Sherlock update

Chapter 15 - The Excellent Adventure of Dr Mary Morstan has been posted to FF.Net and to Soledad_writes, my writing journal on DW. I'm paradoxically both early and late wtih the update, as I've posted the chapter to FF.Net the day before yesterday but to DW only today, because of the day trip to Vienna. In any case, I hope you'll like it.

Back from Vienna, musing about TV-shows and the likes

Yeah, loooong title, but not (only) because I've got little to say. In fact, I've got a few thing to tell right now.

So, we were to Vienna. It was great. Nice weather, smooth trip, good founds and all. Mum's legs aren't what they used to be, but she soldiered on bravely, the poor thing. She loves Vienna as much as I do.
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Speaking of different interpretations, I had an interesting realization lately. I watched the two versions of "The Murder at the Vicarage", with Joan Hickson and Geraldine McEwan in the role of Miss Marple, respectively. Now, the McEwan version is supposed to be a modernised one, pushing the event into the 1950, instead of the 1930s, as the original supposedly took place. And yet it smelled a great deal more of mothballs to me than the one with Joan Hickson.
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The only good aspects of the newer adaptation of "The Murder at the Vicarage" were the guy who played Lawrence Redding (he definitely had more personality), Derek Jacobi as Col. Protheroe and, of course, Mark Gatiss as the Vicar's nervous assistant. Having met him first as the omnipotent and slightly sinister Mycroft Holmes, seeing him in such a vasty different role was great fun.