A NEW COSTUME DRAMA hit our screens tonight. Downtown Abbey on ITV. My one gripe with the genre is its tendency to reinterpret the past in the light of modern (politically correct) outlooks. For example the master of the house objects to a war-wounded servant being referred to as a cripple. "I hate that word." But in those days that was the expression; nothing condescending or insulting was meant by it. Here's the trailer. Perhaps someone'll load a longer extract to Youtube by next week ...
*that statement isn't quite true: according to the BBC's website, Lark Rise is based on Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood...
THE WOUND ON MY LEG is less manky since I stopped covering it up and have been cleaning it with alcoholic ("pre-injection") swabs every few hours. It isn't oozing chocolate sauce, just a hint of strawberry. It still smells like a drain, just not as strong. My wound and I are off to hospital tomorrow to see what the emergency doctors think of it...
I hope y'all had a cheery weekend. What are you doing next week? I'm making a start cleaning my life up in a literal sense. My house is a mess. I have that festering sore on my leg. Not a clean stitch to wear. I have to wash my jeans as they've absorbed pus down the leg. So I'm starting by laundering my clothes so I can skulk into casualty (that's the ER to you Americans) looking at least vaguely respectable. Then I'll get the wound seen to and hopefully dressed. Then I can set about cleaning my house. It was cleaning my house that set it off last time, with things knocking into it making it bleed. It's been itching lately. Itching is a good sign with these things; in my experience it tends to mean they're healing.
I'm off to clinic in the morning for a doctor visit. I do hope you get some good antibiotics for that wound. Take care.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna check 1.01 at least, I like these kind of series too.
ReplyDeleteI'll give it a chance.
Hope the wound's gonna be ok :)
I also cleaned my house, always feels good when it's clean again.
Hi Arjan
ReplyDeleteHow are you going to watch Downton Abbey? It's not on BBC but if you can get Sky or UK Freesat it's on ITV1 or ITV1HD, you might also be able to catch up with it from the online catch-up service "ITV Player". I just don't know what to do with this wound, nothing seems to make it heal...
(...I think it needs maggots...)
Hope that you get your leg looked into. Sounds nasty and infected.
ReplyDeleteI answered your question on my blog last night and wrote about why I like the solution rather than being stuck in the problem and pain.
I hope you leg will heal up quickly and well. You are right about the itching meaning healing, but I'm still glad you're having it looked at.
ReplyDeleteLove you!
@ Gledwood: I hope I'll be able to find torrents :)
ReplyDeleteNot so into the period drama thing... Larkrise just is soooo slllooowwww... zzzzzzz....
ReplyDeleteOh Sorry dropped off there...
With you on the itching hope it is better soon
I taped this last night and will watch it later.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about your leg.
Syd: is the mystery solved? I always wondered what it was that was so terrible that happened to you?... By what you said, though, it sounds like you don't want to say.
ReplyDeleteIf I ever manage to get away from the present situation in which I have mired myself then I want to stay away. I don't want to think about it, don't want to know about it. Don't want to recall anything about it. At all... ever again.
SB: everything's conspired to stop me going today so it's going to have to be tomorrow. But I am going ~ I am I am I am ..!
Arjan: torrents of what?? You've lost me!
Furtheron: Re costume drama, I like stuff set in amazingly opulent country houses or best of all something with and upstairs/downstairs theme like Downton Abbey last night. Larkrise is boring to me bc it's so middle-class. Also I don't see much of a plot in Larkrise.
I think like lots of people I prefer something a bit more escapist.
It all conspired to stop me today. But I am going to hospital tomorrow I am I am I am
Ellee: sorry I missed your comment.
ReplyDeleteThat prog last night is really good. Like a modern upstairs downstairs... Hopefully it will run and run for ages.
well people who live in England are so nice as to put these kinds of things on the internet in what is, basicly, called a 'torrent file'. I have a program that can download that file and when it's done, I've got the video on my pc. Hurray to the internet. That's how I watch almost all of my tv series so I don't have to wait years for it to be shown on Dutch tv (if it ever will!)
ReplyDeleteO wow. I got the link to a German film on the German RTL channel last night on RTL's internet catch'up service and to my surprise it started to play. Strangely it kept stopping at the same point, which made me suspicious but I can't see why I should't watch it. I see the German soap-opera Lindenstraße every week on catch-up and they don't blockade it the way e.g. BBC I-Player is blcoked to foreigners ...
ReplyDeleteI heard BBC1 television is (or used to be) available on Dutch cable; is that true..?
... by "stopping at the same point" I thought this was bc the broadband was too busy in the early evening. I'm going to try watching again after midnight or something, see if I get any further. But I can't see why RTL would let me see the 1st 2 minutes then cut me off just bc I'm outside Germany
ReplyDeleteBBC 1&2 are still available on cable (analogue and digital)
ReplyDeleteIf you're blocked because you're not in Germany it normally would say so..I get these kind of notifications all the time (BBC, but also tons of US websites).
Yeah I once got told I was in an alien territory by NBC. I felt really exotic!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have another go at that German film in a sec, to see if it runs any further...
That show looks good; I love the British period pieces like that, once they get round to allowing us Yanks to view 'em! :) I hate it too, though, when they put in all the political correctness; guess that's why I often just go and read stuff instead; lots of writers leave it be as it really was, with violence and racism and drama :)
ReplyDeleteI'm doing a lot of catching up on blogs, including yours... what happened to give you such a nasty leg wound??? I've read a couple posts here but can only find so far that you have it and that it's nasty! Hope it's better by now...
What happened to give me such a nasty leg wound... er, I "acidentally" pricked myself with a needle full of drugs...
ReplyDelete... I just had a thought re the pc-ness. If they had just called the disabled man a "cripple", as they used to in those days (the word cripple went out of favour here long before it did in America) - floods of complaints would have come in.
So I suppose that was the only way they could keep the authentic language and keep the programme broadcastable by modern standards.
Then again, it might have been better to drop that piece of dialogue altogether... but hey
I steer clear of ITV period dramas. Is it worth watching?
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