A series of tweets based upon the trials and tribulations of life at Downton Abbey.
Isn't it wonderful how we're friends! Save that you're the friend who fetches tea, empties my chamber pot & bathes me. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
First cousins make for excellent bedfellows! (So long as there's a sizable country estate in play.) #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Please feel free to call us by our given names, the Right Honourable Robert & Cora, Earl & Countess of Grantham. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Ain't no roses like the Dowager Countess's Roses. #Fact #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Much like our female relatives, icebergs can be most vexing and tiresome things, indeed. #Titanic #DowntonAbbeyProblems
First breakfast, full breakfast, luncheon, tea & dinner -- no wonder one's famished when the pudding course arrives! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
She's pushing on for 20, her last suitor drowned & the corset's not as roomy as it used to be, if you catch our drift. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Have we figured out what causes gout, yet? Also, would anybody like more sweetened wine & sugar treacle tart? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Our third cousin, once removed, is a solicitor from Manchester? He might as well be a bargeman from Coventry! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Full mourning clothes are decidedly less cheerful than half mourning clothes. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
He's going to inherit the estate? Well, then... Third cousins make for excellent bedfellows! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
They forgot to ring the dressing gong & the scullery maid's doing that thing where she makes eye contact with us. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
There's nothing quite so tragic as a footman in disheveled livery. Possible exception: Trench warfare. (Maybe.) #DowntonAbbeyProblems
'Going down to the fair'. That must be code for something. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Two telephones in one house? But what will become of the Under-Butler of Notes Containing Important Plot Developments? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
There's something slightly queer about one of the footmen. Slightly queer, indeed... #DowntonAbbeyProblems
These newspapers don't iron themselves, you know. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Everybody's working for the... What is it called again? Those two days that fall at the end of the week? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
It appears that the diplomatic attaché to the Ottoman Empire has snuck into one's bedroom in the dead of night! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
You must know what we're talking about... Saturday and Sunday, grouped as a unit? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Oh, yes! Yes! YES! Oh, bother. #DeadOttoman #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Those two days at the end of the week when the workers tend not to work? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Siri, where might one hide the body of, say, the diplomatic attaché to the Ottoman Empire? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Right! That's it! The 'week-end'! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
I slept with the diplomatic attaché to the Ottoman Empire, he dies, yada yada yada, World War I. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
What will they think of next? #WeekEnds #DowntonAbbeyProblems
The Dowager Countess isn't going to take this well. And by 'this', we mean 'everything'. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Has anybody noticed that Europe declares war every time we throw a garden party? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
How romantic! A series of extended walking tours through damp, poorly-lit Gothic cathedrals! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Just received a letter that our daughter is a woman of questionable repute, it being a day of the week & all. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Is it just me, or does this mirror make you look like a dowager countess? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
All one ever hears is how great Lady Mary is at this or how wonderful Lady Mary did that! Mary, Mary, Mary! #BradyBunchProbl err... #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Foreigners (i.e., those born to the east of the Thames) aren't actual people. That's why they're called foreigners! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Lady Sybil was in rather the rebellious mood at dinner. She used a fruit fork to shuck her escargot. #DowntonAbbeyProblems
I am disgraced, you are disgraced, we all are disgraced! #DowntonAbbeyProblems
With an empire this big, & our days mired in idle gossip & muted intrigue, what could possibly go wrong? #DowntonAbbeyProblems
Series three, a prolonged guest stay by a certain Cousin Pippa Middleton? I wonder what's on CBS... #DowntonAbbeyProblems