Anyway, that's under the clicky-thing.
Still nothing on my case. CCTV evidence is weak, no witnesses have come forward, can't find a motive or reason. Frustrating doesn't cover it.
We get Mycroft back tomorrow, which is wonderful. I've got the day off, so John and I will go and fetch him, then get Sherlock, if he hasn't actually exploded from excitement about half term.
His school isn't religious, but I think they're talking about Harvest Festival or something, at least in the context of history. And also, apparently, making boats. Never mind needing a bigger boat...I think a bigger pond will be needed.
But first, I will have a glorious morning with John.
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Ha! That is...quite amazing, really. And so true... However, I must express some doubt that you're getting it framed for us.
why would you doubt it? I'm hurt.
Not as hurt as if you get too frugal with your lubricant use, but still...
There aren't any laws against extravagant lubricant usage, are there? Considering the rug beating one, it wouldn't surprise me.
No, not now. The more the merrier, so to speak.
Indeed. Do you want to ride the bikes down to Harrow tomorrow? And how's your hand doing?
I hadn't thought about it. Yeah, that'd be good.
Have you smelt my jacket? It's fresh and clean and they even sorted out some loose stitching.
Hand seems fine. Don't know what I did yesterday. (No suggestions needed from you lot, ta.)
Happy start of half-term! (And guess what? Tomorrow is also my birthday. :))
Ha! Sherlock was right that cleaning your jacket would make you happy. :)
(No suggestions needed from you lot, ta.)
It'll be interesting to see if this works... :D
Orio! That's almost indecent.
John, I've got a lovely picture of him. I'm afraid it is one Bryan took, but still, it's a very nice shot.
I'm glad you two are working things out. It was terrible knowing you were having a rough time.
Lots of love to all of you, and I hope you have a brilliant half term.
A lot of history is almost indecent. Thanks, Nicky. Always happy to see photos of him, as long as he doesn't mind.
And no, L, I have not smelt your jacket, but I'm willing to take your word for its freshness.
fresh clean jacket is just the best, it was a wonderful idea of Sherlock's to get it sorted :-)
Did you say somewhere that you had paperwork to do tomorrow? because really Inspector do you not know what a day off is? ;-)
Nicky - you and your picture stash are brilliant, I hope you and your family have relaxed after the 'excitement' of the last few weeks
I don't mind. I suppose it's nice that she's kept all this stuff, because I wouldn't have, and you obviously enjoy it!
AnonyBob - err...I do. Or tonight. If I do it tonight, then tomorrow is a day off, right?
yes if you do it tonight tomorrow will be a day off and you NEED and DESERVE a day off (not that you should actually have to do the paperwork at home at all)
on the other hand its your life and what the hell do I know ;-)
Thanks, and yeah, I know. I'm trying... but someone has to do it. It would be lovely to think if I just didn't do it it would get done anyway.
I know it has to be done which is why I try, not always successfully I know, to encourage you to take time out without making you feel bad for having to do the work.
I should probably mind my own but all work and no play makes Greg a stressed boy and that is not good.
Yeah, I know, you lot are good for me. hopefully I'll get this done tonght. At least I don't spend all my time at work now.
I think that's really important, L--preferring to be home, with people you love. :)
I hope you get finished and make bed soon for a good nights sleep Greg :-)
Nice poster :-p
Enjoy your glorious morning together tomorrow, gents :-)
Thanks all.
Nicky just sent me this:
http://make-everything-ok.com/
Thought you lot would appreciate it.
That is fantastic.
That is awesome!! I need to install that...well, everywhere!
Lestrade, I've gotta say "have you smelt my jacket" is one of the most creative ways of sneaking a hug or cuddle I've ever heard. Can I steal that?
DW - it's all yours :)
AnonyBob - Finished almost all of the paperwork. Taken Sherlock to school, been shopping, still got the whole day ahead of me! Do I get a gold star for having a day off? ;)
If I was in a position to give you a gold star I would but I think John might just find a better reward for you if you ask him nicely ;-)
You will tell us where your taking the boy on their surprise trip won't you? afterward obviously. I really can't come up with anything that would have also led you to John's present so to say I'm curious would be an understatement ;-)
have a good day doing whatever you do.
I will - well, one of us will, I'm sure.
I'm now cooking. And baking. Was going to be a big roast and biscuits for Mycroft.
Has turned into a big roast, biscuits for Mycroft, and custard creams for John, because he's too lovely to refuse.
I think your days off are busier than my working days, Lestrade. It's exhausting just reading about it :-)
Ah, well, the start of half term should be celebratory!
(And did I mention it's my birthday today? You can celebrate that, too. :))
sounds like the perfect way to spend a day off, you should always be more tired at the end of a days holiday than a day at work ;-)
Nameless - None of it's hard! Biscuits I'm cooking, but chicken I was just prepping while the biscuits do, so I'm not so busy when the boys are here :) Then John has a busy day eating lots of biscuits while he has the chance...
You know, I think you did, RR. Happy Birthday. Hope you have a good one.
:) Thank you!
(I'm of the Sherlock school of thought on that--everyone should know. :D)
Happy birthday, ReRe! I hope you have a good day (isn't it hideously early in New York right now?)
Lestrade - still more work than slothing on the sofa, which is what I'm currently doing :-p
MAKE CHOCOLATE CUSTARD CREAMS TOOOOOO
Bourbons? How about we make them together one evening, Sherlock? I've sort of finished making biscuits today. But we can definitely make some this week.
Thank you, Nameless! (It's 7 now, not really early. I've been awake since 4:30, though, which was... :))
Hello, there, Sherlock. Looking forward to half term a little? :)
Nameless - we're now off to fetch Mycroft on the bikes. I'm making the assumption that Anthea will bring home all things not immediately essential.
I've never been one for lying on the sofa much. Unless there's something good on telly, which I don't think is possible, in the daytime??
Maybe if you get a bunch of sports channels?
(You can't think of anything else entertaining to do on a sofa? Really? )
(I was thinking of napping, of course...)
Not wildly interested in sports, beyond Arsenal and bikes. Certainly not enough to spend hours watching it all.
And I've got a bed for all that, ta, RR.
(This place is the usual mess of a million 4x4s. It's fun ducking through them on the bikes.)
no wheelies ok? ;-)
its kind of exciting to know you're going to have Mycroft back real soon :-)
Yeah, it is exciting! If we ever find him...
No wheelies. And John tuts in my earpiece when I do anything not precisely in the highway code. Like doing a stoppie to step the back over and squeeze between some bumpers...
No wheelies. Mycroft won't let him.
I don't feel that anything you do while on the road should involve 'squeezing' between cars!
it's not the road when they're stopped and we're on the school drive! Obviously I always obey the highway code on the road...or when I have passengers.
I think I see him. Well, I see a parting of the crowd for the dogs...
And a closing of it afterward as Anthea gets trailed by hopeful (or do I mean hopeless) teenage boys.
well, when you're young you don't really have a sense of self-preservation, do you?
Some of us never quite get it...
True enough.
Have a wonderful trip back and afternoon and evening...and half-term generally. Whatever you are doing, it should be lovely, with you all together! :)
Lestrade - ah, but I tend to spend my sofa-slothing either watching DVDs/something I've recorded, or more commonly, splitting the time between reading and surfing the Internet, commenting on blogs and the like...
Have a lovely half-term together, all of you :-)
D'you all make it through okay? :)
Come and pick me up on the bikes from school I bet I'm big enough pleeeeeeaaaaaaaase??
Nope, sorry. If you aren't big enough, how would we get you home? We'd have to leave you there! You can sit on one of the bikes again and try it out at home.
That's good too, Sherlock--and you wouldn't be able to talk to Mycroft while riding on a bike, after all, it's too noisy!
John and Lestrade and Mycroft can talk I should be able to talk too!
Sherlock, when you're big enough we'll get you all the gear, don't worry. But only when you're big enough.
Hang in there, Sherlock--you're almost at half-term!
We've got to go on the bikes at the place too! And camping and hang gliding and I want to learn to shoot a gun and go skiing and sky diving too.
Just how long is half-term, anyway?
you missed scuba diving ;-)
It just struck me that I'll get to see all the things you get up to on half term before mine break up so I'll have lots of ideas, thank you Sherlock :-)
Not long enough if we're doing even half of that...
It is a good start on a bucket list, however...
A week, RR.
I think between your surprise and camping and that bike place you've got the time pretty well filled... Have a wonderful time!
(Does anyone have a really easy and fast cake recipe?)
http://www.instructables.com/id/5-minute-Chocolate-Cake/
For when you have to have cake.
And Danger - found a quote for you earlier:
If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. -JAPANESE PROVERB
Absolutely true.
Ha! That's perfect, thanks, L! (I think cake is called for. :))
I like the tea proverb, too.
Sherlock, I found a recipe for biscuits we can make for John, too. We'll have a biscuit-making-evening, okay?
What sort are they?
guess...
... They're shortbread, aren't they.
haha! Not just shortbread...
They are Jam-petalled-almond-short-biscuits!
So, short biscuits, with one sort of jam in the middle, then another around the edge, like a flower. What could be better?? Short, jammy biscuits :)
I am forced to admit, they do sound good...
they're tasty, pretty, jammy and short. Like my favourite doctor.
I'm sure they're of average height for biscuits.
ha, short just refers to the type of dough. Like a shortbread, or shortcrust.
I think Anthea's more of a pink wafer girl, but I don't know how to make those...
Is that why you assumed she had hot pink underwear?
I'm sure they're of average height for biscuits.
Hee! :D
I didn't assume she had hot pink underwear ;)
She just seems like the type, under that cool, black-suited exterior... she's never denied it, anyway. :)
4 tablespoons sugar and 3 of chocolate chips? That's not a cake, that's sugar with a bit of flour to hold it together.
Hey, she asked for easy and fast - not good!
Could you put up the almond jam short biscuits recipe later on Greg, please? It sounds like Bakewell tart in biscuit form and I made my first one of those last week and was instantly won over!
Hope you're all having a lovely time :)
Fast, cheap, and good--pick any two. That's the rule in business. I'm sure fast, easy, and good is the baking equivalent!
It would have done me, but my mom brought me home some eclairs, so I didn't have to try it today. (Probably will Sunday, though! :))
Will do, Jaws.
Thanks Greg :)
And ReRe I know some good ones, have you tried Mug Cake? As in, cake, you cook in a mug, in the microwave, YUM. Or caramel, that's fast and easy.
Jaws, I thought L's recipe was Mug Cake? But I'd be thrilled to have more than one version to experiment with, thanks!
It was, but Google will provide many more mug cake recipes. Thousands, probably.
I don't think I want to experiment quite that much! :D
Is Sherlock big enough to ride the bikes yet? Or did he forget to try when he got home?
He isn't quite, no. Soon though. He is growing very fast!
Nameless - in response to your comment from ages ago - I always forget to record things I want to watch! And I can't work the TV thing as well as I probably should be able to.
The only DVDs I've got at the moment are a boxset of 'The Thick Of It', which I find very funny. And I keep missing the new series! I'm hoping Mycroft will teach me how to find it on the telly.
I just never seem to find the time. Although insomnia helps there a little...
I've not seen The Thick Of It, despite having boxset that was gift from a friend - I really must get around to watching it, I've heard only good things about it.
And yeah, maybe get Mycroft to help you work the "TV thing"... ;-p
The only DVDs I've got at the moment are a boxset of 'The Thick Of It',
Not true, there's Firefly as well...which I still can't get him to watch.
What does it say about me that I prefer a foul mouthed angry Scotsman to a suave spaceship captain? ;)
You camping it up yet?
Well, when you put it that way...lucky me. :)
No, we're roaming the streets of London looking for things to eat. Mycroft wants sushi, Sherlock wants curry, and I want tea. What do you think are the odds of finding a place that will give us all three?
Err... how about some sushi, some sushi with lots of wasabi and some Japanese tea?
That is what we went with, after much argument. I thought we should compromise with something else entirely, but Sherlock pointed out that then no one gets what they really want. Which is of course the nature of compromise.
I want to be 25 again, have a swimming pool full of yirgacheffe peaberry espresso and you feeding me peeled grapes in the sunshhine.
I've got a mug of filter coffee.
Compromise is obviously the word of the day.
If you want to meet us later, I could feed you cake, but I can't help with the sunshine or the time travel, sorry.
Sorry, was having a rant on the phone.
Not sure I'll have time, to be honest. Have you purchased enough gear to conquer Everest?
Not yet, but we're getting there... Do you want battery powered socks?
Uh...battery powered socks? I presume some form of warming mechanism? Isn't that more a question for you - do you want me to have them, or do you want to suffer some Lestrade Icy-Feet?
Some form of warming mechanism, yes. I think we'll be all right with normal woollen socks, really. You are all going to be sorry you've got hoodies instead of lovely warm jumpers though.
I'll buy you this one:
http://www.fredflare.com//display_images/5611_D.jpg
a lovely snuggly hoodie will be perfect, though. Few layers underneath, toasty.
Anyway, you should have a hoodie - it won your poll!
Wait, you still haven't seen Firefly? Blimey.
And you're all completely mad, going camping in October. Mad, I tells ya :-)
I've seen bits! There's a captain, who wears brown...called Mac. Or Mal. Or and..other people. Who I would recognise, if not be able to name. And they're...doing something. In space. And people are after them, I think? And some of them are..married, or brothers and sisters. Or both? I mean, not both at the same time, but different people, different relationships. It's space, not the Westcountry ;)
See, almost an expert.
lovely warm jumpers
^^^This. :)
(I know nothing about Firefly, but that summary could be any one of half a dozen sf series! :))
So, you finished shopping yet? I need coffee. or Valium. both?
Needing Valium sounds a bit not good...I hope all is more or less okay?
Sometimes I find it hard to believe I'm in love with someone who doesn't like Firefly... Yes we are done. Meet you somewhere?
I don't not like it, I just...have no strong feelings.
Yeah, meet you somewhere.
RR - not work related. Ranting down the phone related. Rant, apparently, didn't quite get it out of my system. I might ring them back ;)
What was the subject of your rant?
Ah.
Have at it. ;)
Got handed a flyer outside the tube when I was coming back from the mortuary. Invited me to join some sort of church-type group and fight against the vile idea of gay marriage and telling me how terribly it will damage families and society as a whole.
So I rang them up, to decline their invitation. Quite strongly.
[Insert expletives that I almost typed before remembering that this blog is read by children]
Good for you. Changing the law is one of the very, very few things I agree with the Government on.
Yeah. I tried to be very reasonable. So there were periods of silence in my..err...argument with them, where I just swore a lot internally.
I just...tried to point out that teaching people that sort of thing wasn't exactly...helpful, to society. And that sort of thing.
(and I hope I was more eloquent than that comment.)
They're stupid. Can I call them too and tell them so?
that is quite tempting.
You up for some biscuit-making tonight? Bourbons?
Yes!!!
Hoodies, hm? And here I was hoping that Sherlock would keep his ears warm with a hat that has earflaps.
As for people who need to be ranted at... I hope there are fewer and fewer of them as time goes on, because if anything damages families it's the idea that you can't love your sibling or cousin or whomever for the "sin" of being in a mutually consensual long term loving relationship.
rsf
Love--the giving kind, the promises and commitments kind--is a force for Good in the world. You'd think anyone would be happy to maximize the chances of that. Hmph.
Yay for biscuit making!
(It is very, very tempting, L... :D)
The looming prospect of a change in legislation (not to full marriage equality, sadly, but at least enabling same-sex civil marriage) is bringing out the bigots and the crazies, and the crazy bigots. Of course, as they're increasingly losing the battle, they're making more noise than ever before.
Homemade bourbons - mmm, they sound good. Are you going to make enough for all of us, Sherlock? :-p
I would but John eats LOTS. And so does Mycroft so I don't think the oven will be big enough.
Sherlock! No one eats as many biscuits as you do! You're like some sort of ...biscuit eating poltergeist. I swear you walk through walls to get biscuits. One minute there's a plate of biscuits, next minute half of them are gone and you've bent the laws of physics to get across the room, grab them, and get back without anyone seeing you!
I'm on the way back. Make sure the kitchen's clean and tidy. Get John to...get Mycroft to help you put things in the high cupboards.
Very reasonable, Sherlock. Have fun!
If you don't see me taking them then it's John taking them or Mycroft anyway I'm growing I need them are you coming home now?
I've just had to talk John out of showering you with glitter again when you come in.
If you really have those skills Sherlock you are a very clever boy, I always got caught when trying to sneak biscuits :-(
I hope work wasn't too much bother Greg and well done for being proactive in dealing with bloody awful anti loving each other people.
Have a lovely biscuit filled evening all of you :-)
By 'talk him out of' I choose to believe what you mean is 'refused to reach up and put the glitter on the door'?
I don't mind if he's had a full day camping it up and wants me to look FAB-ulous and sparkly, darling.
I am on the way home. If I can find the way in this mist.
a full day camping it up
Accurate in more ways than one. You should see the hoodie he got.
If you could sneak a photo, Mycroft.... :)
Oh! Is it a Robin Sparkles Hoodie? Why didn't I think of that!?
It is not a Robin Sparkles hoodie!
...It was Sherlock's idea.
... see my comment on your blog.
where is it? I think I need to see it.
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