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Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> 6:00 Roast Beef (brisket) & all the trimmings ( it

> was divine )

>

> 7:00 Grand Designs

>

> 8:00 X-Factor

>

> 9:00 Downton Abbey

>

> 10:00 Some "hot yoga" *ahem* with my other half.

>

>

> I mean, what more could you want in life, eh ?

>

>

> Nette(tu)(tu)(tu)


Hot yoga may have to be left to cool down - D.A. finishes at 10.30 tonight...


still - tepid yoga better than nothing - or will it have congealed by then?

  • 4 weeks later...

Did anyone else spot 'Jerry' in Downton Abbey this evening? Think he's the dad of the bloke that the maid doesn't want to marry. (Dunno 'jerry's' real name but he was Egg's dad in This Life. The one that erm...got raaaather friendly with Anna)


He looked pretty old back in the nineties but wow he's reaaaaallly old looking now.

  • 3 weeks later...

katie1997 Wrote:

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> Did anyone else spot 'Jerry' in Downton Abbey this

> evening? Think he's the dad of the bloke that the

> maid doesn't want to marry. (Dunno 'jerry's' real

> name but he was Egg's dad in This Life. The one

> that erm...got raaaather friendly with Anna)

>

> He looked pretty old back in the nineties but wow

> he's reaaaaallly old looking now.


Egg as in Andrew Lincon.


His real name is Andrew Clutterbuck & if ever there was a Proper Downton name, that would be one.



N:-S

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> As the series reaches a climax and Spanish flu

> sweeps through Downton, we must wait until Sunday

> to find out who kicks the bucket. Not unless of

> course, you have seen the cast list already

> released by ITV for the next season. It's like

> Cluedo but easier.


Source?

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