I am currently following this charming young lady on Youtube. She sews by hand intricate and difficult period clothes, always taking care to use the most accurate and period correct techniques and materials as possible.  

She is now starting a new project that she calls "Lady Sherlock"... Yep! She's gonna interpret what Sherlock (ACD's Sherlock) would have worn, had he been born a girl. 

Her work is generally very interesting (and, for a sewing buff like me, fascinating to watch) and I look forward to discovering this project. 

For those of you interested, here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YALgW15PVtQ



 

Hello Desertrose! Love your pseudo!

Sorry for the delay (work... and it is spring over here so I've enjoyed being outdoors without a coat!)

Thank you Besleybean and Liberty! I think choosing will be difficult since I like nature, history, art, museums... Right now the only thing that has been decided is the first week in London (but no details). 

Is it true that you can visit museums for FREE?
 

Wow! Love it!

A co-worker of mine nearly gave me a heart attack today: she burst in saying: "Did you know there is a new season of Sherlock that just came out?"

WHAT???

Turns out, she was refering to a new season being released IN FRENCH (the fourth).

You can imagine how disapointed I felt!
 

Rache wrote:

A newly discovered  beautifully sad video.
I didn't expect this to be so emotional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNQ62hs409A

So intense! 
 

This is actually my favorite piece from this same album. To me, some passages evoke those two years where John tought Sherlock was dead and others could be Sherlock’s and John’s future after season 4 and their knack at beeting the odds (« killing death »!)
 
It was a challenge to translate but I hope you like it!
Here’s the link to the actual song . Enjoy!

https://www.audionaute.ca/

NO
 
I hear
I hear the countdown
Of time
Struggling to chase that joy away
Of the good old days
When everything was easy and paved in advance
But together, we will only be stronger
 
Killing death
Killing death
 
Waiting
Waiting for my turn to come
Time
Struggling to chase away sorrow
Of those days when everything seems useless and lost in advance
But together, I know we’ll be strong enough
 
Killing death
Killing death
 
 
No… No… No… No…
 
My own mind, my tormenter
Throwing me touhghts , hurling knives
Spinning on a turntable, I am
Hanging on to my memories
Spinning, over and over
Dizzying my life
Between past and future
Egregores sucking
Spiraling me down
Despite my struggling
Motion amplifying
Life is beauty, naturally
Life can hurt crosscurrent
I’ll take my time
Before time takes me
Tired of calculated risks
I’m taking one
Time to chase away
Past sorrows
Emptying
Cultivating silence
No end, no beginning
As a man from nowhere
I’ll be this flaming arrow
Striking society’s wall
 
If I can kill time
I’ll become immortal
Walking the present’s hall
Reaching another level
Understanding my moves, my actions
Accepting change
I say YES to life
Initiating motion
Light is eternal
I’m a being wrought of light
I am…ETERNAL!!!



NON
J'entends
J'entends le compte à rebours
Du temps
Qui peine à chasser la joie...
Des vieux jours, alors que tout était facile et tracé d’avance
Mais ensemble, on en sera que plus forts
 
Pour tuer la mort
Pour tuer la mort
 
J’attends
J’attends qu’arrive mon tour
Le temps
Qui peine à chasser la peine...
De

So: we started our renovation of the bathroom today (or rather ou contractor started while we were at work.) We came back to a washer and a dryer moved to the kitchen, muck all over the floor aaaand... the wrong tile... Fortunately, it wasn't glued to the floor yet but we have to send it back and then wait for the correct one to be delivered.  I guess I will have to get used to having my house looking like, well, 221B's kitchen for a while! 

No, but I might be tempted to spend my winters in Florida or something like many other Canadians when I retire. For now, I will simply... bear with it.

Loooove ST! The original series, THE BEST. Was a trekkie before it was cool. Have got almost 200 ST novels too. But I am also a fan of "The next generation". 

Do not care much for the more recent movies though...

"Corner store", "milk bar" (cute!). I live in Quebec Canada. Out here, in french, that's "dépanneur" and our english community (mostly in Montreal) has adopted the word also. I don't know about the rest of Canada.