Thursday, September 8, began for me with the usual alarm call at 5.55 am. It ended with the realisation that the next week or so would be very different.
If dreaming of the possibilities of a big-screen revisit to the village of Grantham and a return to the lives of the Crawley family and their staff has you feeling nostalgic, here are the 10 Downton Abbey episodes every fan should watch before the movie comes out.