It's pictures. Now including bonus ratty pictures...
Firstly, here's the rat Sherlock and John bought me. I've called him Valentino Ratti:
His tail and feet almost match our bedding.
And now, onto the post I'd planned. Lots of pictures.
I think I might have said before, that tulips are one of my favourite flowers? Definitely up there, anyway.
So I've taken pictures of some as I've been out and about, and thought I'd share.
This one's so dark it's nearly black. I love it.
And a stripy one.
I think tulips sort of have it all? Simple, colourful, interesting but understated. Although sometimes I feel like they're a bit ...too simple? I don't know. It's hard to explain, a weird guilt I have for liking a certain flower...
(I do do policework too, inamongst taking photos of flowers. Did I just make up the word inamongst?)
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those pictures are lovely Greg, they really makes it seem like summer might turn up some time :-)
Those tulips are gorgeous. And there's nothing wrong with being simple, or liking simple things.
Since my favorite is sunflowers, I have to say 'feel no guilt for liking simple things'.
Anyway, tulips aren't always simple. My gran once had a pink and white one with ruffled/tassled/fringed petals in her garden. That thing was easily as exotic as a bird of paradise and as fancy as an iris (my other favorite).
Douglas Adams once wrote about the pleasing round firmness at the bottom of a tulip and I think he had it about right, they are lovely
Lancs. Anon
Glad you all think they're okay too :)
I can't explain my completely weird feeling like I should be embarrassed for liking tulips.
Does anyone know if punching yourself in the face will cure an eyelid twitch? It's fine when I'm concentrating, but returns with a vengeance whenever I'm not.
Potassium maybe? I don't think a punch would help.
I read somewhere that the fanciest tulips during the Dutch tulipmania actually had some kind of fungus on the bulbs that made the flowers more elaborate. But I like 'em just the way they are.
rsf
I'd be slightly concerned that someone might see the bruising and be a bit worried Greg but then if you're not at work tomorrow it may be worth a try.
It could be eye strain. You've been working hard, especially the past few days.
what's the cure? Letting my eyes rest on something glorious? ...You should probably strip off if that's the case...
I suspect that Dr Hotson might have something to say about anything that involve his fiancé taking a punch to the face, self-inflicted or otherwise...
Isn't a twitchy eye generally caused by fatigue, stress, caffeine, lack of sleep or dry eyes?
Nameless - can't think of any of those I'd suffer from...
L - ha. Resting them generally, at least. And maybe a new prescription for your reading glasses.
I only just got these ones! Although I think I got called for another eye test...a while ago.
RSF the variegated ones originally came from a virus infecting the plant, but as I understand it, it's now bred in, since the virus infection eventually kills off the 'line'.
It's worth a try if you don't think it's the caffeine/stress/dehydration, etc.
Yeah, I dunno, it's only been three days. See how it goes over the weekend.
But I will go to my eye appointment. If only because I'll keep getting snotty emails until I do, to show the Met cares for me and my excessive use of computers...
Thank you for the happy photos, L--I love 'em, especially the almost black tulip. And as others have said, nothing wrong with simple--my favorite flowers are irises and daisies. You don't get much simpler than daisies!
I was thinking potassium, too, rsf--it works for cramps. (Are tics a kind of cramp? John?)
And I LOVE your rat! He can keep Spider company. :)
I like tulips, but my favorite is carnations. Nothing wrong with liking a bit of simple.
I hope the tic goes away, that sounds really frustrating.
My garden in England had a patch of yellow tulips, which were nice and cheerful, but also a solitary red one, which drove me to distraction. For the first couple of years, I would pull it up, and it would return...in a different spot.
Also, if I can have a least-favorite flower, you can have a favorite.
It was a stealth tulip, DW!
If anyone reading here is from Southern California, stay safe...
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Morning all :) beautiful day!
you sound happily relaxed :-)
enjoy the rest of your day and have fun getting Mycroft back :-)
Yeah, been a lively day. Going to the park in a bit, then to fetch Boy Wonder Snr.
Sherlock asked if I meant lively or lovely. I said it's all been lovely, parts of it have been lively ;). He's calling me mean because I won't explain.
That is mean ;-)
Enjoy your weekend together guys.
Now Mycroft is protesting the Sherlock is a bad influence on me when on the bike.
It was only a small wheelie...
Please say you were nowhere near school ;-)
Oh rly? :) What were you singing together?
AnonyBob - I could say that, but I might be lying...
Tut tut tut ;-)
Well it would be illegal on a public road! Anyway, can't help it if the extra weight on the back just let the front wheel come a little unstuck...
That's very true and I'm sure the headmaster will agree ;-)
Heh, heh!
Was it fun, Sherlock?
Think we've all had a great - tiring - day.
:)
Have an equally great rest of the weekend!
My sister just sent me an 'amusing' picture for my next blog. Thanks Sis.
Ooo a picture! Sounds interesting ;-)
I hope the day is being lovely to you all.
It is! Sherlock has new shoes. The sun is shining. The allotment is growing. Mycroft and I are trying to grow a watermelon. Sherlock wants to grow an oddly shaped watermelon.
John is getting a tan, he's spent so much time in the sun. And his hair is getting blonder. Sort of. Bits of it are anyway.
You shouldn't have gone to work we were having fun and it's still sunny and everything.
What a fun day you sound to have had Sherlock :-) are you going to stay out having fun until the Sun goes down?
Think we are, yeah. Maybe get a pizza on the way home. Good day. :)
SOrry, Kiddo. We'll have more fun tomorrow, promise!
And sounds like you're still having fun without me, if pizza is on your horizon.
Good luck with that John ;-)
enjoy your pizza Sherlock, you too Mycroft.
I hope work treats you ok Greg :-)
Did you get shoes with toes, Sherlock? One of the kids in the library had them today and everyone wanted to try them.
rsf
No they've got skull and crossbones on and two sets of laces and the sunset is really red and pink and nice.
Two sets of laces? Are they both in the front or is one set in the back.
Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
rsf
It is very nice, isn't it, Sherlock? The clouds make it look really good.
I've got two pairs of Vibrams. I wouldn't recommend them for kids unless you've got money to burn though - they don't come cheap, and kids grow way too fast!
They are fantastically comfy and brilliant though. You do have to stretch out your calves a bit though, or you feel it after a few days.
I'd just as soon go barefoot and save the money, anon. But they did look very comfy!
Also:
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/doublelacing.htm
Is that what you mean by two sets of laces, Sherlock?
rsf
Depends where you walk. City streets, covered in spit, broken glass, sharp grit and god knows what else? I think they're worth the money ;)
Yes two one bright green and one blue and they're laced together so you can see both colours and even though that's loads of laces I can still do them up on my own.
That's neat, Sherlock. I've never tried lacing my shoes with two laces, but I've done patterns on boots sometimes, and I bet they'd be even better with green and blue laces. Do you need a fancy knot, or do you just do both laces at the same time?
Anon, after you've walked barefoot for a summer, even city sidewalks aren't too bad. Asphalt in the sun, however, is a good reason for owning shoes.
rsf
I think we'll have to agree to differ. The amount I cut my feet open when I moved to the city with all the broken glass everywhere (having gone barefoot a lot in my life and never had this problem outside of London) and the amount of other people's phlegm I could step in with those open cuts, they are too bad for me! Barefoot shoes are worth every penny.
I'll call in a minute Sherlock, to say night night.
I can stay up I'm not tiiiiired
Well, sleep anyway, or sit in your chair and read - or in bed. We've got exciting things to do tomorrow! No good you being sleepy then :)
And be good for John - he's probably tired!
Okaaaaaay but only because everyone is being boring.
Have you got any murders?
Nothing very new. But the night is young, the weather is good and the drink is flowing, so I wouldn't be surprised if we had some trouble later.
(Sherlock declared that sort of murder 'not interesting' on the phone to L just now...)
Yeah, he's very critical of murderers for not doing it interestingly enough.
Bloody Daily Mail are... just scumbags. (nothing we didn't know, I know.)
True. Have they done something new?
Their entire front page tomorrow is about the deputy speaker being arrested for 'gay rape'. Newflash, morons, it's just called 'rape'. Pretty sure they've never announced a front page headline of 'straight rape'. Shitbags.
(No, Sherlock, you can't say 'shitbags', either. John is putting it on the list as he reads this, I hope.)
I have put it on the list.
That is just... Sometimes I don't even know what to say about the things they do.
ok I get that's not ok but why does rape of a boy or man make national news but rape of women doesn't? I saw a headline recently that said 'teen rape victim was a BOY' why is that news?
I think all the words I would normally use to describe the Mail are unsuitable for a blog read by a seven-year-old. But yeah, they've surpassed themselves this time.
Anon - because ... well, we can only assume because society/patriarchy has pushed the idea that rape is something men do to women. Also linked to the reason so few men report such things - because other men have traditionally made the implication that it only happens to weaker people. It's all completely messed up, and we can all only try to change society's views.
Danger - me neither. Made even more ridiculous because until '94 it wasn't even considered possible to rape a man. In law, it was something men could only do to women. All completely ridiculous and now I'm just sitting at my desk a seething pot of rage.
Nameless - I don't think they'll ever surpass "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding" for me. That was...unbelievable. I mean, I still can't actually believe it's real.
Lestrade - oh, god, I think I managed to miss that one. Although I remember having what in hindsight was probably a rather unprofessional argument with a colleague when the story broke generally, something along the lines of me wondering whether scientists didn't have anything better to research (like, oh, I don't know, cancer or heart disease), and she told me I'd feel differently if it was my kids.
God, people are depressing, aren't they?
(The captcha just said "vary radarse". I don't even...)
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