Downton Abbey - update required

[StagnantRabbit]

Any big Downton fans out there who can tell me what happened in the very last episode of series 2 and also the Xmas special? Tryin to get ready for the new series on Sunday but is there anything else I missed? (apart from Lady Mary and Matthew getting together that is)

I had a going away outfit. It was a simple short white dress and the shop assistant got the wrong end of the stick and told me I couldn't possibly wear it to a wedding reception until I explained to her that yes I could because it was my bloody wedding.

I also had a going away outfit.

Because we went away after the reception.

I had a going away outfit. A pink dress with brown accessories. It looked lovely. Went to the Scilly Isles for honeymoon - considered to be 'abroad' in those days.

It's spring 1920. You can tell by the blossom on the trees.

Also they are doing the Downton Pocket Guide to History again.

Note the careful references to Home Rule in Pickle's sozzled rant and the serving of new-fangled cocktails.

If Matthew doesn't get the inheritance from Lavinia's dad there'll probably be a storyline where Cora's mother revives the family fortunes by bootlegging.

Why thank you Lady Harriet

Hear, hear, LadyHarriet, Dilys made me snort with laughter too!

How long will it be before someone punches Isobel for being an interfering, annoying bat?

Aha there you are LadyH & Limited

I love it unreservedly too

Dilys you are quote of the week material!

Something Is Brewing between Bates & cellmate......hope he doesn't lose that famous stiff upper lip...was hoping Anna would be upduffed from the one honeymoon night.

I cried when Mary came down, first at her looking lovely & then at the paternal pride on both Carson & Lord G's faces....... yep soft as butter me.

Feel rather sorry for Edith, she is DESPERATE to get hitched & is practically carrying an arrow over her head for Sir Strallen who is very sweet if rather pathetic. She was VERY forward in kissing him goobye after his visit.

I've always wondered whether Cora had an affair in the past with Carson, and whether he is actually Mary's father... .

Don't.

I was queasy enough when Cora told Mary that when you loved someone you didn't mind him putting his winkle in you, even if he was Lord 6.

Don't suggest she's had Carson's winkle in her too.

Imagine the two of them puffing and blowing in your earhole...

Hello to you too bossybritches

Did they use the word winkle? I was sanding a table whilst watching it so missed half of it.

Julian Fellowes's otherwise unemployable daughter said in her companion book to the series (RRP £250) that winkles were growing in popularity among the English upper classes between the Wars.

Being a colonialist Cora's mother would have preferred a big wanger. Or weenie if she had to make do with a small one.

Is sanding a table a euphemism? Like polishing the candlesticks?

Yes, 'sanding a table' refers to vigorously stimulating a todger of epic and gargantuan proportions. Bloody thing kept blocking the screen. Didn't block Bates and his flourishing prison physique however

"Julian Fellowes's otherwise unemployable daughter"

Do you mean his wife, Emma Kitchener Fellowes?

I think that they only have a son-Peregrine K-F

Jessica Fellowes - his niece.

Oh, she's his niece is she? She wrote a smashing book on the show. I gave it to my MIL

Sybil is only 21 and has lived her life in corsets so I dont imagine she'll get a huge bump anytime soon.

Oh I remember a line from a saucy drama we had in our village hall once....squoosh

"French polishing a piece of Fine English Oak"

The Dowager would have had the vapours.......

I'm just watching again - when Sybil arrives she definitely has a small bump and her hair does look shorter at the front. The dresses were very loose and low at the waist in the 20s so wouldn't have shown much of a bump on a slim woman.

I did detect a slight bump when Sybil arrived, and then she did the tell tale giveaway hand on tummy bump thing.

I still maintain that Thomas killed Vera, and am prepared to take the glory if i am correct

Anyone else reckon Pickle is a bit of a demon in the boudoir? he has that 'glint in the eye' as my nanna would say

When sybil was sitting talking to mary she was running her bump, so to speak.

Her hair is bobbed, I'm 99% sure. It has been styled to curl under at the bottom so it looks pinned but I'm almost sure it's short.

Right so it's time for Bobwatch - although the way the series zipped through WW1 last season, I'm expecting it to be 1923 this week, skirts above the knees and even Violet with bobbed hair drinking martinis and smoking a fag in a long ivory holder.