#033 Abbey CaptivaShawn

Between yesterday and today, we watched all nine episodes of Downton Abbey, season four.

Why oh, why oh, why can't British Television create a longer season?!  Don't get me wrong, I know it's usually 6 episodes, and that a 9 episode season is immeasurably better... but even still...

And when I said yesterday how I adored the scheming, I really had no idea just how fabulously deep and wicked they would go... and all to save the Monarchy! One has just no idea how well the Crawley family can work as such a clandestine force.

The upside of doing a marathon viewing is you remain completely in the moment of the show, the down side is that once it's over, it's co completely over. So now we must wait eleven more months before the next series.

Oh the tragedy!
Oh the drama!
Oh the dry British wit!

#032 Aristocratic AddictShawn

Four episodes of Downton Abbey down... 5 to go.

I used to think "Another World" was My Story, and maybe it was, back in the eighties... but it's that was then, and Downton Abbey is now.

Honestly there is just so much I love about this show...

The drama. The scheming. The sex(ual innuendo and tension at least). The scheming. The dysfunctional family politics. The scheming. The money. The scheming.

I. LOVE. IT.

Cannot wait for tomorrow! 

#031 RelaxaShawn

T.G.I.F.

It's been a long time since I had a week like this and I am SO GLAD it's over... well the 'work week' part at least. The weekend has just begun.

And this weekend is about 4 things: 

-relaxation

-sleeping in

-cuddling with the dogs

and

-watching Downton Abbey Season 4 with Marcel.

I would have hoped it would have been about 5 things, but the Irish Tin Whistle has yet to arrive. So four out of five will have to do. 

So it's time to kick back, relax and enjoy the next two days of nothing much more than pure joy.

...but for the record, I really, really, REALLY cannot wait for the Whistle!

#027 Cliché AnticipaShawn

A parcel arrived at work today.  Colour me excited. Then, colour me worried, because the parcel was too small to contain a DVD, book and an Irish Tin Whistle. 

I open it and while disappointed that it was not the new instrument, I was nonetheless happy to have received our copy of Downton Abbey (Season 4). We've been DVRing the series on PBS planning on watching them right through. I had forgotten that I had pre-ordered the DVDs back at the end of November. 

It's true what they say, big things come in small packages!

Well I guess you can guess what we're doing this weekend... Downton Abbey Marathon! We'll go the whole hog, have tea, with cucumber and cress sandwiches, scones with jam and clotted cream, and petite fours... all served on our Wedgewood China. We're gonna High Tea the hell outta those DVDs! 

Until then, I wait... wait for the magical, musical parcel.