L is working again tonight. Sherlock is overflowing with the desire to join him. I told him to wait in his room and I'd make him an obstacle course, which I have done and will probably regret. And if I don't, Mrs Hudson will when he comes charging through here like a herd of oversized squirrels. I might go down and apologise preemptively before I tell him it's ready.
I have work tomorrow night, which will hopefully give L enough time to recover and nap after work before I have to leave him with our small ball of energy. I have some diseased lung pictures in reserve for them to look at together. (Sentences I never thought I'd write, No. 847.) Still, hopefully, everyone will be in bed by the time I get a call - it does usually seem to work that way.
A Small Number
Olena Kalytiak Davis
So far, have managed, Not
Much. So far, a few fractures, a few factions, a Few
Friends. So far, a husband, a husbandry, Nothing
Too complex, so far, followed the Simple
Instructions. Read them twice. So far, memorized three Moments,
Buried a couple deaths, those turning faces. So far, two or Three
Sonnets. So far, some berrigan and Some
Keats. So far, a scanty list. So far, a dark wood. So far, Anti-
Thesis and then, maybe, a little thesis. So far, a small Number
Of emily’s letters. So far, tim not dead. So far, Matt
Not dead. So far, jim. So far, Love
And love, not so far. Not so love. So far, no-Hope.
So far, all face. So far, scrapped and scraped, but Not
With grace. So far, not Very.
Much. So far, a few fractures, a few factions, a Few
Friends. So far, a husband, a husbandry, Nothing
Too complex, so far, followed the Simple
Instructions. Read them twice. So far, memorized three Moments,
Buried a couple deaths, those turning faces. So far, two or Three
Sonnets. So far, some berrigan and Some
Keats. So far, a scanty list. So far, a dark wood. So far, Anti-
Thesis and then, maybe, a little thesis. So far, a small Number
Of emily’s letters. So far, tim not dead. So far, Matt
Not dead. So far, jim. So far, Love
And love, not so far. Not so love. So far, no-Hope.
So far, all face. So far, scrapped and scraped, but Not
With grace. So far, not Very.
50 comments:
ooh, diseased lungs, my favourite!
Sherlock, one of our forensic paths is going to dig out some pics of skeletons we've found that didn't turn out to be recent enough for investigation, too.
Good work on the obstacle course - and the poem is lovely.
Thank you!! The obstacle is good and Mrs Hudson is going to come up to watch me to do and she offered John one of her herbal soothers but he said it wouldn't help.
What can you think of that you could do that would help soothe John?
I'm sure you're very good at obstacling. Maybe John can film you for me to see.
He has been filmed. I can send you the video if you need entertainment. Sherlock is telling Mrs Hudson a story about a talking skull.
it'd probably just make me miss you both all the more.
Mycroft sent me this. I got 'Hated'. Odd how that makes me proud ;)
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/are-you-hated-by-the-daily-mail/
Has Sherlock calmed down at all? Or just ignored me.
Oh, I love talking skull stories. Is it the one where the skull says "My big mouth got me where I am, and yours will do the same?" or the equivalent?
If Sherlock is enjoying skeletons, he might like bog bodies too. I've actually seen the Tollund Man in person and it was very cool.
L - I'm also hated. Although I feel like Loathed should be the worst?
Sherlock is in bed at last. He spent the last twenty minutes before bedtime writing a letter of complain about why it was unfair that you're not there to tell him stories.
rsf - I think it was about a hidden jungle temple and treasure and possibly a hippo? Not entirely sure.
I did think that!
I'll initial the complaint and pass it on to someone to deal with ;)
...the story might be partly my fault? Sally's made me play a game on my phone called 'Temple Run'. I may have become slightly obsessed... it involves stealing treasure from caves and escaping without being eaten by killer zombie monkeys.
Ha! You'll have to show me at some point. Do you get eaten by zombie monkeys a lot? I think I would.
err..I genrally run into trees or off cliffs. But sometimes I get eaten. Sometimes I get barbecued then eaten...
So they're culinarily sophisticated zombie monkeys...
they have flamethrowers. naturally.
Oh, of course, what was I thinking?
I'm bored of being called a f****** **** already tonight, and I've got 7.5 hours to go. Maybe I'll go and get breakfast.
You meet such lovely people at work...
Mmm. had the FME out, too. Not as nice as you. Very disappointing.
Good, I like being your favourite FME. If you ever get Dr Feelgood, I hope you'll promote his nickname.
But of course!!
What're you up to? Destroying the obstacle course, or leaving it for tired unwary DIs to fall over?
I got "hated" as well. Yes!
It has been disassembled. One of us would've fallen over some bit of it and broken something vital. I have fallen onto the couch and may stay here forever.
Ha, Sherlock will bounce you off if you're still there in the morning :)
Just been flagged up to do my MOE training - another day I've got to find from somewhere!
MOE?
Method of Entry.
Someone's going to need to add a few days to this year. We need a honeymoon too...
I know :(
And the first person who mentions method of entry in relation to the honeymoon gets a glare from Danger...
I can put it off for a bit..I'll juggle some rotas.
Don't worry, I'm sure we can work something out.
I know. At least now the kids are all back at school places won't all be booked up.
You want to go somewhere abroad? Or just anywhere where it's just you, me and peace...
Or just anywhere where it's just you, me and peace...
That, yes.
Was beginning to hope you'd gone to sleep.
Excellent.
Can we go somewhere were we can be totally left alone. Like, not even a hotel, because I always feel completely obliged to get out of bed and let the chamber maid in in hotels (not in bed...in the room.). A cottage, or... well, somewhere we can be completely unsociable and hermit-like? (hermits together, naturally.)
Yeah, don't know why I'm not. I know I should be.
That sounds perfect.
Mmm. Get yourself to bed, while I sit here, tortured with thoughts of you doing just that.
If i get a moment I'll look up some websites.
All right. Love you.
love you too.
Hope hurricane Sherlock doesn't make landfall too early for you.
If he gets in our bed with you there's a study on blood transfer marks on my bedside table he can read until you come to life.
Mm, very useful to know, thanks.
It said there were 13 questions, but gave me hated well before I got to 13. I kind of want to know what the other questions were. I suppose I could lie to it and find out that way.
Good luck staying awake or getting to sleep, whichever applies.
Hope your night hasn't been too bad, Greg, have fun swimming this afternoon.
Are you swimming too, John, I'm sure Sherlock will be delighted to have you both there. Hope work goes ok tonight.
I'm sorry, but I have to risk the glare and say surely the honeymoon is the optimum time to perfect your MOE techniques. ;) Staying in a cottage type place sounds like a brilliant idea so you can please yourselves when you get up [in all definitions of the word]. ;)
Are you two gents having a good day? I'm guessing it busy as always but I hope some time relaxing together is possible :-)
It was relaxing! Now john is mocking me for trying to decide which nipple jewellery is most acceptable for school swimming lessons.
John, your poem made me cry. Thank God for the comment thread.
Greg, I tend to think that the most acceptable nipple jewelry for swimming lessons is "none," but that's because I'm typically the parent sitting on the bleachers trying to avert my eyes from the very attractive young men who frequent our Y while my kiddo is at his own swim lesson. If you promise to be extremely frumpy in every other regard, I suppose you could wear whatever piercings you want. Otherwise, just takes too much energy not to stare at you and your ilk.
Friends of mine took their honeymoon up in the mountains (of the Southwest US) in a yurt, which sounds right up your alley. I don't suppose you have yurts out there?
If you promise to be extremely frumpy in every other regard
Not possible for him, I'm afraid...
I went for silver colour barbells. I didn't want to put the plastic ones in only to have kids trying to stare really closely at my chest to figure out what was going on. Better to be obvious, I decided. Any who asked were satisfied when I told them they were just like earrings, anyway.
It was fun!
And it's entirely possible for my to be frumpy, hush you.
We have yurts. Sherlock may kill us if we went yurting without him...
I should be able to go on your honeymoon with you.
Ha. I can only, really, assure you that we will be doing lots of things you would consider very boring, involving lots of soppy kissing, hugging and really nothing you'd find at all exciting. Promise.
All right but no yurts and no camping and nowhere with cool insects.
Well, Sherlock, if there happen to be cool insects there (without them knowing ahead of time), they could take pictures for you. It's not the same, but it's something!
Right. No yurts, no cool insects, no camping. No problem.
And we'd phone every day. Skype, if we can.
I'd never really considered the fact that nipple piercings would be an issue with swimming lessons but I'm glad you found a solution you were happy with Greg :-)
If it was up to you to plan the perfect honeymoon for John and Lestrade Sherlock where would you send them? What do you think they'd enjoy?
Is it work tonight John? Good luck with getting/not getting calls if it is :-)
Ha, I hadn't either - until I started thinking about it! But rings are a no, just in case little fingers get caught! And then I thought if I put in the 'invisible' ones, I might get a crowd of kids squinting at my nipples!
I fear Sherlock would just keep us here...
I suspect you're right and Sherlock's first choice would be to have you there but I also think he loves you both very much and knows you both so well that he'd come up with the perfect holiday for you even if he didn't really want you to go on it ;-)
Does Sherlock still have karate lessons?
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