You’ve saved us lots of money, so we’d like to return the favor. In recognition of your hard work on the DIY Planner we’re sending you a little present we think you’ll enjoy. It’s the very least we can do for someone whose worked so hard and been so generous with so many people. Good luck!

“That there DIY Planner is ruddy useful”
“No s**t, Sherlock”

Anyway, if you want to whet your appetite before diving in to a full multimedia blog, why not set up a Squidoo lens? They’re quite fun, as you might have seen on our lil’ site recently. I did one recently about my pet obsession and it was quite a hoot.

I too have been a follower of the exploits of the world first (only?) consulting detective since my mother, who I think had a penchant for Basil Rathbone, encouraged me to watch the early films.

For many years I was unaware of the true character of Watson until I began to read Conan Doyle’s stories and since then I’ve been hooked.

I wrote to Sherlock Holmes in the seventies at his address in Baker Street in London and was pleasantly surprised to receive a reply from his secretary saying that the Great Detective was away on an important matter.

I subsequently became a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and have collected a fair number of books, films and other material. I recently treated myself to the complete Jeremy Brett series of Holmes on DVD and my wife added to my collection of books with the third volume of Leslie Klinger’s annotated Sherlock Holmes.

I don’t profess to being a scholar either but it would be interesting to conjecture what he would have thought of the DIY Planner . . .

Here is a link:

http://listserv.kent.edu/archives/hounds-l.html

Russ