More here. I thought Sherlock would like these and probably some of you will too.
I had a dream last night that I'd asked L to marry me and he said yes, and then I woke up and I had to wake him up to make sure it wasn't just a dream...very peculiar.
Mrs Holmes rang me today to congratulate us and offer to send us to Antartica for our honeymoon. It's sometimes quite difficult to tell when she's joking.
Did you know they make wood wedding bands? I didn't know that until today.
Nicky - I don't think I ever answered your comment on L's blog, and I'm sorry. I thought my answer very hard at you, which I realise I've been doing more and more lately. (Note to self: telepathy still doesn't work.) Thank you. You and your family have been so kind and welcoming to me and Mycroft and Sherlock right from the beginning, and it means a lot to all of us. I hope we'll see all of you at Christmas.
Right, I am off to do the shopping and to pick Sherlock up from school. L, let me know if you have anything to add to the following list contributed to by Mrs Hudson, various elderly neighbours, and security:
denture cream
swiss rolls
cucumbers
eggs
bread
balloons
milk
breath mints
nail varnish (colour: Bare It in Trafalgar Square)
It's no wonder the people at Tesco know me by name.
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Youll get a reputation, all these cucumbers you buy.
Can you get a squash? Maybe some spinach too. And some nice cheese. Ill do a pie.
Some ibuprofen would be good too. Ive nearly run out.
And some apostrophes. Appear to have run out of them too.
Ooh, ooh, go to Antarctica! Some of my friends just went last year and had a great time.
I also like your shopping list better than mine. My list (yesterday) was canned goods, batteries, and bottled water. And they had put all the batteries right by the front door so we could find them. The hurricane seems stalled right about where I used to live and hasn't made it up to where I am now though. All good wishes to the Badgers living south of me.
Those Science Workd signs are awesome!!! (And a few over here would definitely improve the tone of the NYC bus shelters.)
(FWIW, I quite frequently dream I'm dreaming and wake up and so on--it's all very confusing and very meta, if I have that definition right!)
Don't you want to visit Antarctica? It's in crowded and there's snow! :D
And that is quite a...varied shopping list... :)
(Science WorLd and UNcrowded, one word, not in crowded, which doesn't mean anything. :( )
I'd like to go to Antartica, as long as there was somewhere warm to stay.
Do you want a wooden wedding band?
I'm obviously the man of your dreams, Danger ;)
L - I don't think Tesco carries apostrophes, but I can get the rest of it. It's not my fault Mrs H eats cucumbers by the tonne!
KHolly - good luck to you, and everyone else in the path of that storm. I hope it's not as bad as they seem to think it will be and that everyone stays safe.
RR - I would like to go to Antarctica! I think it would be amazing. Sherlock might go on a rampage if we go without him though.
L - you are indeed the man of my many and varied dreams. I don't know if I want a wooden one - probably not? They look nice, but I don't think they'd be very durable, and both of us are pretty hard on our hands (and therefore anything on them).
Sherlock would pack himself in one of our bags. We'd get there and have no thermals, just a small boy.
And on the way back we'd have to stop him stealing an entire scientific research hut or something.
Sally says she's never seen me so happy. She says it's sickening ;)
Danger - I can't help but be hard in your hands.
Oh...thats not what you said, is it? ;)
A research hut and several penguins and a seal, yes.
Ha. I'm sure we're both quite sickening right now. She'll just have to put up with it! I hope it lasts a long, long time.
Oh...thats not what you said, is it?
Close enough when we're already talking about wood...
I could get you a wooden ring for somewhere other than your finger...
My nose?
Not quite...
Toe ring?
That's a bit further south than I was thinking.
Hula hoop?
what kind of squash?
Getting closer.
Whatever they have. Butterbut would be fine.
Butternut... that was your fault.
Maybe get one Sherlock can carve for hallowe'en? We can eat the innards, he can have the... outards.
Carving pumpkins is a lot of fun, but I'm not sure how much of the innards you can rescue for consumption afterwards.
The Science World campaign is awesome. I want to share it with everyone I know now.
Are you hunkered down, RR? It's just windy with light rain here, but the ocean is getting kind of wild, even in Boston Harbor.
rsf
Just wind and a little rain here, rsf--and 24' waves right offshore NJ! The Hudson looks pretty wild, too.
(I've never carved pumpkins, but it does look fun!)
L - squashes achieved. Are you suggesting my butt is buttery?
Every mum at Sherlock's school wants to congratulate us.
Sherlock did say he was going to tell EVERYBODY! :)
We'd get there and have no thermals, just a small boy.
And two degus.
So how is your evening going? Are squashes being carved?
They are. Sherlock loves it. L threatened to carve one in the shape of my bum, but thankfully hasn't not carried through on that.
has not! not hasn't not.
I thought Halloween carvings are supposed to be scary?! :D
Yay for having fun! Maybe you could put up a photo of the final results?
His bum is scarily attractive, and holds a weird power over me...
:D
I take it back, it would be appropriate, then...
That's nothing. My arse is positively possessed by him...
Spooky. :)
(Speaking of scary--cross your fingers for those of us badgers in the storm path--hurricane Sandy is making landfall right about now, and heading up the coast....)
stay safe RR and anyone else in the path.
it sounds like you're having a fun evening gents, always good to see :-)
Yeah, we've got the pictures on the telly, RR.
Stay safe all of you.
AnonyBob - It is lovely. Sherlock wants to go out all night on hallowe'en - to a graveyard. Just because. Of course he doesn't believe in ghosts...but....
that sounds better than trick or treating :-) It really could be fun although maybe a little cold and spooky.
(It's loud! Stay safe and dry, everyone...)
A graveyard would be the place to be...just because. :)
Sounds like a really good evening!
I'm in Boston visiting a friend. We walked down to the ocean today, as she lives very close to it. The wind was so strong I was afraid it might trip us up, but it was gorgeous. The waves were giant, and this was at low tide. I'm thinking the full force will hit us later tonight. Right now the wind is howling and her cats are hiding.
On another note, if you got pumpkins, you can bake pumpkin seeds. Just sort the seeds from the guts, put them on a tray with some olive oil, rosemary, salt, pepper, garlic and a bit of paprika, and bake them for 40 minutes. Hmmmmmm!
Pip, you're braver than I. I barely have been out to walk the dog - afraid she'll blow away, tiny thing that she is - and I certainly went nowhere near the water. I'm just thrilled I still have power really.
Stay safe y'all!
Stay safe, everyone.
My best friend's East Coast, Hanover, that's still okay?
Stay safe and warm, everyone
Sorry, Jaws, I don't know. Still ok here, except the lights are flickering a bit...I shut my desktop down, just in case.
We haven't had any problem with power, but it looks like the lightening is starting. Wind and rain has picked up, but we're snuggled up watching TV and playing on the computers.
I hope everyone else is as safe and warm. Good luck everyone! Hopefully this will pass us by tomorrow.
Stay safe, Pip! I still have power--although still blinking, which is worrying--but everything south of 35th Street is blacked out and flooded. O_O
How are all the East Coasters? I'm fine and so is my family, but my poor city...
RR, I'm good.
Jaws, which Hanover? There are several.
rsf
I can hear them with chain saws cleaning up the park. But really all ended up fine in my neighborhood. Glad to hear you're wel RR. I was worried when I started seeing some pictures from NYC.
Rsf - hanover, new hampshire? She's at Dartmouth College and has a high accident-prone quotient, so if the power went out she'd likely break/sprain something falling downstairs!
Jaws, there's an online article from The Dartmouth, the college student newspaper, published today but, going by content, written yesterday. They weren't expecting to lose power.
She's fine, apparently it mostly missed them, but thanks RR, glad you're ok too, manhattan looks like a mess right now!
Yeah, it's hard to grasp how much damage there is.The other thing that's hard to grasp is that while no loss of life is ever acceptable, it could have been south worse--last count I heard was 16 dead--and when you look at all the flooding and fire and explosions and all, it really could have been so much worse.
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