Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2015 was good to you and that 2016 will be even better. As much as I love Christmas (L says I don't love Christmas, I just love tinsel, but he exaggerates - although I do also love tinsel), I might like Jan. 1 more. There's a quote (which might be from Anne of Green Gables, which strikes me as odd because I've never read it so how do I know the quote? but anyhow) that says "Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it."
Well, today the whole year is fresh with no mistakes in it, and that's a nice feeling.
Last night, Mycroft took us all to Kew, which was lit up for the holidays... (all pictures by L)
Well, today the whole year is fresh with no mistakes in it, and that's a nice feeling.
Last night, Mycroft took us all to Kew, which was lit up for the holidays... (all pictures by L)
Lights, carol-singing holly bushes, fountain light shows, fire lanterns, hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows...it was great. Excellent way to end the year.
This morning we went for a run, which I've done on probably most New Years Days of my adult life, but I must say it's much more pleasant without a hangover. I recommend it - not having a hangover, that is. Not necessarily the running.
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You not only love tinsel, but you somehow attract other tinsel-loving beasts...so far, Sherlock and Maf.
It was a lovely evening, Mycroft, thank you.
I like that Tennyson poem. I can't even remember who I heard it from. 'Ring Out Wild Bells'. Not that this year is the slightest bit frosty or snowy.
Those pictures are lovely, what a great trip Mycroft planned :-)
I love the idea of a whole new start that comes with January 1st John and this year I'm determined not to allow last year to leak into this year :-)
I hope 2016 brings fun and fantastic new adventures for you all :-)
lovely outing! the lights and the sparkly tinsel are some of the best things about the season. along with the food and the singing! :)
S
What a great outing! The quote does sound like something 'that Anne girl' would have said.
Hope 2016 is a good one for all!
A nice quiet day at work, tunes up loud, paperwork getting done. If only the rest of the year would go so smoothly!
Nice pictures, thanks a lot for sharing! And (even if slightly belated) Happy New Year!
Hope your quiet day stayed quiet(ish)!
My day went very well.
Anyone else get anything good for Christmas? John bought me a personalised jar of Marmite. Sal bought me a glow in the dark magnetic unicorn desk tidy....
I got GRE study books. Yay standardized tests. Eventually I will remember how to do math.
I got a gift certificate for the fabric store, so I can make a new costume for this summer.
Good luck with your studies, Becca.
I love those pictures, it looks as magical as I imagined!
(And what's not to like about tinsel? It looks happy. :) )
Extremely belated Happy New Year - although with all but three days still to come I see no reason not to wish everyone the best for the remaining 363!
The age old question of when is the right time to stop wishing people a happy new year...
I've almost got used to signing things 2016 already after my paperwork marathon!
I just had that exact thought. Wished my neighbours a happy ny and while they said it back they did look slightly bewildered. It's only the third for goodness sake!
I think it's certainly appropriate until Monday--because when they go back to work is when the holiday feels over to most people. (OTOH, on emails I tend to sign off with something like "I hope the new year is treating you well" for most of January.)
Most people haven't been off work - maybe it makes a difference if you have or haven't?
I'm still wishing people a happy new year. I mean, unless I'm the one who's just made their new year very unhappy. Then I don't. That would seem rude.
Happy New Year to everyone. Here's hoping it's full of promising beginnings, enjoyable middles, and satisfying results. :)
That's most considerate of you, Greg, it certainly wouldn't do to be rude in your arresting. ;)
Well I will probably say HNY again at work tomorrow after finishing on Thursday with the somehow obvious but still always amusing "See you next year". :)
Hmmmm...I suppose here most people with office jobs have been off since 3:00 or so on Thursday. (Of course, that's not the same as most people!)
I think that's most courteous of you, L. ;)
oooh, some sleep would be nice, eh?
Sleep? What's that? ;-)
Sorry you're suffering too, AnonyBob.
There's a very loud cheerful sounding bird outside our window. It should definitely be asleep. Dawn is a long way off.
No doubt an overcaffeinated bird... (I hope you can at least rest.)
Well, I'll say happy new year to all once again. I'm one of the ones who's just rejoined my officemates for the first time since 2015 & we've been bandying that salutation about.
Our family Christmas celebration is tomorrow (unless everyone arrives early tonight in which case tonight) so I have no proper sense of time whatsoever. Which is fine, I tend to try to milk the 'newness' of the new year well into January.
Hope all you insomniacs have a better night tonight. Good to hear from you DW.
Best to you all
-fA
Happy Christmas for tomorrow then, fA ;)
I'm going back to homicide!
There is no none weird way to reply to that Greg ;-) yay, congratulations or even that's good news seem weird but I do hope it's good news :-)
Congratulations on your...upcoming homicide. Since that's the only time I'll ever get to say that and have it make even the slightest amount of sense.
Yeah, gotta agree with Pandabob on that, there's no response that doesn't sound a bit odd! But I'm glad you'll be back where you feel more...is effective the right word?
(I can't, offhand, think of a police job where they're called in because everything is going along happily.) (Come to think of it, I can't think of a whole lot of jobs where the practitioners are called in because everything is going swimmingly without them!)
Not until the end of the month, but yeah, sounds wrong, but I'm looking forward to a murder investigation now. Still, I think this has given me a whole new set of skills. Old dog can be taught new tricks, apparently.
Well congratulations on going "home," as it were! ( trust that will be taken as intended. I am so far past weird, pandabob!)
Onwards, one and all. We may have started in on making our mistakes in this fresh new year, but there are plenty of new days ahead!
-fA
Glad that you're getting to go back home, Greg. I'm sure Sally and all your team will be pleased for your return too, even if it's only for the musical entertainment value that I'm sure they've been missing. ;)
Had to get back before Sal got promoted into my spot ;)
Can't promote her into your spot. I'm sure she doesn't sing Dolly Parton covers nearly as well!
-fA
True! And she can't be promoted away from me cos I won't let her go...
We got presents from La Befana and I got some popping candy and some chocolate and Mycroft got chocolate mints and John got jelly beans.
Nice!
(I had to look up La Befana--what a nice tradition!)
It was really Lestrade but he likes it if we pretend that Father Christmas and La Befana are real. Adults believe in weird stuff
adults do believe in the weirdest stuff, it's true.
We do! As many as six impossible things before breakfast.
*claps her hands*
I do believe in fairies!
It's bloody freezing today. Comparatively. So today is odd course the day I get to spend with Mycroft, walking the hounds a million miles whilst John is at work. Still, lovely to spend the day with our big lad.
We're having lasagne and I found out about frozen Charlotte dolls and wasps with metal bums to lay eggs in figs.
Well, there's two things I had never heard of before. (Not meaning the lasagne!) So today was not wasted. Thank you, Sherlock!
Good to hear you and Mycroft got some walking in. Some of my best memories of my dad and my ex-husband are of walks. It's such a no-pressure way to talk, or not talk. And I'm sure you made the dogs quite happy.
Sherlock, I never knew what those dolls were called & I never knew anything about the reproductive cycles of wasps, so you've been the vector of knowledge for me as well as RR. Thanks.
It is cold here again. The weather can't make up its mind. Most of the spring flowers have bloomed, or attempted to do so. It's just an odd year.
-fA
Yeah, it's finally getting a little colder here, hopefully for long enough to reset nature a bit. There was mention of the S word earlier this week...
We lose Mycroft tomorrow, so making the most of today.
Well done Squeeze! Bloody hilarious, and brilliant.
It's great to be curious about such a wide variety of topics! I don't have any Frozen Charlotte dolls in my collection, but I've heard of them.
I also don't have any metal bottomed wasps, and am really very okay with that. They wouldn't want to be here right now, anyway. I think we finally got above zero...
He is curious about EVERYTHING. I mean, we all are to an extent...but he can also remember it all (as can Mycroft), whereas it just swills about in my head for a day or so and then falls out my ear. Usually taking some useful long-term information with it! Now...where did I put my husband....?
It's all about the internal filing system, eh?
(I have beautiful physical files. The ones in my head are just a mess!)
Oh my God... David Bowie's died. What a legend, what a talent. Im actually a bit devastated.
It's come so out of the blue, hell, he only released an album, what, last week? He obviously didn't want any fuss and he achieved that and we should all managed our going in as good a way, I guess, but yes, I know what you mean, it's surprisingly knocked me sideways
Poor Sherlock had no idea what was going on when I abandoned breakfast when I heard it on the radio and went and woke John up. Another thing for him to learn about. He was a beacon of light during some of my darkest days. His life, his music, his influence, all legendary.
It's a shock, for sure. Doesn't he have a show that opened recently Off-Briadway, too?
Not ashamed to say I've had a bit of a cry listening to some of his songs this morning.
I can still hardly believe it.
It totally shocked me. He had the most amazing music, and seemed like such a good soul. He really was a once in a lifetime performer.
Yeah, he seemed so much more than simple flesh and blood. And in a way he was, because everything he gave us will live on. So in a way, he is immortal.
Going to give Sherlock a nice Bowie history lesson this afternoon, to help him understand why people are so sad.
Yeah. Bowie. Man.
I hope he had an easy end and was at peace with the people in his life. He made mine so much richer, and at times so much more bearable.
-fA
I can't think of a better way to honor his memory than passing his music along.
Now to listen to the music for a few hours. I heard the news on the way to work, and then the radio station did a horrible montage put together by some infant & except for Changes & Ground Control to Major Tom, there wasn't a pre-1980 song in it.
I know it's a terrible cliche, but he was one of the musicians that was, I dunno, an entry vector into a bigger world, maybe? than the one I thought I was living in during my mid-teens.
Ah well.
-fA
There've been a few very lovely comments regarding people saying 'he was a chameleon', because he was always changing how he looked - but they were pointing out that he wasn't a chameleon at all - they change to blend in with their surroundings. He stood out, and the world tried to blend in with him, but it never quite caught up, because he was constantly moving, progressing, bringing new life and new ideas to the world. The fact he's gone is...unthinkable. Unbelievable.
But I also saw another thought. That in the 4 billion odd years the Earth has existed, we were all lucky enough to be here to share it with someone like him.
(Sherlock can now sing both 'Heroes' and 'John, I'm Only Dancing')
To cheer everyone up (or possibly horrify them) have this ad, which popped up on my music player last night. Um, standard Lestrade link rules may apply to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
You know...I errrr...was introduced to this advert a while ago, and decided it was too horrifying to share! See! I do have standards! (It's the end bit.....and the general facial expressions of the unicorn....) It is something which must be seen to be believed, though! And may bring a horrified smile on a dark day. Just don't say that you haven't been warned by both Becca and me!
(* for 'standards' read 'a husband who might've been angry at me introducing our youngest to terrifying unicorn...business'.)
I don't even need to click the link...I'm pretty sure I know EXACTLY what advert it is...
Yeah. I should probably be embarrassed by that...
Good lord.
(I know it was only a cover and he had so many original songs, but Bowie and Jagger's duet of "Dancin' in the Street" is the music video I've had playing in my head all day--it's the benchmark of how to be thoroughly cool while also being silly and joyful.)
Don't worry, Kestrel, I'm pretty sure I know which it is, as well. We can be embarrassed together.
Greg, you have done right by Sherlock in the musical education department.
I won't lie. I left work early, moved dinner up two hours, and scheduled a chore to take me out of the house afterwards, lest I spend the evening drinking to excess and getting sentimental over old Bowie. I swear I was fine till the DJ I found playing Bowie played 'Stay ' off of the Transformer album. Got all teary-eyed, and I'm SURE I didn't even own that record. I think it was just the musical style and his voice on that recording took me back to a time when it was part of the protective wallpaper of my life.
-fA
It's been an emotional and subdued evening at our tonight. But - a friend of mine, deeply saddened by the news, was at least cheered earlier today by her not-quite-five year old dancing to Starman :-)
RR, Bowie himself said in some interview that he felt he was only a middling singer, but he could put a song over - and that because of that it was easier writing for one of his characters/personas rather than himself and doing covers.
I have a huge fondness for a Christmas special video clip with Bowie & Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy. It's equally parts entrancing and horrifying and I love it.
-fA
Nameless - a whole new generation has been introduced to the Duke today, I'm sure. And to Ziggy. And to Jareth. David Jones may have died, David Bowie lives on.
RR - If you want to see that video and wipe all 'coolness' from your mind, Google 'musicless music video dancing in the street' or similar....it isn't cool, but it does make me laugh in sad times.
I liked a John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) quote that's been circulating. Too long to paste it all; it starts out saying that because Bowie was SO unapologetically and boldly himself, he was respected by those you wouldn't think would do so (Lydon called out Arsenal supporters in particular, L.). The end is:
"The sexual curiosity that glam rock kicked up - Bowie standing up for something, saying ’ Who are you to tell me what to do?’ - it was a great breeding ground for punk to begin. Punk didn’t just begin overnight; it came from all of these things. It was a gradual gravitation towards the bloody bleedin’ obvious.” (John Lydon, Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored (2014))
The man stirred up so much creativity in others by owning his own.
Off to chores.
-fA
L--Heh. ;)
Hope today has been a bit happier for you all.
Sherlock wants to eat snails. And have a pet hedgehog. Neither of these things will happen any time soon, and one of them won't ever happen...barring a hedgehog adopting him, out in the wild...
I love the idea of a pet hedgehog, it'd have to have better sleeping arrangements than your cat though or it'd be pierced ears for everyone ;-)
Today has been a really rubbish day right up until my football team started scoring goals for fun! It's amazing the power football has to improve a day :-)
I hope the evening is treating you all well.
Ha! Definitely. But he will not be allowed to capture a hedgie. Maybe he can go and see some in a hedgie hospital.
Football can improve a day - or ruin one! A double edged sword, eh? Glad it improved yours!
Somehow hedgehogs don't strike me as the kind of animal that like being pets, being prickly sorts. (Although they are awfully cute in pictures!)
John, we need to get to dinner at our wedding venue before it changes forever. Want to go tomorrow night? No idea what they're doing to it, but it closes soon for a refurb! Want one last visit before it does.
Yeah, I'd love to.
I'll book it. Can you ask Mrs Hudson if she can try to corral Sherlock?
Already done. She promises to try her best.
She should take him to bingo, I bet he'd love it.
That would be an interesting experience for everyone involved.
He'd probably figure out some bingo algorithm and become a millionaire... Or be beaten up by loads of old ladies.
C) All of the above
Yeah... Probably safer if he stays home and hacks into the CIA computers!
Significantly less likely to cause a riot, anyway. Probably.
Not so sure about that--CIA operatives are not particularly well known for their senses of humor....
Have a lovely evening, gentlemen!
I'd rather face down the CIA than a an angry OAP ;)
Oh, I hope dinner was lovely. I'm sure Sherlock enlivened Mrs. Hudson's evening.
You are really good at marking moments, Greg. At taking the trouble with things that aren't necessities and aren't a super big deal, but that mean something to you two.
-fA
Hope your wedding venue lives up to your expectations for your last meal there before the refurb & I'm sure it'll be nice to go back there after too as one hopes they are only going to improve the look and not spoil anything. Have a wonderful evening anyway. :)
Have fun with Mrs H, Sherlock, I'm sure she'll have plenty of fun things planned, maybe even some delicious cooking if you're lucky which would be nice to show John & Lestrade when you're done. Have fun. :)
Have a great day everyone. :)
Well...first David Bowie, now Alan Rickman.... 2016 needs to go away and try again.
Damn straight, L.
-fA
I agree. Let's start the year over. It hasn't been going on that long and no one would miss it.
Right. 2016 v.1.1 starts now.
Happy new year!
I'll arrange for fireworks.
Nice offer, Doc, even if it was just for your husband! ;-)
I'm good with the New 2016. Happy new year everyone!
-fA
I am totally behind this idea.
As I've arranged dinner I'm more than happy for the doc to provide the fireworks after ;)
Should I wear my wedding suit? Think I might. If I still fit in it. Opinions?
fA - I do love moments. They're all we have, in the end. All that's ours that no one can ever take away.
Wedding suit yes, unless you feel it might induce premature swooning in your husband. I'm assuming you'd both prefer to get through dinner before swooning.
(Dressing up voluntarily is such a good example for Sherlock. Even if it's rarely.)
-fA
I, myself, am crappy at setting up special moments. It just never occurs to me. Hence my admiration. And appreciation, when someone in my own life does it.
-fA
Getting ready to give my parents a very big gift they may refuse. *nervous*
Good luck Becca!
-fA
Good luck, I hope it goes well!
Yeah, best of luck, Becca!
(And I do still fit into my wedding suit. And John fits into his. So we've just had an over-dressed mid-week dinner date. Which was lovely. And we'll have to stagger home shortly.)
If you were both "over-dressed," you were neither of you over-dressed. :) Here's to making your own special occasions!
Oh, and good luck, Becca!
It went well! We'll see if it turns into anything, but I'm pleased with their reaction.
Amen to a re-do. (A re-do visit to the wedding venue sounds lovely, what a lovely thing to do together). Becca, glad your gifting went well.
It is now two weeks since I submitted my application to be a lunch lady, and I've not heard anything. I think I'm going to give up and dye my hair purple.
Delighted to hear it, Becca.
Purple haired lunch ladies might be all the rage, Kestrel.
Surely it's blue haired lunch ladies? ;)
I wish I was in the flying squad today. Just shows the ups and downs of policing.
I want to do a spacewalk
So do I Sherlock :-)
...I only want my helmet getting wet on earth, not in the vastness of space in my own tiny bag of earth-y atmosphere...
Yeah, at least you can raise your visor if you have problems.
You would-be spacewalkers are braver than I. The ones who do what I really could not, though, are the astronauts/scientists who go up and spend an entire year in the space station. It's like the old explorers who'd get on a ship and be traveling, mostly on the ship, with the same companions, for months or years.
I don't think I could summon up that much dedication to scientific inquiry
-fA
I think I could do it. But mainly I'd like to float. Although I think there's certain people I could happily be stuck with for a few years... Sherlock will probably end his life being able to holiday in on Mars...how times change.
It's going to SNOW
Lucky you, Sherlock :-) I think we're just going to be cold.
I'm not sure you can trust the weather forecast as much as Sherlock seems to - there may be some sleet/snow, but I don't think we'll be waking to a winter wonderland!
Yes, even when we get a bit it never stays long enough or is deep enough to have fun with. We had a little on top of the cars this morning but it was soon gone. Let's hope for once that the weather forecasters are right, Sherlock. It would be lovely to have loads. :)
I hope you do get snow! (The kind that only stays as long as it's pretty and fun, then melts away. :) )
I would absolutely be up for a spacewalk! We were supposed to be able to do that by now--and also have real hoverboards, not fake hoverboards with wheels. And jetpacks or at least flying cars. WHATEVER, TECHNOLOGY.
We have about 2 inches of snow here, it's been going solidly since about 3 o'clock. Already the taxi drivers are driving on the wrong side of the road!
Just rain here so far. And even if it does snow, I think Sherlock will miss it.
Rather your snow than our cold. It's probably a bit like a spacewalk, temperature-wise. Windchills are supposed to get into the -40 range overnight.
Had a tiny dusting of snow. Nothing remains on the ground, just a little on rooftops.
It's snowing right now!
Last night's snow is rapidly going, although the side streets are pretty treacherous. I think it will snow again here, and if it does I'd rather it really went for it, enough to shut things down, or nothing, it's the in between that's a bugger!
I'm so pleased you didn't miss it all, Shelock!
I'm making soup. And the flat smells amazing.
Homemade soup, yummmmmmmmm! (And it goes well with snowy/rainy days.)
....and now it's snowing here. It is not supposed to be snowing here. We had a chance of snow flurries after midnight, not snow now! (It's only sticking to cars and the earth around trees. And to cold people waiting in the street for a car.)
So now Wimbledon matches are being investigated over match fixing....nothing's sacred any more, is it? Is there any sport that isn't being investigated? What happened to just working hard to be the best?
Did you get enough snow to play in it, Sherlock, or was it just enough to look pretty & then melt?
-fA
Very sad to hear that Glenn Frey has died. Used to love feeling very cool getting ready to go out clubbing to some of his tunes - I knew any second I'd be a detective as cool as Crockett!
Just how big a jam session is the afterlife holding?
The Eagles weren't an all time fave, but they made good songs and for so many years their music was sooo ubiquitous that it feels almost as if it was a soundtrack to that part of my life. Hotel California takes me right back to the day I made a silent decision that mapped much of my life from that day to this.
First bar of that song & I can see again my view of a pre-sunset sky, sitting on 'the hump' on the floor, in a car over-full of my friends, driving between Boston and Cape Cod on a freezing cold day in November. It is entirely possible that I was sitting on the hump because I was prepping something that we wouldn't want a passing cop car to take note of, though it seems unlikely as there were at least two people way more deft than I in that car, not counting the driver, whom I eventually married.
We all felt so grown up, far more grown than I feel some days now. And we weren't more than a couple of years older than Mycroft.
Music has so much power to send one to a place or time.
-fA
So, just to prolong my agony, before I get back to my team, I get refresher firearms again...
Still, could be so much worse.
It's nice to see you're eager to get 'home' :-)
Refresher courses are a good idea I guess especially when firearms are involved but I'm sorry it's going to delay things for you.
Mycroft has applied for a new summer job - and it would suit him down to the ground!! So best of luck, Mycroft, I hope you get it - but I won't mind if you have to go back to the deli either ;)
Intriguing! Best of luck, Mycroft--whatever the position is, they'll be lucky to get you.
Thank you.
Lestrade, I will be sure to bear that in mind when they enquire after any other careers I have thought of pursuing.
Good luck Mycroft, whatever it is I hope you're successful with it :-)
I hope everyone has had a useful day :-)
Best of luck, Mycroft. I'm sure you'll exceed all their expectations. :)
I'm sure the deli will still look favourably upon you, Greg, even without their star employee. ;)
Have a great day everyone.
Feeling so sick from a migraine I don't think I can even make it home...
:(
Is there anywhere you can be in the dark for a bit? (I wish I could offer something more helpful. Yikes.)
Oh god that doesn't sound good Greg :-(
Is their a guardian angel in the area who could help you?
Take a cab home, pick up the bike tomorrow?
this office is full of guardian angels - it's what they do! I'm being taken care of.
Glad to hear it, feel better soon.
That is very true Greg, I'm glad you're being looked after :-)
I hope it passes as quickly as possible.
Hope you're sleeping your migraine off & don't see this. (And adding my good wishes to Mycroft in his job search. I'm sure whomever they are they'd be lucky to have him!)
-fA
Not quite sleeping, but feeling a lot better, courtesy of loving family and mediction, thanks. don't think sleep is far off!
right, day off is culminating in catching two little goos to carry them to the vet via picking up Sherlock at school, so they can have their check-ups. Hoping my lovely husband will be back from work before too long too.
By which I assume your migraine has subsided. Have fun at the vet's!
(Meaning, I hope your migraine is gone, gone, gone.)
It's mainly being kept at bay, for the moment, just feeling a bit sick, on and off.
Anyway, the degus are definitely not feeling sick - they're healthy and happy little goos, with good teeth, clipped nails, no diabetes and no one bit a vet. Including Sherlock. Although we met a snake with a cough, and Sherlock wants a snake now...(although not one with a cough.)
I hope it goes all the way soon, L.
Sherlock, you are clearly a superior degu carer--good job! (Would degus be on the menu for some snakes? Clearly you wouldn't want any of those...)
So the degus in the paniers, Sherlock riding pillion, snake draped round his neck?
I did not know snakes could cough. AMAZING the things one learns on this blog! Hope the migraine trails off into nothingness soon.
And stay warm everyone heading into bad weather on the east coast of the U.S.! My affected friends report more icing than snow, & it's the ice that takes the power lines out, usually.
-fA
Yeah, good luck to all of you in the path of the storm! Stay safe.
So far we have a foot of snow but power, so I can't complain.
Sherlock is climbing the walls with jealousy.
But we have fish and chips, so it's not all bad. Chips and lashings of vinegar and mayonnaise...the world smells great and tastes great!
I'm right with you there, Sherlock, why don't we have a foot of snow? It would be nice if it didn't come with all the problems though so I hope everyone is keeping safe.
I love walking past a chippy & just getting a whiff of the vinegar, mmm, delish. I'd have to disagree with you about the mayonnaise, though, it has to be ketchup with chips. ;)
...Perhaps I should not mention that we have 20 inches of white stuff in NYC, and it's not finished falling yet?
We don't usually worry about snow-related blackouts in Manhattan because our power lines are underground, but this time there's been some concern about salty slush getting down there and corroding wires. Fingers crossed that that never materializes. Stay safe, everyone in the storm zone!
Joolz - I actually secretly mix ketchup and mayo together, but the other members of this family think that's disgusting, so I have to keep it as my bad little habit ;)
I don't think that's disgusting! Good on sannies, too. Except it has to be honest to goodness mayo, not that other stuff.
26.8 inches total here, a tenth of an inch short of the record. And it's already starting to look unpleasant on the edges...Snow and cities don't go awfully well together.
(I'm anti-mayo myself, in pretty much any context. Sorry!)
Wow, ReRe, that's a lot of snow!! I live just far enough north of the edge of the storm that I didn't get so much as a flake. a tiny part of me feels cheated and left out, but most of me is glad I didn't have to stay home from two awesome pub sings! I know how hard it is for cities to deal with that much though, there's noplace to put it. :(
S
It used to be that Manhattan had no problem with snow at all--we'd just shove it into one river or another. But of course, now with all the chemical salt, we can't, so it just sits there. (Still, we're better off than other cities--when it gets warmer it does have somewhere to melt off to!)
Man, RR, that's a LOT of snow!
You're probably not the only one reading this looking at a lot of snow, hope everyone is warm!
-fA
Yeah, we're going to get everything that didn't fall as snow on you guys as rain this week...because we haven't had enough of that...
Ugh! Try to stay afloat...
We're buying a haggis
Is it Robert Burns Day?
It's John's turn to cook, that's what it is.
Haggis tastes way better when cooked by someone named Hamish. Fact.
A mystery for the ages.
A mystery?
Why haggis tastes better when cooked by someone named Hamish.
You just have to respect the haggis, that's all.
That sounds like a euphemism...
I respect haggises (haggi?) best by not touching them with a ten-foot pole. Not even with someone else's ten-foot pole.
*shudder*
A completely reasonable form of respect.
My husband, the haggis whisperer.
Report back on the merits or lack thereof of this Doc-prepared haggis, please. Haggis is not often come by in my part of the world. Though onion, grease and starch render a lot of things delicious, I don't see why they can't do it for sheep's organs.
-fA
(Sorry any squeamish vegetarians/vegans.)
-fA
From what I've read (Google is so handy), haggis is quite similar to kishka, so I'm not sure why that wouldn't be good? :)
The Doc grew up stalking and catching haggis with his bare hands up in the Highlands. He's an expert, as was his father and grandfather before him. Im sure it'll be delicious.
It's been a while since we had an illustration by Sherlock. If he hasn't given up drawing, perhaps he could do something on the theme of "Stalking of the Haggis: A Watson Family Retrospective."
Or, not.
-fA
The Haggis was delicious, and John did cook most of it, with his tender Scottish ways...
Sherlock ate most of it, but I suppose that's only fair, cos he's not getting any whiskey.
And to stick with tradition, we had Dorayaki for pudding...
Yum! (My son's girlfriend puts Nutella in her dorayaki.)
Enjoy your evening, and the whiskey.
-fA
I'm back! And there is even more weird tea in our kitchen than when I left. Coconut and orange, anyone?
I'm going to sit happily in my little corner and pretend those are two separate drinks & not anything to do with tea because even the idea is unthinkable - but that could just be my coconut aversion talking. ;) Do I even want to know how it tasted?
I'd like to try coconut tea! (Orange, not so much. Not a fan of orange flavor anything.)
It was okay. Orange with a rounded coconut sort of taste at the end. (Sal made me try it after I called it weird.)
Coffee is better, though ;)
Tea can be very, very good. Its only consistent flaw is that it is never coffee.
May the joy of being reunited (on both sides) linger long!
-fA
I went to my local Burns night dinner last night, we have it when we can get the nice hall with the kitchen. I understand the haggis is "quite good" but I admit I don't eat it myself, lucky for me there is turkey as an alternative. But the singing after the dinner is awesome.
S
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