evening Downton fans I'm watching

Me too Hi Sweet

Me too.  I'm looking for some Bates action 

Me too Cosmo

I'll say it again ...I love Maggie Smith

* that house was hideous *

Haha an electric toaster Gotta love mr Carson

A dangerous revolutionary AND a new fangled electric toaster.

Poor Carson; it's all too much! 

Hi baz & Cosmo Sorry I've not been around much baz

Hi your Ladyship and Dame Baz 

Fancy Tom leaving Sybil behind and expecting a warm welcome at the Abbey! 

Lol... No need to apologise Sweet ...I know you're busy

Your Royal Highness if you please Cosmo..and a curtesy would be nice !

If I try and curtsey I'll end up in a heap on the floor Baz!

 

 

Poor Ethel and Charlie 

If I tried I'd never get up again

I know

Something tells me the maids are going to be a mite disappointed about the new footman

at the toaster

Way to go Edith

Well, there's plenty more to be getting on with if next week's trailer is anything to go by 

There certainly is

Oh thoroughly enjoyed that I will be happy to see cybil back at Downton permanently, and I loved the humour in tonight's episode. The bates's are great and I hope they will soon be reunited!

Downtown Abbey goss in the Daily Beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...ockery-and-more.html

Bump!

Second bump

Wonder if the baby will be ok ?

Oooh I'm scared!

I like cybil, they have to save her

I think it could be preeclampsia

There ya go ;D

I'm worried she'll die after baz!

I think she is Sweet

We're so used to seeing them in period dress  that it is, at first, quite tricky to work out who is who.

But once your eyes adjust you'll recognise  housekeeper Mrs Hughes, Carson the butler, Lord and Lady Grantham, Matthew  Crawley and Daisy the kitchen maid...just not as you know them. At  all.

These photographs prove that there was life  before ITV's Downton Abbey, and reveals what some of the hit drama series' stars  were doing before it appeared on our screens.

So you'll find Mrs Hughes - aka Phyllis Logan  - has stripped out of her high-collared housekeeper's uniform and into a bright  yellow floral mini-dress. She can be seen relaxing in a Sicilian garden at the  Taormina Film Festival in 1983, having won a Best Actress Award for her role in  World War II drama Another Time, Another Place, released in 1982.

Lady Cora Grantham - played by Elizabeth  McGovern - looks serene in her lady-of-the-abbey attire and diamond earrings...  and much cheekier in a tight black dress with both a string of pearls and Brad  Pitt's arm draped around her neck in Donald Petrie's 1994 rom-com The  Favor.

You'll also find Hugh Bonneville removed from  his seat as Lord of the house and left Holding The Baby in the 1997 comedy  series, and Dan Stevens' dapper Matthew Crawley replaced by a beaten prisoner in  Sheffied's Crucible Theatre's production of Romans In Britain, directed by Sam  West in 2006.

And it's impossible not to be delighted by  both Sophie McShera - that's Daisy the kitchen maid to you Downton fans - in her  Waterloo Road school uniform in 2009, and, of course, Carson the butler (actor  Jim Carter) as the cowardly lion in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1987  theatrical production of the Wizard of Oz.

I'm still reeling!

I know

Oh we posted at the same time then, i was replying to your first comment