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holmes_minorWelcome, everyone!
As you know, I have recently become interested in filling in the gaps in my family tree and I managed to discover that my great-great-great-grandfather came from a little village on the Isle of Mull. Thank you all for agreeing to accompany me on the lengthy journey to his birthplace in the near future and for attending this planning meeting today!
Now, travelling from Baker Street to the Inner Hebrides is no mean feat, and plotting the railway connections using our familiar Bradshaw’s Guides is a task for the keenest brain! But unfortunately Mrs. Small-Hobbit was otherwise engaged when I needed to assign the job, so I asked Mrs. Frankles if she wouldn’t mind taking a crack at it.
How are you doing, dear? You’ve got us out of the Home Counties? Oh, almost. Well, I’m sure you’ll get there, dear. How long have you been at it now?
Five and a half days. I see. Well, we’ll come back to that.
Mrs. Small-Hobbit, there is a… delicate matter that I need to discuss with you. I’m not a superstitious woman, but I can’t help but notice you have a certain effect on the trains when we travel by rail and so I was wondering—
Heavens, of course I’m not suggesting you stay behind! I was simply going to suggest that you give us a fighting chance and consent to be driven up to Scotland in a private automobile. At my expense naturally.
What’s that, Mrs. Frankles? Why, yes… I suppose it might make more sense for us to pool our resources and book a larger vehicle and drive up together. We could stop along the way and make a proper journey out of it. Excellent idea! Let’s do that!
Mrs. Frankles! I really don’t feel there’s any need to hurl my Bradshaw into the waste paper bin though.
Perhaps we should move on to composing some poetry to soothe all our nerves. To assist with inspiration, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Valley of Fear”. (Mrs. Frankles, you are not to throw my copy of the Valley of Fear in the waste paper bin either! I know. Dear God, we all know. But Doctor Watson very kindly signed it for me and I am somewhat attached to it.)
“Our search is narrowed down to standardized books which anyone may be supposed to possess.”
“Bradshaw!”
“There are difficulties, Watson. The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited. The selection of words would hardly lend itself to the sending of general messages. We will eliminate Bradshaw.”
And here as always is the list of poetry forms:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith
And so, let’s get on track and let off some steam! (In written form, thank you, Mrs. Frankles.)
As you know, I have recently become interested in filling in the gaps in my family tree and I managed to discover that my great-great-great-grandfather came from a little village on the Isle of Mull. Thank you all for agreeing to accompany me on the lengthy journey to his birthplace in the near future and for attending this planning meeting today!
Now, travelling from Baker Street to the Inner Hebrides is no mean feat, and plotting the railway connections using our familiar Bradshaw’s Guides is a task for the keenest brain! But unfortunately Mrs. Small-Hobbit was otherwise engaged when I needed to assign the job, so I asked Mrs. Frankles if she wouldn’t mind taking a crack at it.
How are you doing, dear? You’ve got us out of the Home Counties? Oh, almost. Well, I’m sure you’ll get there, dear. How long have you been at it now?
Five and a half days. I see. Well, we’ll come back to that.
Mrs. Small-Hobbit, there is a… delicate matter that I need to discuss with you. I’m not a superstitious woman, but I can’t help but notice you have a certain effect on the trains when we travel by rail and so I was wondering—
Heavens, of course I’m not suggesting you stay behind! I was simply going to suggest that you give us a fighting chance and consent to be driven up to Scotland in a private automobile. At my expense naturally.
What’s that, Mrs. Frankles? Why, yes… I suppose it might make more sense for us to pool our resources and book a larger vehicle and drive up together. We could stop along the way and make a proper journey out of it. Excellent idea! Let’s do that!
Mrs. Frankles! I really don’t feel there’s any need to hurl my Bradshaw into the waste paper bin though.
Perhaps we should move on to composing some poetry to soothe all our nerves. To assist with inspiration, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Valley of Fear”. (Mrs. Frankles, you are not to throw my copy of the Valley of Fear in the waste paper bin either! I know. Dear God, we all know. But Doctor Watson very kindly signed it for me and I am somewhat attached to it.)
“Our search is narrowed down to standardized books which anyone may be supposed to possess.”
“Bradshaw!”
“There are difficulties, Watson. The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited. The selection of words would hardly lend itself to the sending of general messages. We will eliminate Bradshaw.”
And here as always is the list of poetry forms:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith
And so, let’s get on track and let off some steam! (In written form, thank you, Mrs. Frankles.)
