Downton Abbey Part THREE: Shoehorns and Spanish Fly

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Soooooooooooooo I still reckon Cora to kick the bucket, shuffle of this mortal coil, sing with the choir eternal etc etc

I bet Jane is handy with a shorehorn for Lord 6, he's been out of action for a while so may need some help.

"Maybe she sells shoehorns...."

On the seashore?

Isn't Lavvy's father a solicitor or someone Matthew has acted for?

God. That's dull

I mean a dull fact not to mention an uncharacteristically plausible reason for them to have met.

no no no he wasn't matty didn't work for the dad

So, apropos of nothing, and not to changer le sujet or anything but...

you see i've been wearing natural deodorant recently....(Tom's of Maine)

and let's put it this way...reckon I might need to switch back.

So, coming tot he point, it occured to me that mary edith and sybil....what did they do back then about ponging? does anyone know?

In series one, I thought that Matthew took a job as a partner in a firm in Ripon.

But for the first 2yrs of the war he didn´t visit DA/his mum, but somehow met Lavinia in London??!!

Was he deployed from London?

Moving swiftly on from the question of how Matthew met Lavinia, I've also often wondered about the question of ponging.

I think rich ladies dealt with it by frequent changes of clothes and dress shields - oval-shaped double thickness cotton things that were tacked into the armpits of dresses and blouses and could be removed and washed.

Men had removable shirt collars for neck and hair grime and either laundered the shirt every day (rich) or wore it as long as everyone could stand it (poor).

My mum, not rich, remembers them from the war and thereafter. She gave me some dress shields (new, not inherited) to protect a satin dress from sweat stains.

Poor people just ponged but no one noticed much because everyone else did.

dress shields. Not bad.

We shouldn't even start on teeth around tea time I guess.

Sir R, Matthew C, Lord Fatty Bum Bum, William, or Bates: Worst Kissing Breath???

I reckon....tie bet Bates and Lord Fatty Bum Bum.

People used to have all their teeth pulled out as a precautionary measure, especially when striking out for somewhere remote in Australia, Canada or the United States. It was a popular going-away present.

My dad was very insistent on dental hygiene for us. He lost most of his teeth by his 30s I think - I always remember him as having at least a top set of false teeth and he was 45 when I was born.

He always had quite a wolfish grin but not in the days after the dog found his false teeth in the middle of the night and chewed them up.

The issue of Lord 6's breath is probably covered by a superinjunction.

funny !!
loved the switcheroo from natural deod back to spray

I have studied that hand and I estimate it to be 40 something.

I'm not sure if Cora's bedspread is peach but her bedhead is DEFINATELY peach.

So I'm thinking - Cora - RIP.

just watched the youtube trailer for next week, on the right hand side where they have related vids is a vid of some of the characters talking about whether they is posh. Thomas and Pickle are sitting next to eachother, and they both look hoooooot!

am re-watching ep 4...forgot it was patmore who originally told thomas to start 'hoarding' food as rationing was beginning to bite...that gave him the idea in the 1st place

am really going to miss downton after it's finished. cant store them all on my v+ box, they take up too much space

have just realised why mary has grown her eyebrows into the sides of her hair, it's a visual illusion as her eyes are too close together.

...and it was Sir R who said to Cora that Lavvie needed to come back, Cora didnt speak in reply/invite Lavvie/openly agree with him.

Downton series 2 DVD goes on sale the day after the final episode airs.

god alone knows why chanel pay that insousciant smug square-faced scarecrow to model. the camera bloke actor has a prettier face than hers, sneering bint.

georgiemama - bet it's £30 or thereabouts!!

woah!!

watching this again, OBrien is heavily involved with Bates /Vera trouble

1> the button box eavesdrop
2> Anna telling her to mind her own about 16 times
3> lots of shots of Obrien thinking with calculating eyes

I think Obrien is going to drop Bates in it with the polizi

also weird scene

edith sitting with burned guy in the folly

edith says 'we'll find this peter gordon, I know we will, '

he looks at her strangely, and says 'I expect you will'

yes, Lavinia's just arrived with sir R,,
hello my dear how lovely to see you -cora
are you sure? sir richard said you were expecting me....but...are you?-lavvie

then cora smiles cunningly across at shocked mary and lord 6

before you scold me it's no good pretending mary's not too attached to matthew
-cora
so you summon lavinia?
-lord 6