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)

2 sleeps til then next episode of DA... how long before JF slips that kind of wording into an episode.

Mary: oh Matthew darling, its 10 sleeps til I have my eyebrows re-modelled.

Carson : its 4 sleeps til new footman arrives,

It wouldn't surprise me.

I agree about the delicacies IamShe I reckon they must've got staff in to do them Mrs. P seems like a 'plain and jam' cook to me !

Maybe it was Daisy?

They made big of her being good enough to be a chef via the cheeky maid of the aunt

I've been reading books after servants in the 1920s and it was surprisingly common for cooks to produce mad and amazing dishes like that.

Will go and see what I've been reading in case anyone is interested or if anyone can recommend anything else:

www.amazon.co.uk/The-Maids-Tale-Revealing-Memoir/dp/1444735861/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349463021&sr=8-1

www.amazon.co.uk/The-Ladys-Maid-Life-Service/dp/0091943515/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b

I actually think the cook in an earls house would be capable of producing that kind of stuff. Not unusual.

10 points to JF if he can use the word 'cowabunga' in a historically accurate way.

Or say D'oh a la Homer Simpson. And then strangle someone. In a jokey manner.

100 points for cowabunga dude whilst skateboarding down the driveway

I'm late this year (aerial problems) but should be all sorted for next week, have just caught up on ITV player. Never again! It keeps putting the ad breaks halfway through sentences.

It's gone a bit daft this year hasn't it? I did cry a bit at poor Edith, despite it being so unrealistic. If it had happened just the two of them in a room somewhere it could have been quite touching, but in the church, everybody there...he wouldn't have done it. Shouldn't the driver outside have been more surprised too, when he came out early, sans wife?

Oh, and Bates' limp. I read an interview, and they decided it was the sort of wound that flared up and then went a bit better not at all to make JF's life easier.

Oh I am sure earl's cooks made Fabulous delicacies but Mrs Pattmore just doesn't give that impression does she.
I am longing for tomorrow nights episode. Darlings >

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... with Mary's calm deadpan droll - "How ridiculous - why ever not Matthew? Why would you not want to save Downton?"

scatter there were 2 drivers and they were both VERY surpised (hurriedly putting on hats and out fags !!) i remember thinking that it was a good scene! Oh yes Iam Roll on tomorrow night!>

Anyone watching Servants on BBC one? V good.

I didn't think the drivers looked that surprised. Thought they'd been given the head's up to be Ready to leg it .

Yes ladyharriet It's interesting but I get a bit about the presenter smiling SO much. I started watching Strictly but the forced hysteria got to me and I had to turn over to Servants.

The drivers wouldn't have looked surprised until they were able to gossip,later. I don't think they would look anything other than disinterested in front of their boss.

I agree that some of the plot lines are unlikely.
However, unlikely things happen in real life sometimes. For example:

Early one morning man walks into Buckingham Palace unchallenged, finds his way into Queen's bedroom and sits on her bed and asks for a fag.

More recently, the Eva Rausing tragedy - in a large house in Belgravia with staff, billionaire lives for two months beside the decomposing body of his wife . Although Eva has family no one reports her missing.

If either of those stories featured in a novel or a film they would be considered completely implausible.

Yes dappllegrey "there's nowt as strange as folks" A very true cliche

I'm with you dapplegray. I don't post half the stuff that goes on in my family because no one would believe it.

I love Matthew.

I love mrs Crawley. She's so upfront.

are we all watching? eyes peeled for mistakes, and ears open everyone.

GO EDITH be a bright young thing. Take drugs and piss off fatty bum bum.

I used to like Matthew, but think that he´s a bore & a snob now.

I also like Isobel.

Missed a bit-at least she actually does something!

Oh is she pregnant? Or not pregnant. Oh dear poor Mary.