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RE; the squatters.... Did they have utilities at their squat? Whenever I've moved from one place to another, the utilities were always turned off. Likewise, I cannot imagine any homeowner who keeps the utilities after they've signed the sale papers on the home.

He was on As Time Goes By. Lionel brings Jean to a cocktail party at Alistair (first time Jean meets Alistair). It's a very Seadown-like character: detached, snobbish. of course, Lionel and Jean think everyone at that party are superficial idiots.

Just a reminder for everyone watching this on WETA UK. On April 4, two episodes will be shown, which will conclude the series. After the Downtown Abbey marathon on April 11 and 18, WETA UK will show Call the Midwife. Heh, too bad, they didn't show the conclusion of The Buccaneers after the Downtown Marathon.

According to the WETA UK April schedule, we'll get JITC on April 4, then they're running a Downtown Abbey Marathon on April 11 and 18. And JITC returns on April 25.

Tell me about it! The kids go to Australia as part of an Australian version of the Canadian Home Children program and then Vanessa Redgrave tells us in less than one sentence that their life wasn't that great there either. :-( Anyhow, I want Cynthia back. Jenny, not so much.

i remember Drama Princess. JJ's questioning went sort of like this: JJ: What happened? Go! DP: Me and her had some drama going on. And I didn't like the drama. So I told her I didn't like the drama. And we got into more drama because of the drama.

WETA UK is more ahead of WETA non-UK on sunday. Pledge Decade strikes again! Watching alcoholic, detached, horrible tv mother runner up Mildred Layton immediately before watching kind, but senile Sister Monica Joan is a mind trip. The "I Hate Ronald Merrick" club 1 million members and counting. Aunt Charlotte is the most powerful person in the series, as she was able to get Guy out of Merrick's clutches.

Well, Merrick's begun his transformation from a jerk to a serious Big Bad. Charles Dance as Guy Perron, the little "come hither" looks he gives Sarah are downright sexy!

Laura said that Nan was still very child like in the way she analyzed things. So immaturity, compounded by being on the "rebound" (in her mind at least), not wanting to return to Noo York City, and the cute puppy, made Julius' proposal very appealing. Anyhow, I don't think Nan realized that she would have to run the house and would have a bunch of responsibilities. She had that "oh crap!" look on her face when she and the Dowager were going through the conservatory. I think Ginny, like Nan and Connie, were in love with the idea that they would be titled ladies. I think in the book that was finished with the blessing of the Edith Wharton foundation, Ginny becomes one of the mistresses of The Prince of Wales.

That was irritating. Sometimes, I think JJ allows that mockery in order to make the litigant realize the stupidity of their defense/actions. But it's kind of wasted on them because they are too stupid to realize the extent of their stupidity.

Here's the episode for those who missed HRH Queen Esther or who want to be regaled with her again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ZkRM5u6ks

lol. Susan is a daughter of the regiment.

I wonder how Merrick popped the question to Susan? It's too bad The Carol Burnett Show was off-air when JITC was on. I can see Carol as Sarah getting the news that Merrick was marrying Susan.

Right and how can she not accept his proposal when she's crying because he finally changes the record to Clair de Lune, which she associates with her dead brother? Yeah, Ronald Merrick, Sarah Hills, Mr. Bates and Elizabeth Darcy had insignificant roles on North and South. I mean, Richard Armitage made that series. Pity MT never picked it up.

Early in the episode, one of them says that Connie never seems to have any money<------that should have set off warning lights, sirens, and fog horns. As I wrote up thread, if Julian Fellowes ever makes a Downtown Prequel, I can see him totally ripping this series off. Martha as ditzy as Mrs. St. George. Cora has a prettier rival for Robert's title. Alas, the rival's daddy is a couple million poorer than Cora, which makes her less suitable.

I think Daphne knew Merrick before she knew Hari. He had her over his place listening to that awful military band record (yeah, listening to an evening of military and not say, Glen Miller, the Mills Brothers, the Inkspots, Crosby, Sinatra, Harry James, etc. is really romantic and a big turn on..........) before she started meeting Hari. Heh. When I watched the dramatization of Mrs. Gaskell's North and South, I had a very hard time wrapping my head around the idea that Tim Pigott-Smith was the good Reverend Hale.

Oh yeah, Merrick was a sadist. But was his motivation to marry Daphne to provide him a cover of respectability. In the book and in the series, Lady Chatterjee said that Merrick was the most eligible bachelor in Mayapore and many of the girls were ticked off because he paid more attention to Daphne (who they didn't consider as pretty as themselves). Daphne was a bit naive, but she wasn't an idiot. Most of her money was to be inherited from Lady Manners.

My local PBS showed the first ATGB a couple of weeks ago. Jean did not recognize Lionel's name (she sent Judy to deal with a disgruntled clien, but she gave Judy the paper with Lionel's name and hotel on it.) And it was Lionel who first recognized Jean when he came to the house to pick up Judy for their date. It always gave me the feeling that Jean moved on better than Lionel did (his bad marriage didn't help any either).

I loved Guy's comment that he's afraid to go to sleep because Merrick might be promoted to another rank. I think those promotions reinforced to Merrick what he was doing was the correct thing. But seriously, Merrick is either totally clueless about or actually liked being a hated man.

. That bugged me too. I guess "Hanson" is either Judy's maiden name?

So Ginny marries Seadown and learns 1. he married her for her money, 2. he married her for her money so he can restore a wind of the house, and 3. he married her for her money. But seriously, did Ginny and Nan really think their father's money didn't make them more attractive, alluring and appealing? Julius always struck me as a creepy, vampire-like creature.

Heh. Merrick's reaction to "Chillingborough" reminds me of that Vaudeville skit, Niagara Falls----"slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch, and I let them have it!!!!". And we're beginning to see the evil side of him. Anyhow half-naked Charles Dance was a nice ending to my weekend.

Berreti could be the daddy too based on his comment Lucious a couple episodes ago. Imagine: Anika's baby born with loads of black hair and a really, really bad beard. *ick* And anyway, Lucious can't be the father because we'll conveniently learn that he had a vasectomy shortly after Lola was born. ;-)

Slower pace and Lola.

Excellent thought!!