A chimney sweep from Solihull? Can you imagine?

Oct 16 2011 by Roz Laws, Sunday Mercury

HTHE second series of Downton Abbey may not be quite such a wonderful treat as the first, but it is still required Sunday night viewing.

The main problem is that it’s now the First World War and a time of austerity, so there aren’t as many lovely hats and frocks about. It’s all much more bleak.

Thank goodness for Maggie Smith’s dry one liners.

Last week we had: “It’s like living in a second-rate hotel where the guests keep arriving and no-one seems to leave.”

But the best was: “God knows who the next heir will be. Probably a chimney sweep from Solihull.”

Horrors!