Jilly Cooper time

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It’s that time of year again - when I want to be a character in a Jolly Cooper novel - and only eat orange and steak for a week so I can squeeze into a too tight dress with a stain I’ve artfully covered with a brooch, after I have drenched myself in scent so I can get off with a dangerous drunk mysterious man who is loaded with cash and will whip me away to San Tropez, where I will only have an old bathing dress with moth in the seat which I keep falling out of. There I will meet a loveable old lech covered in Man Tan and flirt wildly while getting tight after too much gin.

My favourites are
Rivals
Riders
and Harriet

I probably like the girls names one best but they are not long enough to absorb oneself in for a week. And they don't have RC-B in

And IRL I deliberately bought myself a new massive navy blue bath sheet

Grimbles poor Tory and her 11 stone bulk she must have been huge!!!

Perrier don't make you Merrier.

Imogen was an awful drip.

I got into uni on the basis of my love of JC.

A ravishing man will sweep you into his arms, groan 'Christ, you're beautiful' into your hair.....

..... then spoil it all by calling you 'Buttercunt' 🤮

I re-read my ancient & battered 1980's copies of her 'name' series for the nth time again recently. Delicious but oh my word so sexist & dated! My favourite is Octavia even though she is awful.

Love this thread!

She says purrr - d - it- uh. Not Purr- deee- tah.

Just for the record - the audio book pronunciation is right. I won't flounce from the room tossing my glorious blond mane of hair about it though. I'll just toss back another glass of chilled Chablis whilst waiting for my handsome and rakish husband to come home instead!

I liked Bella best. And Rivals. Scared to re read incase I don't love them quite so much.
Am gutted about rcb cheating on taggie. Think she should officially cancel that book and have another crack at it.
What exactly is fernet branca? From my childhood reading, all I know is yhat ot cures hangovers.

I longed to be a grown up and live in a Jilly Cooper world - have to say that adilt life has proved disappointing!

I always assumed fernet branca was like posh alka seltzer, but it's actually a sort of liqueur I think.

I feel I should buy some to test it

She does write invitingly about getting drunk, doesn’t she? Off to google fernet branca!

I'm sure there's a book called Cooking with Fernet Branca...

Fernet Branca is a massive-thighed, hair-tossing, Argentinian polo player.

How do you even give someone an old fashioned look?

I shall also never forgive her for letting Rupert cheat on Taggie and while she was ill!

I’ve defo read too many threads on the relationships board here cos when Taggie just forgave him I was screaming WTAF!! LTB Taggie!!

Personally I don’t need jilly time to look ravishing, with my mane of white blonde hair flying around my narrow tanned shoulders, and my glittering sapphire eyes flashing on both sides of my long Grecian nose.

DP is the same, with his treble barrelled surname and his broad shoulders tapering to his narrow waist and snake hips, which thrust erotically as he drives rebellious stallions around the estate that he inherited from his grumpy and disreputable father.

Be right back - just spraying some Amarige on my bush.

Must be prepared in case my rakish French-horn-playing lover decides to bonk me on a glockenspiel.

Eeek I’ve not read mount yet so I’ve just downloaded it on audible!!!!

Heavens, is that the time? I was supposed to have exercised the greyhound, made chutney from mounds of onions and bonked the stable hand by now. Looks like it's going to have to be the local pub for dinner, where thankfully the chef is amazing and will whip us up beef bourguignon in no time.

If anyone needs me, I shall be hosting a dinner party and pretending that I cooked the food when actually I hired a caterer. Hope she doesn't get goosed by a guest!

Oh lordy I love JC. The heat reminds me of The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous when it rains on Paradise after a heatwave and Lysander and co are drunk dancing in the resulting downpoar. Bliss!

😂 @DeepInFrance and @bookworm14