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?

I am so jealous of those who haven't read it before

AnakisT I've got a car like that - only its neither a Golf nor a Mini so not classless enough

my favourite is

1st of may, 1st of may
outdoor fucking starts today
but as usual it doth rain
so we fucks off indoors again

can never look a magnolia in the eye without thinking of that and I quote it to DP every year too.

SpookyMouse, Dittany is a self-confessed Jilly lover herself. You're safe.

Margaret Thatcher wears Diorella...

I start maternity leave in 8 weeks and I am SO EXCITED to read all the name books, that I never bothered with before, despite adoring all the RCB ones obsessively. Ooooh! What pleasure ahead

Just spent the past two days re-reading Riders and Rivals.... I'm starting on Polo tonight!

Wasn't Flora blonde and then dyed it red?

Ooh we're flirting in stereo on two threads Rupert

Amazin Grace :)

My dog is Gertie, named after Taggie's Gertrude. As long as she doesn't meet the same end we will all be alright!

Flora was Georgie Maguire's daughter, they both had red red red hair (I think)

Oh yes - I loved the bit where Flora 'girded her loins' with laxatives so she could fit into her dress and then jumped into Rannaldini's helicopter just showing a flash of her red knickers to a heartbroken Wolfie (was it Wolfie?)

I have never been so depressed as when I re-read my old Jillys and discovered that in the 10 year interim I had turned into the dreadful hairy armpitted woman who lives in the cottage, wears wool, breastfeeds, reads the Guardian and Disapproves Of Everything. AND my husband has a Ghastly Beard.

And as evedence of my wooly Birkenstock wearing tendencies (oh yes, you can get woolen birkies) may I add that I am horrified that so many of you want to be Taggie! FFS! She is a damp hen. Her only role is to cook and look good doing it.

Have spent the last few days reading this thread in between ignoring children

God, I haven't read Jilly for years - really want to now. We're in a temp flat til end of Nov and they are all in the buggering storage.

:o Yuno - you are not alone. Scary how that character transformation crept up on me by stealth.

I always fancied myself as something of a Flora but didn't really fancy who she ends up with much (George? Just remember he had 'piggy eyes' when he took his glasses off to rub them after working hard). Would take him over Crispin though, whose wife it is, I apparently morphed into

I remember the fire brigade incident only too well, she was only interesting in saving the bloody fieldmice.

I think you'll find Flora "girded her ransacked loins...

Bibi had ransacked loins as well...

I'm not sre I want my loins ransacked.

In Jilly terms does that make me frigid?

By the way what is this Maltese Cat they all keep reading?

A poem about polo anon - here

Yes Trillian, you are frigid and will only be excited by odd doctor/patient roleplay. Shame on you.