First off, here's the one Nicky sent to L, asking if Greg-the-Florist had expanded his business...
Sherlock's new shoes with exciting skulls and two colours of laces!
Picture of a pond that Mycroft took. (I think it's really nice, I'm sending it to his mum too.)
And a slightly blurry picture that I took with his phone of our blueberry bush in bloom...
And when we got home, we made flapjacks, because...that's what you do after you have pizza for dinner?
I swear we do eat quite a lot of vegetables. They just don't get discussed on here as often. And I never think to take pictures of peas or asparagus. Although they are quite nice looking when you think about it so perhaps I should. Well, maybe not peas. They're basically just small, green (sometimes wrinkled) balls. (I am now waiting to see what L will say about balls...)
Tomorrow...in theory at least...we're going rock climbing. There's a place that has all the gear and gives lessons for beginners. When I say 'we' I might mean Sherlock and Mycroft. L is remembering climbing a tree at Nicky's and the regret that followed, and I'm not sure how my shoulder will feel about it, but we'll certainly try, and I think the boys will love it. (Wish us luck.)
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I won't mention your desire to take pics of green wrinkly balls. Although interestingly, it may be a chance that presents itself if you become an FME...
Climbing...yeah. I feel like the boys have a better chance. I sort of don't feel like I'm built to haul myself up sheer rockfaces. Both boys'll probably be off like a ferret up a trouser leg though.
Yeah - but on ropes! It'll be like finally having Sherlock on a leash...
Although interestingly, it may be a chance that presents itself if you become an FME...
If so, I'll be sure to show you the pictures.
True, and a very good point.
I'm sure any such pictures you would have to treat with the strictest of confidence.
I think Greg and John should open up a Gay Creamery if ice cream sales around here are anything to go by...
Considering most of my patients will be alive (that sounds wrong), I'm quite hopeful I won't see any wrinkly green balls at all...
A combined pizza and ice cream shop, possibly.
yay climbing :-)
Those shoes are great, absolutely perfect for the number one pirate in the world.
sleep well or whatever gets you to morning John and don't work too hard Greg :-)
was thinking about seeing what delights the canteen might provide me - but getting word of a stabbing now, so might have to move out to that. Awaiting details...
Danger - never underestimate what people call the police to deal with. Some people would think waking up to green bollocks would be a police call. Been called to weirder.
Thanks, Anonybob.
L - good luck with the stabbing. Which also sounds wrong, but...you know what I mean.
Surely green balls would be reason to call a doctor, not the police?? What would the police do, arrest your bollocks? Not your personal... I'll just stop.
When I was a PC I was sent on a call to a man with a prosthetic leg.
He'd had a prosthetic leg when he went to bed the night before...but he swore it was the other leg. He said 'they'd' been out to get him to think he was going mad by making him believe he'd been abducted by aliens who'd switched his legs...
The rule book didn't cover that one.
(the photos of him around the flat with his prosthetic leg clearly on the same side as it currently was were all part of the deception...)
We had to get the FME and his family out on that one. Don't know what became of him.
...I can see this is going to be an interesting job.
Rock climbing! Do they use a self-belay system? Such things didn't yet exist when I learned it, and I learned at volume that "oh CRAP!" is not an acceptable substitution for "FALLING!" when communicating with your belay partner.
Hope the stabbing is as straight forward as such things can ever be, L.
Not sure we're allowed to call you out to jobs like that anymore..
Anyway, I'm off out to meet soco in case this stabbing turns into a murder. Give me a call before you turn in. And I'll see you in the morning.
I wouldn't want to belay for Sherlock, the little nippy climbers are soooooo difficult, I remember looking at one lad, who frequently climbed the same quarry without all the gear, and thinking, god I hope he doesn't slip because I was a good twenty feet behind on the rope!
Lancs. Anon
(Those were the days for school trips when they'd let someone as gormless as me belay!)
That's quite an idyllic pond photo--I like the effects added, not overdone, just right.
And those are fabulous shoes, especially with double lacing!
I hope your stabbing is not too complicated and is quickly wrapped up, L, and that your having a fairly peaceful night, John.
Rock climbing sounds like a perfect outing, Sherlock and Mycroft should both enjoy it. And it's an adventure! Have fun... :)
Not too bad. And nearly time to hand over and go and sleep
Sherlock is climbing the walls without the aid of ropes. We haven't even left yet. I think he'll be climbing me on the bike.
:)
Have a wonderful time!
As predicted, the boys have proven themselves part human, part spider.
Did you not realise that Spider is a radioactive spider? Did they not tell you about the biting incident?
Lancs. Anon
Ha, Lancs, you beat me to it!
Is the adult contingent climbing or observing? :)
We have climbed. Currently observing. May climb a little more.
It was brilliant thank you for taking us please can we go again?
Yeah, I daresay we can. You were both very good.
How high did you climb, Sherlock?
rsf
Really high!
Higher than a house, definitely.
That was really polite, Sherlock, thank you.
And yeah, you were pretty high up. It was amazing watching you two.
And so much nicer, knowing you were on ropes :)
Sounds like tremendous fun. I miss being able to rock climb. Did you rappel back down or did you have a different way to get back to the start?
rsf
We abseiled and I think that's the same and the i comes after the e because it's German.
Is that right, Sherlock? Why is weird spelt weird, do you know that?
Because it's a stupid rule that doesn't even work half the time.
Yes, indeed, that is the same as rappelling. (I haven't done either rock climbing or rappelling, but my brother has and liked it very much.) Sounds like an altogether special day!
Yup, as far as I know abseiling and rappelling are the same animal. Although I confess to thinking of abseiling as including more of the "jump off the rock face and hope you don't go too fast" and less of the "walking backwards down the rock."
As for "weird" the earliest versions have only the e or an e and y, so it was probably pronounced more like a long a before the great vowel shift.
rsf
And Sherlock, did you know that the rule actually goes "I before E except after C or as sounded as "A" as in neighbor and weigh?"
Although that doesn't explain "either", unless there's an English dialect that makes it sound like Ayther.
rsf
It doesn't explain loads of words it's a silly saying because what about weird and foreign and lots of other words too.
Bed, you.
You can continue your English lesson tomorrow.
RSF - there are English accents that make every vowel sound sound like everey other one. There's definitely places that say 'ayther'.
Ah, well, that's what happens when spellings get fixed and pronunciations don't. Sometimes it gives you a good clue to how words used to be pronounced, though, and that's interesting.
Night night, Sherlock!
L, I can believe it. Not even the mass media can drown out all variants of pronunciation.
Sherlock, spelling rules in English are never perfect because we borrowed the letters instead of making our own, we borrow words that use the same letters from other languages and keep their spellings even when they use different rules, and because we borrowed the letters before English did something very peculiar. We shifted the sounds of the vowels one over. So an "i" used to be sounded like the sound in the middle of "sheep", and still is sometimes in borrowed words, for example. But there wasn't a letter for the long a sound before the shift. It was spelled "ei". That's why reign and rain rhyme. I think it's also why we have doubled vowels in words like moon, which sounds like it could be spelled mune.
rsf (who has gotten a blog! But so far it is boring.)
I think his issue is that people still trot out these 'rules' which don't really work.
Can I just say, my little family here are all brilliant. We've been paddling in a stream on our walk and trying to spot fish. And it's just generally fantastic being with them.
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