Come into my palace - don't mind if I do!

 Our memories are quite amazing really. All those bits and pieces of information stored in what is really a grey, wet, watery organ! Bizarre! There is a theory that we can make special mind maps inside our heads and when we retrace our steps using said map - we can uncover all sorts of information. This would make revising for an exam really useful. 

My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) often goes off to his mind palace at times of importance. When he needs to go he really needs to go and becomes quite rood, having to clear the room of everyone in it to be left alone to concentrate! (This technique would therefore be no good in an exam situation).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmueuSRJrZc

I once thought that the only lobes on my body were my ear lobes, so it came quite a surprise to find out that there are lobes in my brain - though not the sort you hand earrings from!

Here is an interesting map of a human brain. What I find weird is that when people want to forget something they say, "I've pushed it to the back of my mind". This is an odd thing to do as that would affect your eyesight according to this map! So the memory bit is in the yellow part though I don't think it's really yellow? 

PLAN FOR SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS

(1)      Decorate your mind palace - preferably yellow so you

          can remember which lobe of your brain you stored the

          information in

(2)     Start to upload the information into your brain by

         drawing pretend lines in the air to link your information

(3)     When you need to retrieve the information use your

          index finger and pretending you are Tony Stark start

          to redraw the lines to find your way back to the

          information.

I hope this information helps you in any up and coming exams and tests, just remember:

BFF!

Friendship is a complicated thing! Emotions are involved all of the time and situations change from day to day. How we speak and behave to one another is REALLY important. BUT what if you have a friend who is totally INSENSITIVE! Infact they are so insensitive they make people want to lash out erratically!
I mean what do you say to someone who says this to you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7OX0OyQsOo

 
I mean it's embarrasing! Everyone  looks at Dear John as if to say, "Do something!"

But this isn't the only time this sort of thing has happened. I have kept a log book of all of the 'quite incredible' things my boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) has launched upon his victims! How very rude!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNRb8TlhHw

All that being said, my boss is very slowly coming around to the idea that people do actually have feelings and they can be hurt and trampled on! It's a slow process but I think that by the look on his face...he's actually getting there and isn't the mean unfeeling monster that some people perceive him to be :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJsW5_7OJds

Find your ideal dog

It is very important when choosing a pet dog that your personality matches the breed of dog you would like. For instance if you are a lazy couch potato you wouldn't choose a husky and if you are someone who wanders the highlands of Scotland hunting grouse, I doubt a Chinese Crested Dog which you carry around in a handbag would be any good at all.

My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) does not have a dog but one time I do believe he met his match.
                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLeruQ3I1gs

A dog should be a life companion not something which scares the living daylights out of you! Some dogs I agree are terrifying while others are amazingly faithful. 

My favourite dog is a boarder colley but as I don't live on a farm I do not have one. I love husky's but as it rarely snows where I live and I do not have a sled I don't have one of those either. I think Irish Wolf hounds are fantastic but I couldn't fit one in my house (though I could ride it to school rather than go on the bus) and I adore little Pomeranian puppy's as they are uber cute!

Here's a tough choice: who would your favourite dog be from the following? Think about how much exercise you do, where you live and the type of house you have. Do you have a garden. Are there children? Do you have any other pets?

If you would like to know which dog suits you best you can always look at this website - Dog Breed Selector http://animal.discovery.com/breed-selector/dog-breeds.html. It is a big responsibility looking after any animal and they need to fit into your life and feel loved and wanted. If you cannot have a dog but love them you could raise money and help charity's like the Dogs Trust. http://www.dogstrust.org.uk/

My family are very busy so we have two Guinea Pigs named Frodo and Sam. They are very intelligent animals just like dogs but they can't catch frizby's or fetch sticks and balls - but they like grass and sunbathing :D

A study in Pink

The Pink BBC book cover

Dear John in a pink chair

Dead woman in pink coat

A pink mobile cover

The other Miss Adler wearing a pink dress

Mycroft in a pink tie

Pink nails, pink shoes and a pink coat.....

a Pink Suitcase


The Pink Panther


AND






Pink

HERE CONCLUDES MY STUDY IN PINK :)

Big Bully's!

There are always people at school who pick on others or get picked on but my boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) always tells me the same thing; you have to stand up to bully's and not let them win. He does know what's he's talking about. Sometimes he sounds a bit like a bully and winds everyone up and says dreadful things even to his friends, but not so long ago he apologized to Molly Hooper!

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv1N7YDqbuE

This shows that my boss isn't really a bully, just insensitive!

On the other hand this bloke who my boss refers to as Moriarty is definitely a big bully. I don't think he was very popular at school and was probably always in detention and writing lines like:

• I must not blow people up or 
• I must not kill people or 
• I must not use psychological warfare etc

His first name is James which is weird because James is a nice name and not really one for a psychopath. I have an Uncle named James and he isn't a psychopath or a big bully.  

I looked up the meaning of the name James out of curiosity and this is what I found:

James \j(a)-mes\ as a boy's name (also used as girl's name James), is pronounced jayms. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of James is "he who supplants". 

I thought this was strange because I didn't know the meaning of the word 'supplants', so i looked that up as well and found that it means this:

1. To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics.

So in the end I discovered that James is a very good name for a consultant criminal but not a good name for a nice Uncle, but then my name means 'Bright Meadow', which means nothing at all. 

Insults!

My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) is very insulting. Poor Mrs Hudson can barely stand him and dear John and most of his other 'friends' just have to put up with him most of the time. (He's not very sympathetic!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Cca7Nq2Zs

He is the most knowledgeable person I know, in fact i do sometimes call him Spock, as does dear John. 

He doesn't even know his own friends names, and sometimes gets very angry  and says he doesn't have any friends!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUW2h322ps

How ever funny the insults might be it's not funny for the person being insulted. My boss is very slowly learning that you should treat people the way you want to be treated yourself. It is always better to laugh with your friends even though it is easier to laugh at them and sometimes it is better to keep your thoughts inside you head rather than let them escape out.

Saying that, here are some of my favourite quotes from William Shakespeare, the master of insults!

• I do desire we may be better strangers.
  As You Like It (3.2.248)
• More of your conversation would infect my brain.
  Coriolanus (2.1.91)
• The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
  Coriolanus (5.4.18)
• Take you me for a sponge?
  Hamlet (4.2.13)
• I scorn you, scurvy companion.
  2 Henry IV (2.4.115)
• Away, you mouldy rogue, away!
  2 Henry IV (2.4.117)
• Hag of all despite!
  1 Henry VI (3.2.54)
• I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
  And with the other fling it at thy face.
  3 Henry VI (5.1.51-2)
• Out, dunghill!
  King John (4.3.91)
• You juggler! you canker-blossom!
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (3.2.293) 
• Thou lump of foul deformity!
  Richard III (1.2.58)

Long coats and Short friends

Long coats and short friends are very important if you want to look tall. My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) has both of these. Dear John doesn't like to talk about his height. Of course, John could never look tall. Not only because he doesn't have a long coat but you couldn't find many people smaller than him. (No offence John!)

I seem to keep growing; so I always grow out of my long coats as they turn into short coats. It has turned into a height race between me and my Friends! One minute I'm taller than them then next minute they're taller than me! This is very difficult when you are trying to grow up, as you don't know who to look up to?
 
Apparently the avarage height of a 13 year old is 5 feet 2 inches - that's if you can believe 'kweller23' on Yahoo Answers, although 'hotandspicy1991' doesn't agree with him at all.


The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence is Robert Pershing Wadlow (USA) (born 6:30 a.m. at Alton, Illinois, USA on 22 February 1918), who when last measured on 27 June 1940, was found to be 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall.
 

 Chandra Bahadur Dangi measures 54.6cm (21.5 in), making him the same size of six stacked cans of baked beans.

 Unfortunately there are no statistics for the longest coat or the shortest friends - if you find any please let me know.

 

The importance of family

This is the moment when my boss (the resident of 221b Baker Street) shouted at his big brother Mycroft, after he very rudely told Mrs Hudson to 'Shut up!' You could have heard a pin drop after the incident and an awkward silence as we all waited for Mycroft to apologize. See here for my recording of the moment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLf-g11p_M

Amusingly Mycroft did say sorry (and rightly so) after all we are all 'family' in a funny sort of way and if we can't fall out and make up then we're not a proper family.

That's what family's are all about. Here are some things family's should do together:

• Have fun
• Eat
• Argue
• Eat
• Fall out
• Get back together
• Eat

and start all over again!

Family is about belonging to a group and feeling wanted and wanting to be with the other people in your group. This is complicated because there are two types of family.

Type 1: The family you are born into, i.e: blood relatives like moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grand parents etc...These all come with certificates like this one.

Type 2: The family you choose. This group of people are really special because if you could choose your blood relatives, they would probably be chosen instead of some of the ones you have to have!

These are members of my family, most of the time they are misable but I love them all the same.

(Mrs Hudson, Greg, John, Sherlock, Mycroft and Molly)

I do have a family from Type 1 as well and they're quite nice so I shall keep them. This would be a good time to remind everyone reading this blog that there is only 65 days left until Christmas which is the time of year when family's eat, argue and get stressed...and have fun :) lol

                                                                               

Time for bed

                                      

There are different types of people in the world as I may have said before. Some people are known as 'Night Owls' who stay up late and some are known as 'Early Birds' who get up super early (and apparently catch worms). My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) doesn't so much love his bed but his bed sheets! I don't ask any questions because we all have our funny little ways. I think he exhausts himself especially when he's got a very exciting case to solve and then wants to stay in bed to recover. 

On one occasion he didn't even have time to get dressed when he was called to a very important meeting.

 When he found out the meeting was with Mycroft (his big brother) he wouldn't get dressed on purpose! 

                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDiJqJ30c8k

I love my bed but the strange thing is, at night time I don't like getting into it, and when it's the morning it seems much more comfortable so i don't like getting out of it! The thing I like most about my bed is snuggling up to the pillows and wrapping the duvet around me, like a little cocoon. In fact not so little! (Strange isn't it, but it's true)

Interesting facts about bed sheets:

• Bed sheets have been used since the Vedic period (which was ages ago).
• There are bottom flat sheets, top flat sheets, fitted bottom sheets and valance sheets.
• Sheets can be made out of cotton polyester and nylon.
• If you wear Nylon PJ's with Nylon bed sheets you will set fire to your self, as the friction causes sparks. (Don't try this at home, or i'll be in a lot of trouble, although my boss could help me with the court case... ANYWAY!)
• Bed bugs can live in dirty beds, (Mrs Hudson Is very fussy about them, and all kinds of washing problems.)

HERE ARE SOME HELPFUL HINTS FROM MRS HUDSON :)

It's A Wrap!

Food isn't very important to my boss (the resident of 221b Baker Street) He smply eats when he is hungry. He says digestion slows him down. Even though just downstairs there is a fabulous little cafe, he still only eats when he can fit it into his busy schedule. The Cafe I am talking about goes by the name of Speedy's.

 
All sorts of strange things happen in Speedy's, like private meetings between Mrs Hudson and some friends

 

 and also dear John and my bosses brother Mycroft having a very secret conversation with lots of other people around them listening?





Speedy's is so awesome that they are trying to encourage my boss to eat because they are concerned. They have invented a wrap named after him and it's selling like hot cakes! Here it is:

In my opinion,(and I'm usually right about these things) Speedy's is the best cafe in London, (i'm lucky i live down the road!) I usually have the cheddar cheese option, (i'm a big fan of cheese.)

Everyone should have their own wrap, and mine would consist of these ingredients:

•  Cheese - because I am mature (and a bit cheesey)
• Sweet onion chutney - because I'm always in a pickle
• Bacon - because I like to pig out
• Iceburg lettuce - as I am so cool
• and Any other mystery ingredient because I like to deduct what I am eating? :P
 

My Shirley Wrap!

(By process of elimination the secret ingredient is Apple!)

 

Music to my ears

One of the things I don't like doing is practicing my violin. So I rarely do. I have very little patience and would rather play around with the instrument and see what I can come up with. I am extremely slow at reading music whilst my brain is whizzing ahead thinking of a zillion things I could be doing...like solving crimes and investigating mysteries. My boss (resident of 221b Baker Street) not only practices his violin regularly, but uses it to escape from his over active brain function! Clever really I think. He is so cool he even has his own theme tune! Here it is with the words:

Sometimes my boss gets a bit sad...not very often as mainly he is bored...and once there was a certain woman (who he refers to as 'The woman') who he got quite upset over. He doesn't express his feelings so he turns his hand to composing because it helps him to think. Once again, my camera phone came in useful and here he is composing a dreadfully somber piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhrigOpABc

When I need to think or concentrate, I don't play my violin. These are the things I do:

• Jump up and down on a trampoline
• Bounce around the house on a pilates ball
• Get a massive blob of blue tack and squash and roll it into numerous shapes
• Bake cup cakes
• Climb a tree
• Fidget and prance around

At home this is fine but in school this can be a problem. I have been accused of having ants in my pants, which I can assure you I most certainly do not. My teachers generally think I am not listening because I stare into spaces, draw all over my hands and talk. I am what they call a Kinesthetic learner. Some times known as a tactile learner. This means in order for me to take in information and learn things people are saying to me or showing me (like in a classroom) I need to move around or it can't get into my brain.

There are lots of different kinds of learning styles. Which one are you?

• Visual (spatial):You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
• Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer using sound and music.
• Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.(This is John)
• Physical (kinesthetic): You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.(This is me)
• Logical (mathematical): You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.(This is my boss)
• Social (interpersonal): You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.
• Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer to work alone and use self-study.

Sometimes you can overlap into different styles and that depends on a lot of other things.