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sherlock60Season’s greetings to you all, and welcome to my Problem Page and Poetry Corner!
For the whole of this week I will be helping with any problems that you care to write in about. Love, work, household hints—I have seen and done it all. Simply leave your problem in the comments and using my extensive experience, I will reply with my advice!
To get the ball rolling here are two letters I have already received.
A Miss V. Smith, presently of Surrey, writes:
Madam - I wonder if you could supply me with any advice on how to repel unwanted admirers. Currently I have three - a mysterious bearded gentleman who follows me on a bicycle, an older gentleman whose feelings are I believe honourable, and an odious young man who presses his attentions upon me despite my protestations.
My answer:
Dear Miss Smith - Have you considered donning a beard yourself in order to deter your cyclist follower? My dear friend Mrs. Babcock (formerly of Gadling's Sideshow) informs me that a facial hair covering discourages all but the most exceptional and chivalrous of men.
With regard to your older gentleman - surely politeness and firmness will be sufficient there. And regarding your odious young man - a knee to the groin seems most appropriate. I am sending a pamphlet by the next post.
Next, a note from 'Anxious Landlady, Brixton'. She writes:
Madam - Any hints on how to keep a sitting-room immaculate?
My answer:
Dear Anxious Landlady - I think the best advice is: never rent to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
As well as problems, all forms of poetry are still welcome, of course. Here are the usual suggestions to try:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
So please leave your poems in the comments, and your problems too! I am ready and willing to assist.
Warm regards,
Mrs. Hudson
For the whole of this week I will be helping with any problems that you care to write in about. Love, work, household hints—I have seen and done it all. Simply leave your problem in the comments and using my extensive experience, I will reply with my advice!
To get the ball rolling here are two letters I have already received.
A Miss V. Smith, presently of Surrey, writes:
Madam - I wonder if you could supply me with any advice on how to repel unwanted admirers. Currently I have three - a mysterious bearded gentleman who follows me on a bicycle, an older gentleman whose feelings are I believe honourable, and an odious young man who presses his attentions upon me despite my protestations.
My answer:
Dear Miss Smith - Have you considered donning a beard yourself in order to deter your cyclist follower? My dear friend Mrs. Babcock (formerly of Gadling's Sideshow) informs me that a facial hair covering discourages all but the most exceptional and chivalrous of men.
With regard to your older gentleman - surely politeness and firmness will be sufficient there. And regarding your odious young man - a knee to the groin seems most appropriate. I am sending a pamphlet by the next post.
Next, a note from 'Anxious Landlady, Brixton'. She writes:
Madam - Any hints on how to keep a sitting-room immaculate?
My answer:
Dear Anxious Landlady - I think the best advice is: never rent to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
As well as problems, all forms of poetry are still welcome, of course. Here are the usual suggestions to try:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
So please leave your poems in the comments, and your problems too! I am ready and willing to assist.
Mrs. Hudson
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