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Sherlock Holmes museum - part 2/5 - The Living Room
Part 1 - The Toilet - was here
Okay, one more ;) So, let's go inside:
This is the living room. Can't you see the two of them sitting there, reading the paper, or experimenting? Sitting by the fireplace, while outside it's stormy and rainy? (it seems it was always stormy and rainy in the books)
Okay, one more ;) So, let's go inside:
This is the living room. Can't you see the two of them sitting there, reading the paper, or experimenting? Sitting by the fireplace, while outside it's stormy and rainy? (it seems it was always stormy and rainy in the books)
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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?
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Forgive me, but now I must push in with a Sharpe icon of mine. ;)
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Although I really would like to know what he calls a bad day then...
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They really went to great lengths to create all this.
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That's not the guy from the first icon, that's his commanding officer, but they're in agreement about that. ;)
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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)
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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
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notsurprised. ;)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. ;)
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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 :)
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We had two TV programmes in Eastern Germany. Then we got a third - the Czechoslovac TV. It looked exactly like that ;)
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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.
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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*
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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
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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
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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. :)
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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.
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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." ;)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At least it sent you to sleep even more efficiently. *g*
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