Canon Discussion: The Five Orange Pips

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This week we’re having a look at The Five Orange Pips. I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Five Orange Pips

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.


This week my featured form is the cinquain.

( Definition and Example )

As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, cinquain, clerihew, concrete poetry, epigram, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, riddle, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Five Orange Pips in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!

Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Five Orange Pips: Put in Order

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: Put in Order
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “...the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.” ...for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street.


In my old room books covered every surface.

“Holmes,” I said, “I demand you rearrange your library!”

He agreed, and returned later smiling. “I think you will fit in nicely now.”


I am still uncertain whether it was accidental—that WATSON,JH spent his stay sleeping between WATERFOWL OF BRITAIN on one side, and WATTEAU: A Life on the other.

The Five Orange Pips: Dark Nights

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: Dark Nights
Author: rachelindeed
Rating: PG

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On dark nights, I have happened more than once to hear footsteps behind me.

Each time I stop to look back, but I see no one.

Just before I wake, John Openshaw, lips black, face young and dead, leans to my ear and whispers, ‘That is what you may expect to see, when I follow you.’

He always will.

The Five Orange Pips: A Klansman's Diary (PG)

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: A Klansman's Diary
Author: vaysh
Summary: Elias Openshaw's enigmatical notices from March 1869, and the corresponding newspaper clippings from the St. Augustine Press.
Words: 3 x 60
Rating: PG
Warnings/Content: mention of violence, too many references to the history of St. Augustine, Florida, and other events of the 1860s.


( A Klansman's Diary )

The Five Orange Pips: News in Brief

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Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: News in Brief (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G




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Blake’s Furniture Warehouse was the scene of some unexpected excitement last Wednesday night.  Shortly after midnight various well-dressed gentlemen were escorted off the premises by a number of policemen.  Later some rather scantily clad women emerged, who disappeared down the road making cat-calls at the remaining officers.

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Please note all further meetings of the Amateur Mendicant Society have been cancelled.

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