Aibu to think I've just fallen into a 1970s Jilly Cooper novel?

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(light-hearted) fur Jilly Cooper fans really...

I'm at home desperately trying to finish some bookkeeping, not showered, greasy hair, flung on old t shirt and shorts, no make up, with no knickers and underwire poking out of my bra. I've just been trying to put some paperwork in the attic and the bastard ladder breaks and I'm trying to somehow get it to go back up in the attic. Cursing, swearing etc. There's a knock on the door.

It's this chap from Texas I've been dating for a couple of months very half heartedly as tbh I'm finding it hard to be emotionally available due to slightly being hung up on on the ex still.

There's me all flustered as I'm looking a total mess and he proceeds to fix the ladder with me simpering 'thank you so much!' and then ravish me telling me how gorgeous i am with me going 'but i look such a state!'

I feel like Janey typing 'men should not drop in' 😂😂

I just remembered when I was younger I asked for a gimlet which is vodka lime and soda because it was in Prudence.

I was also a massive wanker.

I always re read Jilly on holiday and every time I get out the shower I make sure to spray perfume on my freshly washed bush and wear no makeup other than a ring of black kohl around my eyes

I wish there was a like button for some of these comments, trimming hair with the bacon scissors!

I couldn't help myself..

I always think of Jilly and TMWMHJ on the 1st May!

1st May, 1st May
Outdoor F@cking starts today
But as doth usual it do rain
So we f@cks off indoors again!

Spraying myself liberally with Je Reviens after washing my hair to get the garden out of my nails.

I have just read Mount abs was horrified by a few sections that horrible old racists would find funny (yes, ex FIL, I'm thinking of you). Some person described as stinking of curry and waking someone up praying all the time, and 'amusing' Chinese mispronunciation, including lice/rice. Really took the shine off.

Such a shame cos I love Jilly.

The name books and parched Putney in summers so hot, we don't have them anymore. Wimbledon-inspired tennis... she captures heady summer young love so brilliantly.

And the canal boat one... Kate? Marrying an awful bore who is infatuated with the wife of Jonty...? I've forgotten the artists name - the one she actually loves who arrives in a bus to sweep her off. I think it's a short story.

Riders and rivals and polo. I love them all. The whole RCB and taggie love!!

Buttercunt

The canal boat one is called Kate's Wedding, her poker up the arse barrister fiancé is called Hugh and her ex-boyfriend, the artist, is called Todd! And, Kate can't wash her hair because Todd's 'glamour pants' girlfriend, Georgie, used up all the hot water.

So glad somebody mentioned 'tipping the dregs of a bottle of Diorissimo over herself'.

Just realised, OP, if you had only been wearing an old bikini top with the shorts, rather than a T shirt, you would have been Daisy at the end of Polo when she cops off with Ricky France Lynch!

Cameron Cook used to "drench herself in Fracas"

And, the one with the crochet minidress with holes the size of 10p pieces is the story about the young secretary who likes the cut of her boss's jib but is eclipsed by a tarty temp called Stephanie with a pug called Pomeroy! Stephanie gets off with the boss (as young secretary discovers when phoning the boss at home to hear Stephanie shout, "come back to bed, darling") but by that time the young secretary has wisely moved on to another nice man in the office.

Think the story was called 'temporary setback'?

I also liked the one about the girl who had to be her sister's bridesmaid with hideous hair and frock but managed to cop off with a lovely handsome (although sad and troubled) man. He rescues her from having to get off with a man allied Tubby Thompson or something, in a nightclub called 'The Black Gypsy'.

Fracas: the 'sharp dry scent that Tony Bullingham/Baddingham loved on her'.

I sought it out to sniff just because of that!!

*called Tubby Thompson. Not 'allied'. Where did that come from?

Janey Henderson (Lloyd-Foxe) was always my favourite character. Especially her diets where she'd eat nothing but grapefruit and lose 10lb. And where she wore a voluminous maternity dress when she was 6 weeks pregnant!

Bookworm, I thought it was the Carlisle twins who were joyous as otters? because we all know what happy creatures otters are

Why did the Baddinghams get a name change anyway?

OP, next time the Texan should cook you cod in cheese sauce out of a packet. Such charisma.

The first of may rhyme was from Rivals, RCB outside with Cameron Cook.

I bought a load of JC books at a jumble sale for 10p each to replace my battered copies, a previous owner had marked all the grammatical mistakes with red pen, with corrections in the margin

I also want to know why Bullingham became Baddingham, and Cotswold TV became Corinium TV. We need answers!

It changed RCB's insult in the Concorde departure lounge from 'Lord Bullshit' to 'The big Baddingham wolf', which just isn't as good.

Yeah, and what was with Janey thinking she was miles too heavy to be carried when she was 9 stone 10???

I love this thread so much; I love it with all of my heart. I utterly adored Jilly Cooper when I was growing up (and when I was supposedly grown up) and yes, thinking back there are some themes that are totally of their time and quite frankly unacceptable. I mean, ffs, in Emily, Rory Balniel bashes Emily all kinds of blue for supposedly fancying the dr ( Angus? I haven't read these for years and am trying to do it off the top of my head.) anyway, point is they were well un pc and of their time and I fucking loved them. That doesn't mean it was ok; ok?

Oh, I must re read them all for the umpteenth time. RCB what a cunt, but what a sexy cunt.

Yes, loved it when all the girls, particularly in the named novels would have a massive makeover and become beautiful.

The bottom line is she wrote it all so well. Oh, jilly cooper.

I think the Bullingham/Baddingham thing was because there was a real Mr Bullingham who worked in TV and sued the publishers, so they had to change the name.

Was the doctor in Emily, Finn?

If Jilly Cooper used my name in one of her novels I'd be delighted!

I am well jel.