Downton Abbey

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Bloody mum rang to ask me about how much Internet she can use before it's full. Don't ask.

Why did bates have to leave?? Aaargh missed crucial bit!

Phew, I thought my admittedly shite memory was playing tricks on me.
One thing that never rings true to me is the levels of literacy in this show. surely not everyone could read and write?

Nigel Havers reminds me of another fine actor:

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cant believe I had forgotten pamuk/thomas story - remember pamuk smacking his hand away when he was getting a bit fresh

I'd completely forgotten that.

How is it that I couldn't remember that at all, but remember Sybil's harem pants perfectly (which obviously they did to me! don't really have a big plot point, unlike that)

ha! the shocking trousers heehee

Have just caught up with last week's episode. Poor Mr Lang. And Branson's an idiot.

The last part was so short though! I swear most of it was Cora snuggling into Earl G's neck. It didn't look at all comfortable, and then he turned the light off! Surely they can't actually sleep like that, all propped up against the headboard (can you tell my mind was wandering slightly? )

was her name Cora Crawley?

I always wanted to kow what happened to the trousers...

The guy with the letters was the Duke who came to see if Mary was going to be heiress and to propose to her if she was, despite the fact that he was gay and had been havign a relationship with her footman.

And did the Duke bring Pamuk as his friend?

No, the Duke came by himself before Evelyn Napier (who was writing to Mary, oo-er, and is coming back as a convalescing soldier in this series) brought Pamuk, who had been pretty much foisted on him by the Foreign Office equivalent to keep entertained.

This thread is making me laaugh - I love all the alternative storylines (might even be better than JFs...?).

One thing I wish they could have spent more time on is Sybil's training to be a nurse. A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain is a great account of how hard it was for well brought up gels to get to grips with bedsheets and bedpans.

I was brought up in a council house and I've never got to grips with bedsheets either and as for bedpans...

I've always thought the wrong parents took me home from the maternity hospital.

No, she wasn't Cora Crawley, the Crawleys on on her husband's side of the family.

Matthew calls her cousin, but he would call the Earl that too (btw, is he called Robert? I always forget.)

ha ha limitedperiodonly - I can't imagine being too thrilled with open wounds and bedpans meself. But the girls in 1914 would have been so sheltered (no CSI for them .)

yes misspb IKWYM about well bought up gels being nurses ,when they couldn't even boil water for tea!! did they have marigolds in those days (I don't even want to imagine what a nurse would have to do without rubber gloves)

Oh yes-now that Lady Sybil can boil a kettle & bake a cake, she´s well equipped to marry "out of the upperclass"

Lady Sybil's kettle-boiling skills will set her up for a new life of filling a tin bath in front of the fire and saying: 'Mama ate earlier, darlings', while watching her husband and 10 children scoff the last of the bread and dripping.

There is to be an illegitimate baby, apparently!

Mr Bates and Anna?

Edith and the farmer?

O'Brien and Mr Lang?

Isobel and the doctor?

Go girls, go!

www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23995644-downton-pedia.do

I finger Ethel for the illegitmate baby. Or that's the least I imagine that officer would like to do to her. Fast piece.

Mrs Patmore and the butler or the housekeeper and Mrs patmore. I don't think Lesbianism was illegal in the same way that homesexuality was.
What a fabulous idea if both the women who call themselves Mrs were to get together.
They could have mini pride meeting with toady Thomas. Mrs Patmore is obviously aware of his leanings, she pointed it out to Daisy early on in the first series.

Ooh...

William and Daisy?
Aunt Rosamund and newspaper man?
Sybil and Pickles?

Actually I quite like the idea of Mary and Pickles. With his heart murmur we could have a repeat of last year's story.

Did anyone else notice a member of the crew in the scene between the Earl and oh crap, why can't I remember anyone's name the main butler guy? Camera pans right, past the full-length mirror and right there in the reflection there's a bald guy holding some piece of equipment.

gorgeous Matthew Interview with some blonde piece

I could eat him on toast.

lavinia illegitemate baby with rich newspaper guy.

or daisy and pickles...
...or edith and Lang...

sensibly it's going to be Ethel and Corporal Moustache or Edith + farmer Giles