Mycroft, Anthea, dogs, books, and luggage have all been returned to Harrow. Also various new clothes, old computer parts, and a mountain of baked goods. Sherlock asked me at one point if it were possible to mail a person in a box and travel that way, if you weren't going very far (read: to Harrow, for a sneaky visit to your brother). When I said no, he then wanted to know if you could send a body that way. Because if you can't visit your brother via post, the next best thing is to send him (for example) a stuffed bear? Not sure.
We saw a stuffed bear, by the way. Yesterday. In a petrol station. I regret not asking for an explanation.
The countdown to bedtime has begun. We've been letting him stay up late for the holidays, but I think it'd better be back to normal tonight. You can tell he's tired. Also, L and I have a lot of sewing on of name tags to do. We tried a few days ago, and Phobos swallowed one whole trying to lick my hand.
We saw a stuffed bear, by the way. Yesterday. In a petrol station. I regret not asking for an explanation.
The countdown to bedtime has begun. We've been letting him stay up late for the holidays, but I think it'd better be back to normal tonight. You can tell he's tired. Also, L and I have a lot of sewing on of name tags to do. We tried a few days ago, and Phobos swallowed one whole trying to lick my hand.
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I'm guessing by now bedtime has been tackled but if not good luck with it. Mine is back tomorrow so she should have had an early night but instead she was 20 minutes late because I was busy and didn't notice the time! I'm a bad mummy me ;-)
I'm imagining he may come back down on some spurious mission, AnonyBob. But he is currently in bed.
We're being domesticated and sewing together on the sofa. John is half on top of me. I'm seeing how many name tags I can pile on his head before he notices.
I've already sewed one on upside down. (To Sherlock's PE kit, not John's head.)
I suspect John would notice you sewing a label to his head a lot quicker than you putting them on ;-)
I hope Sherlock has a good/funny excuse when he reappears :-D
If he was tired, he may surprise you by actually falling asleep. :)
Have a nice rest of the evening! I hope the quiet is at least restful.
If I pretend I'm asleep and leave them on my head, will you do the rest of the sewing on?
I once stayed in a hotel in Manchester (Sascha's, it was for a Star Trek convention, I'm just tat geeky) that had a stuffed polar bear in the lobby and various other things around the place, very creepy, because they tended to be hidden in among plants so you came across them unawares! No body seemed to know why!
Back to school is not good, I always knew that while we weren't allowed to miss school my mum would rather we'd been at home, made it doubly rough. It must be way worse when one of them is away
Lancs. Anon
Danger - probably, yeah. Although I started sewing the last one on the outside, had to un-pick...
People have managed to post themselves before... I wouldn't trust myself to Royal Mail though!
I don't think being posted would be a very comfortable way to travel! (Especially if you care which way is up. They never seem to pay any attention to that here!)
Since I don't know how crazy things are going to be tomorrow, I'd like to wish you all a Shana Tova--a good year--now, as Rosh Hashanah starts tomorrow night. So...here's a little "card", and all best wishes for health and happiness and love and peace in the coming year. :)
(And if Sherlock--or any of you--are inclined to participate in some small way, it is traditional to eat slices of apple drizzled with honey on the holiday, to symbolize a good and sweet year to come. It's a nice custom, I think!)
It wouldn't be easy to send yourself through the mail. If Sherlock is interested, he might want to read about Henry Box Brown who actually did it. Although it might serve as a warning, because even though the box had instructions about which side to keep up, the people who handled the mail turned it upside down!
Did you have to sew labels in all of Mycroft's things too?
Oh, thanks for that RR, and...Happy New Year, if that's the right thing to say. Holiday greetings, anyway.
Now I have a good treat to put in second day lunches. I've a reputation to maintain as the mom who packs really neat lunches, but two years on I'm starting to run out of ideas.
I am so glad that writing the names with sharpie is acceptable here. I do enough sewing with scout badges.
RR- Shana Tova to you too.
Kestrel - I find it quite relaxing, to be honest. Although I've stabbed myself a few times now...so less so.
...think we somehow promised Sherlock we could go to Cheapside and see if the Walkie-Talkie is setting anything on fire.
Will search him for matches beforehand...
( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23948811 )
Thank you, Kestrel (happy New Year is just fine!) and L. :)
L, I just saw a story about that building on the news a half-hour ago, and immediately thought that Sherlock was going to want to see that for himself!
RR - Shana Tova to you as well :)
rsf - yes, but Mycroft's mostly had them in already, so we only had to do the new ones. And he helped - by keeping the dogs away.
Thank you, John. :)
Heh, yeah, keeping the dogs away from anything they find interesting would be a job, however well behaved they are!
Drat, I was going to post the story of Henry Brown. :)
Ella
That sounds like when my mother and the boy next door used a magnifying glass to concentrate the sun onto the wooden fence to make burn marks.
I think that a lot of architects in love with glass don't spend much time thinking about what the reflections are going to do. There are some buildings near roads I can think of that are absolutely blinding at certain times of day. Actually starting fires though... that's pretty far out. Maybe they should set up a solar collector and benefit from the energy instead of just a screen!
absolutely gorgeous day. Think we'll go swimming this afternoon.
Sherlock's lucky to have such a beautiful day to end the holiday.
Is he back to school tomorrow, then? (I had in my head Friday.). Either way, I won't be online for it, so...I hope you have a good first day of school, Sherlock, and a good school year, when you do go back!
that building with the reflective glass, starting fires and stuff, is pretty wild. Some architect needs a "clue-by-four" as we say...
RSF probably remembers "big woody" (the John Hancock Tower in Boston) before it was finished. During construction, the glass panels had to be replaced with plywood because they kept popping out. I'm not sure if that was simply because the skin being unfinished allowed too much wind against the insides of the panels, or if it really was a sort of Bernouli effect. I heard, anyway, that the shape of the building was enough like an airplane wing, that when the wind blew across it it tried to take off sideways. Could be urban legend. But the plywood sure was real and gave the building its nickname.
I know there is at least one industrial solar installation where they are using concentrated sunlight to boil water to turn steam turbines, don't have the link handy at the moment, but did see that on line somewhere.
It's a beautiful day here too, gonna make sure I get some outdoor time even if it's just mowing the yard. :)
S
We have swum.
Sherlock has announced he never wants to be 'all hairy like you two'.
we had a swim today as well, something about warm weather makes it the thing to do I always feel :-)
I would think hairy has to be preferable to shaving rash all over your body or waxing but I don't know, I might be wrong.
Well, there's always waxing (ouch!), as pandabob mentioned--or electrolysis (also ouch), or laser hair removal...
Or, of course, it's always possible that he won't be "all hairy"! :)
Fairly sire he thinks he can prevent hair growth by willpower alone
Definitely worth a try, considering the alternatives!
It's stupid and you don't need it.
But once upon a time people did need it, Sherlock. There's evolutionary reasons why body hair remains a heritable trait.
Ella
Maybe you won't have a lot of body hair when you grow up, Sherlock--some men do, some don't. And if you do, and you don't like it, you can always get rid of it, either permanently or periodically. It's not a big problem.
How is the diving coming along? And the life saving?
You've got a while before you need to worry about it, Kiddo. And you could have changed your mind by then, anyway, if you do grow body hair.
RR - read a thing earlier and thought of you. There's a pedestrian crossing that's been adjusted so from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday you don't have to press the button to make it work, for the Orthodox Jewish community, so they can cross a busy road.
That's really nice, L--it's a small adjustment, but it can make a very big difference to people. :)
If all the sewing was done last night does that mean that you just get to sit on the sofa and relax tonight?
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