I Thought You Were Retiring, Holmes?

“I thought you were retiring, Holmes?”

“What? Never mind that now, Watson - there’s a murder!”

More soon! Meanwhile, the obligatory periodic reminder that Mrs Hudson and pals are now on Facebook, if you like that sort of thing... 

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edwinlandfill​ said: I was so confused at first, I thought it was glued to the wall for some reason.

Haha, it does look a bit like that, now that you’ve said it ... that would be a bit strange, even for our kitchen! No, that is in fact a ladle which has become chocolate-glued firmly to the bottom of the bowl...

Happy easter! The Chap and I spent yesterday making our own Creme Eggs, but we forgot about the bowl of leftover chocolate and … well, this is what happened. (Don’t worry, the leftover chocolate will not be leftover for long … if only so that we can free our utensils from their chocolatey prison.)

*flails*

I don’t think I can cope with this.

(I’ve just got to the end of the Final Problem, and the little break in Watson’s voice in the final monologue, just… *wibbles*)

I’ve been listening to a lot of BBC Radio!Holmes recently (my lovely nearly-mum-in-law bought them for me, and each episode is almost the perfect length for my walk to/from work). It’s great stuff, but this exchange from the beginning of the Musgrave Ritual had me guffawing out loud on the…

Politics! (Sort of)

Today is polling day for the U.K. General Election … it also marks five years since the Chap and I met. We got drunk watching the election coverage at a mutual pal’s house and made Robot Wars jokes, obviously.

I remember thinking that he didn’t like me very much because I’d been very loud and very drunk, which was a shame because he had a nice beard and pretty eyes. Turns out he did (he was just very very shy).

So the morals of the story are (probably): democracy is sexy; so are people with beards; Robot Wars is always relevant; be nice to shy people; make sure you vote if you’re eligible to do so because you might meet lovely people at election night parties.

“Don’t you think you should ... check? Just in case?”

“Pffft. After the whole Reichenbach debacle? And the time he pretended to have a deadly tropical disease? Mark my words, Mrs Hudson, Holmes is fine...”

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“I’ve been here for five hours!”

Not content with just ruining the canon, I’ve also set my sights on the original Sidney Paget illustrations.

(Sorry, Sidney.)

I’ve always loved this particular illustration (from the Red Headed League, I think?), but, well, Holmes does look a little uncomfortable...