Monday, January 13, 2014

short

Out of a long list of reasons L just gave for Sherlock not being able to accompany him to crime scenes, one was that there were no paper suits in his size. He went up to his room and has just come down in a tissue paper suit held together with staples.

L and I are both dying and have sent pictures to Mycroft and his mum. Sherlock is unbelievably pleased with himself, even though he does know it won't get him admittance to murder scenes. He says he's going to be a DI in his next school play. Regardless, I assume, of what the play is actually about.

Of course, it's also just fifteen minutes till his bedtime, and he's bouncing off the walls, so possibly the joke's on us... 

56 comments:

Greg Lestrade said...

don't say we're dying! he'll be after our stomach contents before you can get your breath back to protest!

John H. D. Watson said...

and our braaaaaaaainnns....

Greg Lestrade said...

you're going to be in so much trouble when he reads this...

John H. D. Watson said...

Probably.

Greg Lestrade said...

I feel like there will be some form of sonic boom as your glares meet...

John H. D. Watson said...

As long as it's tomorrow. We have to get him into bed somehow...

Greg Lestrade said...

erm...a sack, some rope and chloroform.

I feel like a ready supply of chloroform would solve lots of our problems. Or ketamine.

Sherlock said...

I'M not tired but YOU should go to bed and think about what you've done.

John H. D. Watson said...

Oh god... I need to get him to say that on video...

Greg Lestrade said...

oh, god, the more we laugh the harder he glares

Joolz said...

Is the suit removable at this stage for him to keep or did he staple himself into it. :)

Good luck getting him to drop off.

Sherlock said...

it's not funny I should get to come to crime scenes!

Greg Lestrade said...

Your suit is amazing. But we do need to free you from it.

And ponder why John titled this blog as if it would be about him, and then it's all about you...

John H. D. Watson said...

Short is a description of the post, thank you very much!

Greg Lestrade said...

Mmmmm hhmmmmmmmm. Do you have to roll up the legs of your paper suit on crime scenes?

I'm going to go and try to spot some planets with the boy, see if he calms down. Or I just fall asleep and he steals my internal organs... come and check on us in a minute ;)

John H. D. Watson said...

Keep that up and I'll do more than check on you...

Greg Lestrade said...

promises promises!

At least you won't get a bad back from ducking under police tape all the time, like I have to...

Sherlock is getting angry at stars for not having planets orbiting them. If he were a star, he'd have loads of planets.

John H. D. Watson said...

I feel sure he would.

REReader said...

Well, who wouldn't? Boring to not have satellites...

Greg Lestrade said...

I'm reasonably sure he is and does... although I may just be an old icy rock, caught in his gravity field.

Anon Without A Name said...

N'night Sherlock :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

,...need to post on correct blog.

Need help, John, have laptop and sleeping child upon me. Need extracting.

John H. D. Watson said...

Ha. on my way...

Greg Lestrade said...

want to examine some heavenly bodies in bed?

John H. D. Watson said...

at least one.

Joolz said...

Morning guys, hope you enjoyed your astronomical evening. ;)

Are you planning to go out and about tomorrow to enjoy your day off together. As long as you're back in plenty of time for art club, of course, wouldn't dare to miss that.

Have a good day anyway everyone, and best of luck for your continuing mocks, Mycroft, though I'm sure you're perfectly prepared and that's the last thing you'll need. :)

Greg Lestrade said...

We found a planet I'll have you know!

And it's not the one you smutty minded lot are thinking!

Today I'm tired and..sad.

REReader said...

Bad case, L?

Greg Lestrade said...

Talking to family about their dead relatives from halfway around the world, through an interpreter. Just very sad.

REReader said...

I'm sorry, that's...yeah, sad. I'm sure they appreciated the time and caring.

Greg Lestrade said...

Danger, Sherlock might like this, after school.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25722259

Hope you're having a good day.

rsf said...

That's an interesting use of DNA. I hope it provides some answers. (Although it does make me wonder how they got their samples. Did they have to disinter the poor guy?)

Sherlock, your paper suit sounds excellent. It made me think of the picture over here: http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/lws_gems/4/uve.htm although I'm glad you don't have to wear something like that all the time.

REReader said...

You've all be very quiet today--I hope you had a good one, John and Sherlock, and that things were better this afternoon, L. (And that your mock exams are going smoothly, Mycroft.)

Greg Lestrade said...

Tired.

And Mycroft said our planet wasn't a planet, but probably an eclipsing binary. Sherlock is happy about this though, because he didn't want us to find a planet.

REReader said...

I hope you have a cozy relaxing evening, then.

Well...I'm sure it's more he didn't want you to find a planet if HE didn't find a planet... :)

Greg Lestrade said...

Yes, didn't want 'us' (Me and John) to find a planet before he did. Not that you know if you've found one sometimes... the...thing we found which probably isn't a planet... was rather obvious!

REReader said...

Maybe I should try looking for planets... What do you think, Sherlock, is it better if more people look or fewer?

Sherlock said...

I think I've found some already anyway but they're too slow at looking so I don't know. It's better for science if lots of people look but I still want to find one.

REReader said...

You are much faster at looking than I would be, judging by the lens search, so I think you'd probably find whatever there is to find well before I do.

It would be cool to find one!

Greg Lestrade said...

Joolz, we'll do some bike maintenance tomorrow. Still teaching Danger what to do :) And obviously have a ride. Not sure what else.

Joolz said...

And go out on the bikes... ;) (sorry, couldn't help myself!)

I suppose it's safer to be closer to home for school time - I wouldn't like to think what would happen if you didn't make it back in time. :)

Do you have oats soaking too to keep people happy before they have to go off to school whilst other people are both at home.

Greg Lestrade said...

There are oats soaking. John might even get a look in tomorrow...he normally only gets one or two pancakes, as Sherlock (with a little help from me) has the rest before John drags himself out of bed!

Greg Lestrade said...

John did indeed get his oats, for those wondering.

And is now learning more of the art of motorcycle maintenance. Except we've stopped for coffee because it's cold.

REReader said...

It sounds like a fun day is being had. :) And you still have plenty of time to warm up! ;)

Greg Lestrade said...

John is implying that I might not be able to keep it clean when instructed to draw something i'd like to do...

Anonymous said...

Well, track record speaks for itself, oh placer of strategic jam jars. John may feel he has reason . . .

formerlyAnon

REReader said...

Well, what did you draw? ;)

How about you, Sherlock? That's an interesting thing to be asked to draw...so many choices!

Greg Lestrade said...

John kept trying to peek at my drawing.

Sherlock drew himself on his new planet.

REReader said...

Was it worth a peek? :D


Sherlock drew himself on his new planet.

Ha, I totally guessed that right! What does the planet look like?

Mycroft said...

It is entirely possible he arrived from another planet in the first place.

Piplover said...

All younger siblings come from a different planet. Sadly, the planets won't take them back. (Just kidding, Sherock!)

Anon Without A Name said...

John did indeed get his oats, for those wondering.

Lucky lad :-)

So, what did you draw John? Was it clean? How about you Lestrade? I'm guessing it had something to do with riding?

Greg Lestrade said...

I got told off by Sherlock for doing a boring drawing. It was indeed clean though.

REReader said...

How about John, was his drawing interesting enough? :)

Unknown said...

Mycroft may already follow the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, but here's one from recently
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140112.html
that may remind people my age of the "Powers of Ten" film, from back when film was actually film.
S

Lancs. Anon said...

Thanks for that link and it does indeed remind me of Powers of Ten. Some of the things were so much smaller than I imagined!

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