My guess is that parts of the estate would go away and it would no longer be self-sustaining.

I don't watch Downton Abbey, but is he talking about a fee tail? That's where only the boys can inherit? That's so cool-finally some use from my crazy property class!

My water is naturally very soft.

I wonder if it's the primordial lake bed we're sitting on that causes the hard water. We have to drink bottled water--Hey, Culligan man!--because when Hubby was drinking tap water he had horrible kidney stones. The occurrence of stones dropped dratically when we switched.

Stephanie, yes. He has three daughters, but no sons. The heir had been his first cousin, who had a son who was planning to marry his oldest daughter. But the first cousin and his son died, and now they've determined that the next heir, according to the rules, is a third cousin once removed who none of them have ever met.

Lord Grantham is pretty old-school and hidebound, so I can see him feeling like it would destroy everything if the named head guy wasn't actually in charge.

Cool- I should start watching the show. Everyone loves it. But I'm already so far behind on the shows I do watch.

Speaking of lather--I managed to make it to 44 before buying Bronner's--does it normally lather weakly? I tried two small bottles to test scents, but I'm surprised that such a renowned soap seems to be performing...differently.

Wee baby horse.

ita, yes. Bronner is not a big lathering soap.

Over 300 posts I catch up on, and I comment on soap. Go fig.

IME Dr. Bronner's is not big on suds. ISTR that may have been mentioned in the myriad of bizarre writings that covered the bottle, that there wouldn't be a lot of lather but the clean would still happen.