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Yeah; I'm sure people would understand if I told them I had a wedding to attend, right?

Not at all; I was considering it myself for a minute

Ah, I see I'm so annoyed; I made plans to go out with someone tonight, forgetting that Sherlock would be on... how could I forget that?! I'll be able to watch it on iPlayer afterwards, but it won't be the same as seeing it when it's broadcast

... I think you mean episode 2

Ah, okay then; thank you. My mistake

Which episode was it when Mycroft texted because he was at the dentist? I thought that was Baskerville...

I agree with you that the clue everybody missed could be the mobile, but I wouldn't necessarily say it was the text to Mycroft. The sound (if we're talking about the same one) sounded more like the click of a call being answered, and then it was followed by a woman's voice saying hello (though no one seems to be able to hear that but me and a few other people I've seen mention it over the internet). Also, I thought there was something weird about the texting too... Mycroft never texts if he can talk, remember? There could be an argument for the fact that he didn't really have the time to have a phone conversation with Sherlock, but still.....

I could be wrong here, or getting a bit confused, but I was under the impression that Anderson was sort of fantasising that whole scene with Sherlock; I haven't watched it a second time yet so I might have missed something that would suggest otherwise. But there were lots of things that made me think it was all just in his head; the fact that we'd already seen him making up a theory; the fact that, as he himself said, Anderson would probably be the last person Sherlock would reveal all to; the fact that he had what appeared to be a breakdown after Sherlock 'left', and then the fact that the room they were in was like a creepy shrine to Sherlock. It all just made me think Anderson was crazy and was having some sort of episode. Plus (and I think a few other people on this forum have said this) I don't feel that the solution in that scene was satisfying enough; something seems wrong with it somehow, and not quite real. Not to mention it doesn't match up with what Moffatt and Gatiss told us to look out for-- the thing that Sherlock did that was out of character, and the fact that there was apparently something everyone had missed. And there was that scene at the end, when John asked if Sherlock would ever tell him how. Why would that be there if we'd already seen the solution? Why would Sherlock have told Anderson and not John? Nah, it has to be another fake.

http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects This site is brilliant; you can pick pretty much any county in Britain and hear audio clips of people from that region speaking, so you can hear the accents

Whilst I think I've heard the term 'Britcoms', I think it's a term used by non-Brits. I've never heard it used here. And I kind of understand what you mean about them being exaggerated, but I can't really think of any examples; I guess it doesn't seem exaggerated to me, just that the show's based in a particular place so all the characters have that area's accent. Ooooo, whereabouts in northern Wales have you been to? I used to live in Chester whilst I was at university, which is just above the northern Welsh border, so I visited a couple of places in northern Wales whilst I was there, like Colwyn Bay and Rhyl. Same here; I'd know a Welsh accent when I heard it, but I couldn't tell you whereabouts in Wales it was from. Really? Wow; you don't really think about Welsh being heard in America; it's quite a rarity to hear it even in England (unless you live close to the border). As far as I know it's even becoming a lot less common in Wales as well; most Welsh people don't know any Welsh, from what I know. I love the sound of the Welsh language though; sometimes it sounds so lyrical and soft, and then other times it just goes crazy Yes, that accent is known as a West Country accent; it's mostly associated with Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. It's one of our more recognisable accents, I'd say

Yeah; non-British programmes do tend to exaggerate British accents, especially American ones, I've found. I guess you have a point there, Carol; although I do think I can tell a New York accent when I hear one. But I wouldn't know a Chicago accent. Really? It surprises me if that's true; I'd have thought Americans would recognise a Geordie or Brummie accent, at least. Or maybe Bristolian? The not distinguishing between Scottish accents actually extends to the rest of the UK as well, I would say; I doubt most English people could tell the difference between an Edinburgh and Dundee accent, for example. I certainly couldn't And Andrew Scott... well, at first I didn't realise he was Irish, but I could tell he had a certain twang to his accent that made it not English, and now I can definitely hear an Irish lilt to his voice. As a matter of interest, would you recognise a Welsh accent?

Hahaha; I've heard so many non-Brits tell me how much they love the British accent, but I think what they're really referring to is a specific type of British accent; very much a Benedict Cumberbatch accent. There are so many different accents in the UK, and I refuse to believe that all of them are pleasing to the ear of a non-Brit. Some of them are quite harsh after all. I suppose you're right about visiting the country of your favourite TV show or literature; my friends and I feel the same way about Finland, because so many of our favourite bands are from there. It's been a dream of ours for so long to go there and see some of the wonderful things we've heard about it through the bands we like. I've never been to Ireland, but I've been to Scotland quite a lot and visited quite a few of its cities, and I have to say it's absolutely beautiful; I've never been to one place I didn't like. I think it's the real feeling of wilderness that I love about it; it's the kind of place that makes you want to run through the forests and dance on the mountain-tops... or maybe that's just me... I'm ashamed to say I don't know nearly enough about Germany as a country as I should do; I have a few friends who live in Berlin though and they really love it

I'm always bewildered by the fact that non-British people want to holiday here in the UK; I mean, it's so... unremarkable But I guess everyone thinks that about their own country. And there are some good points about the UK I suppose; I mean, we have the whole monarchy thing going on, and some of the countryside can be quite beautiful... After that I'm drawing a blank So what, for you non-Britons, is the allure of the UK?

I have literally been bouncing off the walls since I saw that trailer

Numbers 2, 5 and 8 have been solved: 2.) Run after the tower: Steeplechase Run = Chase. Another word for tower = Steeple 5.) The French behind journey leap: Triple Jump Journey = Trip; Leap = Jump. Put 'the French' (le) behind 'journey' (trip) and you get 'triple'-- Triple Jump. 8.) That woman's Heather: Hurling That woman = Her. Another word for Heather = Ling. Her + Ling = Hurling