2012-12-09
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dimity-blue.livejournal.com2012-12-09 08:33 pmGen fic - If You Want to Know the Time (PG)
Title: If You Want to Know the Time...
Author: Dimity Blue (was Arnie/Arnie1967)
Rating: PG
Genre: gen, humour
Characters: Greg Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Donovan, OCs
Word Count: 1,507 words
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: "Health and Safety rules; it's too dangerous." Greg had never been more aware of the ridiculousness of that statement. Here he was, a grown man, a copper, charged with protecting the general public from the criminal element, and he wasn't allowed to get up on a chair and change the time on his office clock.
Author's Note: Unison is the union for public sector employees.
This is another story based on an anecdote from Perverting the Course of Justice, written by a long-suffering copper (an Inspector, no less) who has to deal with bureaucracy as well as criminals. Poor guy.
Additional disclaimer: I have nothing against any member of Unison. I'm sure the majority of them are perfectly lovely, sensible people who hate bureaucratic stupidity as much as the rest of us.
Link to the story on my LJ or on AO3.
Author: Dimity Blue (was Arnie/Arnie1967)
Rating: PG
Genre: gen, humour
Characters: Greg Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Donovan, OCs
Word Count: 1,507 words
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: "Health and Safety rules; it's too dangerous." Greg had never been more aware of the ridiculousness of that statement. Here he was, a grown man, a copper, charged with protecting the general public from the criminal element, and he wasn't allowed to get up on a chair and change the time on his office clock.
Author's Note: Unison is the union for public sector employees.
This is another story based on an anecdote from Perverting the Course of Justice, written by a long-suffering copper (an Inspector, no less) who has to deal with bureaucracy as well as criminals. Poor guy.
Additional disclaimer: I have nothing against any member of Unison. I'm sure the majority of them are perfectly lovely, sensible people who hate bureaucratic stupidity as much as the rest of us.
Link to the story on my LJ or on AO3.
quarryquest.livejournal.com2012-12-09 09:36 pmEntry tags:
Funny how life and work often clash ...
Last Weds I had to take a group of Biology students (at extremely sort notice, yet again) to London for a conference. I seem to be the 'Um, can you just ...' person at the moment. In a couple of weeks I go to Brighton with Physics students and we have to stay for two nights down there (eek!).
The good news about London was that while th kids were being lectured on the lungs and gaseous exchange and transport (hehe), I got to escape. I was actually going to Chinatown to scope out a restaurant for us to eat in later, but of course (and totally co-incidently) my route passed into more intersesting territory. The centre of London is quite small, and Hartswood have carpet bombed it with places they have filmed, which is why I have been able to do so much reporting up to now. My walk on Weds took me straight along one such Sherlock location (Percy St) and then right through the middle of another (various streets in Soho from the later Taxi chase) all from in ASiP. I snapped away like mad, need to do a bit of work to tidy up some of it when I go again (you do spot things when you get back home and watch the episode), but I should be able to start posting some of the report this week.
Here are a couple of photos.
The good news about London was that while th kids were being lectured on the lungs and gaseous exchange and transport (hehe), I got to escape. I was actually going to Chinatown to scope out a restaurant for us to eat in later, but of course (and totally co-incidently) my route passed into more intersesting territory. The centre of London is quite small, and Hartswood have carpet bombed it with places they have filmed, which is why I have been able to do so much reporting up to now. My walk on Weds took me straight along one such Sherlock location (Percy St) and then right through the middle of another (various streets in Soho from the later Taxi chase) all from in ASiP. I snapped away like mad, need to do a bit of work to tidy up some of it when I go again (you do spot things when you get back home and watch the episode), but I should be able to start posting some of the report this week.
Here are a couple of photos.