The Honourable Thread of Downton Abbey - The Third

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Who filled up the last thread? Hmm?

All I wanted to say was Jonathan Rhys Meyers?

No!! I don't like him and he's a pants actor.

Did "batting for the other side" exist as a phrase at the time?

Op for Fibroids?

I thought Mary would announce pregnancy tonight.
Must be xmas special!!!

D&c?

Maud - so far it turns out JF is playing the same 'hilarious' joke on his viewers every week, of introducing phrases that sound too modern for the time but aren't. Zzzzzzzz. This definitely isn't the shizzle.

I think the 'batting for the other side' phrase sounds public school/crickety

I feel sorry for O'Brien.

The joke was when he said 'if I'd shouted every time someone tried to kiss me at Eaton I'd have been hoarse within a month!'

Why would they have a massive Van Dyke of Charles I in the breakfast room?

i think eeditor got something to do with jilter one

Is the editor going to be married?

ijiter one = who Edith was supposed to marry as I've forgotten his name

Ooh Edith is Jane Eyre now.

Oh ffs - she didn't mind married men when she was rolling around in the hay with that farmer!!

And now he's got a mad wife - its all going a bit Jane Eyre!

At least he doesn't have her locked in the attic I suppose. Poor Edith, she just can't catch a break where the gentleman callers are concerned.

Poor Edith....will fall in lve with someone she can never have.Again!

I forgot about her groping that married farmer!

Run a mile Edith!

Never read Jane Eyre. Might give it a go now

Ah the farmer thing was back when she was a bitch.

Get to the bottom of it, arf

Alfred has grassed him up!