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?

[BrainMash]

Thanks weblette

[BalloonSlayer]

People are always "ecstatic" or "suicidal" because there are no mental states in between, apparently.

[notwavingjusthaunting]

I struggle with th dreadful puns which encompass pretentious literary association which I know should be clever, but because I spent most of my youth reading JC, rather than the classics, tended to go over my head somewhat.

[weblette]

exhorting - Jilly loves a bit of that

Agree Getorf, love Appassionata tho, maybe because I used to play viola

[BalloonSlayer]

I hated Polo when I first read it, probably because I loved Rivals so much. But have just re-read it and enjoyed it (hence this thread).

MWMHJ I quite like. I think it was her last decent one

[notwavingjusthaunting]

and I can't spell "the"

[boudoiricca]

although that was the night Rupert told Hilary that their particular party was over (and that Helen was upset about his shagging someone else (and it wasn't her)).

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I think Appassionata and Pandora were great - back to her old strandards (near as dammit).

But the others left me completely cold, and only flicked to the Rupert and Taggie bits after a while

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Oh I don't know, knowing three lines of Yeats and a bit of Houseman (all gleaned from Rivals) has meant I have blagged a few conversations in my time.

[BrainMash]

I quite like 'Wicked' (Taggie is in it!) but not anywhere near as good as Polo et al

[lottiejenkins]

Id like to be Harriet, and work for grumpy Cory!!!

[notwavingjusthaunting]

back to her old standards = same story with different names

Although I agree with you about the others. The spark for me was the Rupert and Taggie story

yy boudoiricca - Hilary was pleased Rupert had come on his own and thought she was in there. Didn't her husband have a "ghastly beard" ?

[TooImmature2BMum]

I love this thread, I love this thread...

How could you hate Polo?? Mind you, I started with Appasionata aged 12 and then worked backwards. Think I want to be Emily, stealing blood red roses in a see-through nightie on a Hebridean island and getting caught by someone terribly dashing whose name escapes me right now.

I was also saddened by MWMHJ. Lysander is no match for Rupert.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Notwaving - Hilary's husband was a ghastly milksop called Crispin. Their babies were called Kate and Germaine.

Why do I remember that shite but forget what is in my fridge for dinner?

[boudoiricca]

Hilary already was in there... they'd been having a torrid affair whilst Crispin(husband with ghastly beard) took daughter Germaine tobogganing. It began after Billy and Janey's wedding reception, when she'd shaved her pits specially... RCB "they were getting so long you could've plaited them..."

[notwavingjusthaunting]

at forgetting what's in your fridge for dinner. You're obviously operating on a higher plane darling

[notwavingjusthaunting]

boak at "so long you could've plaited them"

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Boudiriccia - it was Janey and Billy's engagement party, ackcherly

[boudoiricca]

where he was leading her around in a headcollar? (my teenage mind always found that rather disturbingly sexy)...

[NigellaTufnel]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Viking O'Neil.

Swoon....

I had a lot of crushed on French Horn players in my time, but he was the best.

And if I had a daughter I wanted to call her Flora.

[TooImmature2BMum]

Think it was a leading rein, actually. Then Rupert brought Revenge in and jumped the sofa and then he crapped all over the hall on the horrible sick-green carpet...

[notwavingjusthaunting]

Didn't he lead Hermione round on a leading rein? In the indoor arena?

[boudoiricca]

oh god... I'd forgotten about that... that was Rannaldini and Hermione with a lunge rein and whip in the indoor school in MWMHJ (?) and was altogether more sinister...

[aquamortis]

no it was rannaldini who led Hermione round on a rein

that really was not sexy

[TooImmature2BMum]

He lunged her! Over jumps, with a whip, and she was wearing high-heeled boots and a dog-collar and nothing else! That was Rannaldini not Rupert, though.

Yes, I only logged on in brief moment of madness and have spent the last hour reading posts and trying not to giggle obviously (clearly, nothing work related could be making me giggle!).