Downton Abbey anyone

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Or am I just an old gimmer with a period drama fetish

Just read down this thread; nearly as entertaining as the program! Me and DH thought Mary had come over all Goth and are a bit disappointed Carson brought her out of it. Betting Anna will be expecting by the end of the series (possibly Christmas special). Very bored of Moseley. Liked the bloke who sabotaged the lunch though. Where are the Ripon scenes filmed? The real Ripon is lovely, we live about 20 mins from it.

..Do peeps in Yorkshire really say "Up to London" - isn't London down..

Also - but maybe I misheard - when Lord Crawley said to Mary " You look done in....."

So pleased DA is back.

Oh it's full of anachronisms. Didn't Carson call one of the boys a "big girl's blouse"?

Was the guy in the workhouse the blackmailer?

Beggared if I can work out why Mrs Hughes gave a hoot about an old friend of Carson's, and isobel even less so. Is it acceptable for the widowed isobel to have a man living with her anyway?

Was just so random. One thing I do like though is the breakneck plot propulsion. You never have to wait long for answers on Downton.

You always go up to London, no matter where you live

I think done in is ok, I don't know if you'd find an Earl saying it, but it would have been around at that time- it's in Pygmalion which was written in 1912.

Yes Morris I want to know how Rose knows a housemaid, and why she wants to get her a job, hopefully we'll find out soon!

The maid responded to the advert that Rose put in the shop window.

That's quite true, it's always UP to London, whatever the direction!

I live in Cornwall though, and my Londoner friend always says she's coming "Up to Cornwall" whenever she visits.

Er, no my bird, Cornwall is definitely down, not up!

"Operation Divorce Lunatic", "We're Going on an Heir Hunt"(genius)

Luffs this thread, I do.

Thanks to the PP who cleared up the train confusion, that will no longer annoy me. Clever peeps on MN. of course I could have just googled it

For the PP who asked where the Ripon scenes were actually filmed..

they film in the Cotswolds

Loved it as usual.
The new lady's maid was only in the last series briefly,wasn't she,then moved on to Ripper Street as a Madam?
These maids all look the same,I thought she was Ethel who had the baby at first.
Missed bit about how Thomas got nanny the sack.Was replenishing wine glass at the time.
And Edith still got years before any chance of being stuck in Nazi Germany.

I predict lunatic wife will turn out not to be such a lunatic after a but to have a mild touch of PND or something and editor will thus be revealed as a shit.

Everyone will be really sympathetic until she shocks them by bunking up with him anyway

Mrs Hughes got the all clear on the cancer front. I'm sure she did.

There is just no way that Mrs Hughes would help out someone who had tried to blackmail Carson. Just no way.

AboutTimeForaChange, blackmailer? what blackmailer?

Think I should have watched the reruns!!

Though I too think Mrs Huges got the all clear. carson got all happy and sang because she did

Ahem

You go 'up' to Oxford and Cambridge too.

oh random fact I've discovered, Mrs Huges is married to the father of the man that got Ethel pregnant (in real life obviousy not in Downton world! !)

Oh, I don't think Edith will get stuck in Nazi Germany, I think she might eventually turn out to be an enthusiastic mate of Hitler's, a la Unity Mitford...

Yes, it's very strange for Mrs Hughes to ask Isobel Crawley to have a destitute, lower-class man to stay with her! Even with IC's obvious philanthropic commitment, it would have been hugely overstepping the mark for even a senior servant to ask an upper-middle-class woman connected to the Downton family to take in Grigg! I couldn't decide whether he was being taken upstairs to the servant's rooms, or to the guest room...?

I got up this today seriously longing for a little breakfast tray in bed, a silk dress to be put on me, someone to sort my hair out properly and a bit of help with the bed making. How much should I budget for a lady's maid, do you think? I have decided I can't go on like this, being modern and all that. It is too much like hard work.

Mrs Hughes and Isobel have been partners-in-interference before, though, with Ethel.

In the cold light of day I think it's ridiculous that Cora would hire a lady's maid with no experience who was sweeping grates six months ago.

Yy I want Cora's little tray on turned wooden legs! I also want to be wearing some form of frothy embroidered negligee in the morning and have a long dark mussy-yet-elegant plait.

Although Cora never has to run out with the rubbish before the bin men get down the road.

I thought Daisy was going to become a trainee tenant farmer with her father in law. He was going to run t'farm and she would make and sell chutneys and farmhouse produce etc and takeover the farm tenancy when he died so she could have a better, more secure future - think that was the plan in the Xmas episode???or did I just dream it?

Boffin put a card in the post office window, see where it goes from there. £20 a year should be enough, maybe £30