January 2011
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Dear Fellow Tumblrs, I am wondering if you can help me. I keep trying to borrow these lovely animated gifs from you, but when I come to upload them again they stop moving. What am I doing wrong?
Jan 31st
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Tales of Serendipity & Ennui: If you can pronounce... →
sentientmachine: highonfelix: crimsun: Read More Holy cow, I admire B. Shaw. This is amazing, but how much time did it take to write?! If - you know - how well one speaks English is measured by whether or not one speaks using received pronunciation. That most certainly rules out everyone who… Oh that is wonderful. As a non-native speaker I have been laughed at for pronouncing...
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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The Blog at the End of the Universe.: I could use... →
irregular221b: Specifically, my fellow Sherlockians/Holmesians. I’m still trying to convince my Mycroft brother that he needs to watch Sherlock. Recently got him started on Doctor Who, which led to him watching Jekyll (which not even I have seen), also written by the incomparable Moff, yet his life-long… Dear Irregular221b, I just tried to answer you but Tumblr thwarted me (as usual)....
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Dear Sherlock, I need a hug. I guess that is totally irrelevant to you but maybe you can get John to give me one by proxy. It has been one of those days.
Jan 27th
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Re: Good Morning →
irregular221b: It is raining and 37 degrees here in South Carolina right now. I have to give a presentation on Charlie Dickens (whom I will never call “Charles” again in a non-academic setting) in half and hour, and, as usual, I feel sorely unprepared. I hate giving presentations and making speeches—I always… Dear Irregular221b, Public speaking. Even when you know exactly what you are...
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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littlemissev asked: I love following this blog okay. Your letters to Sherlock make me smile. c: <33
Jan 24th
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71 followers??!
Where did you all come from? Welcome, welcome, welcome. And thank you for putting up with me. Time for a party, methinks.
Jan 24th
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Dear Sherlock, You say you need data. Of course you do. But you are forgetting something really important - what you need are data that actually make sense. I seem to be spending my life scratching my head at data that just aren’t right. I want to see the episode called The Dodgy Data where it all seems to make sense and in the end it doesn’t because someone made a typo or filled in...
Jan 24th
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Jan 18th
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Dear Followers, Regarding the Grammatism post, can I just say how impressed I am with the standard of English on Tumblr. There is very little for a grammatist to get excited about. What choice company.
Jan 17th
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Grammatism
(n) Excessively pedantic behavior about grammatical standards and principles. — grammatist, n. Dear Sherlock, Yes. A Grammatist. What a great thing to be.
Jan 16th
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Jan 12th
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myloveisaquestion asked: I just found you today and I have made it my goal to go through everything on your blog. You do realise you're kind of amazing, right?
Jan 9th
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Dear Sherlock, This has taken me weeks, a lot of surfing and quite a bit of trawling the sales. The point is: your shirts. They are gorgeous. And I thought I could buy my husband some like them - you know, dark colours, black, purple, the like. Since he looks quite a bit like you they should suit him, so off to the shops I went. The point is, all I managed to find was office blue, white, and...
Jan 7th
Jan 6th
Dear Sherlock, Happy Birthday! Can I for once say that I hope it was dull, uneventful, without mortal danger and spent in pleasant company such as with John? And that nobody got hurt? And maybe even that you had enough time to enjoy and digest a piece of cake? And that Molly gave you a lovely present? And that you were *nice* to her? Ah well, I can but hope…
Jan 6th
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Dear Sherlock, Given that Mycroft is so much more clever than you, why on earth does he accept John’s assertion that you are ‘investigating away’? Even I, with my famous lack of social awareness, can see that he is bluffing. Completely.
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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Dear Followers, A very Happy New Year to you. And also a big Thank You, especially for those lovely people who have started following me even though I haven’t posted anything for ages. As you know Sherlock and John are stuck in a pool with Jim somewhere, and I am frankly waiting to see what is going to happen. As are you all, I am sure. However if I have any more insights I will not...
Jan 1st