Well, I don't, I really like it. That's the problem. It's a really good show... but this is the second time in the space of a week that's it's reduced me to tears. Proper, breaking-my-heart tears. Dammit.

This isn't usually the kind of thing I post on my LJ (and I know, I haven't updated here for ages) but this is seriously weighing on my mind atm and I just need to get these thoughts down. So feel free to ignore if you want... but really you shouldn't, because this is scary shit... the kid of scary shit we should all be really angry about.

Following a discussion on the parenting website I hang about on, itself prompted by Sarah Silverman's "quickie aborsh" tweet (and all kudos to SS because until her tweet prompted this discussion, I had no idea this shit was going on!), I am just stunned and appalled at the ( unprecedented regression of women's rights being actively pursued by right-wing conservative Republicans in America right now )

Yeah, I'm still on that fandom-inspiring-my-crafting kick and I've made another Sherlock ATC. This time, however, just for something a little different, it's a ( digi one: )

Once again my passion for Sherlock has combined with my love of crafting.

I've been taking part in a circle journal and the theme of the journal I've just done my entry for was "Reading Matters" - about the books you read. Guess what books I did ( my page about? ;) )

I don't normally post my crafty stuff on here, cos I have a blog for that, but thought I'd nonetheless share one of my ( recent creations: )

Further to Steven Moffat's comment that "there’s one clue that everyone’s missed. It’s something that Sherlock did that was very out of character, but which nobody has picked up on", I believe ( I have the answer! )

Following a rewatch, here's my theory (spoilers for The Reichenbach Fall, naturally):

( Here )

OMFG. *and breathe*

And ( everything else under a cut to protect the spoiler-free: )

We had a day out yesterday to Chester Zoo. I have a lot of great childhood memories of visits to Chester Zoo and Aimee is mad about animals so loves trips to the zoo so I was really looking forward to it.

It was a bitterly cold day but really bright and sunny so we wrapped the kids up warm and pretty much spent the day trekking about seeing as many animals as we could. The zoo is far too large to see everything in one day so I tried to concentrate on the bigger animals that smaller zoos don't have and that Aimee therefore hadn't seen before - elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions etc.

We had a brilliant day - and Aimee loved it! - and I took loads and load of photos with my awesome new DSLR. I love this camera so much! Even on automatic setting, it takes incredible photos. And having the option to focus manually makes such a difference when photographing through wire/bars, where an automatic focus camera will often focus on the wires instead of the animal beyond.

( Chester Zoo photos )

Yes, my recent addiction to all that is Sherlock has inspired me to fic! :)

This is a missing scene fic from the end of the unaired pilot. Spoilers for the plot of the unaired pilot (the end of which differed slightly from the aired ep) in case you've not seen it (tbh, this fic might be a bit confusing if you've not seen the unaired pilot).

Needless to say, it's whumpy. :D

I haven't written anything in what seems like forever and, I must admit, I struggled a bit with this, but the idea wouldn't leave me alone!

( I'm Not In Shock )