#bosc

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El Bosc Llobregós.

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In The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Holmes is reading Petrarch on the train, and I only just thought to look up the kinds of things Petrarch writes about, and you get things like:

He makes sweet havoc in this heart of mine, And to my thoughts brings transformation high, So that I say, “My time has come to die, If fate so blest a death for me design.” But to my soul, thus steeped in joy, the sound Brings such a wish to keep that present heaven, It holds my spirit back to earth as well.

Holmes, are you having some big feelings, perhaps?

[dailyholmes]

"We had the carriage to ourselves." The Boscombe Valley Mystery. Published in The Strand Magazine. Sidney Paget, 1891

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[n3kk1tty]

Soul Eater x The Lost Boys: Star

Star has major confidence issues after being the boys meister for a while and the constant bickering and insults tore down her self image.

Luckily her new weapon partner Mura is more than happy to be her personal hype girl.

Mura was Michael's old partner but because Michael couldn't figure out how to master the weapon that Mura is to the fullest potential Mura broke their arrangement off peacefully stating they were just holding each other back.

These two may not be the brute force power machine like Michael and the boys are but the girls over exceed in there technically abilities.

More suited for sneak attacks or taking opponents out in style these two can perfectly resonate there souls together.

It always looks flashy when Star fights and like she's dancing across the battlefield.

Mura is always telling Star to sing the song her souls trying to play and let Mura amplify it for the world to here.

Mura first met David when he was bullying Star not realizing the girl had a new weapon partner and was doing better without the boys.

"Talentless Meister! Now you're weaponless because you're so weak who'd wanna pair with someone as shy as you!" A furred boot heel came swinging between David's legs hitting him right in the family jewels as a stylish woman snuck behind him. "who are you calling weaponless, DICKLESS!? Back off my Meister or I'm gonna make you weaponless where it counts!"

Michael feels jaded about Star and Mura working together as he sees what he could never achieve with his past partner. There's no I'll will between the two but he now knows how much he held her back.

Needless to say though Star and Michael are always having to separate Mura and David as they will get physical.

Mura scares Paul and Marko as she's attacked them for comments before and Paul doesn't want a heel to the face again.

Dwayne admires the girl's tenacity and her ability to fight even when not in weapon form.

[dire-vulture]

pheel do you have any lore to share? which dragon is the sleepiest? does anyone have strong feelings about fruit?

yeah :D

I have Zen, my very sleepy arcanine c: and my veilspun Vroman also is quite sleepy and she grows coffee for the clan to try combating it with mixed results haha..

and omggg yes Florabrisians love fruit c: Bosc and Bergamot might be the biggest fruit fans of all haha..Bosc grows apple and pear trees, and Bergot does citrus fruits! And they are husbands and enjoy talking to each other about their horticulture techniques and harvests c: and then my coatl Colada grows pineapples, coconuts, and bananas, using fire magic to keep the area where xe keeps them climate controlled enough. Xe then uses the fruits to make fun drinks in the clan's tavern c:

and these ones don't grow fruit themselves but they're probably three of the biggest fruit enjoyers in the clan c: Mega is a fruit bat (literally with the colors Peach/Pear/Watermelon haha), Mirim makes killer mango-cranberry cookies, and Lambert travels around the Plateau selling some of Florabrisa's extra produce and is especially fond of melons!

thank you for asking!!

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Gallecs. Catalunya. 03/05/2024. Foto de Pepín.

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[zgac]

Bosc - 2024

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The Boscombe Valley Mystery

This is the fourth short story published.

Paddington, the main London hub of the Great Western Railway, continues to remain a very nice station indeed.

A valise is another name for a suitcase

Boscombe Valley is fictituous, but Ross-on-Wye is real. Holmes and Watson would have taken around 4 hours 45 minutes to travel there by direct train from London.

The 1891 Bradshaw includes a ten-minute break at Swindon, where Watson could get some lunch from the station refreshment room.

Ross-on-Wye in fact lost its railway service in 1964 as part of the "Beeching Axe", the 1960s mass culling of British railway lines, named after the then British Railways Chairman, Dr. Richard Beeching, although most of the actual closures happened after he left.

However, you could get today get there in under four hours from Baker Street, with an hourly bus from Cheltenham. The line to Cheltenham is not electrified, but the trains are bi-mode and operate on overhead electric power for part of their route.

Sidney Paget's illustrations here gave birth to the whole "deerstalker" image. Blame or thank him for that.

All inquests (a formal judicial process investigating an unexplained death or deaths) were at this time done with juries and they could indict someone until 1977.

James McCarthy will be sitting in prison for a month or two pending the next court session. If convicted, he would likely have been executed - or reprieved within a month of that.

Bit odd that Lestrade is working this on his own initiative - does the Met not trust the local detectives?

"Deserts" means what someone deserves. It has become corrupted to "just desserts" over the decades - the term has nothing to do with sweets.

A registry office is a local government-run facility you go to for registering births and deaths; they also conduct civil weddings.

Ballarat is indeed in Australia and a popular filming location.

"Cooee" originates from the Dharug language used by Australian Aboriginal people around Sydney. The language is endangered because of the impact of colonialism, but an atttempt is being made to revive it.

Insulin was not discovered until 1921; at the time, there was no effective treatment for diabetes, in either version.

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Church of Bosc-Roger-en-Roumois, Normandy region of France

French vintage postcard

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SANT SALVADOR DE LA VEDELLA-MONESTIR-ART-PINTURA-AQUAREL·LA-BOSC-IMPENETRABLE-BERGUEDÀ-PANTÀ-LA BAELLS-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: SANT SALVADOR DE LA VEDELLA-MONESTIR-ART-PINTURA-AQUAREL·LA-BOSC-IMPENETRABLE-BERGUEDÀ-PANTÀ-LA BAELLS-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS- El Monestir de SANT SALVADOR DE LA VEDELLA es todo lo que queda del pueblo arrasado por el agua cuando se construyó el Pantano de LA BAELLS en el Berguedà del centro de Catalunya, ahora podemos disfrutar de nuevo de la presencia del Santuario por la sequía y la bajada del agua en el embalse, el viejo edificio religioso ha emergido y se alza entre las tierras enfanfagas y los impenetrables bosques, puedo asegurarlo por mi trabajo com artista excursionista para Pintar el Alma y las Esencias de los lugares olvidados, el bosque casi da miedo por su oscuridad y acentúa el contraste con las blanquecinas paredes con ventanas del antiguo monasterio, estoy disfrutando mucho de estar encontrando estos lugares mágicos y pintando estas obras sobre el entorno y el interior de la cerrada Central Térmica de Fígols, las dos contrucciones se encuentran casi juntas en el espacio físico y geográfico, sus mensajes son la permanencia en el tiempo que se ha empeñado en su destrucción, ellos son persistentes, por el momento. Pintura con acuarelas que son sensoriales, mi interior conecta con el exterior, mi Espíritu habla con el paisaje y sus testimonios, Cuadros del artista pintor Ernest Descals en sus detalles.

[negreabsolut]

Estany de muntanya al mont Ida, Tròade, Anatòlia.

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My favourite character from the Boscombe Valley Mystery

[ IMG A cartoon rock, with caption Rocky the Murder Rock]

[ IMG Cartoon. Holmes, Watson and Lestrade, Holmes is carrying a rock. Watson asks "Holmes, why are you still carrying that?" Holmes replies "We are friends now ]

[dailyholmes]

"'Farewell, then,' said the old man." The Boscombe Valley Mystery. Published in The Strand Magazine. Sidney Paget, 1891

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[n3kk1tty]

Soul Eater x The Lost Boys: Star

Star has major confidence issues after being the boys meister for a while and the constant bickering and insults tore down her self image.

Luckily her new weapon partner Mura is more than happy to be her personal hype girl.

Mura was Michael's old partner but because Michael couldn't figure out how to master the weapon that Mura is to the fullest potential Mura broke their arrangement off peacefully stating they were just holding each other back.

These two may not be the brute force power machine like Michael and the boys are but the girls over exceed in there technically abilities.

More suited for sneak attacks or taking opponents out in style these two can perfectly resonate there souls together.

It always looks flashy when Star fights and like she's dancing across the battlefield.

Mura is always telling Star to sing the song her souls trying to play and let Mura amplify it for the world to here.

Mura first met David when he was bullying Star not realizing the girl had a new weapon partner and was doing better without the boys.

"Talentless Meister! Now you're weaponless because you're so weak who'd wanna pair with someone as shy as you!" A furred boot heel came swinging between David's legs hitting him right in the family jewels as a stylish woman snuck behind him. "who are you calling weaponless, DICKLESS!? Back off my Meister or I'm gonna make you weaponless where it counts!"

Michael feels jaded about Star and Mura working together as he sees what he could never achieve with his past partner. There's no I'll will between the two but he now knows how much he held her back.

Needless to say though Star and Michael are always having to separate Mura and David as they will get physical.

Mura scares Paul and Marko as she's attacked them for comments before and Paul doesn't want a heel to the face again.

Dwayne admires the girl's tenacity and her ability to fight even when not in weapon form.

[geeoharee]

Necro-ing this great post about BOSC as we just got there in Letters From Watson

I do like that Watson reads trash. In Five Orange Pips he was reading Clark Russell, who I am told is all about people having exciting adventures on sailing ships.

Later, as another contrast, Holmes mentions George Meredith, who is apparently way more cultured and serious (to go with his apparent taste for Italian poetry at the moment). I think if Watson lived now he'd be reading those giant airport paperbacks about super-spies that spend way too long describing guns.

I recently reread “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” and realized how hilariously different Holmes’ and Watson’s reading tastes are. Exhibit A, Holmes in the train:

“And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the scene of action.”

Petrarch basically invented the sonnet form, and would also probably take credit for inventing the Italian Renaissance as A Thing. He was very Extra. And Sherlock Holmes apparently keeps a pocket edition of his works (knowing Holmes, probably in the original Italian) for beguiling train journeys with. As far as Watson tells us, Holmes continues to happily read Petrarch for the next four hours. Does he translate Petrarchan love sonnets for Watson? Shippers, make of this what you will.

What does Watson read on the train? He doesn’t say. When Holmes has left him at the hotel, however:

“I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were groping, and I found my attention wander so constantly from the fiction to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room.”

Oh, Watson. Yellow-backed novels were sold at train stations; they were designed for light railway reading, and so the contrast with Holmes’ earlier occupation may be intentionally pointed. Yellow-backs were cheaply issued, garishly illustrated, and intentionally sensationalist (sex! violence! murder! adultery!) Watson’s choice of reading material may slyly foreshadow the soap-opera plot of BOSC itself. Such metafictional reflections aside, I now plan to enjoy imagining Holmes and Watson teasing each other about this more or less constantly, and also going to great trouble to find presents for each other, while explaining to booksellers, with passionate fervor, “It’s not for me…”