The Three Garridebs: Poetic License

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Title: The Three Garridebs: Poetic License
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: It’s unwise to anger a gifted fiction writer.

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A tea-spoon clattered on the saucer. Watson grinned behind his newspaper.

A rustle as Holmes lowered the Strand. “Watson.” Disbelief. “I only queried if you were hurt, and at your negation I cuffed Evans.”

“So you didn’t blurt out your love like a panicked damsel?” Watson's voice sharpened. “Then use me better next time, Holmes, or I rewrite history again.”

The Three Garridebs: Mrs. Saunders

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Canon Story: The Three Garridebs
Rating: G
Summary: What if it wasn't Holmes's revolver that cracked the 'killer' but maybe something a bit more dometic but just as brutal.

“Thank goodness I forgot my key! Put your gun away, sir. Mop handle was good enough for the General, it’s good enough for me. That, by the way, was for ripping the carpet! And this is for making that poor gentleman bloody my newly-waxed floor! D’you know how much dusting I do? Bet you don’t because your poor mother never…”

Discussion Post: The Three Garridebs

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Three Garridebs and the chosen topic is Telephones.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Three Garridebs

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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 go on 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.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.



The Kiss

By Kurt Brown


Note from Rachel: It was a declaration of love, perhaps, with only one thing left unconfessed.




Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the trine.


( Definition and Example )

But you do not have to use this form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


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


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Three Garridebs: An Element of Comedy

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Canon Story: The Three Garridebs
Title: An Element of Comedy
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I remember the date very well, for it was in the same month that Holmes refused a knighthood for services which may perhaps some day be described. Victoria had died the year before, leaving a minor request in her will…


“So… you’re going to turn it down?” Watson grinned. “But it’s such an honour…”

Holmes scowled. “It’d be different if it was for my work.”

He looked at the letter again.

“But I refuse to tell people it’s because I freed Queen Victoria’s bustle from Mycroft’s armchair!”

Watson laughed.

“Nice to see the old girl retained a sense of humour.”

The Three Garridebs: Not An Invalid

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Canon Story: The Three Garridebs
Title: Not An Invalid (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

It was fortunate I was not seriously injured.  As it is, Lestrade has been clucking round me like a mother hen, and refusing to countenance my assisting Holmes with further cases until he is confident I am fully recovered.  Even when I rise from my chair he is there, proffering his arm, despite my protestations of not being an invalid.