Downton Abbey part 4 we want to know more

[ThePsychicSatsuma]

I still need to talk about it.

Because Anna is a housemaid and O'Brien is a ladies maid. Ladies maids are surname, housemaids first name, housekeepers Mrs surname. Same for men so Mr Carson, Bates and Thomas. Cooks are also Mrs surname and if you can afford a pricey chef then they are Monsieur surname. You can make up names for your firstname staff if you like.

"What is a weekend?" is the most gloriously posh thing anyone has ever said. Dowager is a legend.

branston pickle

so obvious! I'm no thick. Honest.

wanders off whistling

She is indeed Georgimama

I often say "wha-what is a weekend?" in my best Maggie. :o Fave line EVER!

Ho-kay. I am just watching where they thought Picks was going to poison the guy but really 'twas just icky slop he was going to throw on him.

I am so very far behind!

"I'm a good sailor". Brilliant.

Sigh at when I still loved Mafffew. I have hopes for the Christmas special when he has thrown off his mourning and the chip on his shoulder.

Oh favourite scene of the whole series was the railway scene. When he said "you send me off to war a happy man" I may have suffered some slight moistening of the tear ducts.

my two favourite bits (other than obviously EVERYTHING that Maggie Smith uttered) were when Isobel came to visit Matthew in hospital for the first time, and looked like she wanted to scrunch him up in her arms. and again when he walked for the first time and she did scrunch him and say 'my booyyyyyyyy'

lovely depiction of motherhood

did anyone else notice Jane was also, a-hem, of the goat-eyed persuasion!

very vey pale blue with long thin pupils
similar to matthew

'why does every day involve a fight with an American'

genius

dig at Cora too

Psychic
He did hear the question properly. I asked him about it again last night.

Apparently he thinks she's good and self-sacrificing, didn't 'pack sand' in Matty's bum when she caught him with Mary, acted with dignity, self-restraint.

Then then then Fidererer he went on about Patmore soft and squigginess.

The cakes and bread thing does do it for him.

I'm more like Lady Mary by disposition - physique-wise no, apart from small breasts. Mine are even smaller is that possible? yes

Dumb question... Was last Sundays one the last in the series? I didn't twig that when I started watching. I thought there was one more to go (excluding Christmas)

My favorite Violet scene from Series One:

"Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden."

Soup, yes last until XMAS. Boo hoo.

Yes, Jane was Caprine-y. I saw her shove some paper in her mouth early on.

Bugger. In which case I have a question: What happened to the burnt heir? Did he just vanish from the hospital thing at Downton, never to be seen again, or have I missed an episode?

sorry does anyone get that? Goats supposedly eat paper.

burnt heir vanished so far.

Goats supposedly eat anything. One ate the tail of a pony in my ILs small Wiltshire village. Their local paper was always far more fun than mine.

I was surprised there was no further mention of burnt heir, not even in passing. Which is why I thought I had missed an episode.

I like the fact that the women are all gorgeous and small-breasted. Makes a change from these inflated and implants days.

Never fear, LadyH, Lavinia died of self-sacrifice (not fighting the flu as Lady Mary would have) so pah.

Patmore's charms would soon wane when LordH (is he?) eats so many of her cakes and bread and spends too much time nestling against her soft apron that he becomes LordH Fatty Bum Bum and can't rise from his chair to leave the servants' quarters and is doomed to sit there while O'Brien throws buttons at him.

NO, it's just weird, the Lav thing. I accept that.

anyway re burnt heir: you never know with JF, he could wander through the back door and pitch up next to the soup tureen at any time a la Vera Bates.

www.imdb.com/name/nm0925544/

burnt heir

What guilty pleasure can I fill my Sunday TV viewing with now? [sigh]

Was anyone else struck by Mary warning Carson to beware of Thomas and how he wouldnt br content to remain a footman?? I have had an epiphany - I think Thomas is going to try and bump Carson off in the Christmas Special and claim it was the 'flu!!