Lestrade's driving. Mycroft and Sherlock are glaring at each other in the back seat. Sherlock spent ten minutes poking Mycroft, and I didn't notice until Mycroft finally lost his calm and stuck a wad of gum to Sherlock's forehead.
Gum has been removed and Sherlock has been told to keep his hands to himself. I'm having flashbacks to car trips with my parents and Harry. Except Harry stuck the gum to the top of my head, and I ended up with almost no hair after mum was done cutting it.
I think we'd better stop and eat soon. Food always helps in these situations, and those two are meant to be sharing a tent tonight. A tent room. I'm still not used to tents having rooms. When did that start happening anyway? At what point did some tent designer say to themselves, you know, I think this tent needs to be more like a house? Let's add a kitchen and some statuary. Impractical? Oh, maybe just another room then.
Gum has been removed and Sherlock has been told to keep his hands to himself. I'm having flashbacks to car trips with my parents and Harry. Except Harry stuck the gum to the top of my head, and I ended up with almost no hair after mum was done cutting it.
I think we'd better stop and eat soon. Food always helps in these situations, and those two are meant to be sharing a tent tonight. A tent room. I'm still not used to tents having rooms. When did that start happening anyway? At what point did some tent designer say to themselves, you know, I think this tent needs to be more like a house? Let's add a kitchen and some statuary. Impractical? Oh, maybe just another room then.
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Would it help to watch a video of the new baby giraffe at the Cincinnati Zoo?
http://cuteoverload.com/2012/10/24/hello-lovely-lulu/
Might not help them, but it helps me...
that sounds like a standard car trip from my experience John ;-)
Tents having rooms is a weird thing, I'm sure when I was younger they were just one bid freezing cold space but it does have some advantages I would have thought.
Oh yeah, it's great, I fully approve! Just odd.
Lots of advantages! My sleeping bag is full of Danger, and my feet don't end up covered in dog drool.
One of mum's boyfriends once got so mad at us he made us all get out and walk home. Which devolved into a fight which was only stopped by a neighbour passing by.
Good times. You want to drive after lunch? Not much further anyway.
Sounds like a typical camping trip. I don't suppose the boys sing together? That's how my mom kept the peace. Oh, and Sherlock, I have a flashlight with a crank too. And a radio!
rsf
putting the kids out of the car sounds like going a bit far but I know there were times my mother would have happily got out herself and walked home!
Do the dogs have a room or do they sleep with the boys?
They're sort of meant to stay in the middle bit, being so large, and protect us all. They generally end up all over Mycroft, like huge warm drooly fnugs.
L - yeah, all right. You can navigate...
I didn't get us lost! Just because the rest of you didn't know where we were doesn't mean I didn't.
I believe you know where you were. Just less certain you knew where you were in relation to where we were going.
Hmmmm.
Still, seems a nice day...the sun is there, above the mist, somewhere. Should get the tent up and secure before dark :)
Can we build a huge fire on the beach and dance around it??
I hope you all have a great time camping!
My parents used to give us each a roll of quarters. If we asked "Are we there yet?" Or any iteration thereof, we had to give a quarter. My sister, being the oldest, always managed to cajole my brother and I into asking for her.
Sherlock is gathering an entire forest to build the SMALL fire I said we could have.
(my phone insists I want to write anal fire. No thanks.)
:D
Have fun dancing around the (*fill in appropriate adjective*) fire, then!
Pop, that's a brilliant solution. I might steal that for my airmen.
We used to play word games, like the geography game, or "I'm going to grandma's house". And definitely got left behind for misbehavior once. It was my brothers fault. It's always the brother's fault...
I can remember one journey when my daughter fell asleep and we decided just to keep driving until she woke up - it was the only time we did Bristol to the far end of Cornwall without stopping!
I think no childhood car trip was complete until my father twisted around and said, "Don't make me stop this car."
What gods are you propitiating by dancing around the fire? The ones for warmth or the ones for clear skies?
Pirate ones!!!
Yes, Sherlock's main aim is to lure ships onto rocks and loot them.
Although he.says it isn't.
I like the idea of pirate gods...
What would they do? Loot other religions for the good bits?
L - perfect.
Heh, excellent!
I think Sherlock's plan technically makes him a mooncusser, rather than a boring ordinary pirate. So maybe that's a different deity.
rsf
A mooncusser! That sounds amazing!
regardless, you are not luring any boats onto rocks, or plundering other tents (not that there are many.)
Mooncussers might have been called wreckers in England, but it's the same idea. They'd lure ships into shore by pretending to be lighthouses on dark or stormy nights. But if there was a moon out, the sailors would see them and the trick wouldn't work, which is why they'd cuss at the moon.
rsf
Rsf--the next time I play Trivial Pursuits, will you come by and be on my team, please? :)
is it 'pursuits' in the US? I wonder why.
(It's not. That was a typo, because of this darned virtual keyboard.)
(Which is also partially responsible for the minimum of three tries it takes me every time I try to fill in the stupid captchas.)
them stupid captchas are almost enough to put you off some days aren't they RR
I don't mind trying taking it off on my blog, if I can work out how. See how it goes. But if we get a lot of spam I'd have to get it back on.
Honestly Greg it not really that much bother, it might be more bother (for you) without it!
Hope you're all having fun :-)
If you'd like to test taking it off, that would be lovely! But if you start getting spam (or other annoyances), no question but you should put it back on.
twas a joke Lestrade not a complaint.
Ah, okay, Anon.
AnonyBob - cheers.
RR - I'll see when we get home.
It's very dark here. John and Mycroft are refusing to join in with singing around the fire. I'll believe Mycroft's protests that he doesn't know many of the words. But not John's.
what a pair of spoil sports! I would suggest a forfeit is required for none singing people ;-)
There's no rush, L! Only try it if it's not a lot of trouble.
Knowledge of lyrics are irrelevant to campfire singing. You can always just quietly sing "watermelon, watermelon", which mostly works well enough. :)
Watermelon, pomegranate, kumquat, orange
Singing fruit is very strornge
But when you don't know the words
Pomes are easier than birds
RR, I'm only good at some of the categories for trivial pursuits. I'm awful at sports and current pop culture.
I hope you've had fun singing. Are you going to stay up and quietly watch for owls when you're done with the fire, or just go stay in the warm tent?
rsf
Heh, rsf--those are my weak areas, too. :)
Did it clear up enough for star-gazing?
Nah, pretty cloudy. We have heard an owl though, which has sent Sherlock into some sort of excitement high.
It's meant to clear up a bit tomorrow.
Owls are pretty exciting. :) I hope it does clear up for you!
I don't want to go to bed
why Sherlock? surely there is more fun to be had in the daylight than in the misty, dark night time? The more sleep you have tonight the more fun you can have tomorrow :-)
I can certainly sympathize.
But you won't have much fun tomorrow if you're all tired. So it's probably not a good tradeoff. (And there's not all that much to do in the full dark outside.)
Sherlock, since it's cloudy, there's not much to see. It might be better to sleep now and see if the sky has cleared later in the night. Also, there are animals that are active in the morning twilight as well as the evening twilight. If you wake up early and watch quietly you might see a few.
rsf
Bonfires, pirate gods, owls... and non-mandatory firesinging - sounds like you've all been having an excellent say (poking and gum notwithstanding).
I hope tomorrow is just as much fun :-)
sleep well and try not to freeze in the night gentlemen :-)
Cheers. One of the dogs is snoring. Or it might be John ;) but it's peaceful otherwise. Sea, trees, y'know, none of those city noises we're all used to.
sound absolutely perfect :-)
That sounds really nice. My family used to go to the beach for the summer, and in normal weather, the breaking waves were a lovely, soothing noise. :)
yeah, the waves are quite nice to hear.
I used to sneak out to the front porch very early in the morning to listen to the waves and watch the sunrise. I can still close my eyes and see it.
Sherlock--I was just watching this show about Blackbeard and how they found his sunken ship just a few years ago, and of course it made me think of you. I thought it was something you might like to watch when you get back home. :)
Guys? I know I'm being silty...but could one of you four say something, please?
We're fine, don't worry. We're great actually. :) L will have a post in a while I think.
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