ladykingsfield:

morganoperandi:

I’m going to accept this as a plausible excuse for my consistent insomnia.

Oh great. So that’s why!

tookmyskull:

A LONG EVENING WITH HOLMES

When the world closes in with its worries and cares

And my problems and headaches are coming in pairs

I just climb in my mind up those seventeen stairs

And spend a long evening with Holmes.

~~~ 

The good Doctor greets me and motions me in

Holmes grasps my hand and lays down his violin

Then we sit by the fire and sip a tall gin

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

~~~ 

And while we’re discussing his cases galore

If I’m lucky there comes a loud knock on the door

In stumbles a client, head splattered with gore

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

~~~ 

Watson binds up the client’s poor face

While Holmes soon extracts all the facts of the case

Then off in a hansom to Brixton we race

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

~~~ 

The Adventure is solved, Holmes makes it all right

So back to the lodgings by dawn’s early light

And a breakfast by Hudson to wind up the night

When I spend a long evening with Holmes.

~~~ 

So the modern rat race can’t keep me in a cage

I have a passport to a far better age

As close as my bookcase, as near as a page

I can spend a long evening with Holmes.

—William P. Schweickert

(via holmesosis)

bookishadventures:

Sherlock Holmes Giveaway!

I recently went to the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London and brought back a few extras to share with my followers who may not be as lucky as I am to make it there. So, of course, here are the obligatory rules:

1. You have to be following my blog because I’m doing this for my followers.
2. Only reblogs count because, if you are like me, I never compete in these contest/giveaway things but I still enjoy the option of liking the post without it entering me in the contest.
3. Reblog as often as you like, but I’m only counting one reblog per blog.
4. The deadline to enter is June 6 at 8 pm USA Pacific Time.
5. You must be willing and able to provide me with your mailing address. I don’t want to deal with angry parents when a package shows up from a friend you met online!
6. I will select the winners at random and contact them via their Tumblr account so you must have an available Ask Box.
7. You must respond within 24 hours to my ask or I will automatically select another person.
8. There’s one big giveaway (the stuff above the teal line (note that I am only giving one consulting detective notepad away, the two in the picture are so that you can see the inside and outside)) and a bunch of smaller giveaways (the stuff below the teal line).
9. I will only ship things to you via standard mail or economy mail if you don’t live in the U.S.A.
10. I may not get stuff sent in the mail until a few weeks after the contest ends and I’m not responsible if the post office loses your package after I send it.
11. This is for fun. Play nice and be a good sport or it’s my prerogative to disqualify you.
12. Good luck to everyone!
13. Feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions.

(via sherlockianconnoisseur)

I want them!!!! :3 #red #heels #epic #devilmaycare #very #much #want (Taken with instagram)