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I love & loathe it...


Its interiors are spot on, the decorating is like a page from World of Interiors, the colouring & filming are bloomin marvelous too


I just wish it wasn't sooooooo slick, I like a wobbly set or an out of period font here & there but so far I've not spotted anything untoward ( yet )


The plots & story lines are like a period Eastenders mixed with Monarch of the Glen ( or Piloc of the Glen as it was known in our house ) & I can't help laughing at Maggie Smith & her fantasticly over the top characterisation


ITV have spent a fortune making this & shows

It's also bedding in nicely on a Sunday night at Woof Towers


* ding ding *


"Must go, dinner is served"

It is a very good, period drama I would also like to see if they will develop some of the below stairs characters as in the last episode when one of the maids wanted to become a secretary. It will be good to see how this goes further as domestic services was a life of drudgery in that time period for the working classes.
  • 11 months later...
My money is on the gay butler Thomas (who thought joining the medical corps would spare him any front line horror) finding himself in a front line trench with one of the sons, Mathew Crawley would be about right, and then saves his life in no man's land. Earl Robert, Matt's dad, is so thankful he promotes Thomas to Valet on his return - the position he's always wanted which rubs up the servants no end, esp Mr. Carson (who Thomas had tried to set up for theft)........shall I stop there? lol....

I do reckon there'll be a room/hall/door which will be painted in...


http://www.farrow-ball.com/pws/client/images/catalogue/products/100214/medium/100214.jpg or http://www.farrow-ball.com/pws/client/images/catalogue/products/100251/medium/100251.jpg or http://www.farrow-ball.com/pws/client/images/catalogue/products/100085/medium/100085.jpg or even http://www.farrow-ball.com/pws/client/images/catalogue/products/100246/medium/100246.jpg

Downton Abbey? Really? Oh well, I suppose this is meant in a 'guilty pleasures' kind of a way.


I may record it and skip through to scenes with Maggie Smith in but otherwise I shall be tuning in to the last series of Spooks (I prefer the preposterous to the pompous). Now THERE the (wipe-clean) wallpaper will all be double sided and the colours constantly shifting...

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