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?

Although I must confess I am curious about the Dark Blue Towel. Can we make it an Old and Frayed, But Spotless White Towel please, I have plenty of those and don't 'do' coloured or patterned towels and bedlinen.

Almost every towel in JillyLand is Dark Blue.

a pic of the young andrew parker bowles on whom RCB was based.

Someone referred to Dittany being horrified at us upthread.

Dittany came on the last Jilly C thread and said that they are one of her guilty pleasures.

I'm pretty sure DBT featured in Riders when Fen and Dino had their first kiss.
And when Perdita did a Lady Godiva, didn't Luke throw a DBT over her before carrying off back to her hotel room?

I am re-reading appaasionata in honour of this thread and it has reminded me that one never leaves in a JC novel, one slopes off. And stressful situations will always result in the development of scurf in/on the heroine.

Fairly sure anon is right re the DBT scene in Polo too.

And periods are always called the curse.

Oh I do love Jilly.

WHAT is the latest news re webchat?

Appassionata obviously.

Another thing that always puzzled me in the novels was the sheer improbability of much of the behaviour, even with a healthy dose of suspended disbelief. I just read the section in Appassionata where they have the concert in Sir Rodney's honour. The thousand-strong Spanish audience file out afterwards in silence - no applause - as a mark of respect. How on earth would that work? How would they know to do that? I'd have been the eejit who didn't pick up the silence-vibes and cheered .

And the girls all wear espadrilles.

The amazing this is how anyone gets past the age of 25 without dying of liver failure considering how much booze they all drink.

I think Luke strips off some of his own costume (is he a gargoyle?) to cover Perdita/Lady Godiva.

I think I should go on Mastermind. Specialist subject : Jilly Cooper's Riders, Rivals and Polo. Better than something high brow; once I played along at home, and answered every question on Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Wind Hover". I got one, the "specialist" got 8. I could get better than 8 on Jilly...

That's the thing- he's dressed as a gargoyle and not wearing a top. So he grabs a passing towel, which I'm pretty sure happens to be dark blue.

Yes yes RCB, think it was Chessie's yellow shawl to cover Perdita AND think it was Drew anyway who beat dear darling Luke to it...

BUT (and this is pedantic beyond belief) I am fairly sure Daisy was wearing a dark GREEN towel when Drew came and seduced with with champagne (so nice to be discovered clean and hairless) post the Bibi-affair...

Thanks to some thoroughly overexcited eBaying I have two copies of Polo going spare should any Jilly-virgins wish to be deflowered...

Definitely was Luke- he carries back to the room and kisses her. They have a 'moment' before she tells him to push off.

haha - I am in the office or would be rummaging in the bookshelves (not a euphemism) as we speak...

and anonacfr perhaps you're right and it was Luke who was too quick for Drew...

I have to concur with boudoiricca, I do believe Daisy's towel to be dark green.

"I'm a painting not-quite-a-lady" - god, work that pun gene, Jilly!

Such a shame some of the earlier characters didn't really get a look-in once they had their happy-ever-after. Cameron, Lizzie, Tab, Caitlin, Kitty, Flo[o]ra, Abby, even - if one must - the ladies of Pandora. Poss even Perdita.

They all had more to them than which bloke they were with, shame not to exploit that.

aaargh well when I read Jump, I found myself wondering why yet again there are no other towels in Rutshire but Dark Blue ones.

Re-reading Polo I found them again.

Hence my OP.

Since yesterday, when you all . . . sob! . . . doubted me . . . I have been flicking through books looking for proof, yet not one sodding reference can I find!

Am working from home, and happen to have copy of Polo within easy reach of desk...

p 368, p/b edition. Daisy wraps herself in 'scratchy dark blue towel watching Drew have a bath'.

Will look for more when have done enough to deserve a JC break

I find my mind turning to the usual mid-afternoon question (what's for dinner) but can't get this thread out of my head. So, should it be:

1. A delectable vegetable lasagne cooked by the diabolical Rannaldini?
2. A diabolical beans-on-burnt-toast cooked by the divine Perdita?
3. A divine pheasant casserole cooked by the delectable Taggie?

Or possibly 4. Nothing but the dregs of a bottle of Sancerre, after discovering the fridge to be empty but for a tin of sardines which I have given to the cat who has inexplicably decided that my freezing cottage is where she wishes to spend all her time?

I don't think Perdita would cook anything, even beans on toast. She'd tell Luke to do it.

Very disappointed to find out Daisy's towel is dark blue. Am tempted to trawl the entire Cooper oeuvre to see if I can find a different coloured towel. I sense Helen Macauley Campbell-Black Gordon Rannaldini Hawksley might have had different coloured towels?