Sherlock hasn't finished tearing around the mill. I have no idea where he gets the energy from. He's up and down the stairs like a ferret up a trouser leg. Occasionally followed by the dogs. Like a ten-legged avalanche.
Waking up with John in a four-poster bed, on top of the world, was wonderful. Our room's split level, and the bath is on the lower level. John had a soak this morning while I made breakfast.
Last night we all piled into the hot tub. Why doesn't every house have one of those? It's so relaxing. Well, it has potential to be, if you don't have a seven year old at the controls ;) We got out to put Sherlock to bed, and then John and I got back in for a last bit of relaxation. Figure it's good for both of us, all that warmth.
So here's our current abode:
And here's my current abode:
Isn't it brilliant? I love having a centre island. I love it all. Especially the butcher's block on wheels. And the marble worktops. And...yeah, I love it all.
Not sure what we'll do tomorrow. There's a boat on the canal that's a cafe and does big slap up Full English brekfast, might go there. But Sunday we'll have birthday breakfast, and do whatever John wants (after the Easter Egg hunt.). I've still got to wrap one of his presents...
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It's been a wonderful day. And more hottub tonight to look forward to.
I thought you were going to propose to that kitchen while you were cooking last night...
What Easter egg hunt?
The kitchen is amazing! And large enough to cook in, even with two massive floor-hoovers-on-four-legs and Sherlock racing about. And plenty of room for people to loiter on the fringes and chat.
It's going to be Easter. We have a whole garden and graveyard beyond. I thought and Easter Egg hunt would be a good idea. I bought eggs for you, the boys and Anthea. I'm going to hide them and issue you clues which might lead to their discovery... Anthea may then issue clues as to where to find my body ;)
(I should add that Sherlock, Mycroft and Anthea get issued their clues at least an hour before you get yours. Thus ensuring they are suitably occupied first thing in the morning...)
What sort of clues? Can't we do it now?
Thus ensuring they are suitably occupied first thing in the morning
You are a genius.
Are they chocolate, these eggs?
Sherlock - no, we can't do it now. It's dark, and I haven't done all the clues yet.
Danger - yes, chocolate. Well wrapped. Well hidden. And you may think I'm a genius, but Anthea may not agree...
An evil genius? She'll like you better when she has chocolate eggs. I'm sure of it.
Well, I thought it was only fair. It's join the egg hunt or dress up as the Easter bunny....
So, since you're hiding all the eggs and therefore can't hunt for them...where's your bunny costume? ;)
There didn't seem any point when I knew as soon as I put on my fluffy tail and floppy ears you'd just rip them off me...
If this place did still have sails, I'm fairly sure Mycroft would have attached Sherlock to them by now.
True. I wouldn't be able to resist.
Sherlock probably wouldn't have objected...
Probably not, no...
So, you're getting a chocolate cake...with buttercream icing on top, and jam and cream in the middle, I think the poll says ;)
Delicious! Oddly enough, those are the ones I voted for... Though I suppose chocolate and jam were not a huge surprise.
Not massive, no ;)
You know me...any excuse to use our kitchen!
Can I help?
help make your own birthday cake? I'm fairly sure you can do almost anything you want on your birthday...
Hey...can you hear that?
Anything?
...Hear what?
what a lovely place to stay, and a nice kitchen is very important on a holiday especially when special birthday things need to be prepared ;-)
Anything within reason. Don't scare me.
that little voice, calling...
'Greg, Greg, get that gorgeous man of yours semi-naked in my hot bubbly water...'
I am fairly certain that is a hot tub calling our names...
Ohhh, the hot tub. I've been hearing it all day. I had to start tuning it out...
Anything within reason...hm....
Anonybob - it really is lovely. I feel very lucky. :)
Glad you're all having such a lovely time! That building looks amazing, Lestrade, what a find.
I hope the little voice was promptly obeyed, and also hope that the sibling fractiousness doesn't degenerate to the point that there is, in fact, trouble down at t'mill.
(sorry, couldn't resist...)
PS - just had to say that the description of Sherlock being up & down the stairs like a ferret up a trouser leg made me laugh :)
(Captcha tells me 14394. Surely THAT many laps of the staircase would be a bit much even for the Boy Wonder)
its good to feel lucky sometimes John :-) I'm glad you're having a good time
Kate L - thanks :) And the boys aren't too bad. We just have to find ways of distracting Sherlock before he turns to Mycroft as a source of amusement...for everyone's sake!
(I tried the 'trouble at t'mill' line on Anthea...She gave me a Look worthy of John.)
Whoever invented these hooded towels for kids was a genius. There is now a vague hope Sherlock is getting drier as he rushes about, instead of him losing his towel at the first opportunity.
Hey, if air-drying is the preferred method of taking care of lab equipment, it should be good enough for (small) people!
Have fun! :)
mm. Lab equipment probably doesn't go to bed with masses of soggy curls though.
John Danger Watson, I bloody love you. I love getting into this massive four poster bed in the top of our phallic holiday home with you. I love every bit of you. I'm the lucky one.
Yeah, it's hard when one of you has to study and the other wants to do fun holiday things.
It sounds as though Sherlock is more in a running around sort of mood, but if he gets into a sitting still mood any time soon then this website is full of interesting things: http://sciencehack.com
I particularly like the one about how to make hot ice with sodium acetate.
& re: hooded towels: not only is it a handsfree towel option, but you also get to feel like a superhero while running around with it flying out behind you like a cape (albeit a superhero who runs a serious risk of catching a chill if he goes outside). What's not to love??
Mycroft's eased up on the studying for the holiday. But he's...well, growing up, happy just to do quieter, less frantic things than Sherlock.
The first video I found on that site was 'rent a goat'...it's like it KNOWS it's John's birthday on Sunday... he could challenge that guy for title of 'goat whisperer'.
I love you too, and this bed, and...yeah it really is quite phallic isn't it? And all our holidays and...really every day I get to spend with you. Thank you, love.
The look on Mycroft's face when we got here, and he just turned to me and said "No need to guess what was on YOUR mind for a birthday treat for John when you chose....this" and made a very...obvious gesture at this charming old building...Honestly. As if!
It's you who's obsessed with big tall buildings, thrusting up into the sky...
I feel we've had a good influence on him. Or a bad one. Some sort of influence. He never would've said that even a year ago.
I agree. We definitely, certainly, have had some sort of influence on him...
I imagine living with a few hundred teenage boys has also had some sort of influence.
You are definitely some sort of bad influence on me, too. All wonderful and indecently good looking. I might have to do something about it...
Any time you're ready...
Enjoy the rest of your evening guys :-)
Good morning all :-) Hey, Sherlock, are you up yet? My youngest two certainly are, theyd love to be tearing about with you exploring everything. Greg, yes, what a superb find, any more pics to post please? That kitchen is a may zing :-)
Right, off for more coffee and then walking my hound, or possibly, more coffee whilst walking her!
Have a fab day boys, young, and old-er :-)
Fen x
We're all up now, but yeah, Sherlock and I have been up for a while. We've been doing drawings, to try to let the rest of the 'mill sleep in.
We're off to walk the hounds, get breakfast and drink coffee too ;)
Hope you have a nice day too.
Early mornings are so much more fun on holiday and I guess all those floors means Sherlock didn't have to be quite so quiet so other people could sleep :-)
Enjoy your day, I hope the suns shining on you as much as it is here.
Lestrade told me one of John's birthday presents because I'm going to do part of it too for John AND I'm going to help do his cake icing too and I'm going to help make lunch because we bought a lamb to eat.
Feeling very hungry then?
er...a shoulder of lamb, Sherlock, for tomorrow.
Although, yes, Anon - he is ALWAYS very hungry. I actually worry when we take him out places that people will think we never feed him, as he always acts half starved.
It's a good thing, a healthy appetite! I miss shoulder of lamb, always was one of my favourites.
Nobody with any experience of children will think you don't feed him, but I can utterly sympathize. My own kids do the same thing, and a commonly heard phrase is around here is 'well, if you really do starve to death between here and home then I'll finally have a craft room'.
Anon - we'll try not to describe it in too much delicious detail then ;)
Kestrel - I threaten to donate his body to science, which drives him mad, because there's nothing he wants more than someone to donate their body to him :)
I am tired out. And tonight it's going to be seriously cold, by the sounds of it.
shoulder of Lamb sounds delicious, I hope it was :-)
I'm no expert but I think there is a solution to the cold night problem if you and John put your heads together ;-)
We're having the lamb tomorrow, for lunch :) I hope it will be delicious! Got it all from a nice local butcher in the village here.
Mm. Good day.
me being stupid there Greg sorry, I hope the lamb's nice tomorrow :-)
Glad you've had a good day John, you sound really very relaxed ;-)
Lestrade says they're going to eat lots of carrots tomorrow or maybe hop I don't know
I do? I...don't remember that.
yes you said it to John when we were walking and I heard, you said you wanted to celebrate Easter doing what rabbits do best except why is it called hopping not jumping because hopping is one leg and they use two so it's jumping.
Ah. Yes. Indeed, carrots and hopping all day tomorrow. Yup.
A very appropriate Easter celebration...
Exactly! And that look that just passed between Anthea and Mycroft, which had enough eyerolling to set off a rift in the space-time continuum was quite unnecessary.
I don't know what their objection could be. Carrots are very good for you. Hopping, too. Good exercise.
Even if, for one moment, I believed Lestrade's plans involved carrots, I would certainly not believe his primary intention was to eat them.
Well...I'm speechless, Anth, that you could even imagine...whatever you're imagining.
Danger, I think we've found that bad influence on Mycroft ;)
Clearly. Should've known from the synchronised eyerolls, really.
Yes! Quite.
Now, a certain small person needs to go to bed.
And I need Mycroft to tell me if my phone is clever enough to put it's own clock forward, or if I need to do it, to make sure I wake up at the right time...
The way he said 'most things are clever enough to remember the time change these days' and then looked at us... Well. To be fair, I did forget until yesterday.
Well, to be extra fair, they should postpone it.
British Summer Time. Summer time. It's going to feel like MINUS SIX here tonight. Summer has clearly been put off for a month or so.
And I have to go out and hide eggs. You coming with me, or you staying here and preparing to be the best icy appendage warmer ever?
Never mind summer, at this rate we won't get spring till June.
I'll come along. Could try the hot tub when we get done...
Mm, we could. Good idea.
Come on, there's a creepy graveyard we must visit...
Oh good. Creepy graveyards at night are my favourite...
I promise not to try and jump out and grab you in a scary way more than...three or four times. Probably.
Raise that to five and I might believe you.
I said probably!
They shouldn't put trees you can climb in graveyard if they don't want you to jump out of them on unsuspecting boyfriends.
Okay, suspecting boyfriends.
I was not suspecting you were going to leap on me from a tree! gah
And I thought Sherlock would have taught you to prepare for vampire attacks...
No, only zombie ones. You don't get zombies in trees.
Really? would have thought zombies liked all those limbs...
I shall now groan...like a zombie...
don't let any body parts float away in the hot tub.
I shall keep a close eye on all of them.
Happy Birthday, You amazing, sexy, fantastic, man!
Now get to bed. I have to lay the breakfast table. YOU are not allowed below the sitting room level until morning.
Then I hope you'll be joining me up there quite quickly...
I will, I will, go go go.
And Sherlock, because you'll doubtless be up before us...come and see us to wish John a happy birthday, and collect your Easter Egg clues. Then be good and do what Mycroft and Anthea say.
It's stupid to lie awake and worry about birthday presents isn't it? Yes. It is.
Given the amount of time and care and love you put into the presents, then yeah, almost certainly, you silly sod.
I hope you've both had a lovely - and uninterrupted - morning. Happy birthday John :-)
I know, I know. Past experiences have no bearing on current/future ones. I am a silly sod.
We did have a great morning, thank you ;)
I would've loved it even if I hadn't loved it...if you see what I mean. Because of you. But I do actually love it, and thank you.
Right. I think I see what you mean...and, I'm glad you actually love it. Because I really...wasn't that sure.
You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?
*is absolutely not dying of curiosity at all, oh no*
it's possible he's not, but I am. :)
MEAN :-p
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