Being a learning coach, you have a perspective that those you coach can achieve anything they want once they know some essential “how to’s”. This is a bold statement but one that has been proved to work time and time again.
The job of a learning coach is to help adults and children to firstly understand their own experience better, how they do things and why some parts of their experience work better than others.
Yesterday’s court hearing to decide the fate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former home, did not prove as decisive as everyone had hoped. The judge has postponed the outcome and will not give a verdict until the end of July.
This must be so frustrating for all the fans and supporters who gave up their day to sit in court. To me, the decision is clear – this historic building absolutely must be protected from unsympathetic development.
I was reading a post recently on Facebook about autistic children who talk for hours at a time and I thought I would bring together the threads from my experience and the parents that contributed to try and shine a little light on why a child does this and what might help them change their experience, when it is causing them or their families distress.
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Yay! My short story is being published in Sherlock’s Home . . . The Empty House.
Sherlockology and MX Publishing joined forces in support of the Undershaw Preservation Trust and offered Holmes fans the chance to have their own story published in an anthology called Sherlock’s Home, The Empty House. The competition gained a massive response with nearly 400 entries from fans all over the world.
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
–A Scandal in Bohemia
On May 6th, PBS Masterpiece unleashed Steven Moffat’s stylish update of A Scandal in Bohemia on the United States. I had seen the episode previously, but I watched again and live tweeted with fans, an interesting mix of those who were seeing it for the first time and those who were repeating the experience.
Find and circle all of the women in this picture.
My Dear Watson will go down in blog history as “the book that sparked a marital spat on the way to church.”** And really, it’s no wonder, because the story itself is based on a controversial premise: What if Sherlock Holmes were really a woman?
That is, a woman masquerading as a man.
Mild-mannered communications director (for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati) by day, mystery writer by night, Dan Andriacco discusses Sherlock Holmes, the mystery genre, and his own Sebastian McCabe/Jeff Cody series. Deftly planned puzzles solved by engaging characters, and written with a light touch, the McCabe/Cody (or Cody/McCabe) books track the adventures of two brothers-in-law who find themselves–through absolutely no fault of their own–drawn into solving mysteries with a Sherlockian connection.
"I know what you're saying, Holmes. I just don't think the agony columns are the proper place in which to communicate with my readers."
Alistair Duncan is well-known in Sherlockian circles for his non-fiction work. Beginning with an analysis of Holmes (and some other characters) both in the canon and on-screen in Eliminate the Impossible (London: MX 2008) continuing through
