Downton Abbey

[harrietthespook]

Ladies....as we were?

Just watched again & I can just hear what I saw subtitled re Anthony Strallan.

Have read somewhere that he´ll be in the Christmas special.

Have to laugh at how badly they want atthew to be the heir when originally they were so dismayed that he was a lawyer.

Oh do hush, it's like having Edith here. I'm going up to change.

Could you just stare meaningfully into the middle distance for a while first please Lady M?

It's my kind of history

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=duchess+of+argyll&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=885&tbm=isch&tbnid=WPxE_3eayLuiIM:&imgrefurl=www.art.com/products/p4174241044-sa-i4806084/photographic-portrait-of-margaret-whigham-1912-1993-duchess-of-argyll-pictured-in-1931.htm&docid=W3zIREKSL_7_VM&imgurl=cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/46/4624/Z6OFG00Z/art-print/photographic-portrait-of-margaret-whigham-1912-1993-duchess-of-argyll-pictured-in-1931.jpg&w=400&h=300&ei=uqulTuKADdLb8QOaroQ8&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=312&vpy=396&dur=993&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=113&ty=114&sig=103178579041322944449&page=2&tbnh=146&tbnw=196&start=27&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Duchess of Argyll was truly gorgeous but she couldn't cope when people starting worshipping common gels like Hollywood actresses and she entered a sad decline.

Her enthusiasm for sex was put down to a bang on the head she suffered falling down a lift shaft in the '30s. She'd have eaten Pamuk for breakfast, LadyMary

Mmm, Turkish Delight after kedgeree and devilled kidneys, probably.

Did anyone spot Carson being a mumsnetter? '...her inability to pronounce a word of two letters: "no."' Fantastic. He only had to add 'no is a complete sentence' and we would have known that JF is a lurker.

yes wtfuckity fuck was the lip-wipe? like crossed swords left then right across the mouth... can't imagine it's some masonic thing...

I think P/P is really the real deal, and will return with proof and marry Edith
just in time for M & M's wedding,. a quiet little wedding as there will be a big Sir R and Lav - based scandal.

O'Brien will get her comeuppance too, all the messing with Mrs Bates, and 'regretting' writing to her, Thomas told her it was her own fault

and Lord G will shag Jane and knock her up, meaning where there was no heir there will be 3
then the law will change and the 3 girls will inherit 1/3 each, donating it back to being a respite home

watched sundays episode with dd(12) she disgustedly said its just as crap as Eastenders with old peoples dressing up and its pants..

to involved in the plot to castigate her for saying crap.

love it though it truly IS crap.

love carson, did anyone remember her in 'Rita sue and Bob too' fantastic film.

Lord 6 will get jane pg; then jane will die of the flu
Cora will bring up le bebe

lavinia will be exposed as a dirty wee harlot

Carson in Rita/Sue Bob too?

how many times must have mistaken identity altered the course of huge inheritances, and changed family lines

the half-hearted bandage was a bit phantom wasn't it.
however , it had to be clear why noone wouldve recognised him; burned and bandaged, and with a bonkers accent - if my dh spoke canadian it would heartily confuse me

Anyone else think that perhaps the 'new maid' doesn't actually have a child, but just made it up as an excuse to get people feeling sorry for her/offer her the job?

I thought she looked rather uncertain when asked how old he was, but then got carried away with all the 'grammar school' stuff lies. I reckon she doesn't think for a moment that Lord G will get involved, but that when he does ('cos he fancies her) she will be spectacularly 'found out' as a liar and a cheat, and dismissed, at which point Ethel will come back to replace her, and help out in the house (which at that point will be in disarray, as the top bloke will have gone to Sir R's and mary's house????

Yes, she was! I knew I'd seen her somewhere before but couldn't place her. It was DH who remembered. Just can't take her seriously now.

Jane does have a child (known the village) but I reckon she's an Ethel in disguise.

"yes wtfuckity fuck was the lip-wipe? like crossed swords left then right across the mouth"

A quirk of cousin Patrick´s that he has copied to be convincing as the heir.

"love carson, did anyone remember her in 'Rita sue and Bob too' fantastic film."

Carson-her?

What was with the bandage anyway? His burns had all healed, so why did he need the bandage? If not to disguise his face and say 'well, of course you can't recognise me like this!'?

yy to quirk of Patrick's. However, as in a very clever Agatha Christie with a case of an imposter trying to inherit, the imposter was doing the mannerisms the wrong way around, like a mirror image, because she did them as she saw them.

Keep expecting her to burst into 'We're having a gang-bang'! Perhaps they will end the series thus - upstairs and downstairs in a free-for-all, kicked off by Lord G and the new maid.

GRR! Need to watch more immediately.

Bloody work, bloody childrearing, bloody illegal downloading life getting in the way of me watching Downton Abbey continuously!

stop this madness.

you dont mean 'carson' was in rita/sue?

was it a girl?

and no--- he's not an imposter, would be too complex to copy a mannerism, surely?

and nobody has mannerisms that memorable, heh? apart from tourettes

JF tends to keep it simple - Mr Bandage was really weeping and angry shoving the table;

am I the only one thinks he is the REAL HEIR?

It was Rita.

If he isn´t the heir, where would he have met the heir to learn anything that might be convincing about him?

Unless he was an old friend, I can´t see that cousin Patrick would hav egiven out his life story to some random passanger on the Titanic.

And the ention of Peter Gordon-I thought that that was a name he gave himself?