Sherlock mainly made these. I helped. The cakes themselves are pretty good, but we had frosting issues. You know how it is. It got too stiff and then you squeeze too hard and it just gets everywhere...
I am unaccountably exhausted and may go to bed before Sherlock does. Certainly will if he has his way. He's wrapped around L's feet like a small boa constrictor.
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Can't tell if he just doesn't want to go to bed or if he wants me to break an ankle so I have to stay home...
Those look yummy! well done Sherlock. :-)
Sorry you're feeling tired John, I hope Sherlock is settled soon so you can curl up somewhere and get some sleep :-)
Thanks, Anonybob.
L - if we go to bed and he stays up, what do you think the odds are of the flat still existing tomorrow morning?
^ #disastuhwaitingtohappen
well...I think the flat would still be here. It survived the war! But there would be nothing edible in it, and it probably wouldn't be habitable.
I'm going to carry him upstairs by his ankles...
Fair point...
We should have next door's flat too and knock all of the walls down and have a big flat.
Those do look like extremely yummy cupcakes!
...he is very nearly too tall for me to carry by his ankles. Which is a bit alarming.
The question is, will he be taller than Mycroft? Not anytime soon, of course.
Cupcakes do look yummy. And remind me that I was given fudge to bring home and it's still in the car.
I don't know. I think both of them will be taller than both of us, though...
Sherlock is now in bed. We are not knocking down walls into the next flat along.
John is meandering about holding a toothbrush. I better go and sit on the edge of the bath and give him directions and countdowns on tooth-brushing, like I do with Sherlock...
Do I get a bedtime story as well?
Yeah. What sort of story would you like?
Probably not one with murders. Just for a change.
Okay. You can have one with knights in shining leather riding their 110bhp steeds to rescue poor old Dis in need. How's that?
Or little Sherlylock finding a house in the city where some icing was too hard, some was too sloppy, and some was juuuuuust right?
(and yes, I already anticipate the glare I will get for that name...)
Ha... the glare will be impressive.
Or badgers!
Have a good night, John, L. :)
...you've lost me on badgers, RR.
A way back, a few of us "wrote" a terrible bedtime story in the comments about badgers...but John liked it enough to put on his blog, so, badgers.
I thought Lestrade had written that post, but then I suspect he's had more experience with varieties of stiffness and spurting so knows how to make the stiff soft while only spurting where and when it is supposed to.
Which is only the fridge in certain kinds of films.
(Ostensibly about badgers, more properly. And jam.)
Rider - I can only blame it on my husband.
ah, y'know Rider, I'm rubbing of on him. ;)
Possibly in more than one sense of the phrase...
err..off. Even.
I will teach him how to make it just as hard or soft as necessary, so it will spurt out with only a gentle squeeze, not a fist of death...
I've found a hard squeeze can have some interesting consequences, if done at the right angle.
Those cupcakes look delicious!
I'm so glad Rider made the stiffness joke before I had to. You're growing up or something, lestrade, letting that pitch sail by you like that...
Ella
I didn't think I could really add go john's original stiffness issues.
Not sure about growing up....
Good morning!
(I'm up still because I have a job due, and another holiday...I was going to say tomorrow night, but I just checked the clock and it's tonight. Eep!)
Well done on the cupcakes, Sherlock, they look delicious, you're getting very good at baking. Are you taking some in your lunchbox for school?
Hope you're feeling more rested today, John.
Hope you survive this morning's glare, Greg.
Have a great day everyone. :)
I escaped before he read it!
You can bet that he will be trying to take vast quantities of cupcakes with him to school :)
Since heaven only knows when I'll get to bed--and how hectic the day will be....
Sherlock, I know it's three days early, but I'll be offline for the first days of Sukkot (that's the holiday when we eat out in little huts), so I want to wish you the happiest of birthdays, and that you have a very special celebration! (And here's a more fitting "happy birthday"!)
Did you not get glare by photo Greg? ;-)
I hope you're feeling less exhausted today John :-)
John has sent me a picture of S scowling this morning :)
Wouldn't want you to miss it ;)
What did people do before camera phones??
I know, it's hard to believe how we coped isn't it. Well at least you got to enjoy it second hand and I'm sure you'll get a replay later too. ;)
Is Mycroft coming home for the birthday weekend and have you booked anything yet. I should imagine excitement levels must be almost to the roof by now. :)
I'm certain I will ;)
He is as excited as a small boy can be :)
For me the thing that always makes me that "what did we do before cell phones" is when you're picking someone up at the airport, or trying to find people in a crowd, or meeting people at a movie theater. I know I spent years and years making advance arrangements and just finding people, but I'm so used to phones that now when I have to just find somebody in a crowd without one it seems impossible.
Ella
I know what you mean, Ella. I wouldn't dream of letting my two go off anywhere without their phone so that they can be contacted or in case they need anything, but when we were younger we'd be out all day with no contact whatsoever and just turn up back at home in time for tea. It just seems crazy to imagine that these days! :)
Do you think it's better how it is now?
We get a lot of mispers reported now because the kids aren't answering their phones that we would never have got in the old days. Almost always not missing at all... But then phones are great for us tracing people's movements...
I know it gives my sister's kids a great deal more independence than I and my siblings had at that age--they can go places alone that we could only go to in groups, because they can call for help if they get lost or in trouble. That includes calling to be picked up if their ride's been drinking or is otherwise not fit to drive, which is a biggie, I think. In fact, their high school principal gives out his phone number to all the students and tells them to call at any hour whatsoever if they ever find themselves in that last position, no questions asked, no consequences ever. And they all know he means it.
See...we always had ten pence to use a public phone (admittedly usually spent it, in the same way kids use all their credits texting their mates and have none when their parents need them to have it).
Also, when I walked the beat, I can count the number of kids who ever got mugged on one hand. Nowadays we have hundreds a week, having their phones stolen, often with threats of violence, sometimes armed.
You're probably right, Greg, I would say I'm more paranoid these days if I'm waiting for a reply and don't get one that I assume something is wrong rather than the usual answer which is 'I didn't hear it!'. Do you think it's just that people tend to hear more stories about bad things happening to children these days that makes them more worried than it used to be when we were kids ourselves.
RR - That sounds a great idea from the principal - very responsible of him and good for the kids to know they have him as back up to keep them safe without them getting into trouble for it.
Living in the countryside (as we did) "out of signal" was a common problem, so we tended not to worry as much. It is nice to get a text when the daughter's driven back to her flat after visiting us to say she's back okay. And I used to pay her phone plan whilst she was a student because it meant I knew she could always phone if she needed help - working night shifts in strange hospitals I was happy to know she could call the RAC if she had to. She paid any excess usage though.
See I should have my own phone, you would feel much better and I could call you from school.
That's very good reasoning, Sherlock, do you think they're buying it? Especially as there are birthdays in the offing... ;) Is there anything special you want for your birthday this year? :)
I don't think so, Sherlock, sorry.
Not a chance kiddo, and mobiles are banned from school anyway. You have no legitimate need for one.
Yeah, my sister's kids all got (or will get) their phones as an 8th grade graduation gift, before they start high school. That's partly because none have gone to local high schools (I think the commute is about 90 minutes by school bus) and their parents want a way to keep in touch with them. :)
Well, I'm off shortly, so I'll just wish you a wonderful birthday weekend, Sherlock!
I want a giraffe.
We had a great result today. Murderer sentenced to 20 years.
Also took a moment to remember PCs Bone and Hughes, who booked on a year ago today, and never booked off. The ultimate sacrifice, serving their communities, never to be forgotten.
...we don't have space for a giraffe.
I got my first mobile in the mid nineties, when family circumstances dictated that I was spending a lot of time driving up and down the M5 on my own, and I needed to be contactable at all times. When I was a teenager, well it was pre-mobiles :-)
Sherlock - do you want to adopt one at the zoo? I'm guessing you wouldn't be able to fit a full-sized one UN the flat...
Excellent result, Lestrade. And yes, definitely a time to remember and appreciate their service and sacrifice.
Oh God, just read a news story about a couple who 'employed' a trained owl to fly their rings down the aisle... except it flew up to the church rafters and fell asleep! Brilliant!
Never trust small children or birds with wedding rings.
Ella
I'm glad you got a good result on a case today Greg, one more bad guy off the streets is always a good result.
With all the things that could go wrong with a wedding why would anyone think that adding an owl would be a good idea?
Someone who's read too much Harry Potter, I suspect.
I didn't even know there were owls in Harry Potter.
Were there giraffes??
Not that I'm aware of, but I didn't finish the series. Giraffes wouldn't be any better at carrying rings, but at least they couldn't hide in the ceiling...
dunno...they could be holding the rings on the little...thingies they have on their heads. You know, those....horny bits ;) Then they could just refuse to bend down, and the rings would be in the roof...
If Sherlock ever gets married this conversation may come back to haunt us...
you think he needs a wedding as an excuse?? He'll probably genetically engineer a giraffe to spell out his exam results in it's fur or something.
We could easily have a giraffe if it lived in the hall and put it's head up into the sitting room we just need a hole in the floor and then I can take it to school and on the way there and back it can eat the tops of trees that no one else uses and it can bash bad people with its head and it would be good.
Sherlock, I think giraffes live in herds, so it might not be very happy living without other giraffes around.
...I will give you one guess at his response...
More giraffes, more holes in the floor...
Oh yes. "I need a herd of giraffes and that has to be at least three probably 5."
And, in this quiet interlude between Sherlock going to bed and us falling asleep...I'd like to remind everyone I have a truly stunningly handsome husband (who is currently sneakily scoffing a cupcake while making us a mug of tea each.)
It isn't the head of a giraffe that would be problematic, it's the other end. Sherlock, you clean up after the degus, right? Do you think a giraffe would produce more dung mathematically or exponentially?
I hope you and your stunningly handsome husband had a lovely rest of your evening yesterday Greg and that the day ahead of you both looks ok :-)
Why Wong my comments post? Curse of comment 69?
Of course that posted..
Lets try this : AnonyBob 4days off now! Have been in court, now wrapping up paperwork.
YAY time off :-D That's four days to spend lazing around the flat doing nothing right? its not like anything important is coming up in the next few days is it ;-)
A bit of cleaning, sorting through the wedding photos,
Possibly a cake to bake?
There's always cake to bake around here! But nothing else special I can think of.
I think you're going to be in for a few more glares when someone gets home and read that, Greg. ;)
...just squashed my fingers in a door.
Swearing ensued.
You'll be getting in trouble for your language if your not careful! Although if you had your fingers over for full examination and assessment of bruising you might be ok ;-)
Off topic happy news:
The list of unaccounted-for people after the floods here has gone from 814 to 4. With only 2 new deaths. Putting the current count at 7. Which I find amazing and lucky and amazing. You know everythings okay because te news is talking about the floods' effect on local weddings. Would that other places were so fortunate.
Ella
L - nothing broken I trust? Ow. :(
Ella - that is good news!
Now where's an FME when you need one. ;)
Are you taking the boys out of school to go away tomorrow or are you waiting to go on Saturday. Hope you all have a wonderful trip anyway. :)
Ella - That's an amazing drop in numbers, thank goodness so many have been rescued after all. Good wishes to everyone still suffering though.
I hope not :) I did the traditional first aid of shaking my hand very hard whilst swearing. Just a bit fat and tender now. And stiff...
Ella - brilliant that so many people have been accounted for.
I find it rather amusing that it's been proven that swearing actually helps a person deal with pain. Hope the fingers aren't too squashed or bruised.
I hope everyone is having a good day. Mine started off with the bathroom flooding, but at least it's prompted me to get my butt in gear and clean!
I'm sure John can help you with the stiffness later...
Ella
Sherlock has informed me I have to answer 20 questions about the weekend before he'll go to bed...
How's the hand?
That sounds like a brave act for a young man who wants something special to happen in the next few days ;-)
Just feels... tight when I make a fist. And bloody hurts when I forget and put it in my pocket for my phone... Okay though.
AnonyBob - he tried to throw his pillow at me when I argued that 'maybe' was definitely an answer, if not the one he wanted... same as 'possibly' ...
Maybe is possibly an answer...
I'm glad it's not too bad. I'll get you some more ice if you ever emerge from the lion's den.
Maybe and possibly are the best answers ever, they are far better than no that's for sure!
Did you steal his pillow and tell him he could possibly have it back tomorrow or maybe Saturday? ;-)
I'm free! After 30mins of interrogation and escalating threats, then some plea bargaining :)
well, you'll be pleased to know that I'm baking. Had three nice ripe bananas, so I'm making banana bread. I definitely want to credit you lads for constantly reminding me that it's actually really easy to bake and should be a normal part of the routine. :)
Have a great weekend!
S
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