15 September 2013

Another evening just flew past tonight

Right. Waiting for my rolls do to their second rise. Stopping Sherlock prodding them. Putting up with his protestations that white ones are better than wholemeal. Eating Smarties. I don't even know why we have Smarties in the flat... probably cake decoration?

There is also a degu cleaning itself as close to my keyboard as I allow it. It is obsessed with sitting just where I'm trying to type and stuffing it's shed fur into my keys, I think. As we need more fur around, now the dogs are gone. It also tries to steal my Smarties. I think that would kill it, so it's failing.

Had a nice day today, although the weather's been a bit crap.

Just nice spending time in the flat, sometimes.

And one day off now means...oh yes, two days off in the week!!

For those of you who didn't spot the answer to the paperwork question - 11 forms, plus prepping interviews for transcribing, doing interviews, doing disclosure, charging, fingerprinting, etc. ... paperwork takes 4-6 hours (I can do it faster these days!) and the rest takes a good 5 hours...


Here's a pic of the GLORY that is a mushy pea fritter and chips. All smothered in vinegar and salt, with ketchup on the side. Look at the lovely gorgeous fresh green tones. And then ponder why on earth John doesn't like them. Delicious.


John is reading a book. He's slid so far down into the sofa I can only see one foot. Maybe the sofa's turned sentient and has eaten him. I wouldn't be surprised. It's probably in league with the wallpaper.

There's some reality TV programme about Harrow going to start soon. We asked Mycroft about it. The reaction was such that we won't be asked again!

Sherlock is still trying to prod the dough. I might go and prod Danger....

82 comments:

pandabob said...

All that paperwork for each arrest seems crazy but I guess everything has to be done in a certain way to ensure that it works as evidence when its needed.

I'm glad you've had a good day just being in the flat, being comfy and relaxed at home is a very important thing.

Good luck with keeping your dough safe ;-)

John H. D. Watson said...

he prodded me in the stomach. suddenly.

not fair

Greg Lestrade said...

You tickled my feet the other night! Justice.

John H. D. Watson said...

You deserved that for the word thing! I did nothing to earn this.

REReader said...

Sherlock, have you decided where you want to go for your birthday? (Not the dream where you'd like to go, but the we can get there for a weekend where you want to go, I mean! :)) Or us it going to be a surprise? (Surprises are so fun...)

Greg Lestrade said...

Nothing I can say about why you deserve to be prodded will come out sounding remotely good and wholesome. It will all seem dirty and smutty.

The one reason I do like the weather getting colder and your jumpers coming out of hibernation is the joy of stuffing my hands up them :)

...be right back, rolls smell cooked.

Ro said...

Inspired by your chips'n'peas discussion, here's what I had for lunch in Ullapool today.. The cheese was sold separately as "pot of cheese", which made me curious, so I asked and was told, "it's exactly what it says. A pot of cheese. For putting on your chips." Far be it for me to argue with a Scottish chippy. (Was quite yum, actually, and they earned their 'award-winning chippery' sign.)

Ps: the peas were good. Peas are ALWAYS good.

John H. D. Watson said...

L - and you're letting that stop you??

Ro - cheese on chips: I approve.

Greg Lestrade said...

I can't just let everyone know my husband lies around the flat looking in need of a good prodding! A queue will form at our door.

Cheesy chips are good. Except for that feeling of your arteries solidifying as you sit there, eating...

John H. D. Watson said...

And you'd have to arrest them for disturbing the peace or something, and then I'd never see you again for all the paperwork...

Greg Lestrade said...

Exactly. See? Terrible idea. So stop looking so proddable.

John H. D. Watson said...

Ha, I'll work on it.

Greg Lestrade said...

Sherlock has decided he's not going to bed early for his birthday ;)

We're not sure where we'll go yet. He's come out with the usual outlandish suggestions, nothing, yet, that's probably possible.

Ro said...

As I ate it, I told myself, "Protein and vegetables: nothing wrong with that!" It's best not to think about these things...

REReader said...

Well, so far you've come up with awesome birthday trips for him, I'm sure you'll do it again! :)

(Melty cheese is yummy. Yes.)

Greg Lestrade said...

Danger - when will you start trying?

John H. D. Watson said...

Tomorrow at the absolute soonest...

Piplover said...

That fritter looks amazing! I miss London so much, with all the good places to eat and visit.

It sounds like you all had a great, relaxing day. I hope the week is a good!

Greg Lestrade said...

Hmm.

Piplover - thank you. Tell the heathen here that that is one amazing fritter :)

Danger - at risk of being very boring, I think I need to take drugs and go to bed.

John H. D. Watson said...

Headache?

Greg Lestrade said...

Mmm. Been willing it away since this afternoon.

It's not really working.

I might have to go and have my head looked at, so to speak... that osteopath I went to reckoned they could do heads. Worth a try?

John H. D. Watson said...

Yeah, definitely. Meanwhile, drugs and bed and I can rub your head?

Greg Lestrade said...

Lovely.

You can pull my hair, now I've got enough of it again ;)

REReader said...

Feel better, L.

You have a good night, too, John.

Greg Lestrade said...

I'm lots better. The sun is shining.

REReader said...

That's good to hear! (Both parts. :))

Small Hobbit said...

Glad to hear it L. Wishing you all a good week - guys, Sherlock, Mycroft and the rest of you out there.

Joolz said...

Glad to hear your head is better, Greg, hope work is ok today.

Hope your shoulder is better after Greg's ministrations, John. What day are you FME-ing this week.

Bit of a weird day yesterday. Took my eldest to Uni for the first time. She's 20 minutes from the centre of London so she'll have access to everything and it will be brilliant, but it just felt awful coming away and leaving her there. I'm sure you both feel the same every time you have to leave Mycroft behind. I'm sure it'll be fine.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a great day. :)

Small Hobbit said...

She'll be fine Joolz, as will you. I found that Facebook was great for seeing what my daughter was doing - after the event ;)

Mine has just posted her last essay and been signed ff for her final placement and is now a fully qualified child nurse. Doesn't seem like three years this week since she started.

pandabob said...

I'm glad you're feeling better Greg I hope you stay that way and that the weather behaves itself today :-)

I'm sure your daughter will be find joolz and you'll get used to her being away soon although my mum still doesn't seem to have come to terms with it properly and its 13 year tomorrow since I left home for uni ;-)

Greg Lestrade said...

Turning a bit wet now..glorious sun, then torrential showers. Still take it over constant grey though!!

Greg Lestrade said...

Am I allowed to order up an FME for personal use?

REReader said...

Well, since it's personal FME you're calling for, I should think yes... ;)

John H. D. Watson said...

Will you take one with an overexcited Sherlock?

Greg Lestrade said...

Of course. What's he overexcited about?

John H. D. Watson said...

They're doing another play at school. They haven't picked which one yet, but so far he wants to play all the parts available...

REReader said...

YAY! Theater! Well, that's well worth excitement. :)

Greg Lestrade said...

Excited about unknown parts in an unknown play? Sounds like our kid :)

REReader said...

But it's a PLAY! Even doing something like scenery or lighting is exciting for a play! (Not that I think Sherlock will end up as a support person. :))

pandabob said...

Things to be excited about at school are the best :-D

I hope he lets you know what costumes he needs and everything else he's volunteered you for more than 24 hours before the performance ;-)

Unknown said...

kids moving out is something you never quite fully adjust to. Mine moved out this summer, and while I can certainly make use of the extra room, I do miss her. But, as my dad used to say, the goal of successful child-rearing is to make the little blighters go away. He said this in all affection, of course, meaning that if they are still living at home when they are 35 you've failed as a parent. Although in the current economy, maybe not! At least mine isn't far away and we see each other about once a week, which is nice.

Is the new play another world-premier original? Those are the best!
S

Anonymous said...

I love that you call him your kid, lestrade. :) I mean, on one level it seems the most natural thing in the world for you to call him that, but on another really amazing.

Has Sherlock been to many professionally produced plays? Like in the West End or whatever? Sounds like a possible birthday option. Drama followed by ice cream.

Ella

Greg Lestrade said...

RR - that was my point. He needs no further information - he's already excited.

Ella - he hasn't, no. We'll have to see if something's on that takes his fancy.

REReader said...

I get pretty excited about plays myself, as you can see. :)

Greg Lestrade said...

Trying to explain Letraset to Sherlock.

He doesn't get it.

REReader said...

Oh, I remember those! (Also semi-digital typesetting machines, those were big ole' monsters!)

Sherlock, it was a way to have real fonts (and other typographical niceties) before computers.

(When computers started having nice fonts and printers that could print them--remember daisywheel printers?--the company digitized their typefaces--I have a number of those.)

Joolz said...

Thanks everyone, it's very kind of you. I know she'll be ok once she's made a few friends and settled in a bit and I'm sure I will too - eventually! :)
Congratulations to your daughter, Small Hobbit, that's brilliant for her.:)
My mum was feeling weird about my daughter going away as much as me, Anonybob, so I don't think the 'mum' thing ever changes :)
My mum and dad tried that with my brother, S, but then he moved back! ;) You're lucky to be living so close, we're about 3 hours away so it's not quite so easy to just pop in, but I'm sure we'll manage. :)

How exciting for Sherlock to have another play. I wonder what weird and wonderful things he'll have you both creating for this one. :)

Greg Lestrade said...

It is odd when we leave Mycroft at school. But...I suppose we're a bit used to it now. And it isn't ever for too long. It'll be very strange when Sherlock's at big school and Mycroft's at University.

I hope your daughter enjoys London.

Greg Lestrade said...

RR- he cannot imagine a world before computers.

Joolz said...

Thanks, Greg. I'm sure she'll love it. We've been driving down about once a month to see a show as we also love plays (though obviously not quite as much as Sherlock) ;) so it'll be nice that next time I can meet her there instead.

Yes it will be weird for you when both boys are away so much. I can't say I'm impressed with this growing up lark - who's idea was that anyway! :)

Joolz said...

Idiot! I mean 'whose' obviously (sorry Mycroft!)

REReader said...

:D

My dad was recruited as a programmer before there was such a thing as computer science as a subject in school--I remember visiting him at his office, with all the closet sized tape machines and desk-sized dot matrix printers--oh, and punch cards! It was all very impressive and noisy--and we have more computing power in our phones now than they had available in their supercomputers.

Unknown said...

RR, heh, my Dad worked at the computer lab in Cambridge right out of college, back when "debugging" literally meant removing insect corpses from the machinery. We grew up with piles of coloring paper that came out of the printer, big connected sheets with green and white stripes across them, and printed out lines of code that were inscrutable to us. Going through Mom's stuff, we have come across some relics! Dad often marveled at the programmable calculator he could carry around in a little belt pouch, that did ten or a hundred times as much stuff as the Mark (4?) that took up a couple rooms. I wouldn't be surprised if our dads knew each other, it was a really small world back then.
S

REReader said...

S, they probably did! I totally remember that green and white paper, we had piles for drawing (on the backs, of course). My dad worked for Control Data, writing operating systems for the Cray machines, and yeah, debugging--they did used to find them!

When I brought home my first desktop, my dad looked at it the way someone who breeds Great Danes looks at a chihuahua. :D

Greg Lestrade said...

right, I'm off for another early night.

Anyone would think I'm getting old or something.

pandabob said...

sleep well Greg :-)

Anonymous said...

My mom recently told a story about getting a data entry job back in the early 50s that involved putting the punches in the punch cards. My sister and I weren't sure if she was pulling our legs.

-kholly

REReader said...

I think that sounds like it could easily be true--I'm pretty sure I read that most keypunch operators were women.

rsf said...

I learned to do punchcards when I was in the Air Guard. How to read them from just the holes too. It is not a lifeskill that I have retained.

pandabob said...

Did you manage sleep Greg? I hope you managed enough to feel less tired this morning :-)

Have a good day all of you :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

Yeah, thanks. The stuff I take for migraines makesme sleepy.

You have a good day too.

pandabob said...

I'm glad you're feeling brighter :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

Thanks.

Hammersmith and Fulham got an easy collar last night - bloke tried to break into their mobile police station! I wish my criminals came to me ;)

Got a message from John's phone earlier (I say his phone because I assume the "I'm nearly 8" year old was behind the message...it was before school.)

"We need CUPCAKES chocolate and with more chocolate on top and more on top of that."

Unless Danger is just really craving sugar...

REReader said...

And now I want chocolate with chocolate, too...

(Who tries to rob police?!?)

Piplover said...

RR, there was a story in the news a bit ago about two young men who tried to rob a police station. They went up to the front receptionist and demanded all her money. She told them her purse was in the back, so they waited while she went and told the station what was going on. Oy!

For a good laugh, here's the story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9kh5qDjemI

REReader said...

Hee!

(Police stations are where the police are. BANKS are where the money is!)

Greg Lestrade said...

...just knocked an entire mug of coffee over on my desk.

soggy.

Carla said...

You should say #soggy, Uncle Orio. Like Twitter. You can hashtag words like that.

I hope you didn't spill it on your phone or computer.

Small Hobbit said...

L - just don't hashtag what you actually said ;)

Greg Lestrade said...

Ha. #don't read this Sherlock ?

No, just paperwork, Carla. Nothing expensive. Just annoying.

Carla said...

Nooo, you can't have spaces! It would be #DontreadthisSherlock

Just trying to drag you out of the dark ages Uncle Orio.

Sherlock said...

I could read it. We made cupcakes. When are you home?

REReader said...

Triple-chocolate cupcakes?

Sherlock said...

Double because John and I ate the Flakes we were going to stick on top so it's just chocolate cake and chocolate icing but with REAL chocolate not just powder.

REReader said...

Oh, yummmmmm! Much richer that way. (And of course, what else is one to do when the chocolate flakes are Right There?)

Greg Lestrade said...

They have baked...the kitchen still stands. John still has some hair ;) and the cakes look good!

REReader said...

Triumph!

Sherlock said...

The icing went really hard and yours doesn't and then I couldn't squeeze it out of the pipe bag so John squeezed it really hard and then a bit flew out and hit the fridge and it didn't stick to the cake properly.

Greg Lestrade said...

Ah, well, you'll learn how to get the icing loose in time, kiddo. And the fridge is no longer iced.

rsf said...

Carla and Sherlock, did you know that when writing began nobody put spaces between the words? And when you reached the end of the line, instead of going back over and starting again, you just made the next line down go the other direction.

Piplover said...

RSF, that makes a weird kind of sense if you think about it. I wonder why we started doing it the way we do?

rsf said...

Well, Pip, I'm not sure, but I think I've found a book that might explain it.

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