jesu joy of man’s
desiring
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What a
bunch of greedy gutses we are.
Series 3
of Downton Abbey arrived and it takes a lot of discipline to limit ourselves to
one episode per night.
Apart
from the piddly number of episodes per season produced in a British series, the
only other frustration is that no matter how well I know every note of a “tune”
in a soundtrack, I’m hopeless at remembering the names of them.
The one
above was a rare victory that only took an hour or so scouring YouTube.
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The good
news is that each episode warrants a second viewing – to sort out the plot
points missed; to re-live the best lines from Maggie Smith.
Next
viewing is just for ogling the clothes.
Or the
models.
What a
lark it would be, being paid to act and
to dress up in absolutely fabulous clothes.
I’m not a
Dowager Countess I’m a Dowdy Countess, but if I lived in a world where this
sort of dress was expected I would be in heaven. I would lose weight, grow six
inches and dye my hair black just so they wouldn’t look stupid on me.
Unless
stuck downstairs with only one or two frumpy dresses to my name, of course.
Slaving my guts out while the male servants stand around and preen in their suits and gloves.
An old Marty Feldman sketch [which goes something like this] pretty well sums up the class distinctions:
Duchess: Please Robert, not before the servants!
Duke: [stops smooching up to his wife]
Sorry Carstairs... after you.
Upper class or lower class, the one chap we can count on to hold it all together is the butler:
Slaving my guts out while the male servants stand around and preen in their suits and gloves.
An old Marty Feldman sketch [which goes something like this] pretty well sums up the class distinctions:
Duchess: Please Robert, not before the servants!
Duke: [stops smooching up to his wife]
Sorry Carstairs... after you.
Upper class or lower class, the one chap we can count on to hold it all together is the butler:
I lost a bit of interest in the second series. The third sounds better.
ReplyDeletePerhaps there were too many bad characters with no redeeming features. The third is more positive in outlook, and the 1920s fashions more attractive.
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