I Wrote Some Words. Some Actual Words. And They Made A Little Story.

I wrote some words. Some actual words. And they made a little story.

I mean, it’s more of a drabble, really, and almost entirely lacking in plot, but ... it’s the first bit of fanfic (well, of any fiction writing at all, really) that I’ve managed in ... oh ... years. Five years - seven years, maybe? I can’t remember. 

I used to write all the time, but those 500 words have pretty much exhausted me. 

Does ... does anyone want me to post it? 

IT’S TRUE IT’S ALL TRUE!

“Oh, alright, you can have one sweetie. But only a green one. I don’t like the green ones.”

Watson + food = my OTP.

Just a quick reminder that you can now find the Adventures of Mrs Hudson over on Facebook, should you feel so inclined. 

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Poor Watson ... nobody ever tells him anything.

The world is simply not ready for the Adventure of the Overripe Banana. Perhaps, one day, the whole story can be told.

(As for the business with the angry badger - that, I’m afraid, must remain a mystery...)

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So I topped off my wild Friday night of drinking too much wine and blogging excitedly about Battenberg cake by booking myself on to a one-day introduction to beekeeping course. I AM SO EXCITED.

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.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh dear, I guess I’m posting the thing, then.

(I’d run out of The Words by the time it came to thinking of a title, sorry.)

Be gentle...