
( slightly made up so it's the previous previous roads , as we live in Wales now and Isabel Y Gloch Abergorlech doesn't have much of a ring to it )
Love Jilly , off to load the dish washing machine , write myself a shopping list with turquoise ink and paint my fingernails as its easier than cleaning them

[FindoGask]

"My favourite was Imogen, Findo. "

I loved that too - but I read it much later, after most of the Rutshire chronicles, so it didn't have the same impact on me as it would if I'd found it earlier!

I don't know if Jilly is still writing. I hope she's working on something.

Mme Guillotine - I tell people very similar, although my mum didn't have Flowers In the Attic, which is probably for the best. She did have a lot of dodgy and medical thrillers though, like Coma and Brain.

[dementedma]

Frances Bath- Burnbank!

[MmeGuillotine]

Oh God, I LOVE it when this thread is resurrected! It's brilliant!

Sadly, I don't know my mother's maiden name so I can't join in with that although my maiden name was double barrelled and rather lovely. Sigh.

I remember devouring all of Jilly Cooper's books when I was probably still FAR too young for them. My especial favourite was Imogen, which I thought was just wonderful. However, I remember being completely confused by the bit in Riders when Rupert suggests that he, Helen, Billy and Janey all 'go to bed together'. I was only about ten or eleven at the time and thought they were going to have a lovely sleepover type thing and then was terribly confused when it all ended in woe. Oh dear.

(I also read The Exorcist at around the same time. That was MUCH more confusing - although I do like to tell people that 'everything I know about sex, I learnt from reading Jilly Cooper, The Exorcist and Flowers in the Attic at an impressionable age'. )

[PunkrockerGirl]

Does anyone know if she's writing any more, post Leo's death?

[PunkrockerGirl]

My favourite was Imogen, Findo. I'm a huge tennis fan and still have a read of this one occasionally