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Vintagejazz · 17/09/2014 14:12

I believe it's back on Sunday. Hurray!

I really hope though that they focus more on Edith and less on Mary and her boring, all look the samey, suitors.

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smokeandfluff · 21/09/2014 22:46

Mrs Hughes probably thinks ediths in love with the farmer

Davros · 21/09/2014 22:52

Notice that the bolshie school teacher is much shorter than the strapping, well nourished and well bred upper crust birds!

Explored · 21/09/2014 22:53

Why would the dog's aging process follow any normal timeline. Ediths baby must be nearly 2 despite not being born last series but Sybil and the other one haven't changed at all.

The kitchen maid still seems to be 15 despite having been married and widowed years ago.

Jimmy's aged loads though

Bartlebee · 21/09/2014 22:54

We fought the firemen looked like Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub.

GimmeMySquash · 21/09/2014 22:54

Mrs Hughes may find the picture and put it all together.

EduCated · 21/09/2014 22:55

Are they going to think the farmer is the father though?

springbabydays · 21/09/2014 22:57

Thomas proves he's not a complete arse. I like it when he does that. The only reason I started watching DA back in the day was cos I missed Liam from corrie.

I hope Lady Mary finds someone she actually has chemistry with.

I wonder if Baxter's story includes reference to Thomas and she doesn't want to drop him in it...?

Annarose2014 · 21/09/2014 23:03

What the bloody hell age is everyone meant to be if Cora & Robert are married 34 years already??

Molio · 21/09/2014 23:03

Duckface tryst was really odd.

Schoolteacher was shockingly rude, not excused by her politics.

Poor dog :(

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 21/09/2014 23:05

I think he might have had a different dog in series one. So this one would be ten-ish?

Lua · 21/09/2014 23:05

What did Drewe said to Edith by the side of the firetruck?

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 21/09/2014 23:06

Mary was 23 ish in the first series think - she'd done a couple of seasons.

What year are we up to now?

Molio · 21/09/2014 23:06

Ages seem fine. Mary 31, Edith 29, Robert 59, Cora 54, Violet 80 etc.

SockQueen · 21/09/2014 23:09

Well, it's unlikely she has a child with Thomas...

SockQueen · 21/09/2014 23:10

DH did not know what I was talking about when I exclaimed "Duckface!"

May have to LTB.

GimmeMySquash · 21/09/2014 23:11

It started with the Titanic sinking, which was 1911. I think it was 1923/24 tonight. So about 12 years since it started. Robert and Cora would then have been married 21/22 years. Lady Mary is the oldest so would have been about 20.

LittleBearPad · 21/09/2014 23:12

The Titanic was 1912. The election they kept referencing was the 1924 election.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 21/09/2014 23:13

She was a little older - both she and Edith were out, only Sybil was under twenty one.

eddiemairswife · 21/09/2014 23:18

She's never going to live down Duck face is she.

Trickydecision · 21/09/2014 23:24

What's all this about the footman and the woman he was in bed with? Was this relationship ever mentioned in the previous series?

LittleBearPad · 21/09/2014 23:30

I'm sure something was mentioned about it when he arrived at DA.

Davros · 21/09/2014 23:37

The bolshie teacher visiting the servants makes her MORE patronising than the toffs, not sure the under stairs dwellers would have liked that at all. But she obviously did it so she and Daisy can meet, she will tutor Daisy who will then become a capable landowner and farmer and marry Tom.

SockQueen · 21/09/2014 23:42

It was mentioned when he arrived and once or twice since, but I always assumed it was more of a joke - dotty old wealthy lady having a soft spot for her young handsome servant - rather than that they were actually at it.

triplets · 22/09/2014 00:06

I thought Violet wasnt herself tonight, maybe she had a cold. Id like to get to know the children more, we hardly see them.

tribpot · 22/09/2014 00:11

Fabulous to see the incomparable Harriet Walter back on screen with the accent that can cut glass. I don't know who the hell she's meant to be and don't care! More Harriet!

The bizarre ageing process of the various children is evidence that life was tough for the working class, is this where the expression 'had a rough paper round' comes from? Baby Marigold has obviously been grafting since she was 6 months old, hence why she appears twice the age of Sybbie and George in their gilded nursery.

Bolshevik teacher playing to type in the mind of JF already - never mind having revolutionary views, she doesn't have the good manners to leave the servants to their supper (although actually half of them appeared to making up breakfast trays anyway). Daisy is taking a bloody long time to get on with her Woman of Substance storyline.

Worst plot point of all, when I specifically requested hair dye, was that it was applied to the head of Molesworth and not the two suitors. Fortunately only one of whom was in this episode, perhaps they can take it turns this series.