Dr Carrie Parris

Not a fan of freezing nights, but the frosty mornings that follow are beautiful.

Anyone else on Storygraph? I'm looking for friends to follow. My username: drparris221b

Reminds me of a customer new to hearing aids who wanted to use the hearing loop at the theatre but wasn't sure how to connect. He knew he had a T setting though because he kept accidentally connecting to the loop in the building next to his house...which happened to be a crematorium!

So Pretty a Toy Christmas with Sherlock Holmes and The Blue Carbuncle

Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes! I'm reposting a link to recent Substack on The Blue Carbuncle. More to come soon...

open.substack.com/pub/drcarrie...

Couldn't sleep last night so I binged Normal People (BBC iPlayer) for the first time and I don't think I'll ever be the same.

Oh dear.

Just saw Nosferatu (2024). Excellent homage to classic vampire movies. Bill Skarsgard portrays Count Orlok with shades of Nandor the Relentless from What We Do in the Shadows (another excellent homage to vampire movies).

Would love that, yes please

First book finished in 2025: Into the Uncanny by @dannyrobins.bsky.social. Funny, engaging, scary: everything you expect from the podcast, but in a book. Almost makes up for me missing Uncanny Con a few weeks ago after I was struck down by a dodgy pub dinner.

So Pretty a Toy Christmas with Sherlock Holmes and The Blue Carbuncle

Another Substack from me, this time about my relationship with Sherlock Holmes Christmas story 'The Blue Carbuncle.'

open.substack.com/pub/drcarrie...

Work Secret Santa has given me a junimo with sweeties.

#StardewValley

I remember thinking at the Sherlock Holmes Prom that it should just have been a Patrick Gowers Prom because all other music sounded puerile in comparison.

Happy Blue Carbuncle Day to all who celebrate. I'm trying to write a Substack about my love for the Granada version. I have too much to say so it's taking a while to edit.
#SherlockHolmes

Back at work, thinking of the excellent books I received for Christmas, wishing I was with them in an armchair in front of a warm fire...

Shallow Graves by Ray Fysh

The Hangman's Scrapbook by Neil R Storey

Into the Uncanny by Danny Robins

My friends know me well.
#booksky

The major problem of too-much-cake in the evening is my over-40 body cannot function on sugar overload. I will not sleep tonight...and I will have a cake hangover in the morning.

I'd be a terrible cake critic. This cake was free: 5 stars.

Keep getting pulled into random rooms backstage at work today to be given sweets and cake. So sick. I. Can't. Say. No. To. Cake.

Yes! I was just thinking about M, she is still living with the same guy.

Mysterious housemate, not seen for 5 months, did a midnight visit to retrieve clothes that have been on a rack in the hall for the length of her absence. Our house: my home, her very expensive storage unit. Sharing in London with strangers is always perplexing.

Just back from a teacher friend's school concert. The kids played Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and Stevie Nicks. Felt like a 90s indie disco, I loved it.

A day off today to wrap presents, attend a friend's concert, and nurse my growing anxiety around potential homelessness in the new year. Classic Christmas Season when odd-jobbing in London for survival.

Spilsbury and Me How a controversial pathologist became my muse.

Finally released a Substack post into the world: including an exciting picture of me as a Sherlock Holmes obsessed teenager in the 1990s 🙈 Find out how I became obsessed with controversial forensic pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury! open.substack.com/pub/drcarrie...

Substack or Medium? Does anyone have strong opinions on which is best to get your writing out there? #writing #blogs

Boots 1 We’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin’ over Africa Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over Africa (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up and down again!) There’s no discharge in t…

Here's a link to the full 'Boots' poem recited in the 28 Years Later trailer
www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_b...

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment 28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)

Obsessed with the 28 Years Later trailer. Teletubbies. Rudyard Kipling. That one particular skeletal fella...
youtu.be/mcvLKldPM08?...

Greetings from Krampus...👹

Brontës
Meet the Brontës
They're a nineteenth-century family
From the town of Haworth
They are very, very literary

I've submitted a complaint to Network Rail. I'm sure the Security Guard was lying because he couldn't be bothered to do anything. Both stations are managed by Network Rail.

I filled in a report form online last night after texting 61016 so will see if they follow it up. Should be easy to find on CCTV.

Being harassed by an idiot (or two) is one thing, but finding NO ONE around was willing to help - even people whose job it is to assist - was disheartening on another level. When did people stop looking after each other? I'm OK, just angry and disappointed (and have wet clothes, obvs) /5