Must be genetic

Rico says that he and the ladyfriend have been avidly watching the first three seasons of Downton Abbey on DVD, to catch up with the myriad subplots before the start of Season Four, which we're recording off the television.
The driveway of the castle is going, hopefully, to be the model for the final repaving of the drive at Redleaf, with its tan (rather than black) top surface; much prettier, and more authentic to its original construction.

There is, however, one casting oddity in the show that Rico is forced to mention: from Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Lady Grantham, down through all her daughters, and even among the staff, there's not a set of big tits among the lot (until Sybil, the daughter, gets pregnant, which is logical); all of them put together wouldn't equal one Dolly Parton... (And there's a difficult-to-quantify measurement; just how big is a Parton?)


Spoiler alert: Sybil, played by Jessica Brown Findlay, dies of preventable eclampsia after giving birth to a daughter. Amazingly, neither her husband, Tom, nor Lord Grantham (who'd brought in the reputable, but disbelieving-in-eclampsia, Dr. Sir Philip Tapsell) punched out the stupid doctor; Rico would've probably killed the man... (And death, even of Rico's late wife, is something he's yet to experience second-hand. First hand, of course, Rico barely avoided in late 2006.)