"Monday Morning" (ACD, WWI Era, November 2020 Holmes Minor Monthly Prompt)

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Title: Monday Morning
Author: gardnerhill
Form/Wordcount: 444
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings/Content: None
Summary: Sometimes a cold drizzly morning walk is worth it.
Author’s Notes: For the Holmes Minor November 2020 prompt: Bells.
Author's Further Note: This is set in the same series as my other 2020 Holmes Minor stories, which take place in Sussex after Watson returns from WWI.

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Admin Post: Monthly Prompt: November

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(OK, before November gets away from me entirely… ^^”)

The prompt for this month is:



Bells



You could use as inspiration Oranges and Lemons. (Presented without comment: apparently there’s an alternative version that begins “Gay go up, and gay go down,/ To ring the bells of London town…”) Or maybe you could use Bell’s whisky. Perhaps Mrs. Hudson is the belle of the ball. Or she’s once again having to deal with answering 221’s doorbell. Or maybe Holmes and Watson are taking up campanology for a case.



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