26 September 2014

Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, Their shirts all soaked with sweat

Well...horse riding. I guess it's like riding a bike - once you're used to it, it's fine! The first time though...ffffffffffffff...well. I can't even say what it feels like, in polite company ;) (or in front of you lot.)

Anyway, it was lovely. I mean, the countryside, the sun, the horses were all well behaved - we even had a little trot. Which was, frankly, terrifying, and a I'm sure sacks of spuds would have been more graceful than...well, me.

But yeah, lovely. Sherlock loved it, and rewarded his horse afterwards with carrots and apples. And then insisted he'd also feed our horses. And that he should have a horse to get around London.


Our little lodge-thing is lovely, small but perfectly formed. And very peaceful. Well, it was until we arrived. Sherlock stalked a hedgehog last night (didn't actually see it, just heard it in the hedge.) Then discovered that some places you can have pet hedgehogs... that was a good conversation. Anyway, I don't think the degus would like it, even it was legal here.

He and Mycroft are in the hot tub at the moment. Mycroft is stretched out, relaxed, eyes closed. Sherlock is busy making his shorts inflate massively by sitting over bubble jets....

Here is our hot tub/view/deck/bovine neighbours. It's great for stargazing too, we saw all sorts last night, including shooting stars.


Very shortly John and I will be in that hot tub. Although right now it feels like even getting my leg over to get in might be a struggle!


Tomorrow we're going to go to a near by aquarium, I think. Or to the beach or something, we are people of leisure!

Here's a view from today:


Nice, eh? Very peaceful.

36 comments:

Anon Without A Name said...

I can't even say what it feels like, in polite company ;) (or in front of you lot.)

I don't know what you mean.

it feels like even getting my leg over to get in might be a struggle!

*titter*

Oh, wait... that's what you mean...

It sounds like you're all having a wonderful time :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

We are :)

But give me an off road motorbike, not a horse, next time ;)

Lancs. Anon said...

I love your song du jour, it was one of my mum's favourites. It sounds like you're having a good if sore time, long may it continue!

John H. D. Watson said...

I somehow read that as snog du jour.

Greg Lestrade said...

i assure you I haven't been snogging anyone's Mum, let alone with my snog du jour ;) only you, Danger.

Anonymous said...

I now see snog du jour as being a way more successful book of the month club

Greg Lestrade said...

I'm worried how the meetings would go...I think that could sway over into 'orgy' territory!

Anonymous said...

Very nice, it all sounds like. Hope the hot tub loosened all those muscles. Leaving you entirely capable of getting those legs anywhere they should be going. If anyone'd had any doubt in the first place, that is.

Hope the weather holds for you.
fA

Greg Lestrade said...

Well, we've at least made it to an aquarium, not hobbling too much ;) Sherlock is glued to the side of a tank like an escaped Urchin, watching a swordfish.

pandabob said...

The aquarium sounds fun as does the being able to walk properly ;-)

We're there lots of swordfish? They're funny creatures aren't they?!

Greg Lestrade said...

I have been suitably chastised ("Not a swordfish, idiot! A SAWfish. S-A-W-FISH.") and told to tell you all that Sherlock (and no doubt Mycroft) would have corrected me sooner if they'd known I'd been so wrong in public.

There were two SAWfishes... one wasn't doing much, the other was quite active and mildly terrifying, frankly. They were also very hard to photograph! But we just about managed.

Joolz said...

Well thank you for setting us straight, Sherlock. :)

Did they have a tank where you could put your hands in and have the shrimps suck on your fingers too, My son had a go but I didn't want to do that myself nor do I fancy those places where you go and put your feet in a tank and have fish nibble them either, I think I'd be way too ticklish to do something like that. Has anyone had a go at that?

Enjoy your evening. :)

Greg Lestrade said...

They didn't have shrimps, but they did have starfish and urchins.

I like the jelly fish. Sherlock likes...everything. John liked the rays, Mycroft liked the fishing spiders...

Anonymous said...

Learned something today! I had never heard of fishing spiders, though I read that I have lived in their habitat in the past (they are not found near where I live now.) Google is an amazing thing.

fA

Greg Lestrade said...

I could happily have lived without ever knowing about fishing spiders.

On the way home now, another beautiful day. Might have to stop somewhere nice for lunch.

Small Hobbit said...

Glad to hear that you all had an excellent weekend. Hope that you've all settled back now and that those that wished for one have had their snog du jour.

Greg Lestrade said...

Ha!

We have sadly had to give Mycroft back to school. There really should be a fairer time-share drawn up there. But the weekend has been deemed a success by the birthday boy, and that's all that matters.

REReader said...

I'm just catching up, but it sounds like it was a lovely weekend for all, as well as a successful birthday celebration. :)

pandabob said...

I'm so glad Sherlock enjoyed his birthday trip and I'm glad you all got to share it together even if you did then have to hand Mycroft back!

I hope today treats you all well whatever it is you're up to :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

Work is keeping me very busy. I hope school is keeping Sherlock busy. I'm sure John is keeping himself busy ;)

REReader said...

I hope it's a satisfying sort of busy, anyway, for all of you. Since is it a Monday after a holiday (even if a different sort of holiday) for me as well, I do know just what you mean!

Greg Lestrade said...

The Met's 185 years old today.

My bit of work isn't too bad, but the whole force - many forces, probably - definitely isn't satisfied, and won't be until we find the 14 yr old who is still missing, despite the biggest police op since 7/7, more CCTV being watched than was in the riots, 600 officers and the RAF being involved. I absolutely hate missing persons when it's kids.

REReader said...

I hope he's found soon, and that's he's okay.

Greg Lestrade said...

It's a girl, but thanks.

Sadly as time goes on, that's less and less likely. She's been missing for over a month now. I honestly don't know how the parents cope in situations like these.

REReader said...

Yeah.

pandabob said...

I've often wondered how police officers cope with cases like that one, everyone is so quick to judge when the police make any error but we seem to forget that they're human and have feelings and worries just like the rest of us!

Good luck with whatever the day brings you Greg :-)

I hope you got everything sorted from the trip John and that which ever job you're doing today treats you well :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

Officers cope with it in different ways. Some of them you have to send home - even driven them home myself before! Because they don't want to stop. Some go very quiet, just want to focus. Some you know will talk it over with their partners, whereas some you need to get somewhere quiet and off the record and give them time to talk, because you know they won't be talking to anyone at home. You've just got to know your colleagues and let everyone deal with it differently.

Anonymous said...

How did I miss it? Yesterday was, apparently, International Coffee Day! I did my bit, with my usual 3/4 of a pot, but I feel I should have pushed through and finished it up or maybe bought some better-made coffee.

Small things, sometimes we go from small good thing to small good thing.

Hope everyone's day is good or productive or both.

fA

Greg Lestrade said...

Sal sent me a thing in honour of it:

http://www.gopetition.com/famous-petitions-in-history/232/the-women-s-petition-against-coffee-1674.html

All I can do is assure you John is neither buxome, nor languishing in extremity of want... And my breeches do contain things of mettle ;)

Anonymous said...

Well done Sally! That's a brilliant rant, that is!

Coffee wouldn't have many takers, though if it meant lovers went to bed only to "meat A Bedful of Bones, and hug a meager useless Corpse rendred as sapless as a Kixe, and dryer than a Pumice-Stone, by the perpetual Fumes of Tobacco, and bewitching effects of this most pernitious COFFEE, where by Nature is Enfeebled"

Don't know what a "Kixe" is, though apparently it's sapless. Jeez. This is epic abuse! I wish I could use it in my daily conversation. Or in emails, when people annoy me.

fA

Greg Lestrade said...

So, as some of you may have heard, a body was found last night, and the enquiry is now a murder case. Incredibly sad, but also an end to the limbo everyone has been in.

Up until now it's all been questions. Hopefully now we can get some answers.

pandabob said...

It's a nasty mess Greg and I hope answers are found soon so that some sense might be made of things.

Stay safe and be careful with yourselves guys.

Small Hobbit said...

It must be awful when that last little remaining bit of hope dies. No matter how much you may think the worst there's always that small bit remaining. And although end of the limbo, for the family it means things just move into the next stage.

Anonymous said...

So sad. In the long run I think I'd prefer to know the worst than to be left not knowing, but that wouldn't make the loss or its circumstances any easier.

fA

Greg Lestrade said...

Some families don't want to identify a loved ones body, because it means it is definitely them. They prefer, at first, to hang onto that hope. It's difficult.

Anonymous said...

Ugh, so sad. :( I think I wouldn't want to know, but on the other hand, I'd never move on if I didn't.

The coffee shop I used to work at had the Women's Petition Against Coffee on a mug.

Ella

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