Sherlock S2 American air month announced

I still don't know the British original airdate beyond "autumn," but a throwaway line in an article about PBS said that the American airdate for Sherlock's second season is May 2012.

That's going to make Media*West interesting!

As per my previous post, I will cut for spoilers until a week after the American airdate and flag recced fic for spoilers, but I'm not going to cut episode titles... which some folks may consider spoilers in themselves, as they are based off of canon titles.

Renovation Whining: So Much for That Idea

They say no plan survives first contact with the enemy - a lesson I relearned quickly when I was redoing the library, which only partially lives up to the idea in my head.

I've saved time a little bit on the living room, in that I've discovered that one of my biggest plans there is toast before I even begin.

You see, I've meant from the beginning to get a flat screen TV and bolt it up over the mantlepiece. As of last Friday I started wavering - did I really want to bolt a TV to the wall? What happens when I want a new TV?

M insisted that TV mounts can handle a lot of sizes and brands, and so I needed to research. I duly did research today, but not on mounts.

On the feasibility of putting a TV over a working fireplace in an older home.

Turns out? REALLY BAD IDEA.

It might be possible. But the stories I was reading were running 2 to 1 that I'd fry/soot to death the TV *or* gas myself if the chimney got punctured and that's assuming that a mount made for studs behind drywall could even be made to go up on brick behind plaster and lathe, and even if it could go up *and* bear weight without ripping out the plaster, what would the stresses of hammering that in do to the surrounding wall, which already has cracks just because I hammered in a nail to hold a picture?

And that still leaves the issue of getting the TV into/out of the mount when necessary.

So, punt.

Fortunately, it looks like Ikea sells an acceptable sofa table that will, will a tiny amount of hacking, have a narrow profile, neatly fit above the fireplace surround and have room for a decently-sized TV that will top out just below the mantle. A table with a high shelf to hold DVD/VCR-DVD players.

It'll be like bolting a TV to the brick between the mantle and the fireplace. Only with the added advantage of being put on glides so I can shove it out of the way when we want a fire. Keeping the fireplace active is non-negotiable.


(Isn't this just thrilling reading? I'm going to try to get in a "Saturday" Sherlock tomorrow.)