The lovely Lady Edith

I'm not ashamed to admit that I watch Downton Abbey!

I didn't think it was going to be my kind of thing...after all I never really knew much about "Upstairs Downstairs" when I was younger which was the same kind of setting for the drama. About lords and servants and the things that went on in the Edwardian times.

But there was nothing else to watch, and I was fed up of watching either "Torchwood", "Spartacus", "V" (the new version). "Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles", "Life on Mars", "Ashes to Ashes" or the "Sopranos", all of those are extremely good and I watched all the episodes through the On Demand section of our cable TV...so I took the plunge and decided to watch the first episode of Downton Abbey and see how it went...if I didn't like it then I didn't have to watch the rest of it did I?

But it hooked me from the beginning and now I can't get enough of it, there are plots (obviously!) but also there are people that you can dislike and even some humourous moments....Maggie Smith is brilliant as the old dowager....moaning about electricity and telephones being installed...the old girl is being dragged protesting and screaming into the 20th century!!

I'm pretty sure that "Upstairs" back in the 70's didn't have much humour!

Though I could be wrong.

But there is a certain actress in the drama that has taken my eye...and no it's not Maggie Smith!

Laura Carmichael plays Lady Edith Crawley, the second of three daughters to the Lord. Needless to say that as the middle daughter she's the one who has the less attention paid to by anyone...the eldest daughter always has potential suitors hanging around, the youngest the most spoilt (as are most youngest of the family - I speak from experience!!) so Edith is a little bitter at the other two to say the least.

She feels that she is going to be left behind in the marriage stakes as the youngest eloped with the chauffer and as mentioned above, the eldest has others after her and looks to be getting married to her cousin....but I'm sure that the plot will change again in the third series.

But my heart goes out to poor Edith, although she can be catty, bitter and bitchy, you can tell that she just wants to be loved and get married, when she tries to chat up a fella at the house when visitors come around, they tend to ignore her or just make their excuses and walk away.

I wouldn't do that I can tell you!!

If I was a Lord or some other titled fella then she'd be the one I'd want to talk to and spend time with...sod the others!!

When she gets let down I could just go through the TV screen and take her in my arms and tell her everything will be ok!!

She had a bit of a fling with a local farmer in the second series...I was saying, "Yeah!! You go girl!!", as well as feeling a little tinsy bit jealous too! 

But then the farmer's wife found out and that was that....

Hopefully though the third series will see Edith get a bit of luck for a change...she deserves it.....I think it's real!!

Laura Carmichael seems to have a good future as an actress, she recently appeared in the film "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" as Sal, which I have yet to see, but if she's in it then I'm sure that she gave a great performance.