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The linked article says it's not real, sadly - I mean that it doesn't exist as a taxi, not just that it doesn't really take you back in time.
Sherlock's class had auditions for the Christmas show today. Sherlock wants to be an angel with a light up halo. A dancing angel. Possibly breakdancing. Probably not on the head of a pin, but nothing would surprise me. He's also got a violin piece to play at the start of the show, along with two of his classmates, who I believe are playing cello and harp.
On the way home, he said he wants to invite Molly and Sally to come to the show as well - but only if he gets the part. Heh. I need to ask Mrs N how many guests we're allowed to bring. There are quite a few of us already.
And I need to start Christmas shopping in a very serious way. What are you all getting your mums this year? Any ideas I can steal?
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I'm not going to continue the poetry indefinitely, but I realised I didn't do any haiku at all. So here's this, by Issa.
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell
gazing at flowers.
95 comments:
I always liked:
Haiku's are easy,
But sometimes they make no sense.
Refridgerator
Okay, that is a seriously awesome taxi (even if it's not a real taxi)!
Here's hoping you get the part you want, Sherlock! (Or an even better one. :))
We don't do Chanukah presents in my family, so I can't offer you any second-hand ideas, John--but cashmere (a twin set or scarf-glove set or turtleneck) is usually appreciated, color to suit the recipient. :)
And I love that haiku. Very contemplation-worthy.
(Hah, Trills!)
Writing a Haiku
But can't complete it just yet
I need five more words
I hope Sherlock gets the part he wants and its so lovely that he wants so many people involved in seeing him perform, hopefully you'll be able to get enough seats :-)
Trills - ha, I like that too!
RR - thanks. Maybe something like that, yeah.
Anonybob - I hope so too. It's not a large space.
I got my mom a book called "Underwater Dogs." It's basically just funny pictures of dogs as they go underwater, so don't know if that helps at all.
Does your mom like to read? If she doesn't have one, maybe a Kindle? Or if she does, maybe you can gift her a book or card?
Good luck! Shopping for family can be hard!
Hey, if Sherlock gets to invite say...3 people, surely I get the same number too? Otherwise I shall stamp my foot, declare it unfair and refuse to strum...
Pip - she does like to read. I honestly don't know how she'd feel about a Kindle, but it might works. Thanks, I'll think about it. I just looked at the Underwater Dogs - some of those pictures are hilarious.
L - heh. And who do you want to invite, young man?
I took a bunch of photos of my Mom's place over the past year. I tried for artsy stuff; she's got a turn of the last century farmhouse, with outbuildings in various states of decrepitude. So I'm putting together a set of framed pictures of things like her flower garden and the old granary windows behind it. Actually, it seemed like a better idea before I described it...
Kestrel - that sounds wonderful, actually. I'm sure she'll love it.
That's a very cool idea Kestrel
Does she subscribe to any mags? I don't know... home and garden stuff? Interiors? Any hobbies?
Or could give her a big framed picture of the four of us (plus creatures). ;)
Or just of you in your amazing earflap hat...
She likes gardening. Maybe something for her roses? I dunno.
Garden vouchers, for her to spend down the local garden centre? Easier to wrap than half a tonne of horse-manure....
Better smelling too... Yeah, that could work.
and there's always a possibility that someone could take have a pile of shit dumped on their front garden the wrong way...
It'd be pretty funny though.
I You were all involved in the Christmas show John you wouldn't need tickets and therefore all the other people who Sherlock would like to come and see it could have the tickets ;-)
Buying presents for mothers is impossible, I've given up trying because whatever I get there will be something wrong with it and she doesn't hold back in telling me!
Harry...no.
Go one Harry! Sherlock will make a sparkly sign to stick in it saying 'With love from John' :)
I've got just about all my relatives Weather Trees this year: http://www.weathertree.com/ plus coloured pencils to colour the leaves in.
(do I dare go into the flat? If you don't hear from me, check likely piles of manure for my body.)
This year I'm sneaking away with my brother's children and having professional portraits done of the two of them for all the relevant relations. My mother is getting a full set for Christmas.
Toodles,
Bronwyn
Ha! I like the way you think, Greg.
I'm getting my mom jigsaw puzzles and the kind of candy she likes. She already reads ebooks on her iPad (and likes it, because it lets her make the font big.) She also likes the iPad because she can take pictures with it of things she wants a quick photo of.
But what she'll probably like best is a phone call. As long as I don't call during the football game!
Garden stuff sounds like a good plan for your mum. Does she have arthritis in her hands or other mobility issues? Because there are a whole lot of neat tools you can find online to make it easier for her to do stuff in the garden.
rsf
Someone has to lead him astray Harry, now you don't see him every day...when I say 'lead him astray' I suppose I mean 'get him in trouble'.
Oh, good, there you are. :D
You could do a poll, John. Just leave glitter bedecked manure off the list.
rsf
I think glitter bedecked manure should remain on the list. It might give you an idea of the sort of readers your blog has.
There's a posh hotel in London that lets dogs stay we should go with the dogs.
Why do you want to stay in a hotel in London when you already live in London, Sherlock?
...Sherlock is watching a show on Claridges. I have no idea why.
We won't be staying there.
Because it's THE BEST and they have men who walk the dogs and flowers and a man whose ONLY job is to make the lift go up and down and someone just booked the whole entire floor and they made bedrooms into kitchens and had two whole rooms for shopping bags and you wouldn't have to do anything because there are people to cook and clean and do everything for you.
They have men who walk the flowers?
NO they have people to get flowers and all the rooms have flowers. You're silly.
That certainly sounds like a comprehensive set of services.
I imagine that most of the people that stay there have people at home who do those things for them already. (Except for someone to run the elevators--the lifts. Some buildings in New York have those, though.)
Who me? Silly? Pfft.
ONE room costs six and half THOUSAND pounds to have for ONE night and that's loads but you get breakfast.
Another reason you won't be going there.
Although if you want to pay Mrs H 6 and half grand per night for your room, she wouldn't complain. After all, you get breakfast too...
Now, bed.
I hope it's a really big room.
:)
Night night, Sherlock!
He's in bed. He may even sleep. He's really really hoping he gets the part he wants in the play. He said he showed Mrs N his best dance moves.
I sort of dread to think what they were...
Considering he must have learnt them from the master. Do you think he air guitarred too?
I hope he sleeps well for you and that you two do when the time comes :-)
I really really hope he gets the part he wants, too. (Maybe you can ask Mrs N what his best dance moves were when you go to rehearsal. :))
big fish little fish cardboard box?
Ages ago L. posted a link to a video of Bob the Builder doing big fish little fish cardboard box and it's seriously my go to up-cheering thing on the whole of the Internet. I can't even say why it makes me laugh so much, but thanks!
Lancs. Anon
welll...how many people in his life dance about like maniacs with him? I just hope he didn't try to copy my moves when I was trying to make you dance in the kitchen when we were talking about glowsticks. He'd probably have been arrested...or at least expelled.
Why is it only after the fact that I realise what a bad example I must be sometimes??
(it is plainly John's fault, at least.)
Lancs Anon - it is strangely hypnotising to watch. As are L and Sherlock doing it together.
L - how is it my fault this time!
You make me dance at you in the style of a .... err...someone who is youthfully exuberant about getting to know your good self, you allow him to be influenced by my bad example - terrible Nanny, inflicting that on the poor young innocent. Clearly your fault.
And I didn't bring any of my sweeties back for you, as punishment. Left them in my desk.
:( Not even one?
not even one.
I could coat something in chocolate that you could teabag... ;)
I mean, I could let you in on my stash of left-over advent string goodies...
'Something'...uh huh...
(for anyone of particularly sensitive disposition, rule 2 applies.)
When will I ever learn the importance of following rule 2? Yet another thing that I didn't need to know.
...applies to anyone under the age of....well, anyone who knows they're too young!
SH - I don't know. I blame the doc for that too, though :) He obviously hasn't run enough classes on 'Rule 2: The importance of following it'.
(I have to give my presentation the end of this week. I have to think up a title. All titles seem to be a reasonable sentence chopped up, turned around, with some odd punctuation thrown in.)
And I don't know where the first part of my first sentence went.
It probably should have said something like "I should have said that that advice also applies to...."
(I'll blame the doc for eating it. Like he's currently eating Rose flavoured chocolate.)
It's mainly chocolate flavoured, I have to say. What are the choices for your title?
can't remember now. can't even remember what I'm talking about.
bed?
I'll post the possibilities tomorrow or something.
Bed would be great, yes.
Yeah. Teabagging. Remember how the ultraconservative Tea Party originally called themselves the Teabaggers, until somebody (Rachel Maddow?) used Urban Dictionary and told everyone what the word actually meant? They'd protest by sending teabags (presumably from the Boston Tea Party???), which they called teabagging someone. They gave that up right quick. Not a propitious start. Made me laugh, though. Good times.
MNAnon
hows the day treating you guys? I hope its being as kind to you as it can :-)
While I've heard of the Tea Party, very vaguely, I don't think many of us Brits would know much about what they get up to.
But brilliant that they've been saying they've been 'teabagging' their rivals...bet they got a few odd looks!
Most Americans don't know all that much about the Tea Party--they pass themselves off as a grassroots, populust, anti-government movement, but they're really heavily funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, with the goal of passing laws favorable to the super rich. And Rachel Maddow is a gem--it could well have been her. :)
I hope everyone's day is going well!
Passing laws to favour the rich? Sounds like our government.
I'm busy. Arresting people is so much work.
Hard to imagine, innit?
I hope your arrests are going (relatively) smoothly, L...
Sherlock, did you get the part you wanted?
John, if you're still looking for holiday jumpers, what about this one? Or this one? Although Sherlock might like the ones that light up. Or have skulls...
L, I wish I didn't know about the Tea Party. Ah, well.
rsf
RR - sorry, not sure what's hard to imagine?
Arrests are...yeah, fairly smooth. Few bruises ;)
RSF - too scared to look at your links
You made the right choice. Those jumpers are terrifying.
RR - sorry, not sure what's hard to imagine?
Sorry, posting from a waiting room and expecting mind reading! Hard to imagine that politicians (and legislation) are for sale. /sarcasm
Rsf--I'm saving those pix to look at when I get home and need a pick-me-up!
Terrifying festive clothing? Which one have you ordered then?
I have not yet purchased a Christmas jumper, but when I do, you may rest assured that it will be tasteful and restrained.
Stop laughing, I can hear you from here.
I'm sure pure very tasty when restrained.
And by 'not yet' am i to understand it is inevitable?
You're not pure.
I mean... no, actually, that's fine whichever way you read it. ;)
Ha.
It is inevitable, yes, given that for some reason last year's appears to have mysteriously gone missing...
Besides, you'll want to have matching ones for the family photo! (Maybe something with tastefully flashing lights. :))
Lestrade got you into a hoodie for camping, so I think it's his turn to wear a jumper for Christmas, don't you?
Alas, this one is no longer available.
rsf
What a pity. Looks perfect for him!
he volunteered into a hoodie!
Nothing on this earth will make me wear an oddly patterned woolly jumper.
The one last year was not oddly patterned! That was a perfectly normal pattern. It did not light up or have a yeti on it.
Even if a small boy saved up his pocket money and bought you one?
Pandabob - if a small boy did that I'd give him a gentle lesson in not wasting his money.
Danger - it didn't have a yeti ON it, It was MADE of a yeti. And ill one. With a nasty fur disease.
The one last year was not oddly patterned!
As I recall, it was a perfectly nice Fair Isle jumper. They're pretty hard to knit, but extra warm because of the technique, which requires carrying the second color behind the first.
I think you should go for something more explicitly festive this year! Perhaps Sherlock could help you choose. :)
fair enough Lestrade.
Or you could go more traditional and just add googly eyes to the little alien heads near the shoulders.
rsf
On way home, Danger. Think I need a long soak in a hot bath.
Because of the cold or do you smell like dead bodies again? Hurry uppppp, I waited ALL DAY to tell you about the show.
Or because of the few bruises?
Yes, hurry (safely)! I want to hear about the show, too!
A few bruises, a bit of being too unfit for jumping over walls and chasing people and a bit of cold.
You've been very patient, Sherlock. Be there in 2 mins.
Only bruises, right, nothing worse? I really am trying not to fuss.
probably not even as dramatic as bruises! Just feels like it. Always feels worse when you're cold and stuff, doesn't it? You can check me over.
Wasn't like he hit me or anything, we just chased him, ended up in a scuffle trying to get cuffs and leg restraints on him.
You can check me over.
Thanks. It'll make me feel better.
And I'm glad he didn't hit you! Sounds quite exciting enough as it was. Are the leg restraints usual, or a special addition for your more energetic suspects? Don't think I've heard you mention them before.
only for our most special 'customers'. They're just velcro straps to stop them kicking.
So, has Sherlock made his grand announcement yet, or is he patiently waiting for the soaking to be over?
Are you watching the match Greg or still soaking? I hope you didn't come off too badly with the arrests.
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