Happy Mother's Day! [Mingle]

[ourearth]

Date: 31st of March
Characters: OPEN

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It is Mother's Day, the temperatures are summery (the forecast promises a high of 19 degree), the sun is shining almost relentlessly, birds are singing, a mild sea breeze blows...

And all across the echo boundary, people are waking up on this beautiful Sunday. Probably an hour later than normal, unless they have to go to work, since daylight savings happened. Ew. They open their eyes, and it smells of flowers and tea and baked beans...

And something sits over their lap. Or butt, or hip, if they aren't back sleepers.

This something turns out to be a tray on which sit:

• a hot cup of tea, a bowl of baked beans, a single slice of white toast and one burnt fried egg
  
• an empty card
  
• some cheap chocolate
  
• a bouquet of flowers complete with a balloon reading Happy Mother's Day
  
• either one of those three gift sets OR a shitty parfume.

Don't sit up too quickly in shock, the tea is really quite hot.

Now, whom does this happen to?

Well. Literally everyone who is more or less human. And yes, that includes three day old babies, eighty year old men, teenage boys, people in hospitals... everyone, really. And among the scents of flowers, food and beauty products, those with the right abilities will be able to scent someone familiar.

Comments

[Audio]

[catted]

[Sorry, this just makes the doctor kick in. People, eat your breakfast, it's good for you. Why do teenagers tend to do this (because it's the easiest to skip and they want to lose weight, etc, she's been told. BUT. Stop.)]

Breakfast is what really starts your metabolism up. And that includes your brain. So if you really want to be able to figure out all those clues to the best of your ability, you should better eat breakfast.

Re: [Audio]

[lovedramamoron]

Holmes says that the brain works better on an empty stomach. [He knew that now because he'd spent the last month speeding through every Holmes story ever written. ]

[Audio]

[catted]

He probably compared it to a brain directly after eating a large meal, because then your body is so busy digesting that it focuses on that.

Small meals barely affect the brain, and no meals mean that your brain is in energy saving mode, so it functions less than it does after a small meal or a while after a big one.

You know when your phone is in energy saving mode because it's under 10%? That's what your body is before breakfast.

Re: [Audio]

[lovedramamoron]

[Jimmy gives in. He couldn't argue against science.]

Fine, I'll try to remember to eat breakfast.

I can still have coffee, right?

[Audio]

[catted]

[Excellent]

Of course you can. Just don't overdo it - I'd recommend no more than two to four cups per day, depending on how you feel after them. But if it necessary so that you don't drink energy drinks then have as much coffee as you want, that's still healthier.

Re: [Audio]

[lovedramamoron]

I like the taste of coffee better anyway.

[Audio]

[catted]

Very good.

[Her job here seems done. Stay healthy young man.]