Here's a frog we saw while Sherlock was running us around the park yesterday. Or riding rings around us while we tried in vain to keep up. I stopped to take a picture. Or I coincidentally saw the frog while I was already stopped and bent over and panting. Take your pick.
At breakfast, Sherlock introduced Mycroft to the idea of body painting for Pride (which may now be Sherlock's third favourite 'holiday', after his birthday and Christmas). Mycroft was wary, but not completely appalled. I may end up being the only unpainted member of our party. He suggested Sherlock ought to get painted-on wings, which would look quite nice and more importantly would not be a target, which was one of Sherlock's other ideas. I don't feel like I could reasonably veto that one, but it would make me feel a bit odd.
Today...well, it's just gone seven, and Sherlock has so far made himself breakfast (cold cereal), spilled half a carton of milk on the floor, tried to soak it up with today's newspaper, dunked biscuits in his cereal milk, and squished up a banana inside its skin and then attempted to squirt it into his mouth with...exciting results. All before L and I were out of bed.
When I emerged just now he said proudly, 'I didn't wake you up at all! Let's do something amazing today!' I said he could help me clean up banana and milk and then we could do something amazing. Ideas, anyone?
Things that also need to happen today: (L, don't let me forget!) need to get a birthday card for my mum...and ask her why she has sent me a box full of her wedding china with no note of explanation.
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I'm just glad it didn't involve eggs today.
Go Sherlock ;-) I live in fear of the day mine want to get up on their own but I have to say that at 6am on a Sunday morning when they are screaming 'its time to get up' I do wonder which would be preferable!
I hope you have a day full of adventure and fun:-) we're having a lots of people round for Sunday dinner, a very rare experience round here, so our kitchen may just rival Sherlock's mess in a bit ;-)
Anonybob
Mysterious china eh? Could be one of those random Mum things. It's perfectly reasonable why she would do something fairly baffling, and everyone else is at a loss. (Still, I did appreciate my Dad's old tool box...not that I know what to do with it or anything. :$)
Sherlock is now very carefully lining up every item in the kitchen according to... some system of his own... all over the living room floor.
Making his own breakfast (and making an honest attempt to clean up his own mess) and not waking you up at all definitely deserves a something amazing to do!
Hmmm. Zoo? Is that amazing?
(And you need to reciprocate on that date, John, but that's more for sometime that L can't be there, I'd think... :))
Sherlock, why are you lining up everything on the kitchen?
(Just wondering. :))
Are there 4 groups Greg?
1) things I know can be used for flaming desserts
2) things I know can't be used for flaming desserts
3) things I could experiment with in regards to flaming desserts
4) things Greg and john would kill me for experimenting with in regards to flaming desserts
Just a thought ;-) hope you're all having fun :-)
IN the kitchen, not ON! (Stupid virtual keyboard.) Sorry!
If the zoo isn't amazing, maybe something touristy that you never do because you live there, like the Tower of London or some such?
As far as I could tell there was some sort of grid system for use versus size... the biggest pan we have was top left, the smallest measuring spoon bottom left, my meat cleaver top right and the smallest cheese knife bottom right.
Now, however, we are somewhere AMAZING. Sherlock's eyes are out on stalks and he literally doesn't seem to know where to look/go next. :)
Where are you? We got the same question this morning, and our only refuge right now seems to be the zoo - it will be close to 90F today and there's a splash park there. But I'd so rather someplace none of us have been, or at least, he hasn't been, and I can't think of anything!
I'm spending the day moving my spring/summer clothes to the closets I can reach and the fall/winter thing to the places I cannot, and I have the feeling Sherlock could organize thing much better than I am...
WHERE ARE YOU?!? I'm dying of curiosity here!
We're seeing all brains and everything!
It actually is pretty amazing.
Seeing all brains and everything sounds beyond amazing, it sounds fascinating! But where do you see all that?
As for the random Mum thing - there's normally a perfectly logical reason, it's just that the chain of reasoning has been ommitted.
I'm going to write ALL about it when we're home!
Wow, seeing all brains does sound amazing. Where are you?
I'm REALLY looking forward to that, Sherlock!!
We're at the Wellcome trust. I think they'll have a job getting rid of us at closing time.
*googling*. OH! I heard about that--amazing indeed! Now I'm even more eager to read Sherlock's report! (Assuming they manage to evict you eventually... :D)
I was there a few weeks ago, and liked it :) If Sherlock has had his fill of brains for a bit, then there's also a very interesting room upstairs full of historical artefacts. Hope you're all having an entertaining (& gruesomely informative!) afternoon.
(By the way--I picked Napoleon for the poll. I figure he probably had more experience with that sort of thing in his youth... :) Any reason for the question, particularly?)
What a fantastic photo, John! I had to laugh at the imagery of your first paragraph.
Well done, Sherlock, on getting your own breakfast and letting John & Lestrade sleep in! Now I'm going to read all about your AMAZING day on Lestrade's blog.
RR - no reason! I was just thinking about it. Might Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan next.
Ro - thanks! It was...an exciting run.
Heh! Well, I'm sticking with Napoleon. Smaller but scrappier.
And Alexander v. Genghis would be a tougher one--neither was exactly a rule-follower nor sedentary. (But I think Alexander got drunk more, by the stories....hmmmm. :D)
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