And that's about as fur as I c'n go

[kalypso_v]

Belatedly, Happy Birthday to

Comments

[arianedevere]

Really clever! I love that they were talking code all the time! And you've made the characters of the Holmes parents very true to their behaviour in the show. I love this.

[kalypso_v]

Thanks very much - I'm delighted that you enjoyed it, I wasn't quite sure whether my conceit would work or not. Your transcripts were of course very useful sources - I had all the Holmes parents' dialogue saved in a special file so that I could check how they talked without having to keep playing the scenes. I couldn't quite rise to the heights of Mrs Holmes's lottery-ticket-down-the-back-of-the-sofa routine - it's really hard keeping up a constant stream of banality, and my admiration for her steadily increased! I don't think Sherlock knows what they're doing, though Mycroft might.

[keerawa]

Very nice - I love that the family is all so clever, even if they don't demonstrate it in quite the same way as Sherlock and Mycroft.

[kalypso_v]

Thank you! John says they're ordinary, but then that's on the basis of seeing them for five minutes, and a lot of people think he's ordinary, which Sherlock has pointed out is very far from true.

And I enjoy writing about minor characters, because I like the idea that they have complex and fascinating lives of which the main characters are quite ignorant...