Sherlock's butterflies have started hatching - we were getting a bit worried about them, but now they're emerging, all crumpled, and drying themselves off before fluttering around the tank thing we have them in. Tomorrow I think he'll need to be persuaded to let the first batch go.
He also needed a lot of persuading to go to bed. I think he's persuaded John they should all go swimming tomorrow. I'm fairly sure he'll develop gills any day now.
We've had some good results on the policing front this week, which makes me happy. As well as far more obsession in the office with royalty than usual. Mainly because money was changing hands... Although now there is a large photograph of Hugh Laurie in full regalia on the noticeboard... sorry Ma'am...I did remind them you're the boss ;)
Ummm...what else, what else... My mind is incredibly blank.
Oh, have a picture/quiz.
Someone is growing these on the allotment. I had to ask what they were. Any of you know? Winner gets... dunno, a feeling of vast superiority?
Anyway, we might try to grow some next year.
That sounds wrong...grow some of that particular plant.
An now...I'm sure there was something else I was going to talk about. I don't know.
Got a whopping four days off next week. Told the boys to suggest what we should do with our time... Sherlock wants to go to the Large Hardon Colluder. Or whatever it's called. I thought it was shut down now for a bit? Not that we'd be going there if it wasn't! I think he may be pacified by a trip to the seaside. He wants to eat eel.
Oh, and he's pretty much decided on his wedding 'outfit' - he wants a shirt to match the lining of my jacket (purple), black trousers and maybe a black waistcoat. He'll look incredibly smart.
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we might try to grow some next year
I think I'm tired. I'm finding this and the large hardon colluder much too amusing. Also, surely the best time to visit is when it's off, assuming you want to go inside. Which he would, if we were going. No, Sherlock. Sorry.
swimming is the best, I might see if I can persuade mine into that tomorrow :-)
Four days off will be lovely for you all, almost like a holiday, I hope the weather is good next week :-)
Grumpy and tired seems to be the thing right now, I think I have achieved being more tired and more bad tempered than any other day this year today ;-) I hope sleep goes ok and you feel a bit brighter in the morning :-)
he'll be the sorry one if we give in and buy him jellied eel... ;)
AnonyBob - I hope it'll feel like a holiday, yeah! And...I don't know, everything just rubbed me up the wrong way today. (Not like that, Danger.)
I'll try to only rub you in the right ways.
Can you go in? I was visiting a friend who works at CERN last week and he couldn't even get us in the building. Though to be fair, he doesn't actually work there, he's unpaid coding labor for a summer internship. But then he sent us a video a few days later from inside the collider, which was really cool.
-Z
Z - I honestly have no idea. Doesn't stop Sherlock believing he'll be able to wangle his way in...
There is a lot of the tired going around--heat is very draining. (And you have to do a lot more running around in it than I do, L!)
I have absolutely no idea what that is a photo of. None at all.
While a trip to CERN would be fascinating--IF you could get in!--I think seaside would be more fun, and more holiday-feeling. *wishing I had time to go to the beach*
Sherlock's wedding outfit choice--especially with waistcoat--sounds very smart indeed! He has good style sense. :)
Z - I don't know either, but I strongly suspect Sherlock is having visions of infiltrating the building, Mission Impossible style.
I often misread the LHC's full name that way, too. :)
By the way, the symbol for "this fence is electrified" that I'm familiar with is the presence of insulators holding the wire against the posts without touching the posts (so as to maintain a circuit through which voltage can pass), at least in livestock fencing. They used to be big white ceramic spool insulators, and nowadays they're big bright plastic ones, usually yellow. If you see the insulators, don't touch the fence! And you can identify gates by the big brightly colored handle on each electrified wire where you can unhook it and break the circuit and walk through and then hook it back up behind you.
Needless to say this goes for agricultural fencing, not electrified palisades or the truly dangerous stuff that North Korea and various prison and concentration camps during history have used....
AftSO
The leaves look like wild roses. At least, they do with my glasses off.
Can't Sherlock get eels in London? I read somewhere that jellied eels are something of a local delicacy there.
In my memory, all I remember seeing is the usual wooden post and bailing wire that's common all over the western US; but the functional requirements of electric fencing must mean my memory's flawed. Either way, I didn't appreciate the significance of what I was looking at, clearly!
All my associations with eels have to do with the shrieking kind...
Ella
When I was in Japan I had eel, and found it quite tasty! Jellied eel sounds kind of disgusting, though.
I hope the releasing of the butterflies goes well. My mom is a teacher and her class does butterflies every year. It's amazing to watch them all fly away.
I want to say that fruit looks like bilimbi, but I have no idea.
The smell of rain after hot weather is great, isn't it?
It really is! :)
Did it cool down for you, too, then? (I'm so excited, it's supposed to get down to 66F tonight here!)
Yeah, yesterday was a bit cooler.
Yay!
If you can find a breeze, it's a wonderful temperature. Otherwise it's just... Sweaty and sticky, despite being quite cool.
:(
I hope you find a good breeze, then. (It's positively CHILLY here this morning! Back into the 80s tomorrow, so I intend to revel while I can. :))
(Are you going to tell us what the picture is of?)
Yeah, next post probably. If I remember.
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