I can’t wait for return of one of my favourite programmes, the British period drama series ‘Downton Abbey’,written and created by actor and writer Julian Fellowes, and based around the early 1900’s and filmed in the Stately home of the Earl and Countess of Grantham.
You cannot help but think of how life was around that time where ‘the table’ was an important setting, the focus of much of the social life of that period.
Guests were invited to teatime where important rituals helped to reinforce a family’s wealth and social standing.
Dinner parties were held to show off their daughters with all the social skills and foibles of the time.
Teatime, sometimes immediately followed on from dinner (now lunch-time). Some of the breads you could choose from were wholemeal bread, cheese bread, soda bread and crumpets. Then there were lots of different types of scones followed by unusually named cakes like, Surly Curd Tart, which included one teaspoon of Epsom salts in its recipe!!! Cherry cake was very fashionable at this time as well as ‘boiled’ Fruit cake and of course a large choice of home made jams.
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Enjoy your programme…..Plenty Tea to hand….no doubt…:));) Hugs! :)xx
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If you have not watched the first series Bushka, then you must watch the second, you will enjoy it 🙂
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Like, you I can’t wait for the next series….and yes how different life would have been.xx
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Soon be on, yippee :):)
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Oh yes .. can’t wait to see the next series. I love period dramas – especially the turn of the century up to 1920 04 19 30 🙂
When does the next series begin ?
Enjoy !
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Not sure of the exact date, but they keep advertising it so I don’t think it will be to long 🙂
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I loved the first series, got really caught up in it all. Wouldn’t have wanted to be a servant back then though – all the scheming!
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I know but sometimes I think they had less to worry about than us, but that night when they carried the body out was a fantastic episode. :):):)
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It just goes to show how different life was when the class system was alive and kicking. I loved that episode too 😀
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