I wish we had a piano. If we had a piano I feel like I could skip watching TV and have Jane-Austen, George-Eliot, Downton-Abbey kinds of evenings. My husband and I would sit around, listen to one of us play music, read books, play cards, gossip about our neighbors and relations, and take periodic turns [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Downton Abbey’
Drawing room evenings
Posted in Mostly about parenting, Mostly about reading, tagged Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, Downton Abbey, drawing room life, George Eliot, how much TV the average American watches, Jane Austen, Neil Postman, parenting, PBS, reading, TV, twins on 25 February 2012 | 10 Comments »
Adieu Downton Abbey …
Posted in Mostly about reading, tagged Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey quiz, drawing room life, micro book reviews, parenting, reading, twins, writing on 20 February 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last night was the last episode of the current season of Downton Abbey. There’s a season three, but it’s months and months away. What to do to tide you over? In my last Downton Abbey post I wrote about being a mother to baby twins, and how it felt like living in another, slower century [...]
I [heart] Downton Abbey
Posted in Mostly about (pop) culture, tagged Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey quiz, drawing room life, parenting, twins on 12 February 2012 | 4 Comments »
So tonight is the second-to-last episode of this season of Downton Abbey. Alas. For the first few months of the twins’ first year I felt like I was living in another century. Not much happened (other than eating and sleeping and diaper-changing). I didn’t get out much. I didn’t read much. I didn’t see many [...]