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Downton Abbey

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Anniebach Sat 26-Dec-15 10:12:52

What a disappointing end to the series. Soooo happy ever after .

Gaggi3 Tue 29-Dec-15 15:48:35

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.

Jane10 Tue 29-Dec-15 13:21:42

Ooh don't! Stop it I like it!

Ana Tue 29-Dec-15 10:01:16

Yes, a 'full inspection' in every sense! shock

gillybob Tue 29-Dec-15 09:45:16

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.

Iam64 Tue 29-Dec-15 07:10:54

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.

merlotgran Mon 28-Dec-15 23:43:01

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?

rosequartz Mon 28-Dec-15 23:21:59

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 confused

rosequartz Mon 28-Dec-15 23:20:29

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.

merlotgran Mon 28-Dec-15 23:05:32

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

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

rosequartz Mon 28-Dec-15 22:57:17

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

NfkDumpling Mon 28-Dec-15 21:52:00

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.

merlotgran Mon 28-Dec-15 20:17:24

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

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

rosequartz Mon 28-Dec-15 19:59:04

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

rosequartz Mon 28-Dec-15 19:56:54

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! tchgrin
I would have been happy to watch it later as I recorded it, but other granny doesn't have that facility.

Pittcity Mon 28-Dec-15 19:40:14

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

rosesarered Mon 28-Dec-15 19:02:15

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

Ana Mon 28-Dec-15 10:42:13

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! grin).

rosequartz Mon 28-Dec-15 10:39:18

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

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

Charleygirl Mon 28-Dec-15 10:34:18

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

durhamjen Mon 28-Dec-15 10:22:45

NFK, it was filmed in July.

Indinana Mon 28-Dec-15 08:36:11

Ana solved the mystery Indinana

Ha, yes, I've now read through the thread properly and see my mistake tchblush. 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 tchgrin

NfkDumpling Mon 28-Dec-15 07:48:56

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.

gillybob Sun 27-Dec-15 23:53:02

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. smile

gillybob Sun 27-Dec-15 23:49:03

Me too rosequartz grin

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

rosesarered Sun 27-Dec-15 23:13:44

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.