Mycroft is done with his exams and gets to come home. L and I are going to meet him, have a ride on the bikes, get some lunch. Sherlock has campaigned to be allowed to stay home alone and bake Mycroft a cake all by himself. 'Alone' meaning that Mrs Hudson and security will still be in the building of course, but he'll be alone in the flat. He has absolutely promised not to set anything on fire. He's promised so often that one can only find it worrying. I'll let you know how it goes.
Update: I've taken Sherlock to the shops to buy cake ingredients. I can't tell if all of these things will be going in the cake or if some were chosen specifically as red herrings, but this was his shopping list:
I can only hope the fish won't really be going in the cake, but I'm not counting on anything. We didn't find edible gold dust, but we got those little silver cake decorating balls instead, which he pronounced 'not nearly as good.'
Update 2: Just about to have lunch with Mycroft as I write this. I've told him about the cake. His reaction: 'He's going to bake a sardine into my slice.' I admit this hadn't occurred to me, but that is the sort of thing Sherlock would do. Hopefully not in this case, as he is genuinely excited to have Mycroft home, but I'm not ruling anything out. I told Mycroft I'd switch slices with him. The things we do for love.
Update 3: We're home! Cake has been consumed and was fish-free. Half the sardines were eaten by Sherlock on toast and the rest were marinating in the Coke to see if they dissolved. They're still there. We've had worse things in the fridge.
The cake was a reasonably standard chocolate one, but Sherlock had cut it into pieces and build a sort of house out of it (because it was a welcome home cake, you see). Inside, there was an anatomical heart made from jelly. Because home is where the heart is and also because he couldn't find the jelly brain mould we have. Mrs. Hudson helped him with the heart.
Update: I've taken Sherlock to the shops to buy cake ingredients. I can't tell if all of these things will be going in the cake or if some were chosen specifically as red herrings, but this was his shopping list:
- chocolate
- cocoa powder
- a lot of eggs
- something very spicy
- some sort of tinned fish
- a banana
- edible gold dust
- a can of Coke
I can only hope the fish won't really be going in the cake, but I'm not counting on anything. We didn't find edible gold dust, but we got those little silver cake decorating balls instead, which he pronounced 'not nearly as good.'
Update 2: Just about to have lunch with Mycroft as I write this. I've told him about the cake. His reaction: 'He's going to bake a sardine into my slice.' I admit this hadn't occurred to me, but that is the sort of thing Sherlock would do. Hopefully not in this case, as he is genuinely excited to have Mycroft home, but I'm not ruling anything out. I told Mycroft I'd switch slices with him. The things we do for love.
Update 3: We're home! Cake has been consumed and was fish-free. Half the sardines were eaten by Sherlock on toast and the rest were marinating in the Coke to see if they dissolved. They're still there. We've had worse things in the fridge.
The cake was a reasonably standard chocolate one, but Sherlock had cut it into pieces and build a sort of house out of it (because it was a welcome home cake, you see). Inside, there was an anatomical heart made from jelly. Because home is where the heart is and also because he couldn't find the jelly brain mould we have. Mrs. Hudson helped him with the heart.
180 comments:
Maybe we should get Sherlock to campaign to take over from Cameron...Sherlock for PM!!
Afterall, his campaign was tireless, effective, ended up in something nice and was fairly entertaining...
What an excellent welcome home! Good job, Sherlock! (My chocolate cakes always taste okay but crumble to pieces when I slice them, I couldn't build anything with one, so I really mean the good job in the most admiring way.)
Also, that is an interesting experiment--they always say Coke dissolves teeth so I am now quite curious about the effect on sardines. Please report back, Sherlock.
And a hearty welcome home, Mycroft. When do you start your summer internship?
Afterall, his campaign was tireless, effective, ended up in something nice and was fairly entertaining...
Honestly more than you can say for most politicians!
Of course, most politicians would also be forced to do better if given slight supervision by Mrs Hudson...
Very true. I think that's exactly what this country needs right now.
I'm at a loss as to what this country needs right now. Some chocolate cake and a sit down, whilst trying not to think about the dissolving fish in the fridge??
But I might exercise my right to get an Italian passport. You can have one too, after 3 years, I think. At least we'd get to stay EU citizens!
Italy's nice. Mi piacionno il cibo e il tempo. (You see, I have learned something...sort of.)
You're wonderful.
The fact a degu has just managed to squirm about so much that all the sand has left their sand bath and is now in our carpet is less wonderful. Sherlock assessed it as being 'a bit like glitter' and therefore my job to clean up...
Is the defining property of glitter its hard-to-get-out-of-things-ness or its sparkly-ness?
Welcome home Mycroft :-)
To be honest, I'm not sure that the country deserves chocolate cake. Maybe 48% of us deserve cake and a nice sit down. 51% of us deserve to clean up non-glittery degu sand and any other mess that happens to have been created just recently.
Welcome home, Mycroft. I bet it feels weird having finished your exams, I can remember a few days of free-floating guilt making me feel like I should be revising even though there was no revising to do!
RR - defining property of glitter is apparently anything Sherlock doesn't want to clean up.
Nameless - maybe some people deserve to find some sardine in their cake, as well as having to clear up mess....
Those would be the ones who voted "to send a message" without looking up what they were voting about until after the vote was over! (I'm terrified we have too many people getting ready to do that over here. O_O)
Problem is, voting in this country doesn't usually make much of a difference. So suddenly it does, and people weren't prepared for it.
Added to the politicians, who lie, and the press, who lie, and you can see how people get confused.
Still, Italy won, and I've read a lot of genuinely hilarious Brexit based humour - so I'm going with that, on the assumption that if I don't laugh I'll cry.
(I'm also waiting for Farage's 'common, decent people' to further their campaign to grab control back from the unelected leaders by rising up against the Monarchy, moving to abolish the Lords and campaigning for PR instead of FPTP.....might be waiting a long time though, eh?)
About as long as you'll be waiting for England to beat Iceland Greg ;-)
L, voting in a democracy ALWAYS doesn't make a difference, and the larger the democracy the less difference it makes--until suddenly it does, like in Florida in 2000, when the presidency came down to counting errors in a relatively small state. Which is why I'm worried for our upcoming election.
Well, if we used a different system it would make more of a difference.
Buy, as Anonybob has pointed out....I'll be waiting a long time. Forever, perhaps!
Well done Iceland.
Ooh look - I've correctly predicted the score!
we bow down to your punditry, SH! Well done!
Oh dear, well that only led to one perfect score for SH as stated, so well done for that. Some people picked Italy so a few points were picked up there but there were quite a few with no points today at all.
Here's how the table stands at the end of the last 16.
43 - John
41 - Lancs Anon, REReader
40 - Tiny Panda
39 - Sherlock, Joolz
38 - Desert Wanderer
36 - Greg, Small Hobbit, Anonybob
35 - Shorty Panda, Mini Panda, Nameless
32 - Kestrel337
25 - Piplover
21 - KT
We're on to the Quarter Finals now so only 4 choices to make this time. The next game is Thursday at 8 so if the predictions could be in by then, that would be great, thanks.
http://www.carryon.org.uk/worldcup2014/index.php/429237/lang-en
Well. Crime reports I get from the night shift make depressing reading. The floodgates for overt racism and homophobia seem to have truly been opened
:(
I've been reading stories saying that some people in the UK are apparently under the impression that when they voted "leave" it meant "everyone not like me has to leave here" rather than "the UK should leave the EU," but I assumed it was Internet hyperbole. Not?
It's apparent that some people thought we'd be lining up anyone they didn't like on the docks on Friday morning, ready ship them back 'where they came from' (ignoring the fact most of them probably come from here...)
:(
(We have those here, too--we just call them "Trump supporters.")
I shall now revert to consistently getting the score and the winners wrong ;)
Sherlock, you are such a thoughtful and creative person. Absolutely well done. And congratulations, Mycroft! (And welcome back, Doc. I was beginning to suspect you'd been extradited or something!)
I'm safe so far, no one's been able to prove a thing. ;)
DW - I'd probably remember to tell you lot if he actually went missing. I mean, once I'd noticed....so basically when I ran out of clean socks...
Well a man cannot live without socks so that's a good thing to notice, Greg. ;)
You just need to keep working on the alibis ready for your excursion on the moors, John, and you'll be fine. I'm sure Sherlock will stand up for you as a character witness. ;)
Excellent work on the cake, Sherlock, and for staying on your own to do it, I'm sure Mycroft appreciated your efforts.
Welcome home, Mycroft, I'm sure you're glad to have those exams all behind you & looking forward to your internship.
Have a great day everyone. ;)
Man, your boys are growing up, and isn't it grand seeing the interesting twists and turns?
My contribution to this election season (in the U.S. is to deliver gratuitous rants about the importance of Supreme Court nominations and therefore the complete unacceptability of 'sitting this one out' or voting for an unelectable third party candidate. I'm definitely with RR, I'm worried.
& yeah, John, as DW indicated, we notice when you're too busy to comment. Hope you enjoy having all your boys at home!
-fA
The first game of the Quarter Finals is in one hour at 8 pm GMT and everyone is in except for Lancs Anon so I'll include you for all the games following receipt of your entry form.
The predictions for tonight are as follows:
Poland v Portugal
Joolz 1-1 Portugal, Greg 1-2, John 1-1 Poland, Sherlock 2-1, REReader 1-3, Piplover 2-3, Kestrel337 1-1 Poland, Small Hobbit 1-2, Nameless 1-1 Portugal, Lancs Anon , Anonybob 0-2, Tiny Panda 1-1 Portugal, Shorty Panda 1-2, Mini Panda 0-1, Desert Wanderer 1-1 Portugal, KT 3-2.
Good luck. :)
I've done it now, sorry, it's been crazy this last few days!
Cheers Joolz.
Our oven just died a death....pizza delivery and footy it is!
That's great, thanks. You're in for 2-1 for the first game. :)
Oh, and oven shopping begins!
I think it's just the element, RR.
That is considerably less exciting.
Well we had six people going for a 1-1 draw today. John and Kestrel337 got 2 points for the draw but not for Poland, and four of us got the full 3 points for picking Portugal after penalties so well done to Tiny Panda, Joolz, Nameless and Desert Wanderer.
The table today looks like this:
45 - John
43 - Tiny Panda
42 - Joolz
41 - Lancs Anon, REReader, Desert Wanderer
39 - Sherlock
38 - Shorty Panda, Nameless
36 - Greg, Small Hobbit, Anonybob
35 - Mini Panda
34 - Kestrel337
25 - Piplover
21 - KT
The predictions for tomorrow are:
Wales v Belgium
Joolz 1-2, Greg 2-1, John 2-1, Sherlock 2-1, REReader 2-1, Piplover 3-2, Kestrel337 2-1, Small Hobbit 1-1 Belgium, Nameless 2-1, Lancs Anon 1-1 Wales, Anonybob 2-1, Tiny Panda 1-2, Shorty Panda 2-1, Mini Panda 0-1, Desert Wanderer 2-1, KT 3-0.
Good luck everyone. :)
Called it wrong, but I don't care at all!
I'm happy to lose points for that result SH :-D
Well, that was an excellent win for Wales there, as you say, you don't mind losing points for that result. You got 2 the same as most others, Anonybob, the only people who didn't get any points were myself, Small Hobbit and Tiny & Mini so well done to everyone else. People are saying they want a Wales v Iceland final now, wouldn't that be amazing (highly unlikely, of course, but still amazing) ;)
The table today is like this:
47 - John
43 - Tiny Panda, REReader, Desert Wanderer
42 - Lancs Anon, Joolz
41 - Sherlock
40 - Shorty Panda, Nameless
38 - Greg, Anonybob
36 - Kestrel337, Small Hobbit
35 - Mini Panda
27 - Piplover
23 - KT
The predictions for tomorrow:
Germany v Italy
Joolz 2-1, Greg 1-2, John 1-1 Germany, Sherlock 2-1, REReader 1-2, Piplover 2-3, Kestrel337 2-2 Italy, Small Hobbit 1-2, Nameless 2-2 Germany, Lancs Anon 1-1 Italy, Anonybob 2-2 Germany, Tiny Panda 1-2, Shorty Panda 1-2, Mini Panda 1-0, Desert Wanderer 2-1, KT 0-2.
Good luck. :)
So moved by the memorial to the Battle of the Somme that happened all over the UK today. Very touching, very poignant.
Well done Wales! C'mon Italy!
What about that then Lestrade?
I can't watch
This is so bad it's actually entertaining!!
Can't blame you Lestrade
Rats
Ooh, unlucky there, Greg, it looked like you were going to take it at one point in that mishmash of penalties but Germany claimed it on the last ball. Five people predicted a draw but only one got the right score and the right team so well done to John. :)
The table is as follows:
50 - John
44 - Lancs Anon, Desert Wanderer
43 - Tiny Panda, Joolz, REReader
42 - Sherlock, Nameless
40 - Shorty Panda, Anonybob
38 - Greg
37 - Kestrel337
36 - Mini Panda, Small Hobbit
27 - Piplover
23 - KT
The predictions for the last game of the Quarter Finals:
France v Iceland
Joolz 2-0, Greg 1-2, John 1-2, Sherlock 1-2, REReader 0-2, Piplover 1-3, Kestrel337 0-1, Small Hobbit 3-2, Nameless 2-1, Lancs Anon 2-1, Anonybob 1-0, Tiny Panda 2-2 Iceland, Shorty Panda 1-2, Mini Panda 1-0, Desert Wanderer 1-1 France, KT 1-2.
Good luck :)
well, after yesterday, I risk giving them to kiss of death....but c'mon Iceland!!
In a season where Leicester win the premier league and we win the championship the only possible euro 2016 final has to be Wales v Iceland ;-)
Well, I can't say that result wasn't expected, but perhaps a few more goals than anticipated. Unfortunate for Iceland though, a small team final would have been brilliant. At this stage we have to ask who you're picking for the semi-finals, Greg, so we can all go the other way. ;)
The table today is:
50 - John
46 - Lancs Anon
45 - Joolz, Desert Wanderer
44 - Nameless
43 - Tiny Panda, REReader
42 - Sherlock, Anonybob
40 - Shorty Panda
38 - Mini Panda, Greg, Small Hobbit
37 - Kestrel337
27 - Piplover
23 - KT
Only two games to predict for the next round so it should only take you a minute unless, like me, you take ten minutes with the form open in front of you pondering as the teams are so close. Maybe you'll have better luck. ;)
http://www.carryon.org.uk/worldcup2014/index.php/588858/lang-en
right, I'm making my choices, folks. So if an entire team is involved in a crash/gets food poisoning/is deported from France, you'll know it was one I picked.
Well done to my husband...I say through gritted teeth...
Meteor strike on the team bus?
I'm just amazed I'm not dead last!
Just think of it as having "married up" L.
(good luck to all, special extra cheers for Team Panda!)
-fA
Watching Murray-Tsonga, John?
Or still calming down after Federer's match?
I'm hoping for a Williams-Williams ladies' final. Just because it's so cool that it might happen.
-fA
I'm not sure I'm calming down...recovering is probably a better word. Williams-Williams final would be fantastic.
Holy cow, the Federer match. I had to get up and dance, despite my various injuries.
And yes, another vote for William-Williams. Let's hear it for partying at Wimbledon like it's the mid 2000s!
I feel like that match counts as my aerobic training for the day. (oh if only!)
-fA
Right, here are the predictions for the big match this evening and wouldn't it be amazing if Wales could do it and get themselves into the European cup final. Greg and Lancs Anon seem to have been colluding and gone for exactly the same result so I don't know if that means Greg's jinx will be countered with Lancs Anon's luck or if the kiss of death will kick in. ;) We shall have to wait and see... ;)
Portugal v Wales
Joolz 1-2, Greg 2-2 Wales, John 1-2, Sherlock 0-1, REReader 1-3, Piplover 1-2, Kestrel337 0-2, Small Hobbit 2-1, Nameless 3-1, Lancs Anon 2-2 Wales, Anonybob 2-2 Portugal, Tiny Panda 1-1 Wales, Shorty Panda 0-2, Mini Panda 1-0, Desert Wanderer 3-1, KT 1-3.
Good luck everyone.
My prediction is more hope than expectation!
All of my predictions have been hope...
I wasn't allowed to predict any tennis results, or my better half would have had me killed and used as fertiliser on next year's Wimbledon Strawberries.
Ha!
Jinx defused. :D
Oh dear, what a shame, that would have been just amazing if Wales had done it, but they did brilliantly to get this far anyway so well done to them. Only 5 people got points today, 4 for a Portugal win and 1 for a draw with Portugal the victor so well done to Small Hobbit, Nameless, Mini Panda, Desert Wanderer and Anonybob.
Here is the table:
50 - John
47 - Desert Wanderer
46 - Lancs Anon, Nameless
45 - Joolz
43 - Tiny Panda, REReader, Anonybob
42 - Sherlock
40 - Shorty Panda, Mini Panda, Small Hobbit
38 - Greg
37 - Kestrel337
27 - Piplover
23 - KT
The predictions for tomorrow are:
Germany v France
Joolz 1-2, Greg 1-1 France, John 2-1, Sherlock 2-1, REReader 2-1, Piplover 2-1, Kestrel337 2-1, Small Hobbit 1-3, Nameless 1-1 France, Lancs Anon 1-1 France, Anonybob 2-1, Tiny Panda 3-0, Shorty Panda 0-2, Mini Panda 1-0, Desert Wanderer 2-2 Germany, KT 2-2 Germany.
Good luck everyone. :)
it's not looking good for your chances, Lancs. Sorry.
Now Nameless is being dragged in, too... - Oh dear, Greg. ;)
(of course, having said that the three of you will probably get the full three points now - let's hope so anyway) ;)
Well, i'm officially a cold case now. Just been told there's no one investigating whoever booby trapped the stairs and did my leg in anymore. I've slithered down from task force to dusty filing cabinet with no real progress made. Such is life.
*scowl*
Just got a text message I didn't want from my husband.
' we have signed you up for school sports day, ok?'
and a far too smiley face. Hmmmm
And how many cakes have you been volunteered to bake for the occasion? :D
We just had sports day, which is my first ever. I'm uncertain how I feel about it. On the one hand, a chance for kids who excel in athletics to shine (especially those who don't do so well in academics). But for kids who don't do well in athletics, they're doing poorly in front of the whole school and their parents, rather than "just" in the classroom or on tests.
I loathed sports day. I volunteered to play table tennis and actively avoided doing anything else *shudder* Luckily we had almost no parents turn up, which made the whole ordeal a bit easier.
Lestrade, Lancs - good luck to us all (although I'm not sure I really want France to win...)
Sherlock's sport's day isn't usually too sporty, to be honest. There's some races - but generally things like three-legged, egg and spoon, class getting across the playground without touching the floor, class who can get an egg the farthest unbroken... and I've been 'volunteered' to do a race where you have to put on a new bit of fancy dress each time you reach a hula hoop....don't even ask. Rather than all about trying to be little Olympians.
That sounds like a lot of silly fun--and I was never sporty in the least. (And yet, I was the only one from my El-Hi classes that ended up teaching PhysEd. You never know!)
I heard someone today describe the Tory party leadership race as 'like waiting to see which dog turd a bunch of toffs will choose for you to wear as a hat.'
I'm worried.
Me too! I had so much a calmer life when I didn't take any notice of politics. Mind not Gove is a step in the right direction, what he did to education and what he's doing to justice, I wouldn't want him running the whole country. Also, speaking of undemocratic, why do only Tory Party members get to pick my Prime Minister? I know the answer really, but it doesn't seem quite right.
Gove was, though, the only one who had never voted against gay rights. I'd rather not know that whoever runs my country doesn't think I should have the right to marry or have kids. It so quickly becomes a slippery slope.
But really, there are so many things wrong with both of them I can't even start.
It looks like your kiss of death is over, Greg, you, Nameless and Lancs Anon all got 1 point apiece for saying France would go through. Small Hobbit and myself both got 2 points for predicting a French win and Shorty Panda got 3 points for brilliantly predicting 0-2 so well done to all. Going in to the final we have the current leader on 50 points and 4 players on 47 so if John was to make an incorrect prediction and they all got a perfect score it could be a 5-way tie but it must be admitted that the chances are low so we shall see. ;)
The table after the Semi Finals is as follows:
50 - John
47 - Lancs Anon, Nameless, Desert Wanderer, Joolz
43 - Tiny Panda, Shorty Panda, Anonybob, REReader
42 - Sherlock, Small Hobbit
40 - Mini Panda
39 - Greg
37 - Kestrel337
27 - Piplover
23 - KT
Just one more game to predict, please, so if everyone could click the link for the final we'll be all done. Thanks.
http://www.carryon.org.uk/worldcup2014/index.php/835698/lang-en
I may as well say one thing on here and go and put a large bet on the other team in a bookies....
For some reason unknown to me my kitchen is full of various receptacles with eggs and other stuff in them, smelling quite odd, and with a big note stuck to the worktop saying 'DO NOT TOUCH this means you adults.'
YES DON'T TOUCH THE EGGS
and next year we should go camping at Wimbledon for John I think it would be fun
I swear I didn't tell him to say that.
(But I also think it would be fun.)
hmmm. well, you've got a year to persuade me why I'd rather be attacked by feral wombles than sleep in my own comfy bed, I suppose....
We'll get a womble-proof tent.
Now that is a declaration of true love.
I would hate to wake up spooning Great Uncle Bulgaria.
I see that Ray Winston is playing Tobermory in a new Wombles TV show. I find this... disconcerting.
Almost as disconcerting as being joint second in the footy.
That is disconcerting. (Ray Winston being a womble. I wouldn't know what it's like to be second in the footy.)
I now have an image of Tobermory knocking seven bells out of Tomsk with a sock full of snooker balls, whilst yelling "Who's the Daddy?!?" That's not an image I ever needed in my head.
Mind you, I'm finding the mysterious not-to-be touched eggs mildly disconcerting too, and they're not even in my kitchen.
They're very disconcerting. Especially the smell from some of them...
Frankly I'm also worried no tent will keep out a Ray Winstonesque Womble...
I feel sorry for poor innocent Wellington, can you image Tobermory taking him in hand... ;)
Are you going to tell us what this mysterious egg experiment is trying to prove, Sherlock?
I don't know what he did...but we now have some odd coloured eggs, some which seem to be made of rubber....some which are just...like...floppy shells? I don't know. I don't want to know. The boys had fun, that's all that matters.
I can't imagine anything keeping Orinoco out, so he'll just wander aimlessly through the tent at 4am and fall over one of you.
Can I just say that you lot, the boys, and in particular John are completely amazing at getting on board with these silly little ideas and whatever else is going on it always makes me smile.
I spent a long time being told stuff like this was stupid, and that I needed to grow up, and now I'm married to a bloke who promises me a womble-proof tent instead of tells me that I'm embarrassing and it really does mean a lot to me.
I am starting to become slightly scared of wombles now though.
Life is far too big a thing to be taken seriously ;-)
It is when one minute you're queuing to see Murray vs. Federicorn and the next you're being molested by a misguided womble....
Finding the place where you can say those things without being told you're stupid or weird is one the the great feelings in this life. It is not a feeling to be passed up if one can get it.
I had to look up wombles...I have to say they don't LOOK dangerous, surely they'd like to have you camping near them!
If you can't be silly & laugh once in a while (especially with all this scary crap going on around us at the moment) then it would be a sad thing so I'm really glad you (and all of us, too) have found that, Greg. A happy thing indeed. :)
Could I just have predictions from Greg, John & Sherlock please then I'll post them up ready for the final at 8.00 GMT this evening. Thanks :)
RR - Wombles have a very ruthless and efficient propaganda machine. They seem cute, but in reality they're terrifying and rule South London with an iron fist. They're the reason cabbies won't go south of the river at night.
Joolz - sorry, we've done them now :)
Okay, thanks for all the entries, we have the last set of predictions up for the final of Euro 2016 today.
Portugal v France
Joolz 1-3, Greg 2-2 France, John 1-3 Sherlock 1-2, REReader 1-2, Piplover 1-2, Kestrel337 3-2, Small Hobbit 1-2, Nameless 2-1, Lancs Anon 1-2, Anonybob 2-1, Tiny Panda 0-2, Shorty Panda 0-2, Mini Panda 0-1, Desert Wanderer 2-3, KT 0-0 France.
Good luck to everyone for the final tonight and also good luck to Andy Murray - if it can't be Federicorn he's definitely the next best thing. ;)
...Okay, now I'm nervous about wombles too!
Thanks again for all the work, Joolz. :)
Whilst I had my Paint Shop Pro open ready for later, is this what you had in mind, Nameless. :)
http://i67.tinypic.com/zw1fs6.jpg
Joolz, that's brilliant!
That is pretty amazing, Joolz. Although I do have to point out that you're all playing Hob with my fondest childhood memories. I not only read all the books (even the obscure ones, water womble anyone?) but I can still sing a surprising number of the songs.
Everyone, watch what you say, sounds like Lancs. might be on their side....
*narrows eyes suspiciously at Lancs.*
Oh, did you ever find out what turned the eggs to colors and rubber?
good luck with the footy everyone.
The eggs had their shells dissolved ...then I think some of them were somehow deflated (okay...Sherlock says it was to show molecular transfer...there you go, I'm sure that's clear.) and then pumped up with coloured water? Oh, and some of them were just shells. And made floppy. There was lots of vinegar involved, I can tell you, because I made a cup of coffee in a mug which stank of vinegar earlier and had to throw it away and start again.
It sounds a bit exciting--I mean, it's always cool to change the essence of things, like alchemy only without the mysticism!
I can't believe I blew my wombling cover - I'm useless!
Also I may nick the egg idea to do at work
Anyone else more interested in the moths than the players in this game?
(papillon de nuit, in French, Mycroft tells me. Farfalla notturna in Italian. Just so we all take something from this match.)
I good womble kneecapping someone could liven this up no end...
I don't care who scores I just want someone to finish it so I can stop watching!!
I don't know if Sherlock watches SciShow on YouTube with any frequency, so in case he doesn't, I think he might find this episode especially interesting: 10 Cute Animals with Secretly Scary Behaviors. :)
Well, there we go, perhaps not the expected result but it was nice for a team to win who hadn't done it before, so that was good. It brought Nameless closer to the top, moving above the third place trio of Desert Wanderer, Joolz and Lancs Anon, who led for much of the second half of the first round. Nothing could be done, though, to catch the person who has been at the top throughout the whole of the knock-out part of the tournament, so we want to give the hugest congratulations on an excellently played competition to the winner of Euro 2016 ---- John.
50 - John
49 - Nameless
47 - Lancs Anon, Desert Wanderer, Joolz
45 - Anonybob
43 - Tiny Panda, Shorty Panda, REReader
42 - Sherlock, Small Hobbit
40 - Mini Panda
39 - Greg, Kestrel337
27 - Piplover
23 - KT
Well done, John, a fabulous victory. :)
http://i67.tinypic.com/2i0q1xc.jpg
We also had some special players in this competition and they all did brilliantly and I hope had fun playing along so here is a special banner for Team Panda. Thank you for joining in, Tiny, Shorty and Mini. :)
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Thanks for playing everyone; I had great fun doing it all and hope you enjoyed it, too. :)
Well, gosh. Congrats John, and fab work, Pandas! And thank you, Joolz, for all you work in organising this and creating something fun for us all - at a time when I think we've all needed something fun.
Congratulations, John!
(I love the trophies, Joolz!)
I am amazed, frankly. Thanks for all your hard work setting this up, Joolz and well done to Team Panda!
Yeah, thanks Joolz, it has been a very welcome distraction as well as a lot of fun.
Of course i have to live with an overly happy Doc now... It would've been more fun without that... (kidding. It's lovely that he won. Honest.)
Thanks for setting that all up, Joolz.
Sherlock's experiment sounds like one my daughter did in her science class. I don't think they had vinegar, though. Even though I was all about the messy stuff when I was a teacher, I was really very glad they did that one at school.
Just when you think our politics can't get in more of a mess...
I'm sure it's just your tact, so Americans can feel a little less bad about our politics.
Well, that's the best I've ever done in anything like this. Thanks for organising it Joolz
As to politics, the people who complained about the EU being undemocratic have just created a new PM without consulting anyone really, it's bizarre that that can be done without an election of any kind.
Thank you for organising it all for us joolz, you've been amazing :-)
Well done John, you are the master :-D
Tiny, mini and shorty are very impressed with the cuteness of the panda on their banner, they've really enjoyed taking part :-)
As to politics, I think it's time to stop worrying about things we have absolutely no control over and instead we should focus on finding fun and smiles wherever we can ;-)
Anonybob - is all we can do, now! We are just all swept along by it. At least we have each other to cling to!
Boris!
I just... I have no words.
I was going to post earlier. But... yeah.
America, we're not a good example. We're a horrible warning. Take heed.
(Please, fellow Americans--Listen to L, he's giving good advice!)
I'm terribly afraid that there are too many people here that are not worried enough about Trump...
Remember when Leicester won the Premiership, and that seemed hilariously unlikely?? Now it seems positively normal....
And remains a Good Thing!
I misread Pandabob's message and for a moment thought it said "find fun and smalls wherever we can." Bit different, though I'm sure not unfamiliar to some of us... ;)
Such a sad day. To join so many other sad days.
Had am emergency briefing this morning, but people are running out of things to say.
It's all such a mess right now!!!
I don't know how people keep holding meetings about it all and not just screaming into the void. Good luck with keeping yourself and your team going through it all Greg.
I don't know what more precautions can be taken without making everyone stop living their lives. Except to remind people to stay sharp--which I somehow think is redundant after these things happen.
2016 is becoming ever more memorable, but not in a good way. I have seen video of Turkish civilians gathering and standing all over military tanks in Istanbul that I expect soon to be followed by footage of protesters being shot.
Possibly I should stay off the internet for a while. Concentrate on my own life which is good.
Be good to each other.
-fA
was hoping for a quiet Saturday at work...
Instead have to deal with re-homing a single parent family with three kids.
Yes, a mouse has made home and given birth in the bin in my office....now what do I do?? (No Sherlock, you cannot have them.)
Do the mice have names yet? Is Sally involved?
Yep, they definitely need names! Blackadder, Baldrick and Bob?
Am I helping?
Sally told me I should empty my bin more often...
I was told by various hardened police officers that I couldn't kill them. Or leave them anywhere they might be killed. Or where they might return to the office.
And I was inundated with a million texts from Sherlock asking for them.
So eventually I put them in a box, rode them most of the way home, stopped by the park and set them free. (I sat for a while and the Mum mouse ran off at first, but then came back and rescued the kids.) Best I could do, I figured.
That seems very reasonable. They're pretty resilient, after all.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww...
You are a force for good in this world, Greg Lestrade.
DW, as usual, has the right of it.
(Though it wouldn't hurt to listen to Sally either. About emptying the bin. Possibly.)
-fA
Just walked Sherlock to school. Tomorrow he is going Swan upping. What a life eh?? They get so many great things to do.
That sounds like a nice way to start the day--but what is swan upping?
It's when the swans are counted and marked, all the new cygnets that her Maj owns are ch cked over for injury etc. It's a very old tradition. Used to be because the royal family ate them.
Baby swans, that's what Sherlock & class are going to be seeing close up? AWESOME!
Sherlock, if you have time, how do they restrain the parent swans from getting aggressive when the cygnets are handled?
-fA
I was wondering the same thing, fA. Inquiring minds want to know! (around these parts it's called 'bird banding' or '(species) banding'.)
I know, Kestrel that I should probably google - there has to be press coverage of such a long-practiced traditional event, right? But it's been busy lately (long-awaited Big Trip approaches)and I did think Sherlock's eyewitness perspective might be unique. Ah well. I obviously have enough time for google if I can type this, yes?
-fA
I don't have an answer for you yet, fA - hopefully Sherlock will provide one soon.
I am already dreading putting my leathers on tomorrow because I'm fairly sure I lost about 8 litres of sweat into them tonight....
Having a hot summer there? :( Cool showers/baths are a big help--and lots of drinking water.
(We've had upper 80s and low to mid-90s here for the past few weeks. Which is nothing compared to the Southwest, but here is it also HUMID. Blurgh. It was definitely over 100F on the subway platforms yesterday.) (No one lives in New York for the beautiful weather!)
Has anyone else been enjoying the #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes on Twitter today? Totally brightened my morning!
It's a terrible think to say, RR, but I've been listening to BBC news rather than our own ENTIRELY because I'd rather listen to the continued variations of yammering about Brexit than clips from the Republican convention. I tried several times to listen to it live (grew up a live t.v. political coverage junkie, thanks to my mom) but I keep getting so enraged that I have to quit.
-fA
Not a hot summer, just a sudden hot few days. Low nineties yesterday. Not far different today. And very humid.
I hear you, fA--and I haven't even tried to watch any of the convention live. I'm reading the coverage in the NYTimes so I know what's going on, but watching raises my blood pressure entirely too much, it's alarming. And of course, some things come to you--like the Melania speech thing. (There's a verbal Rick roll in there, too!)
I'm very sorry to hear it, L--temps in the 90s are miserable enough when you live where it happens often enough that there's air conditioning everywhere--and you don't have to encase yourself in leathers. I can't even imagine. ( I don't think I could do it. I have enough trouble forcing myself onto a subway platform this time of year!)
Well it's a bit cooler today, which is just as well as it's sport's day! We have baked, we have made mint and cucumber water. We have donned flip flops and shorts....oh, that's just me....
Hurrah for nice weather for Sports Day!
Mint and cucumber water sounds very cooling and nice. I should try it!
Isn't it hard to run in flip flops?
How did sports day go? I'm sure your baking would have been hugely appreciated even if the flip flops weren't. ;)
I ran barefoot - they'd entered me in the race where you have to get dressed in more and more clothes every time you reach a hoop. I didn't win.
Cake was good though - and lots of teachers looking happy to escape the kids for 6 weeks! ;)
Sounds silly enough to be fun, though! (I hope it was, anyway. :)) Did any of you win your races?
I was given a 5 second penalty for having my bra on incorrectly. Frankly it would have taken me far longer than 5 seconds to sort out! Not my area of expertise.
Sherlock's team won the competition to fly an egg off the roof of the school. They spent the start of the week making a balsa wood and paper plane.
Heh--I think a five second penalty still puts you ahead of the game--I can't put one on correctly that fast, and I've decades of practice!. (Well, I probably could if it were a front hook model.) I can, however, take one off without removing my shirt, very handy, that... :D
I think that would be an entirely different sort of fun, flying an egg off a building--exciting! Props to you and your team, Sherlock!
Sports day fun! That school has been a good one.
-fA
Mycroft has invited me to do another float in an isolation tank.... which means, if John still doesn't fancy it, Sherlock gets to choose something to do with him...
The flat tank place has moved in next door to MI6. If you don't hear from me again then either they've grabbed me or I've eloped with Daniel Craig :D
I've bought myself some new shorts. I like them, but I fear Mycroft will disown me.
I think we should see these shorts.... :)
Weren't you all planning a holiday? Are you going soon?
Happily I will be off to my summer job soon. I can only hope that some passing magpies peck my eyes out whilst I am there so I never have to see those shorts again.
...What color/pattern/cut are these shorts, anyway? O_O
They're knee-length pink grey and white camo shorts. I like them!
In other news, I got through the door tonight, got asked by Sherlock if I was hot...said I was, he ran off, returned moments later....and spat a mouthful of water over me.
Apparently it's what bees do..... bees have a lot to answer for.
Pink, grey, and white do go well together. (Although I will grant that it is not a staid combo!)
Is it wrong that I'm laughing very hard right now?
Eeewwwwwwwww
I'm going to pretend that 'eeewwwwwwwww' was for Sherlock's bee-behaviour, and not my shorts. Although I'm not 100% convinced.
Let's go with that, sure :-p
Very diplomatic, Nameless. ;)
All that matters is that you like them, Greg.
Little story. One father's day I got my dad a mug. It said "I am the DAD. I wear the pants in the family. And the family makes fun of them."
Casual sexism aside, I thought it was very funny. Not sure why that sprang to mind just now...
John is being almost-tactful. You know, after the usual jokes about not knowing I was colour-blind, did I lose a bet etc. But then he is a very tactful kind of man.
Hee!
(Seriously, is there a photo of these shorts? You know, so we can make informed comments.)
You can be buried At SEA when you die. Like a pirate.
I think every country has laws about how deep the water has to be and how far out and so on, but yes, you can be.
What brought this tidbit of information up?
We were talking about what happens when you die
An interesting topic of conversation, to be sure. What else did you find out, Sherlock?
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