Fetch Me My Smelling Salts! Mrs Hudson Returns - At Last! - In An All New Adventure Tomorrow Evening.

Fetch me my smelling salts! Mrs Hudson returns - at last! - in an all new adventure tomorrow evening.

“Mrs Hudson, Professor Moriarty is a master criminal!”

“Oh, well, you two will have lots to talk about, then...”

That first, fateful meeting between Holmes and Moriarty, with a few details that Watson left out of the official version.

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via faerymorstan #MORIARTY'S FACE IN THAT LAST PANEL THO #AND HIS LIL LIFTED SHOULDERS #AND SULK!LOCK ON THE OTHER SIDE

One for the conspiracy theorists ... Mrs Hudson and Moriarty are the only two characters who actually HAVE SHOULDERS when I draw them. Coincidence? 

(Um, yes, yes it probably is. Mrs Hudson’s shoulders are like 99% puffy sleeves anyway. And the pitfalls of drawing anatomically incorrect people are real and they are many...)

And Sulklock is an entirely accurate description of every episode of the Adventures of Mrs Hudson ever.

“Mrs Hudson, Professor Moriarty is a master criminal!”

“Oh, well, you two will have lots to talk about, then…”

That first, fateful meeting between Holmes and Moriarty, with a few details that Watson left out of the official version.

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(I feel compelled to remind everyone that this is a series of doodles in which the Hound of the Baskervilles resides at Baker Street (and still glows in the dark, for some reason), in which Watson is basically just a walking moustache with a penchant for sweeties and in which Holmes once led a conga line and has a teddy bear called Boswell; so if anyone was reading this hoping for a sense of reality, regard for the sanctity of the Canon or indeed any sort of artistic merit whatsoever then they will find themselves sorely disappointed ;) )

But that is a fantastic essay by petermorwood! Really fascinating, thank you so much for sharing. I don’t think the old ‘but it’s alright, I was using a parlour pistol’ excuse would wash with Mrs Hudson, though…

“Ta-da!”

In which Mr. Holmes does a spot of decorating.

(Yes, there really are 20 more of these, and here’s the proof.)

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(I promise this is the last cake-related post, honest...)

YOU DON’T HAVE JAFFA CAKES? Right, I’ll be packing a box of 24 when I hop across the pond later on this year...

I’ve never heard of a neenish tart, but I goggled them and they look pretty much entirely delicious (though not much like a Bakewell tart).

For those of you still following me after this cake-laden epic, you can test your knowledge of some British (and some not-so-British) biscuits in a very silly quiz here.

Right, the Battenberg reports are coming in thick and fast now - a quick round up:

runecestershire​ said: I’m from the American West Coast and live in the Southwest. I am aware of Battenberg cake, having seen it in [American] cake cookbooks and read of it in stories. I’ve never encountered it in the wild, though.

Custard cream biscuits and bakewell tarts are not really things here, though. We do have sandwich cookies with creamy fillings, but they’re not custardy.

karabraden​ said: Honestly, I thought Battenberg only existed in Victorian-era romance and steampunk novels. When I saw it mentioned in a modern book, I got so confused, I went to the husband (expat Brit) and asked “Is Battenberg still a real thing?!”

He stared at me in disbelief.

I’ve still never seen a Battenberg in the wild (nor have I seen the supposed American variant, the “checker cake”).

@turifer said:  We do not, alas, have Bakewell tarts as a general thing in the USA. It’s a shame, because I am very fond of them. Neither do we have batenberg cake or custard creams under that name. We do have equivalent cookies to custard creams but I am currently forgetting the name because I never much cared for them. 

@edderkopper said: I have actually seen bakewell tarts in coffee shops on the East Coast, actually. They’re not super common, but they’re a thing. 

Basically, the Battenberg seems to be some sort of semi-mythical being beyond these shores. The scarcity of Bakewell tarts and custard creams is very alarming, I must admit.

Stay tuned for more important developments.

Anarchy in the UK.