You'll have to patient with me, but the Inspector and Doctor Watson have asked if I would help on the wedding day by telling you what was happening! Very exciting, I must say. They said I should 'do it in comments - a comment-ary, you could call it.
I'm afraid I'm not as fast with my fingers as those boys though, so you'll all have to forgive me if I'm not keeping up very well when it's all happening.
Now Greg says that this will be good practice and that I should get to know you all. He's promised that none of you are axe murderers or anything terrible - as if! So here we are. How are you all dears?
Those boys all off camping so the house is terribly quiet. But I do have the degus to look after. I think I'm getting better with them, but they're so quick to scamper about, and those twitchy whiskers are a bit ratty for me!
Still, it can be quite nice not to have all the thumping and bumping coming from upstairs.
He said I should talk about my day or the like. Well, today I've been trying to choose a hat. I do like those fascinators, you know, with feathers! but I'm not sure they're for me. I think such an important day demands something more traditional, so something with a nice brim, and maybe a little bit of fancy on top.
It's so lovely, to see two young men making such a commitment - honestly, I love them both like sons. Although obviously if they were both my sons we wouldn't be having a wedding! So lucky they aren't. They're both terribly good for those two boys though, as I'm sure you all know. Little Sherlock was too much of a handful for me, if I'm truthful. So much energy. And Mycroft was always buried in his books at the manor, and fearfully serious. It's nice to see them both growing up with the Doctor and Detective Inspector, getting their confidence and growing into fine young men.
I hope we can have a nice chat now. Such a shame we can't share some tea and biscuits too. I made some lovely shortbread today, with chocolate chips - I shouldn't, I know, but you've got to enjoy life, haven't you? At my age a few chocolate chips is hardly going to make the difference now, is it?
Now dears, Greg wrote this next bit himself, so you mustn't think it's me saying such wicked things about Doctors. I never would - very hard working, they are.
Hey everyone - and hello Mrs H. We thought, as we're away and maybe still fighting a soggy tent in a gale, that Mrs H could do a quick blog!
She's agreed to help keep you guys in the loop on the big day, so we thought she needed some practice ;)
Mycroft found this the other day - absolutely perfect, I think you'll agree?? You should try deciphering our shopping list if you don't. Bletchley Park would struggle, I reckon.
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Mrs H - you are a lovely person, thanks for helping out.
L and Mycroft - it's not THAT bad!
When you wrote me a note saying I'd been ill to Mrs T and I showed it Mrs T said she could tell I'd been really ill because usually my writing was neater and I had to tell her you wrote it and she didn't believe me but it was true and next time she saw your writing she said sorry and gave me a satsuma
You were saying, hmm?
Great post, Mrs H!
hello Mrs Hudson, how exciting to know that someone will be keeping us informed about the big day and its especially nice to know it will be someone who will know the best bits to tell us about :-D
From what we see on these blogs I'm sure you've had quite a hand in bringing the four boys together and making life work well for them all, they are all very lucky to have to around from what I can tell :-)
Greg, you are mean to your man sometimes but I'm sure he'll make you pay for it later ;-)
I was saying nothing, apparently... Et tu, Mrs T?
Thank you, dears! It's terribly odd to think there might be people all over the world reading this. In my day it would have taken six months to send a letter.
Oh goodness look and there are more comments already before I've even replied.
I am sorry dears if I'm rather slow.
Hello Martha, lovely to see you here :-)
I'm really looking forward to you liveblogging the wedding, I think we're all looking forward to having a virtual party for the guys while you all have a real party.
So this is practice for us too - virtual tea and biscuits while you have real tea and biscuits :-)
I'm afraid I'm not as fast with my fingers as those boys
Well, they do get quite a bit of practice...
Hello dear. Is that what I should call it? 'Liveblogging'?
I can't promise I shall keep you up to date if I have a few glasses of bubbly you know!
I hope that once the ceremony is open then dear Mycroft or Sherlock might help me too.
Aww, come and have a cuddle by the campfire, Danger.
I may fall asleep on you, fair warning.
Hello Martha. It's lovely to see you here and like those above I'm delighted you're going to be liveblogging the wedding. Did you decide on a hat? If you did I'm sure Mycroft could help you post a picture of it when they return from camping, as I'm sure we'd all like to see it.
falling asleep is entirely allowed. But don't expect me to be able to get your unconscious body into a sleeping bag!
I'm not sure on a hat yet my dear. It's so difficult to choose a colour. I worry that hats aren't really the fashion nowadays, too. But I don't often get a chance to dress up these days so I want to make the most of it!
Now you up there, without the name - were you being awfully cheeky with the comment about the fingers? I just don't know anymore! You can say the most innocent things and then there's people laughing at you. The Inspector has a truly wicked laugh you know, enough to make you blush!
Hi, Mrs Hudson--or do you prefer Martha? Like the others, I'm delighted to hear you'll be keeping us filled in on the big day--if you do half as well as you did writing a blog post, you'll be fantastic at it!
L, that font? Hee!
Hello, Mrs. Hudson! Glad to hear you'll be liveblogging the wedding. I'm sure you'll look lovely no matter what type of hat you choose.
I hope you're all having a good day!
I don't mind, dear, Martha is quite alright. I don't have a nickname I'm afraid!
Thank you, dear. I've had a lovely day. I hope you have too.
We saw a meteor! Really big and orange :) (Didn't have AeroFlot on the side, promise!)
Me? But I'm sweet and innocent!
OK, maybe just a little bit cheeky - but it's all Lestrade's fault, he's such a bad influence :-)
Martha, I don't think it matters if hats are fashionable or not (I really don't know which it is!)--if you find a hat that suits you, and you like it, wear it and set the fashion!
Cool, L!
Right...sorry, John, but now I'm lying here with you asleep on one side, Sherlock on the other and a dog on my foot...you and the dog are going to lose out and get woken up, because if we're really, really lucky, we can get Sherlock into bed without waking him (and half the campsite).
That sounds like the end of a highly successful day. :) g'night, all!
Just me and Mycroft left, looking for meteors.
I sort of don't want to go to bed. I mean, sounds stupid, given I haven't dreamt about it for ages...but last time we camped, and I dreamt about y'know, being grabbed, and...now I'm worried camping'll bring that back? I don't know.
And I have to put the phone down, the light is bothering Mycroft.
not stupid at all but if it does it does and you have the best people around you to help you through it and if it doesn't it doesn't and you've taken another step towards not thinking about it anymore :-)
Good luck seeing the meteors and enjoy your time just you and Mycroft :-)
I certainly do. best people and two snoring dogs.
We've seen quite a lot now! :)
Hello, Mrs. Hudson!
How great that you'll be telling all about the wedding. Personally, I don't know why you couldn't have a hat AND feathers. I've seen some that were really very tasteful and understated; if you find one you like I say go for it.
Lestrade, My 11 year old collapsed on the sofa before dinner and the greyhound collapsed on her legs. No way we'd be able to get her into bed without waking her.
It doesn't sound stupid, L, it sounds...logical, emotionally speaking. I hope it doesn't happen, but as Pandabob said, you've got the best people around to bring you back into the here and now.
Hi, Mrs. Hudson! I hope you have fun finding and decorating your hat for the wedding. There's nothing like a good hat to make a party more interesting if you ask me. And I'm definitely looking forward to your narration of the big day.
L, hooray for seeing meteors. I hope you sleep well, and dream of good things. Like John proposing to you! And weddings!
Mycroft, I hope you're having a wonderful time. Did you bring your telescope?
Goodnight all.
My goodness, so much wonderful stuff going on over here! So pleased you're getting more involved in the blogging thing, Martha. And I hope you find a hat you really love for the wedding, even a fascinator if you find you really want one! There will be other weddings, you could try it for this one and go traditional again after, if you feel like it doesn't suit. (Granted, I'm an American who has only ever worn a hat to a wedding once (it was in January in Hammersmith and I wore a cloche, quite staid), so what do I know?)
I envy all of you out camping and watching meteors. I'd be tempted to stay up for them but I'll be grumpy enough tomorrow at work as it is with the jet lag. Coming home from a different time zone is always the harder part, for me, the adjustment is more fun when I'm somewhere different.
Stay warm out there!
AftSO
Hope you did manage to sleep okay L. I woke up in the night and thought about getting up to look for meteors, but that involved moving. Maybe tonight.
I slept very well, thanks :)
Brilliant news Greg :-D have a great day chasing after Sherlock :-)
I hope you have a lovely quiet day Martha, enjoy the peace and the chance to do secret things ;-)
Good morning. I hope those of you leaving messages in the middle of the night are from foreign lands. You need eight hours sleep, you know, to keep you all healthy and your brains working. No use burning the candle at both ends you know.
Now I've been out for the paper and i'm having a little sit down.
Don't worry, Mrs. Hudson, we are all from foreign lands! Most of us.
Perhaps Mycroft could help you find a photo of the hat you eventually choose? I'm more a fan of brimmed hats, myself, but AftSO is quite correct that for this wedding you should wear whatever really makes your heart sing. I understand that most people are shy about putting identifying info online, but perhaps after the fact.
I always think of the Perseids as "my" meteor showers, as they fall around my birthday, and this was a lovely year for them in the US Midwest. I didn't use a telescope but saw a couple gorgeous ones just the same.
We never used a telescope to look for meteors, Olli, we used one to look at stuff while we were waiting for meteors (or to keep the little kids awake and interested). I couldn't see much in Boston, drat it. Wish I lived someplace dark.
Were at the beach and John said if I was good maybe I could have snorkel and flippers and a mask for swimming and looking at rocks and I am being very good.
Good for you, Sherlock! Snorkeling sounds like fun, if it works out I hope you tell us all about it.
That sounds lovely, Sherlock. Will any of the other boys be getting flippers and things too? I'm sure you're being a little angel. Have you been to see the bees yet?
I've been out to see friends. We like to get together and do some knitting or sewing. One of them says in America you might call it a 'stitch and bitch'! Well, we certainly wouldn't do the latter, but Mavis and Betty are the most terrible gossips and I'm sure the Inspector would never do better than employ those two if he wanted to watch a suspicious house - a right pair of curtain twitchers!
I'm sure you'd never indulge in a bit of gossip, eh, Mrs H??
Sherlock has been good. And I hope I have been too, because I want a snorkel! John....have we been good enough???
Yay, Sherlock!
Are you a knitter, Martha? I find knitting very meditative and soothing.
A friend sent me this link, and for some reason it made me think of you guys...maybe it's the cute animal thing? ;)
Hi, Martha! Thanks for agreeing to keep us all posted on the big day! We're looking forward to hearing from you.
Hats are such a lovely tradition you all keep in the UK - here in the states we don't, though lately there's been a tiny uptick in fascinators at the weddings I've been to, which was unheard of when my friends were getting married in droves a while back.
Enjoy your day out, guys! Lots better to be out at the beach on a Monday than at work! And come on, John, give the boys a snorkel! I'm sure they've been perfect angels.
I thought something like this was rather nice. Now I have to see if I can do this.
http://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-mila-upturned-wide-brim-occasion-hat/p448401?colour=Black/Red
there we go, I'm afraid you can't just point and click, you need to go to that long address. It's rather racy! But I think it's fun.
I like that hat a LOT! You're right, it's fun, and pretty, too.
That is lovely Martha and fun should be the order of the day at a wedding I always think :-)
And there was I worrying that we were going to need a new rule 'If Mrs H posts it, don't click it!'.
It's lovely, Mrs H.
Hello everyone! How lovely to hear from you, Mrs H, and I'm hoping all those that are campers are still happy ones? I can vouch for doctors handwriting being dreadful, what with being a pharmacist myself! It's a wonder more people aren't given the wrong medication, I say! Please have a care when writing out a 'script, all you people like John out there :-) love to you all, Fen x
We're very happy, thanks. Just put the water on to boil for a cup of tea! Hoping to see lots of meteors.
Fen - very glad to have your expert witness testimony there!
I think they're supposed to be good around 11.
That's a great hat Martha - I think you should look stunning in it.
There's nowhere I'd rather be than lying back on a blanket, cuddled up to you, waiting for space dust to burn up in our atmosphere :)
Although that dog could pant more quietly...
Shall I wake you up early tomorrow and re-propose?
Hah - if you want! And then I'll cook you fried eggs, bacon, bread, beans etc. :)
I love you.
I love you too :)
I love you both and Mycroft when he isn't being stupid or bossing me about and Mrs Hudson and next time we go camping Mrs Hudson should come too and my degus
I want to see more meteors.
Love you too, kiddo, and Mycroft - and he isn't bossy, he's just older and wiser.
And if you settle down and stay quiet you will see more.
We love you too, Sherlock, and Mrs Hudson of course. I'm not sure how she feels about camping but she's always welcome if she wants to come along. And your mum - although I do know how she feels about camping.
Tomorrow I'm making Sherlock bring his sleeping bag out here. Then when he falls asleep I can sling it over my shoulder with him in it, instead of trying to pick him up with floppy limbs and feed him into a sleeping bag.
Sounds like you're all having a great trip :) Nice to see all the love flowing all over the place, too.
Mrs H - hello from Australia! Great to have a blog post from you, and I'm looking forward to your commentary on the big day! That's a lovely hat indeed.
John, I don't know about over there, but Australian doctors now feed their prescription sheets through the printer - which I guess speaks volumes for their handwriting!
The surgery I work at has a lot of different doctors, but one thing is constant: the inability to read their writing. One doctor we have to Xerox his papers and blow up the writing in order to decipher it, and another we have to call his office to verify the procedure he ordered.
This may also give you a frame of reference about my own handwriting, which my boss has described as "Absolutely horrible!"
Goodness dear, I wouldn't do in a tent. My hip would give me terrible gip sleeping like that.
You're a treasure Sherlock dear.
He did, by the way, re-propose. I said I'd think about it ;)
Did you make him bacon and eggs?
Don't think about it too long will ya you might miss the big event and that would never do ;-)
If he doesn't make up his mind soon, I may have to take drastic measures...
I've got to say, now I'm curious about the "drastic measures"! :)
(It was great to wake up to the love between you all, thank you for the happy start to my day!)
Ah, go on then Danger. Alough I do want to know the drastic measures too.
Anonybob - I did, of course, make him a lovely breakfast. And then Sherlock took us to the pigs to apologise for maybe eating their relative.
I hadn't actually thought of anything, so I'm relieved you've accepted. :)
I'd never apologised to a pig before.
But did Sherlock eat the bacon in the first place?
He certainly did - and then apologised :)
:D
And gave congratulations for being very tasty.
Very polite. :)
Danger - there's a way bigger hurdle in us getting Wed than me saying yes... Both Sherlock and Murray still want a date! I honestly don't know when I'll fit everyone in.
You could always take them both out together… See if London is still standing at the end of it.
that idea sounds almost like a stag do John ;-)
Perhaps one (or both) would be fine with a lunch date or a tea date (or the age appropriate equivalent)?
(Isn't it nice to be wanted?! :))
When I said we were going camping everyone in the office said I was mad, so soon efore the wedding. And I reassured them that everything was under control...
Now this conference has turned up as well...I'm beginning to think they were right and I was very wrong! I'm starting to think John will see so little of me before the day that he'll struggle to pick me out of the crowd!
It's very traditional, not seeing your fiancé in the days before the wedding! :) (Jewish custom is the whole week before, and I know that's not unique.)
Well, you'll be away for the conference, but presumably John's seeing even more of you than usual this week?
So to speak...
No going to the conference is stupid and camping is great and if there's something you shouldn't do it's the conference definitely.
ha, you're so right, Kiddo.
RR- i did suggest it, back when John came up with this crazy scheme, but he didn't want us to spend the night apart.
Nameless - err...well, depends... seeing more of me, sort of, but also less of me, because it's dark in the tent ;)
So if you can't see each other, presumably you have to feel your way.
We have an efficient system worked out.
Being a medical professional Danger knows his way around a body. I just fumble about ;)
Glow in the dark strips?
Haven't gone quite that far.. But for certain aspects of life I'll have you know I'm a right Boy Scout. Always prepared. Dib dib dib dob dob dob and all that. :)
Just so long as you don't dob when you should dib, or vice versa, you'll be fine :-)
Oh, we're both all about sharing dibbing and dobbing, you know? Got to be a bit of give and take in every relationship, right?
Sherlock has, amazingly, fallen asleep already! We're doing well tiring him out, obviously. The other three of us are huddled under sleeping bags outside still. Mycroft and I have guitars.
That sounds like a lovely way to spend an evening--guitars and campfires go so well together (even without the actual campfire :)).
I'm not sure John will think it lovely when Lestrade warms his cold fingers up.
The dogs don't mind when I warm up on them.
Well, the dogs do have fur coats on, after all...
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