Saw a lot of flooding on the way. I hope everyone who reads this is okay, and the worst is over now.
It was quite nice, to open the bike up all the way there and back, even if it was just motorway riding. Freezing cold, but apart form that, couldn't have asked for better riding conditions. Really good.
Who was asking about Christmas lists? Obviously the first things I'd want would be world peace and everything...but after that, an amazing adventure bike, and a few months to travel the world on a lovely big bike...BMW? KTM? Something like that...
I know, I know, it's a BMW... Danger will never let me hear the end of this...
Anyway, I've got the next two days off, and tomorrow I intend to spend all of it with John, doing nice things.
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I want a bike for Christmas!
I'm glad the ride was a good one today :-)
Of course it's a BMW. I knew you'd see it my way eventually.
...rather have a KTM. Or...lots of other things. But that picture was to hand.
Suuuure. I believe you.
Very shiny bike! I hope the weather stays good for riding so you can both go enjoy it.
rsf
hush, you, and come to bed.
There is the possibility that there's some sweets left over from making the advent string...and they may currently be in our bed...
Well, we should do something about that.
enjoy the sweets and sleep some before 'nice things' tomorrow gents :-)
Have you watched 'long way round'? It has Ewan Mcgregor and Charlie Boorman going around the world with BMWs. Your plan sounded similar :)
If there's still a possibility of sweets then Sherlock must be asleep.
It was me asking about Christmas lists L. Glad to see you've got something sensible on yours.
So far my list would say: nothing pink and NO SLIPPERS.
Hope you have a great day doing nice things with the Doc.
Those things could both be on my list too. Although I don't mind some pink.
Is it freezing everywhere today? It's taters here. Frost and everything.
I think we'll go for a run.
It's absolutely brass monkeys over here in the west.
Enjoy your run, and your nice things..., etc :-)
Taters? Brass monkeys I know.
SH if I put up a list like that I'd get pink slippers.
Have a good ride, gentlemen!
rsf
RSF - that's why I'm not putting it anywhere but here ;)
I'm about to defrost my car so I can go and freeze while the man from the Fire Brigade does an inspection. At least we moved the birdtable from in front of one of the exits yesterday (and found the key so we can open the door!)
It's rhyming slang, RSF. Just means cold.
We had the sort of run (jog) that leaves all of you hurting from the cold - inside and out! Bt the frost has burnt off now, and we're having a large and unhealthy brunch to make up for the running!
Have a nice rest of the day, the two of you!
Lancs. Anon
I wouldn't mind pink or slippers or even pink slippers (I actually have a pair of candy pink slippers which amuse me very much every time I wear them!), but we don't do Chanukah presents, since Chanukah really has nothing to do with presents, so I have no list. :)
It's about 4C in New York at the moment, L, so not so cold as it is over by you today. Have fun doing some more of those nice things!
I hope you two are having a nice day and have warmed up from your run :-)
I figured it must by rhyming slang that meant cold, I just can't figure out what the taters go with. Fold? Gold? Hold? Mold?
An unhealthy brunch sounds good. Are you going to head out on the bikes?
rsf
Potatoes in theoukd' RSF
That didn't help at all... Potatoes in the mould was what I tried to say.
*thinks about it*
Mold/mould as in something you'd put mashed potatoes in so they'd make a pretty shape? Or as in funny colored growths? Or something else? (I hope you don't mind my asking, but it's a phrase I've never heard before and I'm curious.)
Mould as in very fertile soil, where potatoes grow well, as far as Im aware.
Oh! I don't think we call it that (although I know very little about farming/gardening, so maybe we do), so that would not have occurred to me. Thanks! :)
I think it's an old word, not used here anymore either.
Sherlock thinks that as tomorrow is December we should purchase Christmas decorations. I'm trying to a. Postpone this and b. Make them not buy them.
... But isn't it nice that he's so excited?
(*tiny voice* how about just putting a limit on numbers and sizes?)
I freely acknowledge that we have absolutely no tradition of Chanukah decorations (or any other holiday decorations, really), so I have no personal experience of overdecoration. :)
AND A CHRISTMAS TREEEEEEE
L - what sort do you want to make?
Definitely make them not buy them, it's twice the fun. These days there are so many interesting craft type things you can get hold of. Rubber stamps, embossing powder and heat-proof acetate can make stunning designs to hang in windows. (You stamp the stamp on heat-proof acetate, pour powder over the design and shake off like you would with glitter, and then heat it with a heat gun to melt the powder and then trim close to the image if you want to - you can hold the stuff over a toaster if you don't want to cough up for a heat gun.)
But equally I've not met many kids who didn't want to make paper chains as decorations, or those sort of plaited square crepe paper things.
How about making cinnamon ornaments? Or would that be a problem with the dogs wanting to eat them?
Yeah, I was thinking paper chains and stuff.
I'm not sure popcorn chains would work with dogs either. But if you make baked ornaments and then lacquer them, the dogs probably won't touch them -- and they might even last till next year. I like homemade ornaments best, with maybe one special storebought one per person per year as leaven.
Thank you for explaining about taters in the mould. I have heard that term to describe a kind of soil, but not since my grandmother was gardening!
rsf
Popcorn strings aren't a thing here - or I've never known anyone to make them.
We already have a tradition of buying one ornament each, so we can do that once Mycroft is home.
Sherlock can choose some shapes and we can make them with card and glitter, or sew them in felt.
Felt and sequins? :)
We made salt dough ornaments one year. The kids still love them. They are less fond of the decoupage ones we made using Dora the Explorer napkins, now that they are 9, 11, and 13. But I still put them on the tree every year!
I've heard of mould, but never taters for cold. Freezing rain is predicted here, which causes my favorite slang term: Slicker than snot on a doorknob. Which is what the roads will be if the forecast is correct.
He can suture any amount of sequins and sparkles on ornaments he makes, as long as he's tidy when he does it.
:)
I want to make STARS and then we have to put them up like constellations properly for Mycroft.
Stars sound appropriately Christmas-y! And perhaps Mycroft can help you put them up properly when he gets home, so he has some of the fun, too.
Constellations sounds really lovely and thoughtful Sherlock, and lots of fun too!
I seem to remember you making anatomically correct heart-shaped biscuits, you could branch out into the whole body? I'm actually trying to find anatomical biscuit cutters, sadly no luck yet!
That's surprisingly hard, Jaws! I did find some skeletony cookie cutters at one of my favorite websites, but it's mostly just hearts out there. Or bits of the anatomy which would not look well on most Christmas trees...
rsf
Anatomically correct organs would be quite difficult to make into flat objects I think. You'd need a mould of some sort.
can we stick to boring old Christmas symbols? So much easier...
I want to make a camel.
L - heh. You walked right into that one.
We can make...small camel symbols. Yes. I'm not sure camels are particularly glittery though...
I believe there is the sub-species known as the festive camel, which is glittery and has a very ornate saddle.
And reindeer with really HUGE antlers.
And mince pies.
Sherlock- For both of those: are you making them for hanging or for eating?
~A from NW (who may snap at the next person who asks me how I feel about my boss leaving the company)
Maybe chocolate mousse with moose antlers made of chocolate?
You can pipe down, unless you want to be Doctor-Nanny-Antler-Maker extraordinaire?
And there's still a halo to be finished...
Is it going to light up?
I could make moose antlers. Maybe. Somehow.
(buying a reindeer and watching it grow them is cheating, yeah?)
You're not going to really buy a reindeer are you, you're being silly again.
who's silly? John? Probably.
I'm never silly.
*judiciously* Unless there's a Chia Reindeer, I don't think it would grow in time...
*carefully not asking AfNW how she feels about her boss leaving the company*
Whereas I am, of course, silly on a regular and scheduled basis. Usually in the park after school, chasing a small boy in an attempt to partially defuse him.
silly attracts silly doesn't it?
You three are pretty much nuts when you get going and I am sure Mycroft gives his fair share when he wants to :-)
Mycroft's just better at lulling people into a false sense of responsibleness....or something.
Danger - you're also very very attractive, clambering about in the playground.
I think Mycroft's getting less good at that to be honest ;-)
Let's see.
L, I've made popcorn strings -- it's very messy, but fun, and when you're done with them you can hang them out for the birds to eat.
Jaws, John, there are molds for making things like brains out of jelly or ice out there. Yes? No....
Sherlock, there are biscuit cutters like camels if you want to use sugar sprinkles instead of glitter.
AfNW, no questions, just hugs.
And as for silliness, it's the best part of the day!
rsf
I think we can have a no-edible-decorations rule, with the dogs. Given they eat quite a lot of things that aren't edible, no need to tempt fate with edible things too.
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