dieastra | Sherlock Holmes museum - part 2/5

Nice.

Thanks!

Everything is so...ornate? Is that the word I want? And cluttered. I would not want to have to clean that place. Also, the wallpaper is ugly, but not nearly as hideous as the one in the show. I would make a crap Victorian, apparently. :)

It is indeed a bit full, and now you got me wondering how they do the cleaning. Certainly not during the day. In the evenings? Once a year when closed down?

They don't have servants, and Mrs. Hudson is 'not their housekeeper, but their landlady', so they must hire someone in to do it occasionally. Wonder what made Victorians so enamored of crap everywhere? I would not have survived back then, I'm sure.

Ah, you were talking about Sherlock and John! I was talking about the museum staff ;) Yeah, Mrs. Hudson certainly isn't doing it. She's afraid of all the stuff Sherlock puts into the fridge ;) Maybe Molly? She seems the type.

They do it once a year with our Opera house. Closing it for a week and doing profound cleanings. Getting the chandelier down and everything.

Oh, the poor museum staff. It must be part of their job description, so they know what they are letting themselves in for. I know people who love to clean, I am not one of them. I've offered to let some of them come and clean for me, but so far I've had no takers.

it seems it was always stormy and rainy in the books
Because it's Britain so rain doesn't stop people from going outside and you need also a storm? Just guessing :D

I love how the table looks!

It looks like there's everything in that room. How can one remain focused on the case there?

#other-fandoms-randomly-happening-out-of-the-blue
Forgive me, but now I must push in with a Sharpe icon of mine. ;)

Great icon LOL
Although I really would like to know what he calls a bad day then...

Well, since you ask...

That's not the guy from the first icon, that's his commanding officer, but they're in agreement about that. ;)

Hahahaha ROFL Yeah, that sounds like a catastrophe to me! LOL
Is he naked under that uniform? Which fandom are we talking about again here? You probably can't know this, but I always love a man in uniform...

(somehow this reminds me I should check if I have missed Poldark continuing)

Haha, well, technically... under all those layers he is naked. *g* Though here he's just seriously dishevelled, that is, being his usual self. And guess what, I have another icon for this. I'm sure you're terribly ~~not~~ surprised. ;)

Here's the original photo I've used for the tea icon.

And we're talking the Sharpe series, based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell. Uniforms galore, most definitely. ;)

Yeah, in the bigger picture I can see that there was some kind of shirt. On the small it all looked like a naked chest down to the navel LOL

Never ever have heard of Sharpe. Interesting. It was the same with Poldark. How is one to know about these things if not for friends pointing them out? Apparently there was also a very famous series in the Seventies, and lots of the old fans were skeptic of the new show.

Interesting to read that Paul McGann was supposed to play the role - someone I know from Doctor Who ;) As

alumfelga says - in Britain everything is connected with everything LOL

It's not a big fandom, and recently seems mostly gone silent. Well, last film was in 2008...

Interesting to read that Paul McGann was supposed to play the role - someone I know from Doctor Who ;)
And I learned it from Alumfelga the other way around - that Paul McGann was in Doctor Who. ;) Actually, he's the first and original reason for Sharpe's disheveledness... They had to get a new actor so quick that there was no time to re-fit the costume, and apparently Sean Bean was a little bigger. That's why Sharpe spent parts of the first film looking like this, and in the next ones it was, well, in character already... Only what has remained of Paul McGann's time on the set is this photo. :)

Hahaha that's great! I'm sure fangirls around the world did not mind ;) But in all seriousness, I did wonder how this affected the production, having to find a new guy so quickly. Poor guy also has to learn his lines very quickly? It's never easy, stepping into the shoes of someone else.

We had that recently at the opera. A famous guest singer for a concert had not turned up - had mixed up the dates. So they called another lady, and got her while she was having her evening meal. She went in and sang - without much preparation. And it was all actually filmed to be on TV for New Year's eve. That's professional.

Reportedly he read the script for the first time aboard the flight to the set. :D Not to mention he had to make his decision in a couple days from getting the offer.

It's never easy, stepping into the shoes of someone else.
Most certainly, especially in a case like this, with no time for getting ready at all, or even thinking about the role. Fortunately it was the first days of filming and they hadn't been working with McGann for long. Also, in the end it turned out one of those exceptional cases when an unplanned switch of actors works better than anyone really expected and turns the project into a legend. Reportedly again, the crew was anxious as well (understandably), but in the first shots they said they knew they have Sharpe. After years even Cornwell said he hears Sean when writing next books in the series, in spite of him looking very much unlike the literary version (McGann actually fitted the description better). He even adjusted the character's background so it fitted Sean's accent.

got her while she was having her evening meal. She went in and sang - without much preparation. And it was all actually filmed to be on TV for New Year's eve. That's professional.
OMG, yes.

Back in the day, I had this old TV. We all thought it was broken but maybe it was just set on a constant live transmission from abroad? ;)

Like, Siberia? XD

You two are cracking me up ;)

We had two TV programmes in Eastern Germany. Then we got a third - the Czechoslovac TV. It looked exactly like that ;)

At your service, Ma'am. :3

Before 90s there were two programmes in Poland as well, and even before others came, they happened to look like this. It usually meant you needed to climb to the roof and turn the antenna... or unbend it after the last storm. *g*

We have a nice TV tower on a hill in Dresden: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Dresden_Fernsehturm.jpg/199px-Dresden_Fernsehturm.jpg

It used to be also that you could go up there for a nice view of the city but it is closed now :(

So, getting our own programmes was not the problem, but trying to get TV from Western Germany resulted also in all kinds of roof sports. Kids from today with all those satellite dishes and cable and streaming probably don't know what an antenna is!

Although I really wonder how we survived back then without a TV remote ;) Then again there was no sudden commercial which is so loud that you have to change the volume all the time, and channel hopping with only two channels is also not working... But actually getting up and turning a knob on the TV? Does anyone remember that? LOL

It used to be also that you could go up there for a nice view of the city but it is closed now :(
What I wanted to ask in the first thought... :(

Although I really wonder how we survived back then without a TV remote ;)
In Poland we say that kids served for this purpose back then. ;D

and channel hopping with only two channels is also not working...
There was an old Polish joke that in Soviets they had three. One - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Second - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Third - a little man wags a finger and says "I'll teach you switching, you there." ;)

What I wanted to ask in the first thought... :(

It's still used for telephone stuff, so some people work up there, but where the café used to be, it's all taken out. I saw a documentary about it recently. There has been interest to re-open it but it has only a small elevator, and they would need a second way for people to get down in case of fire, and it is all expensive and they don't expect enough people to come visit to pay for it all.

In Poland we say that kids served for this purpose back then. ;D

LOL!

There was an old Polish joke that in Soviets they had three. One - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Second - Comrade Brezhnev gives a speech. Third - a little man wags a finger and says "I'll teach you switching, you there." ;)

Hehe, that's a good one as well!

I remember when Brezhnev died. Instead of the usual children programme that sent us to sleep in the evening - the Sandman - we got boring classic music.

we got boring classic music.
At least it sent you to sleep even more efficiently. *g*

Yeah, it is a bit cluttered, I guess they wanted to get as much as possible into it. The private rooms are less full.

I just love how cosy it always sounded, with the fireplace and the wind howling outside... I love the fall season for that reason, looking out at trees bending and the world seemingly ending... or rain splashing against the window... it's great fun - when you are in a warm room ;)

Last year in Glasgow we had that. The worst storms you can imagine, and rain of course, there were floods even. And we chose this day of all to go to Edinburgh. My umbrella did not survive it. It was impossible weather. We were soaked to the bone. Like if you stood under a shower with clothes on. It was so bad they closed down the castle at the hill as they were afraid people would go over the railing. And in the mids of it all stood a man playing the pipes. I don't have a picture of him sadly as I was busy fighting with the storm ;)

There are some pictures of this unforgettible experience here: http://dieastra.livejournal.com/115796.html

What a bad luck! You must have been lucky not getting a cold. That's an unforgettable experience ;)

And in the mids of it all stood a man playing the pipes.
Like it was ordinary weather on an ordinary day. To him, maybe it was :)

Maybe ;) I just wondered, if the instrument did not get wet / destroyed?

But I bought that wonderful Scottish highland cow with kilt and Nessie in the tourismus information, so at least that was worth the trip: http://dieastra.livejournal.com/85781.html

I definitely need to go back to Edinburgh one day though. As I basically haven't seen anything of the city. It was all grey.

I love the dining table. It looks like a painted still nature. Lovely photo.

Thank you! You are right, the light at one side, the dark on the other... very atmospheric.
They really went to great lengths to create all this.

I love it but I'm also glad I don't have to clean the place. LOL

Yeah, me neither LOL I wonder how they do it? Close for a week once a year?

Sherlock Holmes museum - part 2/5 - The Living Room

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