The Five Orange Pips: Taking Tea
Jul. 27th, 2014 10:04 amCanon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: Taking Tea
Author:
scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: My wife was on a visit to her mother's… “…it is more likely to be some crony of the landlady's."
“Your husband’s latest story is splendid,” said Mrs. Hudson.
“Yes, apart from the printers’ errors…” Mrs. Watson sipped her tea. “‘1887’, and myself at my ‘mother’s’. And poor Mama dead for twenty years! I was visiting my mother country—Scotland. Where I was born and went to school.”
She sighed.
“They’ll start to think John had more than one wife...”
Title: Taking Tea
Author:
Rating: G
Author's Notes: My wife was on a visit to her mother's… “…it is more likely to be some crony of the landlady's."
“Your husband’s latest story is splendid,” said Mrs. Hudson.
“Yes, apart from the printers’ errors…” Mrs. Watson sipped her tea. “‘1887’, and myself at my ‘mother’s’. And poor Mama dead for twenty years! I was visiting my mother country—Scotland. Where I was born and went to school.”
She sighed.
“They’ll start to think John had more than one wife...”
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Date: 2014-07-27 09:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-27 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-27 06:10 pm (UTC)I aso love the pictures of Mrs Hudson and Mrs Watson having tea together, and young Mary in Scotland.
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Date: 2014-07-27 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-27 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-27 08:49 pm (UTC)re: Taking Tea
Date: 2014-07-29 10:26 pm (UTC)Re: Taking Tea
Date: 2014-07-30 12:04 pm (UTC)Re: Taking Tea
Date: 2014-07-30 12:53 pm (UTC)And my apologies about this comment riddled with SpaG. I was shocked when the notification email just dropped into my mailbox. I definitely should not leave comments late at night.
Re: Taking Tea
Date: 2014-07-30 02:10 pm (UTC)And really don't worry about the comment - I'm well aware of your normal high standard of English ^_^ (And you'd be most amused if I ever tried to leave you a comment in German ^^")