Thursday, June 6, 2013

lettuce yesterday and lettuce tomorrow

Someone asked if anything was ready to eat in the allotment and I think I said no, but there is lettuce, sort of. Lettuce thinnings anyway. And cress and various other things.

Lettuces

That's the entire harvest though - not really enough for a salad even for one person, let along three. I'm sure L will find something delicious to do with it though. Just not tonight. I gather it was worse than usually busy at work, and Mrs Hudson made us chicken and potatoes, which was very nice (and nice of her). 

Tomorrow...my first shift. 7pm - 7am. I'm looking forward to it. 

30 comments:

Greg Lestrade said...

Do you have to go anywhere? Or on call? And will you be with someone, or out on your own?

John H. D. Watson said...

On call, and I'll go out alone, but I'm meant to call Dr Feelgood if I have any questions. I will try to remember not to call him that to anyone I meet tomorrow...

Greg Lestrade said...

Right. I will fight the urge to join you when you have to go :) - if you have to go!

And I'll change my offer of dinner to potentially one of breakfast...

I know you'll be fantastic.

John H. D. Watson said...

Are you off work on Saturday? Will you make pancakes?

Thanks, love. :) I think it'll be good. (Not 'I think it'll be food' which is what I originally typed.)

Greg Lestrade said...

I am. I will.

It will only be food if you've turned into a zombie...

I'll get home early tomorrow, make sure I'm back before you could have to go.

Spoke Italian to my Super today. He looked confused.

Small Hobbit said...

L - I think you may have to restrain Sherlock from trying to go with J as well!

John H. D. Watson said...

L - thanks, I really appreciate it. Sherlock will too. I don't think he knows quite how to feel about it.

How long before you realised?

Greg Lestrade said...

I know he doesn't. We'll all work it out though.

It was confusing! I just finished telling him about the case and said 'ecco'. So he said 'echo?'..and I had no idea why.... So I said 'echo?' back, wondering what he was on about.... Then did a bit of a replay in my head....

John H. D. Watson said...

Ha!

REReader said...

...but never lettuce today! :D (It looks very beautifully green and fresh.)

I imagine that Sherlock will be pleased for any interesting tales you bring home about your adventures, John.... (Although, yeah, a change always means some adjustments.)

Greg Lestrade said...

Sherlock has promised - threatened? To get up every hour to check if John is at home.

REReader said...

Ah.

I can see that would be the sort ofcthing he'd want to know about. Perhaps Sherlock and John could work out some sort of message system instead, so that he won't have to do that? A note or text message or something? Because it would be a pity to be too tired on Saturday to enjoy the excitement of your new bike arriving..

pandabob said...

And he probably will tonight and maybe next shift as well and then it'll just be a normal part of his life that he complains about, like he does your night shifts, but that he accepts as just the way it is :-)

Its a whole new adventure for all of you :-)

Good luck with work today Greg and don't work too hard at job one today John save yourself a bit for job two ;-)

rsf said...

When I was a kid and my mom was on shifts that started or ended during the night she'd come in to our rooms and kiss our foreheads before she left and after she came in. We got used to it, so we didn't wake up all the way, but we woke up enough to know whether she was there or not.

Good luck with the job, John!

Kestrel337 said...

Hubster sometimes leaves a notebook out with a little letter to the kids, if he has to leave before they are up. They can then write a letter back, even just a sketchy doodle, of what they do while he's gone. It lets them know that even when they don't get to do a leave-taking ritual, they are still all thinking of each other when they aren't together.

REReader said...

That's a lovely memory, rsf, thank you for sharing it. :)

I daresay Sherlock will have time after school today to talk with John about whatever aspects of the new job he finds discomforting and perhaps work out some contingency plans if that seems the thing to do. It will be fine.

REReader said...

Oh, I meant to ask--did you order your butterflie, Sherlock?

Anonymous said...

Good luck, John. Hope you don't jump too badly every time the phone rings :)

Lancs. Anon

John H. D. Watson said...

Ha, thanks! Do my best... not long now.

Anonymous said...

ringring ringring ;)

Anon Without A Name said...

I always found that when on call, I was annoyed but exhilarated when I got called out, and happy but mildly disappointed when didn't.

Hope you shift goes well, John :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

He's still here now.. Sherlock thinks he should go before bedtime or not at all. Otherwise he won't know what's going on.

pandabob said...

Good luck with the evening and the night guys :-)

Sherlock I hope you sleep ok whatever happens so that you can have a nice day tomorrow :-)

REReader said...

Sherlock thinks he should go before bedtime or not at all

There's a certain logic there--and a certain appeal as well. :) I certainly hope any calls are at a reasonable hour!

(Hey, everyone on the US east coast--keep yourselves safe and out of any floodwaters...)

Greg Lestrade said...

He got called out about an hour ago. Sherlock hasn't noticed yet.

Is the East Coast flooding? Central Europe seems to be entirely underwater too.

REReader said...

Hope it goes well, John! (And that Sherlovk doesn't notice 'til morning. :))

Yeah, lots of reports of flash flooding, moving north along the coast. It's rather alarming the way they're showing it.

rsf said...

It's been raining all day in Boston, but the heaviest rainbands aren't supposed to get here till tonight. We're expecting 4 or 5 inches, and half of that might fall withing a six hour timespan, so there will be some flooding.

Do you know the US Hurricane center website? They've usually got some good graphics of the predictions, and this year they've added rainfall as well as wind. I'm just not good at reading them yet. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Anonymous said...

Oh dear, this is going to be bad for my recently transplanted tomato plants, isn't it....

AftSO, who normally lives 90 miles inland from RSF but is in San Diego at the moment....

rsf said...

You might have lucked out, AftSO. I know Boston didn't get dumped on nearly as much as the original predictions. Besides, tomatoes like water!

Do you have any tomatoes to go with your lettuce, John?

Greg Lestrade said...

Our tomatoes have flowers on them. Very small flowers... we will have to wait and see about any crops!

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