Dr. John H Watson

So many O's means it's serious. When you're asking so nicely, Sherlock, who can resist? Especially when you've been going rampant for the last month or so.

How about I give you a case to solve? Something ot occupy your mind. But first, you'll have to solve a riddle.

The mystery is in a field and you know the key very well.

The case is as follows:

So it's a Gronsfeld cypher, feld being German for field. A cypher encrypted by a number. And a key I know very well, that would be our address. 221B, but without the B.

So the cypher means....you've got to be kidding me.

Clean your room and do the dishes.

Really, John? You think that's funny? I will make you pay for this, you know.

I know stuff like that is just a game for you. Or a joke. Using people's emotions as your playthings to get a reaction out of them. But not with me.

The solution would have been: John, I lost your laptop.

So many O's means it's serious. When you're asking so nicely, Sherlock, who can resist? Especially when you've been going rampant for the last month or so.

How about I give you a case to solve? Something ot occupy your mind. But first, you'll have to solve a riddle.

The mystery is in a field and you know the key very well.

The case is as follows:

So it's a Gronsfeld cypher, feld being German for field. A cypher encrypted by a number. And a key I know very well, that would be our address. 221B, but without the B.

So the cypher means....you've got to be kidding me.

Clean your room and do the dishes.

Really, John? You think that's funny? I will make you pay for this, you know.

I know stuff like that is just a game for you. Or a joke. Using people's emotions as your playthings to get a reaction out of them. But not with me.

Calculations for that pool challenge thing or whatever its called. For everyone who is too stupid to understand instructions, here you have a visual explanation. Can't be any easier than that. Even with little diagrams.

Use the size of the pool to estimate the size of the paws. About 10 paws fit in the width of the pool, making the estimated length of the paws 3.2 inches. With that size one can calculate width and height of the paw in relation to the length we deduced. Now we need the volume, for that we use a rectangle as an estimation for the paw.

The pool is only half filled, so we calculate the volume of that. Counting the first layer of the pools visible contents, we get 93 paws. We calculate the area of the first layer of the pools contents, and calculating how many paws would cover the whole area, that makes 104 paws. We then use the number of paws we counted, 93, to estimate how much percent of the surface is filled with paws. It's approximately of 90% paws, which we then extrapolate to the whole pools contents. We calculate 90% of the pools volume, and divide it by the paws volume, to deteremine how many paws fit in there.

That gives us 235 paws. With the other available choices for total, crabs and horses, those are my final estimations: 759 total. 235 paws. 247 crabs. 277 horses.

What's more fitting for Valentine's Day than a heart? Besides a beheading, of course. Although the organ responsible for the feeling of "love", or also known as massive release of Oxytocin and Dopamine, is the brain. But culturally the heart is seen as the residing place of love. Although the heart does express Oxytocin receptors and can respond to it, in experiments even inducing stem cells to regenerate the heart. Maybe love does have its use after all.

Mrs Hudson and Rosie forced convinced me to participate in this flower ritual. So I got a bouquet of pink Gerbera x hybrida for @consult-johnhwatson.

Happy St. Valentine's Day, I suppose.

John and I are currently visiting avian veterinary specialists at the Royal Veterinary College. With the pigeon of course. They are examining it and informed us that the pigeon has a foreign body lodged in its crop. Which I obviously already knew. But they did not seem to react positively to me declaring that I had already figured that out. The foreign body is quite big and very hard. They were unable to access it, and wonder how it got into the pigeon, given its size. At first they assumed it's our pet pigeon and wanted to reprimand us how we could let this happen, but then I explained the situation.

John and I are currently visiting avian veterinary specialists at the Royal Veterinary College. With the pigeon of course. They are examining it and informed us that the pigeon has a foreign body lodged in its crop. Which I obviously already knew. But they did not seem to react positively to me declaring that I had already figured that out. The foreign body is quite big and very hard. They were unable to access it, and wonder how it got into the pigeon, given its size. At first they assumed it's our pet pigeon and wanted to reprimand us how we could let this happen, but then I explained the situation.

And NO, I will not examine that pigeon either. I'm not a vet. Well, I am a vet, but not that kind of vet. I think you know the difference there.

That pigeons transmit diseases to humans is actually quite rare. Yes, they can transmit Salmonellosis, Psittacosis, Cryptococcosis and Histoplasmosis with their feces, but just don't touch it or breathe in the dust and you're fine. But that feces transmit disease is basically true for every species, especially humans. Pigeons rarely carry avian influenca. The human heads in the fridge carried more significant germs, that would for sure be easier transmitted to humans as well.

Are you serious? Those are all serious diseases. Psittacosis and Histoplasmosis can even kill people. And, if I may remind you, I yelled about the disease-ridden head as well.

And NO, I will not examine that pigeon either. I'm not a vet. Well, I am a vet, but not that kind of vet. I think you know the difference there.

And NO, I will not examine that pigeon either. I'm not a vet. Well, I am a vet, but not that kind of vet. I think you know the difference there.

And no, I am not getting "obsessive" about drugs again. This case actually sounds like something significant, drugs or not. And no, before you ask, I will not pee in a jar.

Sherlock, it didn't even cross my mind to ask you that. You can keep those jars with bodily fluids to yourself.