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Steampunk Taylor! 

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Robert Bathurst in "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde at the Chichester Festival (photo by Catherine Ashmore).

Nota bad production - a little stiff. But RB as lovely and quite helpless as you would have him... Only no Lady E around.

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I create entire romances in my dreams.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (via introspectivepoet)

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Hey, I think I have been to that place! That must be in the Perigord region near Excideuil?!

where we slept by these colours on Flickr.

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Knaresborough - so pretty!

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Isobel said to Tom (about Miss Bunting): "It's good to be disagreed with, keeps you on your toes". I have not seen Lord Merton disagree with her...

I much rather prefer the banter with Dr Clarkson!!!

...pleeeaaaaase.

… Says Isobel Crawley who has two men she can choose from :-)

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I thinkn he will have lost a lot of weight (he did so due to his traumatic war experiences that JF never targeted, - but at least a lot of ff convincingly addresses), I imagine him being a mere thin shadow, grey and melancholic, very withdrawn...

However, I still love to harbour the hope that it could all be restored... he meets Edith by chance, as it might be bound to happen in such society...

That is, if he ever goes out again, and actually I do imagine him to, possibly to help with agricultural, technological advancements in the economy, as/when the government might ask him to do as an expert; and since he has a sense of duty, he would follow if they call...

... and she as an interested journalist might be there too (at a function, a debate or sth)... and they would have to at least somehow communicate...

... and somehow....

(I know, not very realistic, yet in my little head...)

I’d like to know how he is doing, but like other characters that Fellowes wrote out of the Downton storyline (like Richard Carlisle) he just fell off the face of the earth.

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Please

I there any chance that Isobel has twisted her ankle so that Dr. Clarkson needs to come to her aid in the next episode (and fix her wandering heart at the same time)...

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I agree, yes, it’s a common name, but why the close proximity to the circumstances… Same with “Anthony". Why does it have to be Anthony “Tony” Gillingham, when another potential son-in-law was an Anthony already? 

(There only one Anthony to me…  #andith forever )

Friendly reminder to Julian Fellowes to vary his characters' names sometimes

Richard Clarkson, a.k.a. the Dear Doctor

Richard Grey, a.k.a. Lord Merton

Dear Lord, Fellowes, c’mon you cannot called with the same name both of Isobel Crawley’s alleged love interests!

It will be a mess!

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Evening in Southern France...

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Actual Quotes from my Dad (An English Teacher)

Dad: Why the hell did you put a comma there?

Dad: Do you even know what a participial phrase is?

Dad: Omg. He's like my favorite character of all time.

Dad: Who should I dress up as for the movie premier?

Dad: Hey are you awak? I know it's late, but you read Animal Farm, right? Yeah. I need you to read this report. I can't tell if I am just super tired or if this is actual bullshit.

Dad: Alesha wouldn't be able to spell 'definitely' right if wrote it down for her. She would fucking erase it and then write 'defiantly', because she doesn't care. I hate her.

Dad: I need you to bake brownies. I lost a bet.

Dad: Omg. You cannot ship me with Gilcher. You know I don't like tattoos and he's like twenty-five. And for Christ's sake, he teaches math.

Dad: Omg. Gilcher said the funniest thing today.

Dad: Mrs. Ashworth and I have decided to start a band. It'll be called Great Expectations.

Dad: It's like you didn't read the fucking book.

Dad: Okay. So this week you're reading this book I stole from Mrs. Ashworth's. It's like sixty pages long, but you'll love it.

Dad: *puts books on my bed for me to read everyday and demands that I read them*

Dad: My son doesn't like reading. I have not only failed him, but society. You aren't my son. Leave.

Dad: Okay. So you're getting books for Christmas. All of you. I get discounts on them since I'm a teacher, and since I'm a teacher, it's all I can afford, so...

Dad: Fucking standardized testing can go fuck itself in the ass.

Dad: I have to teach for the required testing instead of what they really need to know.

Dad: Fuck the government.

Dad: Fuck the school board.

Dad: Close the door.

Dad: Charles Dickens was so fucking pretentious, and I hate him, but he also caused change, but he's such a Dick. Ha. DICKens.

Dad: I love puns.

Dad: People who say sarcasm is the lowest form of humor are assholes.

Dad: Please shut up.

Dad: Catching Fire was the worst book but the best movie and that feels weird.

Dad: I wouldn't get so mad when you call me at school if you didn't change your ringtones to inappropriate rap music.

Dad: I fucking hate Alesha. She asked what countries were apart of Austria-Hungary today and I almost told her to get out.

Dad: You cannot visit my school in a dress that short. There are boys there.

Dad: Barbra Parks is fucking Queen.

Dad: I need you to make me a good, relaxing playlist for silent reading. I'm too lazy.

Dad: If I have to watch two of my students grind on each other at one more dance, I will kill them both.

Dad: They act like I care what they think.

Dad: I hate homework.

Dad: I have decided to become a politician.

Dad: What's the one book with the guys and the one kills the other and the chick without a name who dies and the short angry man? Mouseman? Oh my fucking gosh. Of Mice and Men. I have failed.

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Is that the one where Edith lives in in "Now and Then"? :-)