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?

ROFL at Bandit. That should be for a certain type of man...

Oh the wedding with Daisy in her new knickerbockers looking like Dick Turpin, "Bags I be Bess", Nigel Dempster in a cassock winking at Janey and Caitlin clumping up the aisle in jeans and DMs - it's just the best ever.

Never did like Drew though, just too smooth for words, slimy bastard.

arpege is lovely

ok, I'm happy to give up Taggie also, in favour of Janey or even Beastly Beattie Johnson

Oh god. I haven't mumsnetted for years, and I've just snorted my way through this whole thread. As I'm amongst fellow Jilly lovers, I can confess - my first boy was named after Archie Baddingham. I lost the battle to call dd1 Tabitha, though. :o

Please help! What was the name of the guy that Helen Campbell Black married? The manager of the riding team?

Malaise Gordon

Malise?

Hmm - trying to think who wore Arpege now. My mum used to wear it and I remember being impressed when I read it in JC (since it's just about the only regard in which my mum has ever resembled a JC character)

Was it Noel, Cory's bitchy, film-star, Joan Collins wife in Harriet? Am sure it must have appeared in the big books too.

Thanks! Rannaldini/Thereistheball. It has been bugging me.

Arpege could have been Chessie, non?

I really don't think naked tennis is a realistic option for me. When seen naked it's best for everyone if I remain stationary.

And yes, the wedding is great, but I am with whoever was raving about Patrick's New Years Eve 21st - just BRILLIANT... In fact, Christmas is always a bit evocative of Rivals for me (in my romantic curtainless manor full of roaring log fires and alcohol).

Chessie wore Diorissimo

I think Maud O'Hara wore Arpege. Or was it Helen.

Oh yes - could be Maud. Had a feeling it was someone rapacious.

Claudien tipped gallons of Diorissimo to scent the swimming pool in Imogen.

This is really going to bug me - was someone v sexy and sophisticated...

I could never warm to RCB, even in Rivals. He used to beat his horses. Look at what he did to poor Macaulay.
Bastard.

Helen wore Miss Dior.

anonacfr! You are an ACTUAL JC character!

Someone, possibly Jilly herself, should knit these wonderful threads into a magnificent, hilarious, Arran sweater of a novel. Haven't felt as nostalgic as this since reading 'Riders' whilst breastfeeding, over twenty years ago, critically surveyed by two dogs, a cat and her five kittens, on the bed with us.

...Or a series of jerseys with animal pictures on the front, then we could all wear them and reprise the 'Tit Gallery' moment in Rivals

The tit gallery? I don;t remember that.

The party always makes me think of 'poor Taggie' (TM) slaving over buckets of kedgeree.

Am I?

Ahh yes, the tit gallery - wasn't that started by Daisee Butler (spelt like that to catch the eye when the credits were rolling)? Did she have a jumper with Donald Duck on it?
I recall she would have been allowed to breastfeed, unlike poor Deirdre Kilpatrick.