Or possibly toad. We found it on our walk today. Sherlock was delighted, but seems to have got over the urgent need to take every bit of wildlife we find home with him, which is a relief. He still asked, but didn't seem too disappointed when we said no.
Back to normal tomorrow. Maybe then I'll be able to sort out the day in my head. Right now, it's still a sort of happy haze.
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I see no reason that you should ever move beyond the happy haze stage John so avoid it as much as you can ;-)
That frog is seriously cute!
It is a cute little frog. Hope it has a good life.
And it is a very happy haze. Can't quite believe it was us, up there saying our vows. Feels like it might have been someone else... it was all so perfect.
I know I probably hard for two guys with lives like yours to accept but sometimes things just are perfect ;-)
We're watching a programme about baking and Mrs Hudson says the man on it is like Lestrade because he likes cooking and sometimes he's scary and she says he's dishy.
It is hard to accept! But yeah, sometimes they are.
the rest of the mayhem just makes the perfect bits even more special John :-)
I'm nothing like Paul Hollywood!
Perfect things have been happening more often recently, for sure :)
Hey, look, Phobos and Deimos!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130815.html#.UhWIR2T5n6T
The resemblance is uncanny. ;)
Seriously though, that is very interesting to see.
I imagine the moons are smaller and more predictable than our hounds :)
A "happy haze" sounds just right. :)
I don't care what they cost, that Curiosity rover does not owe us any money!
That's a very cute toad. Or frog. Maybe you can tell from this website about wildife in England.
And in combination with a program on baking I now find myself thinking about toad in the hole, which I have read about, but never tasted. Is that a baked thing, or is it something else?
It's just yorkshire pudding batter over sausages, so yeah, chucked in the oven. High heat, get the fat bubbling, mix up batter, chuck it in, arrange your sausages. It's lovely. :)
Oooh, now I'm all hungry.
Got to work to find my office door now says 'DI Watson-Lestrade' and is covered in horseshoes and champagne bottles/glasses. And my desk is covered in confetti. My intray is completely full of it.
how lovely :-) and if your intray is full of confetti that must mean there's less work stacked in it ;-)
I hope you have a good day.
Aw, that's lovely.
AnonyBob - there is very little work in it! I should have time off to get married more often - it clearly makes people feel bad about just stacking stuff up for my return! :)
Everyone is being very nice today. And there is cake...
What a nice welcome back! (Is it glittery confetti? :))
Confetti and cake! Excellent. Has Sherlock offered to help you with them yet?
:D
L - that was awfully kind of them. And cake too! How do you think before you get all the confetti cleaned up?
You never get ALL the confetti cleaned up. I am still finding confetti from something that happened two addresses ago...
That's so you always have a reminder of happy occasions!
Happily not my job to clean my office ;)
It's not glittery, just the paper shapes stuff.
Sally punched me for calling you 'the old ball and chain', too. :)
Ha! Thanks, Sally ;)
You enjoying the sun?
Giving the dogs a nice, long walk, yeah. You want to get coffee or anything, or are you buried? (in confetti)
Coffee would be great. Missing you all!
I'm surprisingly unburied. It's nice!
Excellent! Should be about ten minutes, if that's okay?
On way home soon. Anything you'd like, my lovely husband?
(Husband is one of those words that when you say it lots it becomes weird )
(But you like calling John that anyway! :))
And hes been saying it LOTS.
"wonder if my husband's on the allotment?" "just going for coffee with my husband".
I'm almost wishing he'd go back to the variety of 'ball and chain', 'him indoors'. ;)
You could get fish? I mean, if you wanted to cook fish, otherwise not, obviously.
It even becomes weird if you think it a lot. I'm not going to stop though.
Aww, your first coffee meet-up from work as husbands, it's amazing how many new 'firsts' you will be able to have and enjoy all over again. Even if saying the word gets a bit weird, I'm sure the thought of the reality will never get old. :)
Has Sherlock generously offered to provide assistance to help you eat the cake you had at work or do you still have plenty left over from the big day to keep him happy. ;)
He didn't get any cake from work, no :) But he did enquire about it...
There isn't any wedding cake left - we didn't have a giant one! But he has, John has assured me, been well fed on the ice cream front today ;)
Ice cream is a good source of calcium. It says so right on the containers! (At least it does in the supermarket brands here. :))
Not seen that here. mind you, not like it ever lasts long around here.
Some poor SOCO today was trying to lift prints for me, opened his case, and his fingerprint dust had exploded inside... everything was very bright green.
They try to make EVERYTHING sound healthy here. I'm looking at a tub of chocolate pudding this very minute that has in bright red letters "Excellent source of calcium!". Yep, that's totally why we eat it.
Is it wrong to find the bright green explosion funny? :D
Sorry to be commenting again, but I just had to say I'm now up to April and have just picked myself up off the floor after hearing about the 'cocktaphone'. Sooooo funny, Greg, you're awful. I don't blame Nicky for trying to kill you, how embarrassing for her, but even saying that I feel so tempted to rename the one we have at work. Just brilliant. :)
RR - no, we all laughed. He's just glad it wasn't all over some poor burglary victim's carpet.
Joolz - don't be sorry to comment! It's positively encouraged. ;)
Glad my comic genius isn't being wasted!
(I typed Watsed...got Watsons on the brain...)
Well, thank you for being so welcoming, both of you, I've always thought there's such a lovely atmosphere around here.
Definitely Watsons on the brain... I won't ask if that's the only place. ;)
Glad you like it! I know it's not for everyone, but...well, I enjoy it.
I nearly typed 'Watson's'...but I realised before you all started with 'Watson's WHAT?' ;)
Yes, we would have.. ;D
*waves at Joolz*
When does school start up for Mycroft and Sherlock? My mom started teaching yesterday.
John you soppy sod, you've changed your blog title :-)
..as if to prove it, I've just said this on the wrong blog entry...
so, copied and pasted...
I was going to trawl through some of the many wedding pics we have, of various parts of the day... but honestly, I can barely keep my eyes open.
tomorrow, though, promise to actually tell you guys something about it all! (other than it was brilliant, because I ended the day with John as my husband ;) )
(And he is a soppy sod, isn't he? Although I do wonder what keeps astonishing him. The other day it was that I had, indeed, bought purple boxers for our wedding day.)
They were fairly astonishing…
ha! I like to be co-ordinated. (Colours, not movements... that's too much to hope for.)
Your movements were also everything I could have hoped for. :)
Ha, you silver tongued devil.
Gonna carry me to bed? Or just sleep with me here?
I think bed would be an excellent idea.
Good night guys. Sleep well. And as the saying goes "Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful. And if you can't be careful, name it after me." - although I might be a bit worried if there actually was an 'it' to contend with in the morning. ;)
*waves* Hi RR, nice to 'meet' you, too. :)
You didn't save any wedding cake for your anniversary? (Although, to be honest, I've often wondered what the attraction of year old cake would be.)
I'm also a bit surprised that fingerprint powder is green. But I don't watch much television, which is the only way I'd know they'd graduated from silver powder (which was probably poisonous anyway.)
Goodnight all.
Thank you for pointing the blog title change Nameless. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise - not that I notice much pre second mug of tea in the morning. Although even I would have noticed the astonishing purple boxers.
RSF traditionally the top layer of a wedding cake was saved to be used as the christening cake for the first child.
Closest we got to that was Sherlock wanting to eat an entire tier...
I am amused by the wide variations in wedding traditions, SH. And the different meanings assigned them. My sister's weddings had one almond flavored cake. Their children's weddings (so far) have had two: a white cake for the bride and a chocolate cake for the groom. I expect the next lot to think a wedding supper to consist entirely of cake! Sherlock should like that.
Saving part of a wedding cake for the first anniversary/christening/whatever can't be very traditional-- refrigerators didn't become common in homes until after WWIi!
You wouldn't keep it in a fridge. It's traditionally a rich fruit cake with alcohol in it. It would just have kept, if stored carefully.
What kind of cake was youes?
Yours. Darn virtual keyboard...
I though fruitcake was for Christmas?
Christmas, birthdays, weddings, Easter, because you fancy one ...
Now that i think about it, there are no Jewish traditions about wedding cakes. I've never personally been at a Jewish wedding that had a cake-cutting bit, or a big fancy wedding cake at all--fancy deserts, yes, but not a special cake. (Not that there aren't Jewish weddings with them even in the Orthodox community, but that would be adopting a custom from the wider world.) Hmmmm.
I think fruitcake is for any occasion. But here it's traditional for weddings. Symbolises fertility, or something...
Nowadays people have whatever they want though.
We had a bit of each. Boozy fruit cake with chocolate chips and a chocoloate sponge. Sherlock wasn't going to let us get away without having a chocolate bit!
Mmmmmm, chocolate! Definitely a requirement, I'd agree. :)
We did the same. There were two layers of fruit cake for the more traditionalists, but I had to have a small sponge layer on the top as I don't like fruit cake (I know it's sacrilege, isn't it, not liking fruit cake!) and I couldn't not have a bit of my own wedding cake. I feel like I've missed out now by not having a chocolate layer too. ;)
Hooks - our fruit part had a truly ferocious amount of brandy in it! Had to have something for the kids and sober folk - especially my mum. Not going to tempt her back to drinking at my own wedding!
Joolz. Not hooks. My apologies!
Fruit cake? That's interesting - white cake is very traditional in the US - or was, until recently, when cupcake towers became a huge rage and everyone wanted that. A friend of mine had a cake...er, not tower, but this screen-looking thing with platforms on it, with 6 different sorts of cakes.
Mine was a very traditional white - with strawberry filling. Mmmm. Wish my baker hadn't gone out of business so I could get another one for a special anniversary. Which...oh gosh. Is in 2 days. *cue panicked buying*
It's fine, Greg, I've been called worse ;)
I did start to scroll up at first though when I saw the first message looking to see if I'd missed another new person before I went back and saw the second part of your message. ;)
And definitely a good call on the non-alcoholic version, it's certainly best to keep temptation at bay for those who shouldn't. Plus all the more boozy bits for those who do partake... ;)
Autocorrect could have called you far worse ;)
Just been asked when I'm retiring. Feel decidedly unwanted!
...? Just out of the blue? How bizarre!
My nephew's "groom cake" was made to look like a football stadium, but the bride's cake was the traditional round tiers. I think I would have liked to taste the fruitcake, even though I'm pretty much a teetotaller. I'd have just gone for a very small piece. And then had a bigger piece of the chocolate!
The DCI has never been much of one for tact when he's talking to fellow officers
I feel like I should have another wedding, so I can have a cake that tastes as good as it looks. I don't remember what ours tasted like, except that it had rolled fondant. Ick.
That sounds like an interesting question Greg!
Did you tell him that a beach somewhere warm with your gorgeous husband sounded like a good idea so you'd be off tomorrow? ;-)
Well..I can retire in 2 years. Which is kind of what he was getting at. Just...never been asked before. Makes me feel old!
RSF - there is still plenty of silver fingerprint power. But you choose the right one for the surface. Silver powder on silver surfaces isn't very helpful. You get them in every colour, magnetic and non magnetic, visible under different lights.
You should retire and we can go on an adventure!
Do you want to?
I don't know. Probably not. I mean...I know it would be great, for a bit, going on adventures, having time to do stuff... but I think I'd get bored? I mean, seeing you, and how you wanted to get back into a workplace. And Sherlock wouldn't even be in secondary school. I'm just...not sure what I'd do with myself.
Yeah, I understand. You work hard your whole life and then somehow you're supposed to switch all that off. I'm not sure how well that works for anyone.
Exactly.
I mean...it's bad enough I'll be kicked out in the end. That seems too soon, let alone thinking about it now!
I think that as long as you're enjoying what you're doing (except for the sometimes upsetting parts) and feel like you're making a difference and helping people (which you do so much) then you should keep going as long as you want to. Definitely don't feel that you have to leave if you don't want to, regardless of what your DCI may say. You're both active guys and I can't see either of you wanting just to sit around kicking your heels.
When you did feel ready - far, far in the future - are you allowed to do a staggered finish and do a couple of years part time before stopping or is it just So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
I'm guessing there comes a point of no choice Greg but until then I suggest you smile widely at your DCI and reply 'you should be so lucky' and walk away :-D
retirement might suit you both in a few years time when both boys are more independent and you can go see the world but I can understand you being in no rush right now!
But Sherlock, if lestrade retires, you won't have a possible source for multicolored fingerprint powder. :)
Ella
From what I've seen and read, for the most part people who enjoy their jobs, who are challenged and interested by their jobs, they seem to not do well in retirement, unless they find something else to do that they enjoy as much. It's different, of course, for people who hate their jobs, or who have physically demanding jobs that they can't do any more without pain--and even then, they do better if they can find something else to do that they do enjoy.
It's a good reason to keep a bucket list, I'd say. :)
Yeah, I'll be kicked out anyway in the end. Or put behind a desk for a few years.
There's a family that comes into my library that decided to take a year off when the grandparents retired so they could sail around the world, even though it meant homeschooling the kids. Doesn't seem to have done the kids any harm. That kind of adventure might be more fun than riding a desk.
I don't think I'll ever be kept on behind a desk - not going to jump two ranks at my age! I mean, I wouldn't want to, I don't want to go any higher. And I'd have to get to be a Super before I was kept on past 60. Think I'd rather retire.
John, have you been watching the tennis? I watched Nadal trounce some Brazilian earlier, because Nadal. But apparently Isner-Monfils was the match to watch. Wow!
I haven't watched any up until today if you can believe it - well, it's been a busy week! I wish I'd seen Isner-Monfils. Did you see that interview with Federer where he said he didn't even Nadal was in his quarter? And then says he was just joking, although honestly sometimes I could believe it of him...
Oh, that reminds me! Last Sunday, a profile of Federer was the cover story of the New York Times Magazine! I thought of you immediately, John, but I figured it could wait. :)
Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/magazine/roger-federer-can-still-get-his-game-face-on.html?smid=pl-share
Oh thanks! I'll check it out when I get home :)
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