Georgiana Podsnap's journal

Aaah. I got my Downton DVD fairly early and have now gobbled up the whole of series four (except the Christmas special, which hasn't ai...

"I know a girl, a girl with so much luck/She could get run over by a two-tonne truck/Then brush herself off and walk away/How she does ...

When you see there's a film around starring Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville, scripted by Julian Fellowes and obviously taking place in ...

'Tis the season when every pair of jeans you put on feels like a corset. It's quite simply not possible to stint on anything that ma...

I have ambivalent feelings towards the BBC's acclaimed Cranford adaptation. As I remember, it was made at roughly the same time as the m...

Autumn is a tough time. There's a lot of work to be done and little excuse not to get on with doing it. Therefore, you long to spend you...

Apparently, viewers who really like Westerns despise the "hero's romance with hard-bitten saloon girl" plot. Earnest female te...