Downton Abbey

Can't believe the number of pages this thread has commanded. Not high art, but I loved it. I hope whatshername, Edith's assistant, marries Tom, though love him myself.

Ooh don't! Stop it I like it!

Yes, a 'full inspection' in every sense!

Bloomin' heck I wouldn't want that old fart, Carson as my landlord. Iam64 Imagine?

He would want to do a full inspection every day.

Maybe the grace and favour thing was a SW slip up but just maybe, yet another sign of Lord G's kindness. The Carson/Hughes could rent out the cottage they bought as an investment and start the trend for buy to let.

I wondered about that as well, rosequartz. I thought they bought the cottage as friends (with an eye to the future) so why would they need a grace and favour home now they are married?

and I don't know why Carson and Mrs Hughes Carson were given a grace and favour home on the estate as I thought they had bought their own cottage

I think her niece runs it, it's going to be a bit awkward if she marries the farmer and becomes Daisy's step-MIL; perhaps she and farmer will go off to the B&B and leave Daisy and Andy to take over the farm.
Then what about the niece, perhaps she could move to Downton as she is so good at cooking and changing beds.

We will have to start charging a fee for all these good ideas for the film script.

Pity there was no update on Mrs. Patmore's B&B.

Trip Advisor would have spotted there was nobody changing the sheets running it.

'Ooh no, they'll have to change the Axminster' when the waters went .... etc etc

July or no, those big houses are cold all year round. Just varying degrees of chill! They hardly ever slipped a cardie around the shoulders.

I do love the 'amused comments' from teenage DGCs.

'Your Mary is not my Mary' caused much merriment.

If you go rosesarered it is worth paying the extra to see the Tutankhamun
exhibition.
And the penstemmons are lovely too

Ana I was watching it (with another granny) interrupted periodically by 'amused comments' for want of a better term, from the younger element, so must have missed that bit!
I would have been happy to watch it later as I recorded it, but other granny doesn't have that facility.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the homage to "Miranda", merlot.

Must visit Highclere next Summer, it's not far and I keep meaning to go, I shall miss Downton and all it's doings.

Well, I didn't have to cast my mind very far back, rose, as we'd seen her and Tom having a quick chat together earlier on. But it was another of those very brief scenes (probably put in to remind us who she was! ).

I couldn't take the credit for Ana's good memory, Indinana, I can only just keep up with the main characters!

That's why the trees have all their leaves in midwinter (filmed in July)

I watched it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it- the end of another era.

NFK, it was filmed in July.

Ana solved the mystery Indinana

Ha, yes, I've now read through the thread properly and see my mistake . I think I was skimming threads, posting hastily, not refreshing. Oh well, it was Christmas and I've had a 6 month old and a dog running me ragged

On the terrace street I was brought up on in the 40's we had the only car! A little Morris. Posh we wuz.

I only caught up with Downton last night as we had an electricity 'outage' Christmas night right in the middle of it! I thought it was very neatly sewn up and put to bed. The costumes were wonderful - although how the ladies put up with the cold in those flimsy frocks I don't know. I feel sure they would have worn more woolies. And I do wish just one of them would have put on a bit of weight.... Or aged a little.

My dad told me that when he was a child in the 40's there was only one family in the street with a car. They shared the same name as a few other families and were known as the Car Bells . Different times.

Me too rosequartz

merlotgran you are what I like to call very funny and even more . well at least she could play with Harry Potter

No, they would have cost a fortune, even second hand.in our street, even in the 1950's only one family owned a car ( black, a Humber, with triangular stickers of all the exotic places they had travelled to, Margate, Skegness and Ilfracombe!) lol.