7 February 2013

What makes this big ball turn?

Reg Presley died the other day. Couldn't really let that go without a quick video.

This song was...amazing. We'd never heard anything like it. So raw, so brilliant.







Anyway, just about got Sherlock to bed. John  can now unpack a whole load of things that Sherlock made him pack...

Had a lovely day today. Ella is really nice. And promises she'll be patient with us when we fall over our feet ;)

75 comments:

John H. D. Watson said...

At least she realises it's inevitable...

Greg Lestrade said...

She was lovely! I'm sure it'll be a laugh - and a great test of her teaching skills!

John H. D. Watson said...

Yeah. I think it'll be fun. I'm glad you thought of it.

pandabob said...

The image in my head of you two dancing always seems to involve lots of laughing and tripping over but I'm not sure why ;-)

I'm glad your day was nice.

John H. D. Watson said...

laughing and tripping

Yeah, pretty sure this is a highly accurate prediction... :)

Greg Lestrade said...

AnonyBob - I thought I saw a face peering in the window...

Greg Lestrade said...

Danger - you know Sherlock asked me if we could make you cake to take with you for every day you're away. You'll have no space for clothes. You'll have to wear strategically placed cupcakes...err...or a couple of profiteroles and an eclair??

John H. D. Watson said...

That is...very sweet of him. And, yeah, completely impossible. And what would I do when people got hungry??

Greg Lestrade said...

...tell them all the cream in your eclair belongs to me?

...that they should have brought their own lunchbox?

That meat and two veg is off the menu?

...I could carry on. ;)

John H. D. Watson said...

I suspect you could keep going until I get back...

Greg Lestrade said...

for the sake of decency, I won't...

Anyway, I'm going to attempt to ration myself with exactly how much I think about you naked except for cream-cakes. Otherwise 5 days will seem like a lifetime. A miserable celibate lifetime. (Not that celibacy has to be miserable, I hasten to add. Just that mine would be!)

REReader said...

Sherlock asked me if we could make you cake to take with you for every day you're away.

Awww. :)

John H. D. Watson said...

L - And mine as well. Good thing we'll both be so busy. Especially you. :)

Greg Lestrade said...

Am I allowed to rear a child based entirely on what my phone app tells me?

pandabob said...

I'm hoping to learn a lot from Greg this next week John, how to manage kids and work when you're only one person.

No pressure Greg ;-)

Greg Lestrade said...

Be fair, Anony - I'm in a one-to-one situation. You're outnumbered!

I won't be having a dull week, anyway...one of my DCs had a meeting with me today...of the 'can I have a quick word, Boss?' variety... well. It wasn't a scenario I've heard before! Which is rare...

John H. D. Watson said...

Now I really want to know what it was... I suppose you can't tell us details?

pandabob said...

I guess you're right, but one Sherlock needs a lot of looking after!

work sounds interesting :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

Well...not details. But everyone in the office knows, so it's not private.

It involves his wife, her business, the fraud squad, the Albanian mafia, 4 million quid, a remote farmhouse and a very angry Chinese gentleman... but I doubt any of you will put them together in quite the right order ;)

John H. D. Watson said...

Tell him he should write it down, it sounds like a bestseller.

Greg Lestrade said...

I think his wife should write it - she sounds like a character!

John H. D. Watson said...

I hope she does! Sounds like something I'd like to read.

Greg Lestrade said...

I can say... and he only found this out yesterday, that his wife...threatened one of the mafia. I mean...6am, she went and banged on someone's door and told them to give her money back! (Not all the 4mill - it's not all hers!) He's still in shock about that part, I think. I think I would be!

John H. D. Watson said...

That is...amazing. And a bit scary! Is she going to get protection or something?

REReader said...

Whoa.

(Yikes! Is she okay? Is your DC okay? I mean, I know he was in the office, so...But. She sounds like quite an interesting person!)

Greg Lestrade said...

Don't think so. Unless the fraud squad actually get close to building a case, I think it's just a long annoying wait. I don't think the mafioso will do anything about one irate woman. I'm sure they have plenty of other people asking where the money has gone too...and they apparently seem very calm about it all. Hazard of the job of being thieving scumbags, I guess?

Anyway...now I've said all that maybe I'll get a horse's head in the bed next week. Instead of in the beefburgers/lasagne/pancakes like everyone else has been getting ;)

speaking of...let's hit the hay.

John H. D. Watson said...

Excellent idea.

pandabob said...

I hope good sleep was had by all and that today is filled with not so interesting meetings :-)

Have fun at school Sherlock.

Small Hobbit said...

L - I see you haven't reined in your puns.

Have a good day all of you.

Greg Lestrade said...

Me, SH? Nay... Anyway, what's the worst that can happen from eating dodgy horse? Get the trots?

Greg Lestrade said...

..i suppose you might get a bit stuck between your teeth.

REReader said...

I'm sorry, L, I gather I'm missing something entirely obvious, but I don't understand the bit about the horse's head and beef burgers at all?

I see the snow has begun in NY--please, everyone in the US Northeast stay safe in the blizzard! (You don't need to be jealous, Sherlock--the snow is supposed to be mixed with rain, which will make it icy, and no one goes out to play in blizzard strength winds, you can't see.)

Have a nice Friday, all!

Anonymous said...

Have a look here RR

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21377601

stay safe

REReader said...

Thank you, A! And for the link, too--that certainly explains the horse, beef urges, and lasagne bits! (Yikes!)

I still don't follow about a horse head in bed, though... :?

REReader said...

(Burgers, not urges... *sigh*)

Anonymous said...

that's to do with the mafia and the film the Godfather I think

REReader said...

Ohhhhh. Thanks!

Small Hobbit said...

L - I'd hate to see you saddled with anything like that.

Greg Lestrade said...

I'll take a different tack. Try to rein myself in, or people will think I'm foal of it. Don't want to stirrup trouble.

Anonymous said...

Sherlock can be jealous of me, if he likes, RR, because it's supposed to be all snow in Boston. Two feet of it, with lots and lots of wind to blow it around. I've already got the day off and it isn't even supposed to be really bad until tonight.

They definitely aren't horsing around!

rsf




REReader said...

Stay safe, rsf!

(We've currently got what the forecasters grandly call a wintry mix--snow and icy rain all together. *decides to stay indoors*)

Greg Lestrade said...

It is a bit of a night mare, but it wouldn't make you sick furlong.

Small Hobbit said...

I think now you're gelding the lily.

Greg Lestrade said...

I'm mane-ly just being thorough(bred), SH. I just canter stop being filly.

Danger - shall I pick up some dessert for tonight? Redrum and raisin ice-cream? Or is that too Shergar-y?

REReader said...

But of course.

John H. D. Watson said...

L - I think this is getting too race-y for Mrs Hudson. She just told me to tell you that if you don't finish soon, she'll have her way with your trusty steed and you'll be hoofing it to work...

Greg Lestrade said...

Well halt'er and tell her to buck off, you stud ;)

Greg Lestrade said...

I'm home. John is intact. Sherlock is hyper. Mrs H can keep her hands off my stallion ;)

John H. D. Watson said...

Ah, so it does have a name...

Greg Lestrade said...

..my stallion's name is John Hamish Danger Watson...

John H. D. Watson said...

I really should've seen that coming. So to speak.

Greg Lestrade said...

I think Mrs H would prefer you over the bike. I mean, literally, draped over it, wearing your leathers...

John H. D. Watson said...

Or more probably not wearing my leathers...

Sherlock said...

I'VE GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU

John H. D. Watson said...

Oh yes?

Sherlock said...

It's for when you're away and Lestrade said we could do it.

Greg Lestrade said...

Maybe wearing some of your leathers...

Sherlock...well, it's nice you're excited, but telling someone you've got a surprise ages before they get it is a bit cruel!

John H. D. Watson said...

What is it?

Sherlock said...

I can't tell! It's a SURPRISE.

John H. D. Watson said...

But how can you surprise me if I'm not here?

Sherlock said...

Because...I don't know if I can tell you that part.

Greg Lestrade said...

I think you should probably just stop now Sherlock, and allow curiosity to completely consume him... more fun that way.

John H. D. Watson said...

...All right. I'm sure it'll be a very nice surprise, whatever it is.

(L - it doesn't involve frogs in my bag or anything like that, right?)

Greg Lestrade said...

Surinam Toads, actually (sorry, I introduced Sherlock to them...)

http://youtu.be/mZ7b4spjXhw


No, seriously, it's nothing ti be afraid of. But hopefully something he can be occupied working on a bit while you're gone :)

John H. D. Watson said...

I can't decide whether that's more fascinating or more horrifying.

Hmm...all right...

Greg Lestrade said...

The more I watched...the more it was horrifying. I got over the 'wow, nature's amazing' part. And just thought it was...hideous. So naturally showed Sherlock.

John H. D. Watson said...

He loved it, I assume?

It must be safer for them that way though. The things nature evolves are just astonishing.

Greg Lestrade said...

He did. and is probably now researching horrible parasitic diseases humans can get.

John H. D. Watson said...

Did you see the bot fly in that woman's head in the related videos section?

Greg Lestrade said...

If you change the question to 'did I want to see...' then the answer is definitely no.

Somehow, dead bodies full of maggots isn't the same as live ones...

John H. D. Watson said...

If she'd been full of them, that would definitely be worse.

Greg Lestrade said...

indeed.

Anonymous said...

AAAAaaaaa don't even mention those things ew ew ew ew

I mean, it's your blog, Sherlock would be fascinated, etc. I just needed to express my aaaAAAAaaaa about bot flies. Grew up on a farm. First hand experiences I really REALLY wish I didn't have. Ew ew EW.

AftSO

Small Hobbit said...

Hi AftSo, nice to hear from you again, even if the subject matter is rather gross.

Anonymous said...

Thank you! Sorry, I had a lot of feelings right then.

AftSO

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