Tag Archives: Sherlock Holmes
House MD: Everybody Dies, Everybody Lies
I’ve watched episodes of Casualty and M*A*S*H and Nurse Jackie and even ER, but I’d never say I was a fan of medical dramas. But I have just watched the final very last no there’s not going to be any … Continue reading
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Trams? Trams? Look over there – a spaceship!
On Saturday 3rd March 2012 Edinburgh bus fares are going to go up. Again. The bus fares change in 2012 will be the fourth rise since 2006, when a single bus fare went up to £1: In April 2008 to … Continue reading
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The Search for #Sherlock
“It is with a heavy heart,” Doctor John Watson wrote in 1893, “that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes … Continue reading
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Sherlock: Irene Adler is THE woman
I finished watching the first episode of 2012′s Sherlock just after midnight, and attempted to analyse out my feelings about it for a couple of hours before giving up – I couldn’t do it, at least not beyond the Bohemia/Belgravia … Continue reading
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Sherlock: Translated from Bohemia
The short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” was the first to be published in the Strand magazine, in 1891. (Until I checked the date, I was convinced it must have been 1895, but the broken hit counter on John Watson’s … Continue reading
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