We had a little accident on the bike. Bruises and scrapes mostly. We're going to hospital for L's hand, which is swelling nicely. I don't think anything's broken though.
I've talked to Sherlock and Mycroft already, and Mrs H is picking Sherlock up from school, though he's not happy about it. Please be good for her, Sherlock. Hopefully we won't be too long.
Some bastard, also on a bike, cut right in front of us and there was just nowhere to go, bus on one side, pedestrians on the other. You'd almost think he was trying to knock us over. I'm glad it was L driving and not me; I'm sure he managed it better than I would have.
And when I say no one needs to worry...I mean about us. The bike didn't fare so well. I don't think he'll be riding it for a while.
I've talked to Sherlock and Mycroft already, and Mrs H is picking Sherlock up from school, though he's not happy about it. Please be good for her, Sherlock. Hopefully we won't be too long.
Some bastard, also on a bike, cut right in front of us and there was just nowhere to go, bus on one side, pedestrians on the other. You'd almost think he was trying to knock us over. I'm glad it was L driving and not me; I'm sure he managed it better than I would have.
And when I say no one needs to worry...I mean about us. The bike didn't fare so well. I don't think he'll be riding it for a while.
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Yeah.
Nothing I have to say is suitable for young eyes.
Sorry, Sherlock. John won't be too long I hope. But he's being very kind and not leaving me here on my own.
I just couldn't believe he did that. Still can't. I've seen people do some stupid things in traffic, but...
O. M. G.
I'm so glad you're both (mostly) okay!
You'd almost think he was trying to knock us over.
(Paranoia kicking in but...are you sure it was, in fact, an accident?)
Sherlock, when John and Lestrade come home I think lots of gentle cuddles will be in order--even though they're mostly okay, it's a very upsetting thing to have happen. My mum was in a car accident a little while back--someone ran right into her car in a parking lot--and even though she was fine except for some bruising up, she was quite shaken.
Just can't believe my bike. Absolutely unbelievable. Or how Lo.g this. Bloody wait is
I hope you're both home safe and sound soon.
I have no idea what else to say really but I hope you're as ok as you can be.
I'm really sorry about your bike. :( Is it fixable, could you tell?
(When your hand allows, I know of a doctor who might be persuaded to lend his bike until yours is again operational if you approach him in the right way...)
Think my bike will be fixed first
It can't be much longer now.
Because of the emergency room wait? It's awful here, too. My mom cut her hand on a food processor blas a number of years ago and it wouldn't stop bleeding--we ended up waiting in the ER for SIX HOURS, it's insane. (On the bright side, she made a right mess of their waiting room chair...)
Good luck on getting seen to SOON!
...blade, not blas...
Is it just your hand Greg? Are you fine John or are you both going to get checked out?
You can't be left to wait much longer I'm sure
They'll just tell me to rest it or something. John could do that without the wait. Why can't you have x ray vision Danger?
Are you more likely to take notice if you stay and get told that or if John tells you that?
xray vision would be a cool skill ;-)
Sorry, love. That wasn't an available course at medical school, or I would've taken it.
X-ray vision would be a very useful superpower for a doctor.
Oh, goodness! I'm glad you're both mostly all right! Even if the bike is pretty banged up, it can be repaired. And maybe you and Sherlock can work on it together, Lestrade.
I hope you're both out of there soon.
Glad to hear that you're both okay(ish). A&E is such fun - I hope you escape soon and L's hand is just badly bruised. And sorry to hear about the state of the bike.
L if you're in Charing Cross or Chelsea West there's coffee shops in the hospitals, Costa unfortunately, but better than nothing! (think there's one in Mary's but it escapes me)
Hope you and the bike feel better soon.
Hand is officially not broken. Now off to have it bandaged or whatever they do
"Officially not broken" is good! (Undamaged would be better, of course.)
I think he'd settle for 'damaged but able to ride a bike', but I'm afraid that won't be happening for a few days.
It's very frustrating, having a hand out of action--throws everything off, I know. I've dealt with that a couple of times, and I sympathize deeply.
Good news I guess Greg
You'll be back on a bike sooner with not broken :-)
Now attached to some ridiculously large plasticky foamy hand-shaped splint. Not allowed to move it for a week, but am allowed to move to a much smaller splint soon. And have to ice it.
I think the bike will be fixed first. Bent bars, dented and scratched tank and pipes.
Rest and ice is always the treatment for things like that but its not easy to not move a hand!!
A long long time ago I had a job that involved re painting damaged motorbike parts it was really good fun :-)
L - make sure Sherlock understands that having to ice your hand is not the same as icing a cake ;)
Which hand is it?
Left, luckily.
More worried about John's shoulder, which he swears is fine, but that he keeps flexing and stretching.
It's just a bit sore. There's nothing actually wrong with it.
Mrs Hudson says she's making us dinner and do you want anything in particular as long as it involves potatoes. Apparently she has a lot of them.
You know, a blog post that starts "no one needs to worry" is inherently worrying.
Though to be fair I've done that in emails home about bicycle accidents. "I'm fine, now let me tell you the story about the stupid car that ran me down."
I'm glad it wasn't more serious for you. Enjoy your ice. Maybe save a couple of cubes for something nice on the rocks. (If the Doctor allows.)
A big plasticky foamy splint sounds very impressive. When I managed to get hairline fractures in two fingers, all they did was tape them to my good fingers and tell me not to use the hand for a few weeks--either you've got some interesting damage in there, or they totally do not trust you not to use the hand. :) (I'm really hoping it's the latter.)
I hope neither your hand nor John's shoulder are as painful as they sound--ice all round sounds like a good idea. Or maybe heat would be better for the shoulder?
Yeah, anythings fine. She's very kind.
Might literally need a hand baking for Sherlock's frog watch, too.
Kholly - yep, been through that one a number of times. Best one was from daughter away on pony trekking holiday. "Hello Mum, I'm phoning you so that when the leader phones you you won't worry."
Yikes! I only check one blog for a bit and then this happens. I'm glad you're both mostly intact, and glad the bike is fixable. I hope you got the license plate number, if not the name and address, of the clown that cut you off, too. Like RR, I'm a little wary of whether this was a coincidence after that packet of photographs.
Scalloped potatoes are nice, if you haven't had those lately. And if Mrs. H has a ricer, Sherlock might have fun making potato squiggles.
rsf
Kholly - yeah, there's really no way to tell people without them worrying. It's better than 'some bastard almost hit us' though. Well. Sort of better. I admit that would've been a more satisfying subject line.
It's a sprain. I got very dire warning waht would happen if I used it before it was healing.
Ouch. When it comes to broken bones or sprains (having had both) I think I almost prefer the broken bones.
Will John have to do the cooking for a while, or is Sherlock up to helping you with it?
rsf
Just what I was going to say, rsf, re: bone v. sprains!
*small voice* Would it really be so awful if the frog party settled for a store-bought cake?
yeah, part of the lecture was how sprains can be worse than breaks sometimes. I just caught three fingers on the kerb.. I don't know what I was trying to do, save John I think, which obviously wasn't going to happen.
A witness got a partial plate, the other bike didn't stop, but nothing's come of it yet. Seems like either they saw it wrong or it was on false plates.
He's furnished me with ice. Sherlock's baking and being very very careful and good about it. (Mrs H has come up to supervise and help him.)
Bloody hell, you two!
I'm very glad that you're both OK, save for the odd bruising, scraping, soreness and sprain. Sounds like it could've been much worse, if not for Lestrade's riding skillz (oo-er). Glad to hear that the bike is fixable, although I have suppose that Lestrade is more pissed off at the damage to his beloved Striple than to his hand.
I'm also glad to see I'm not the only paranoid person here who worries that "You'd almost think he was trying to knock us over" sounds a bit too ominous given recent events.
Hope you have a quiet, uneventful evening. Perhaps with slight more cuddles than usual.
...that's John that's given me ice, not the witness.
which obviously wasn't going to happen
The thought's appreciated though. I think I was mostly busy wondering what the hell just happened to be doing anything else.
May need to buy Mrs Hudson flowers after this. Or diamonds. Or a motorcycle.
Or chocolate. If she can manage to keep it away from Sherlock.
rsf
What is Sherlock baking, by the way? It sounds like his kitchen skills are improving by leaps and bounds.
rsf
Sherlock's baking and being very very careful and good about it.
Good for you, Sherlock! That's a wonderful way to help everyone feel better.
Sherlock was baking a chocolate cake.
It's...evolved a bit. And there are now chocolate chips, orange peel, rasperries,white chocolate shavngs and all sorts going on.
I'm trusting Mrs H to prevent anything inedible going n.
And yes, she deserves a medal or at least dinner out and flowers and things.
In order of most-pissed-offness:
The fact John could have been hurt.
the bloke not stopping.
the Striple
The case being held up again
that I can't ride for at least a week
the hand hurting.
As soon as I'd posted that comment I thought, well, obviously Lestrade's going to be more pissed off that John could have been hurt than about anything else. Sorry, having a bit of a slow brain evening.
That cake sounds... interesting :-)
It's...evolved a bit.
A true artist must follow his inner vision! With, naturally, some guidance from Mrs H, his muse.
(I'm sorry I can't help at all with any of the bads on your list there. It's really a very angry-making list.)
I'm glad Sherlock's doing such an interesting job I'm sure it will be lovely when its finished :-)
(I hate the fact you being in pain bothers you less than work being held up, it makes me feel quite sad :-( John getting hurt coming top I can understand though)
That cake sounds very interesting. And now I'm hungry. Is Sherlock making enough for company? Or will he post the recipe later?
I think I'd put the guy not stopping at the top of my list, but that's because I want him given a good hard kick where it hurts for making either one of you hurt.
rsf
I made my cake and put loads of icing on it and Lestrade's sad so I told him he could lick out the bowl but he said he didn't want to so I did it instead but I still offered and Mrs Hudson helped because I can't put the cake in the oven or do some of the pouring very well and John's rubbing ice on Lestrade.
That was a lovely thing to do, Sherlock, to offer to give Lestrade something you really like to make him feel better. And it was very responsible of you to have Mrs H help you with the bits you can't do, or can't do so well.
What a lovely offer to make Sherlock :-)
Ice on Lestrade's hand is a good thing, how's John's shoulder doing now he's relaxing for the evening?
I hope you get a good nights sleep before school and frog day :-)
night all.
Going to go and try to sleep without doing further damage to either of us. I'm absolutely knackered.
I hope both you and John have a restful night, I'm sure you need it.
I really hate that you're having such a tough time at the moment. Sleep well everyone.
Lancs. Anon
Wishing you both a good night's sleep, dream free and with minimum pain.
Scary! But Sherlock's cake sounds awesome enough to help. Hope they catch the jerk.
ryo
Thanks, allof you.
(Would it be too much fussing to ask if they gave you any painkillers to take? Because it's not a bad thing to take some, especially at night.)
(Which is something I always need to be reminded of myself.)
Oh my! I'm glad everyone is fairly unharmed, though sore and bruised. I have to agree with the others: I find the timing of this all too unsettling. I hope they catch the person (or people) soon.
Here's to hoping for a very amusing, and safe!, Friday!
~A from NW
They didn't give me any, there's no point getting a prescription when you can buy it over the counter, but we have all sorts at home which obviously I've taken, particularly the ibuprofen.
Catching anyone isn't looking too hopeful.
You know I was going to ask whether you were at work, L but the way things are with you lot at the moment, it suddenly struck me as a not good question. Wherever you are I hope you're not hurting too much.
Lancs. Anon
Are you at work today Greg or was it your day off anyway? (for frog evening)
I hope you both slept ok and that Sherlock slept ok so he has lots of energy for today :-)
Be good to yourself whether you're at work or at home Greg, you as well John :-)
Have a nice Friday everyone
Hope you managed to get some decent sleep, in the end, Lestrade (and you too, John).
Have a good day, and I hope frog evening is both as fun and as uneventful as it can be :-)
Lancs., yeah, I don't know what I should say on here any more. I suppose it'll be obvious from what I comment whether I'm at work or home.
I don't want to be some messed up bundle of paranoia again. It's not a good way to live.
Lestrade's hand is changing colour and this morning it was still sort of red but also blue and he says I can take a picture everyday for my book so I can see how long it takes to go different colours and he has to take off the bandage and wash it every day so I can do it then and it makes John say 'Careful' a lot and then because he's a doctor he bandages it up again because he knows all the patterns but I'm learning them too so I can do it and today we're cleaning up the outside after lunch ready for tonight.
No, it really isn't anyway to live, and I'm glad you're seeing it like that. I think all of us appreciate how much of your lives you do let us see. How's the hand and John's shoulder? And is the weather OK for barbecuing frogs, or have I got that wrong?
Lancs. Anon
Well done, Lestrade. Hope your hand heals quiclkyl.
Yeah, I had in mind prescription painkillers which always do make me nervous, but if they didn't give you any it's irrelevant.
I hope both of you--John and L--aren't feeling too awful today, bruising tends to feel so much worse the second day.
My goodness, Sherlock, that's a very vivid description! I guess we'll rely on you to fill us in on the progress of L's hand, then. :) It's very good of Lestrade to understand your interest (and I have to admit that the colors injuries make skin turn is very interesting) and to let you take pictures and all. And learning how to bandage sprains and strains properly is a very useful skill to acquire. Are you and your classmates finding interesting things while cleaning up the outside of the school for tonight, or is it more the kind of cleaning that's moving things around to make a clear space for everyone who's coming?
Bruises are interesting to study, Sherlock. It may be hard to get the colors right in the pictures though unless you use the same lighting every day. Did you know that if a bruise is in a place where gravity is working on it it can sometimes sort of slide down under a person's skin? So if you can put a measuring stick in the pictures you can see if the bruise on Lestrade's hand changes shape or position as well as color.
L, you are wonderfully patient with Sherlock's curiosity. I hope the frog hunt/barbecue tonight is fun. As for paranoia, it probably isn't worth it, but it won't hurt our feelings to know where you were instead of where you are most of the time, I expect.
John, how's your shoulder this morning?
Mycroft, how are your classes?
rsf
Oh goodness, glad you're both okay. The world is determined to make everyone paranoid, I think.And since you guys are okay I can say oh, your poor bike! That really sucks. Jerkface who sideswiped you ought to be made to do all the sanding for your new tank paint job by hand.
Have fun tonight, too - I've got one of those of my own, except it's Family Game Night. You bring in a game to share with everyone and there will be popcorn and lemonade for snacks. I've been informed that we're taking Quirkle AND kid's Monopoly AND Dinosaurs Alive to this do, though I may have to put a limit on so we don't lose pieces in the chaos!
Have a lovely time all of you in your frog night. Looks like the weather should be good.
Yeah, the weather is lovely here. I'll be very proud watching Sherlock show off his frog knowledge.
And his thoroughly-iced cake, too!
How's the hand doing, L? And your shoulder, John?
Hand is intensely annoying.
Maz, I hope you event is equally as fun but more eventful than ours.
RR - I've got leftover prescription drugs I'm taking. But it's not that painful when I don't move it, so it's mainly stuff to get the swelling to go.
"Not that painful" is definitely preferable to the alternative. ("Not painful" without qualifiers would be best. And I know how hard it is not to move a hand!) Also, I well remember how awkward it is to try to keep a hand elevated to minimize swelling, and how uncomfortable that gets--I truly feel for you.
I hope you all have a nice time at the frog barbecue, or are having a nice time, whichever applies!
It's fairly well attached to the splint thing. John clearly knows how easy it is to forget and try to do things. It's fixed with my fingers bent around. I've found out that I can tape a coffee mug into it.
That's a fairly good mental image, you with a coffee mug permanently taped to your hand :)
Lancs. Anon
Heh, too right, Lancs! It must look very natural and normal.
I'm sure Sherlock will be happy to help you experiment with other things you can tape onto your splint, L, if you can bring yourself to detach a permanent coffee cup, that is... :D
Lestrade just got here and John's feeding him and I've seen loads of newts but no frogs yet and I think we built the pond with places they could hide too well.
If the newts are thriving, then I'd guess the frogs would be too, so you're probably right about the hiding places. On the bright side, if they are happy in their hiding places, there should be plenty of tadpoles in the spring! (And you may see some frogs yet.)
Are you having a good time, Sherlock? Is everyone enjoying your cake?
There's lots of cake and mine is all gone but Lestrade says I can make another at the weekend. I've seen a frog now by shining a torch down into the water and it was between a rock and the side but it didn't come out but there are loads of newts and some insects and we saw a leech.
His cake was delicious. I had two pieces, and it was nearly gone before Lestrade got here.
I guess your cake was just too good for anyone to pass up, Sherlock! I'm sure you'll make one as good or better just for yourselves, now you've the hang of it. :)
Good job searching out a frog, too. And a leech, that's something new! Does it look all slimy? My mental idea of leeches is definitely of something slimy.
Nearly gone, mainly into the two people here who I live with, I suspect...
As it's now clear to you all that have been at work all day, I can now tell you my major frustration of the day...
I answer my phone with my left hand. Thi is so I can talk and still do my paperwork with my right.
My left hand is currently a big mess of bandage and splint.
Almost every time today the phone rang and I punched it onto the floor instead of answering it and then had to scramble after it.
Sal phoned me three times just to watch from her desk.
I wonder how the leech got in there? I mean, it couldn't crawl from another pond somewhere, so did someone bring it to yours by accident or even on purpose?
I've heard more frogs than seen them, but that's usually in the spring. The spring peepers here are really tiny, but they make a big noise. Are your frogs noisy at twilight?
L, when my co-worker wasn't allowed to use her hand her son taped a hat to the splint with a big sign on it that said "NOT YET, MOM!" But she wasn't allowed to lift anything with that hand. Not even a coffee cup.
rsf
...and I see John confirmed the excellence of your cake while I was busy typing. :)
The leech didn't look slimy but it was underwater so you wouldn't have seen even if it was and it stretched out and then swam in a wiggly way but Mrs N said we couldn't get it out in case it got on someone.
*snickers* I might not have been able to resist that temptation either, Sally.
L, can you get a phone headset to use while your hand is in the splint? Might make life easier, especially now that there are wireless versions.
rsf
In the end I took the quite stunningly technical step of moving my phone to the right of my desk.
L--I can't tell you how many cups I knocked to the floor with my cast-and-bandaged up right hand when I had surgery on it a few years ago. It was SOOO frustrating! (I should have tried keeping my cup on the right side of my plate, but I did not think of it... *smacks forehead*)
Wow, that sounds like a really interesting method of locomotion, Sherlock--I'll have to google leeches and see if I can find some video.
I've read that some medical establishments are using leeches to bring down swelling and bruising.... (No, I guess you can't try it on Lestrade. First of all, Mrs N said not to get it out, and besides, I'm pretty sure they breed special leeches for medical use, and I'm positive they keep them in extra clean water and so on.)
That is brilliant Greg (in a absolutely not funny really kind of a way ;-) )
I'm glad you're having fun at frog evening and that Sherlock's cake went down well.
I'm hoping you've met other parents before Greg? or is their first impression of you as Mr big hand? just surprised Mrs Holmes isn't visiting ;-)
Aha--they don't use leeches for swelling but to prevent clotting. More here. So you're safe, Lestrade. :)
Oh, and I found a swimming leech video! It kinda looks like a flat worm, while swimming anyway--and a wiggly way describes it just exactly.
I already asked if I could put the leech on him and he said maybe one day but not now. And I know they use them for medicine but not like they used to because they used to do it for other reasons that aren't really true at all and if it helped it was just chance and not really because they knew properly and it's the skinny end that sucks your blood not the fat end and you have to be really careful when you take them off or just wait for them to finish feeding and let them fall off.
We're going home now because it's late and it was fun but I've been at school loads today.
I've just been reading a bit about leeches, and really, I should have saved the time and just asked you! It's really quite interesting. I assume the bit about letting them fall off is because of their anti-clotting agent--if you pull them off before they're done I imagine there'd be a lot of bleeding.
You have indeed been in school a lot today, and in the first week back, too! But I'm glad it was fun. :) Have a good weekend being not-in-school!
No it's because if you don't get them off right they're sick back into your blood and you can get infected so if you don't know how to get them off it's safer to let them fall off because they're quite little and it wouldn't really hurt you to lose that much blood and usually you stop bleeding in a few hours or sometimes days but it's only a little bite.
That is extremely cool. Thank you, Sherlock!
But frogs are littler than people. Could the leech hurt them?
Yes sometimes leeches can get on frogs or fish but we haven't got any fish and if we see many we're going to make a leech trap! But not when there's lots of people around. Mrs T and Mrs N said we should do it at the weekend or something.
It sounds like there was quite an interesting conversation going on there about leeches.
As much as he loves his frogs, I think he half wants more leeches just to make a leech trap.
Am very glad to be home with John. Stopped off to get changed after work and my clothes conspired against me to finish off what the crash started. Very hard to get changed quickly with one hand and no practice.
I'm not sure I want to know what kind of bait you use in a leech trap. But it's probably interesting to see.
I'm glad Mrs T was at the barbecue too. Does she have some new little kids in her class, and did they get invited to come so they could learn about frogs and newts?
rsf
my clothes conspired against me to finish off what the crash started
What more have you done?
It's not really the best time of year for seeing frogs. It's much easier in the spring when they're all out looking for mates and making a lot of noise. Different frogs have different times of year that they call, but usually it'll be about 6 weeks and fall sometime between March and June depending on the climate where you live. They're still around now, they're just not so busy and so they're harder to find. (My best friend studies frogs. I've been out with her in the spring time counting how many species we can hear.)
I second SH's question...you okay, L (not counting the hand)? I hope you have a very quiet, restful rest of the evening...
And rsf--apparently leeches make good bait for some kinds of fish, because you can find instructions on how to make leech traps on fishing sites. (Meat seems to be the bait of choice. Logical.)
Oh, I'm fine. Just had to get Mrs Hudson to do up my jeans for me. Took the longest to get out of my work shirt, because John did the cuffs up for me this morning. It's more because I get annoyed and make things worse.
Can Mrs. Hudson put some temporary velcro tape fasteners in your cuffs? Those are a bit easier to manage one handed.
(And I'm not going to ask how much she enjoyed doing up your jeans. Really. Some questions answer themselves.)
rsf
Oh, I'm fine. Just had to get Mrs Hudson to do up my jeans for me
Presumably in lieu of the flowers/diamonds?
The whole situation sounds irritatingly frustrating.
John - how's your shoulder?
Sherlock - sounds like you had a fun and interesting evening :-)
L--Just be eternally grateful you'll never have to put on a bra one-handed. :D
(It really is enormously frustrating, I completely empathize.)
RSF - I've got cufflinks I can use that are pretty easy to get in and out of one handed. Just look a bit smarter than usual.
RR - well, if Anthea won't lend me one, what's a boy to do?
Maybe Mrs Hudson would oblige? :D
there are some things that are just too creepy to read. Lestrade getting inside Mrs H bra has to be the limit!
Yeah, I won't be mentioning that to her.
you certainly win the creepy idea award RR ;-)
I hope you've all had a nice evening Greg and that weekend is fun but uneventful :-) we're having a party, kids and sugar should never mix so I'm told ;-)
I can't manage to get cufflinks in with two hands! But I suppose it's a matter of practice making perfect. And at least you have John now to help you undress. Right? Although given that he's posted a grand total of 17 words today, I suspect his shoulder is bothering him more than he's letting on.
rsf
I've got some silk knots, RSF.
http://www.hawesandcurtis.com/mens-accessories-silk-knots_84.html
You can just pull them through. Harder to get into, easier to get out of.
John's...yeah, bit bruised. He says it's that, not really that it's aggravated his shoulder too much. Although I think he's mainly trying to make me feel better about dumping him on the tarmac.
Think it's hard for both of us to know what to say right now, too. I mean, if it wasn't just an accident. Which is looking...well, we're not having any luck tracing the bike, which isn't making me feel better about it, put it that way.
I'm fine! Just been busy, with frogs and all, and an overexcited Sherlock wanting to put leeches on people.
There you go. I mean, everyone totally believes protests of 'I'm fine' around here. Sorted.
There's not a lot else I can say.
chit chat about the weather will do Greg, or nothing at all if you feel that is better for both of you. We all want to support you and make it all better eventhough we know we can't really do anything but we don't want either of you to put yourselves at risk by telling us anything.
It's a difficult situation for you all to be in but we are all here for whatever you want from us even if that is such a tiny thing that can't possibly make any of it better.
You can say you forgive me for my inside-out socks? The only way I could turn them the right way in involved using my teeth... I wasn't sure it was worth it. Afterall, I kiss you with this mouth...
Leeches are verrrry interesting!
Nothing useful from any cameras either, I take it, L?
No, I mean, they show what happened. Hard to tell if it was on purpose or just terrible riding. And then there's a dirty rear plate - lots of mud on it, and on the rest of the bike. And no match yet.
Wrangling an overexcited Sherlock and leeches does require a good bit of time, I grant you! I just remember flying off my bike (the pedal kind) years ago and how very stiff and unhappy it made me for a while.
The silk knots look a lot easier than the cufflinks I remember. (They were my father's.) I may have to find some, because I've got a couple of lovely shirts that I always roll the sleeves up on because they have no buttons, and those would look a lot nicer. Thanks!
rsf
p.s. Will Mycroft be home this weekend or is he inundated with classwork?
You are relieved from sock duty until you have two working hands again. Definitely not worth it.
Ah, a sign of true love.
And I get to ask you to undress me lots.
I'm finding a few plus sides to the hand being useless.
Very, very frustrating.
I wish I had a brilliant idea to offer--or even a good solid fact--but all I have is a nasty suspicious mind, which isn't much help, I know.
I have to head offline in a little, so I wish you all a very peaceful, relatively unfrustrating Saturday.
L - I am, of course, happy to undress you any time.
RSF - Mycroft isn't coming home this weekend, but I think we'll probably go and visit him at some point.
RR - don't think a mind has to be nasty to have a healthy dose of suspicion. Just sensible.
Danger - bed? You might need to get up early with me tomorrow... unless you want to leave breakfast to Sherlock and my one hand...
Bed's good. I'll get up, don't worry. Maybe I'll even do pancakes if you tell me how.
Thanks, L.
I really hope you have a very normal, uneventful weekend!
(Sorry, Sherlock, if you see this in the morning. But sometimes a little dull is really good.)
Good night all. Pancakes for breakfast sounds so good I think I will have them for supper.
rsf
Sherlock is being a hard taskmaster.
Was that hand related or breakfast related?
Pancakes require proper technique!
rsf
Breakfast related. He wanted me to do them exactly the way Lestrade does, including flipping them up in the air. He only made me try that part once.
The funniest part was watching you try to whisk up the mixture right handed. Even Sherlock admitted that didn't really work out...
I live to entertain. Funnier than than the pancake that momentarily stuck to the wall?
That might have won if the dogs had been here.
Sherlock, I do promise that whichever way it's mixed is essentially the same.
How can it be the same if it's not made the same! It would be different because it was made different.
Mixing it clockwise or counter clockwise isn't different enough to be different.
They were lovely, John, thank you.
Although you didn't actually need to cut mine up for me, pisstaker :)
Just trying to help! :) Didn't want you worrying at it with your teeth like you had to do with the buttons.
Hah.
Your cooking may sometimes be worrying, but I'm sure your pancakes would never need worrying!
I know you were just getting me back for me being extra pathetic getting dressed just so I got your hands on me more.
As if I would object to that. Perhaps trying to get you back for egging Sherlock on...
as if I would.
Want to go out on your bike sometime?
Yeah. Tomorrow maybe?
Yeah. My hand won't fit through my jacket sleeve. Am I allowed out of my brace, Doc? - insert winning smile here -
Sherlock, if we went out for an hour or so would you like to do something with Mrs H? Make biscuits or something?
Not biscuits, I will take her out somewhere fun.
Err...right.
Want to borrow some aftershave and cufflinks? :)
L - I'll look at it tomorrow, but yeah, I think so, if you're careful.
I'll shove it in my jacket or something. And trust you to ride carefully for your poor injured passenger...
It's a deal, Sherlock. Although we'll have to see if you have a shirt that'll take cufflinks.
It just needs holes, I can put in holes.
DO NOT put holes in the cuffs of any of your good shirts!
Why notttt?
Because you don't have that many good shirts, and you can't just ruin them!
When you buy all your own clothes, that's when you can do what you want to them.
Honestly, you can just have some aftershave. Mrs H won't mind no cufflinks. She'll completely understand.
John doesn't have any shirt for cufflinks either. Until I buy him some... but for that I need a reason to get him in a sharp suit ;)
You should take him on a date then, he wore one when he went out with me except it wasn't very nice.
Thanks, Sherlock....
Think he'll let me buy him a new one, for our...possibly slightly late...celebrationversary? (One that meets with your approval?)
I'm sure he would be happy to do so - sounds like the perfect opportunity.
He always lets you buy him things but I don't think you're supposed to have a real anniversary until you're married.
Not an anniversary - and ours isn't until later in the year, even if it is a not-real one. And I guess we'll get to pick the perfect time of year we want it if we ever do make it 'real'.
I meant our late celebrationversary... which doesn't really have an exact date. I don't think. Unless he'd like to pick one...
If we're going to pick one, it should be an easy to remember one.
..do you actually have any idea which milestone of our lives I've decided to celebrate this time? Because I know in the past you've struggled slightly to keep up with my love of celebrating anything we possibly can... :)
Well, no. But I'm perfectly happy to celebrate it.
Well... last year, in a tent, in late August, a certain Doctor thought that instead of just mooching off him and loitering about his house all the time, I should officially move in.
And while it's pretty much impossible to point to the moment when I went from not living with you to living with you, it must have been around now.
So I declare you've officially put up with me taking up valuable space in your flat for a year. (ish).
Heh - congratulations on your celebrationversary! A onderful occasion to be celebrating :-D
Sherlock - my husnad and I still celebrate the anniversary of when we got together as a couple, as well as our wedding anniversary; both are very important to us, and it's very nice to be able to have two good reasons to celebrate every year.
Having you here for a year is definitely something to celebrate. :)
Sounds like you're having a busy day! Maybe you can let Sherlock practice with a cold pan and a cooled pancake to see how tricky flipping them actually is sometime.
Sherlock, you should ask Mrs. H if she'd like to go someplace which is fancy enough for cufflinks, or if she wants to go somewhere more fun than fancy. I'm sure London has restaurants where they cook the food right at your table, or let you cook it, like fondue or hotpot, or liquid nitrogen ice cream.
John, a nice suit is always a good thing to have in your wardrobe. And a lot more fun to shop for when you have the intended audience along.
L, you're brilliant. The more anniversaries to celebrate the better!
I went sailing and lost my glasses; fortunately into the boat not the river, but it took someone else to find them, and now I'm home I need a nap.
It's my birthday soon and we should definitely celebrate that LOTS.
Flipping pancakes isn't hard because Lestrade does it and sings and dances and does it in time with the music so it isn't hard but the pan's heavy and I've tried but it didn't work right but John's a grown up so he should be able to do it! He can practice lots and make me lots of pancakes though.
I'm certain we'll celebrate your birthday lots.
Any idea what you want to do for it?
We shall definitely make John practice pancakes lots...
Go to Japan in an aeroplane!
You can try it using a cold pancake and something like a ping pong paddle that doesn't weigh as much. It takes practice even for grownups, though.
rsf
And yes, you should definitely celebrate your birthday! I always like birthdays because I think it's fun to get nice surprises.
...I was hoping more like... living in a tent in an animal park? Um....or..something posible in a weekend?
Can we live in a tent where the wild horses were?
Why Japan? Do you want to see another kind of macaque? But I think that wild horses would be good too. I didn't know that there were any in England, but I've seen them here.
rsf
(If you give people lots of ideas about things you might like for your birthday, chances are good you'll get at least one of them.)
You can camp in the New Forest, yeah.
Or somewhere I've never been.
Where have you been - or, rather, where d you remember and not want to go back to?
I haven't been lots of places, mostly only the ones I went with you and John and Mycroft. Going back to Dorset would be all right but somewhere new would be better.
Well we've got lots of the world left to explore then. I'm sure we'll find somewhere to go.
Danger, do I get some more ice massage? Was pretty nice yesterday. especially if accompanied by some more ice in a glass of scotch. :)
Yeah, sure. You could rub my shoulder a bit with your good hand too if you wanted to.
more than happy to.
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