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holmes_minorWell, we finally made it back from Mull, and this month we find ourselves in Switzerland! Not at the Reichenbach Falls fortunately, so there will be no risk of detectives going over the edge. (Though perhaps it was lucky Mr. Holmes showed no interest in accompanying us or I might have been tempte—) Ahem. No, instead here we are in St. Moritz, home of the Cresta Run!
As you are probably aware, the Cresta Run is an ice track for racing skeleton style toboggans. It has a… certain reputation, but perhaps surprisingly the course is currently open to female participants.
I’m sorry, Mrs. Frankles, did you say “Give it time”? Mrs. Frankles…?
Anyway, Mrs. Small-Hobbit has been in intensive training and has received permission from the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club to give the run her best shot! The rest of us will be moving down to the finishing line where we shall wait with the first-aiders—purely a precautionary measure I’m sure, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! Then we shall all retire to the nearest hotel for cocoa and poetry after Mrs. Small-Hobbit has reached her end. Er, I mean, reached the end. I’m sure it’s going to be fine, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! (Oh dear God.)
As preparation for our poetic endeavours, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”:
He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever.
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, break a leg, Mrs. Sma—! Er, no, absolutely not. The very best of luck, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! We’ll have the cocoa ready!
As you are probably aware, the Cresta Run is an ice track for racing skeleton style toboggans. It has a… certain reputation, but perhaps surprisingly the course is currently open to female participants.
I’m sorry, Mrs. Frankles, did you say “Give it time”? Mrs. Frankles…?
Anyway, Mrs. Small-Hobbit has been in intensive training and has received permission from the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club to give the run her best shot! The rest of us will be moving down to the finishing line where we shall wait with the first-aiders—purely a precautionary measure I’m sure, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! Then we shall all retire to the nearest hotel for cocoa and poetry after Mrs. Small-Hobbit has reached her end. Er, I mean, reached the end. I’m sure it’s going to be fine, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! (Oh dear God.)
As preparation for our poetic endeavours, here is a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”:
He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever.
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, break a leg, Mrs. Sma—! Er, no, absolutely not. The very best of luck, Mrs. Small-Hobbit! We’ll have the cocoa ready!
Triumphant
Date: 2024-01-29 10:20 pm (UTC)And drunk a bottle of gin
I've listened to all the instructions
And I'm waiting my turn to begin
A quick push and I've started
Although maybe not at a run
I'm slithering and sliding
My journey has now begun
I'm twisting and I'm turning
It's not as hard as I thought
A bit like avoiding the bailiffs
When my money is being sought
I've reached the last few turnings
And I've made it over the final crest
I doubt that I'll be with the leaders
But no-one can say I haven't given my best
I've glided over the finish
And crashed right into a judge
It's his own fault, he saw me coming
He shouldn't have refused to budge
But we're all going for a celebration
Because I completed the Cresta Run
So pop a cork on the champagne
The drinking has begun
Re: Triumphant
Date: 2024-01-29 11:03 pm (UTC)Very well played. Though, that poor judge ^_____^ And naturally champagne would be far more appropriate than cocoa on this triumphant occasion ^___^
Re: Triumphant
Date: 2024-01-29 11:42 pm (UTC)Re: Triumphant
Date: 2024-01-29 11:38 pm (UTC)Re: Triumphant
Date: 2024-01-29 11:43 pm (UTC)Re: Triumphant
Date: 2024-01-30 09:08 am (UTC)Re: Triumphant
Date: 2024-01-30 09:20 am (UTC)All fair and square on a nearby slope…inspired by Mrs Small-Hobbit’s triumph
Date: 2024-01-30 09:36 am (UTC)past Moriarty,
whoever is last down the slope
hosts the party.
Lestrade’s hit a pine tree,
now here’s the detective.
A brief sideways bump
from the sled’s quite effective.
Hopkins…a nudge…
he’s head down in the snow,
A rock somehow landed on Mycroft…
just so…
Mrs Hudson is finding
the going quite rough;
a blade has detached from
her bobsleigh…that’s tough…
It seems, just by chance,
Mrs P is the winner.
The glory is hers,
and free gin, and free dinner!
Re: All fair and square on a nearby slope…inspired by Mrs Small-Hobbit’s triumph
Date: 2024-01-30 10:17 am (UTC)Re: All fair and square on a nearby slope…inspired by Mrs Small-Hobbit’s triumph
Date: 2024-01-30 10:45 am (UTC)Re: All fair and square on a nearby slope…inspired by Mrs Small-Hobbit’s triumph
Date: 2024-01-30 06:15 pm (UTC)Re: All fair and square on a nearby slope…inspired by Mrs Small-Hobbit’s triumph
Date: 2024-01-30 07:35 pm (UTC)And yes…all the gin🥂
Re: All fair and square on a nearby slope…inspired by Mrs Small-Hobbit’s triumph
Date: 2024-02-10 09:40 pm (UTC)Re: All fair and square on a nearby slope…inspired by Mrs Small-Hobbit’s triumph
Date: 2024-02-10 10:40 pm (UTC)Snow Rescue
Date: 2024-02-15 07:47 pm (UTC)strayed far from London grime and crime and soot,
to St. Moritz where games concerning skis
skates and sleds were the only ones afoot!
Or maybe not. So wise to Holmes’ ways,
when he proposed I have a late morning,
I didn’t even think of a line-in,
I took it as a definite warning!
Of trouble ahead. I crept from my bed
to put some pre-emptive measures in place
and rose, as I supposed, alone, Holmes-less,
but soon set out, with guide, to track the trace
of creosote, with which I’d doused the blades
of Holmes’ sled-toboggan. By my side,
an animal trained to search and rescue,
and, thus, following the trail, we soon spied
our quarry, flailing in a drift of snow
just off the Cresta Run. Once loose of it,
he unrepentantly cried, ‘The fiend’s gone
and got away, and that’s the deuce of it.”
With tots from the barrel keg, Holmes poured out
the case, then gave my companion a stare;
‘A Saint Bernard is well known to one and all,
but a Saint Okapi, it must be rare.”
Re: Snow Rescue
Date: 2024-02-15 08:34 pm (UTC)Re: Snow Rescue
Date: 2024-02-15 10:36 pm (UTC)Re: Snow Rescue
Date: 2024-02-16 04:56 pm (UTC)Cunning trail of creosote and dramatic rescue:-)
Re: Snow Rescue
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Date: 2024-02-25 08:05 pm (UTC)