Thanks for the link to the article -- I didn't know about people using beekeeping as therapy after WWI.
Re beekeeping being therapeutic for Holmes, I agree. If I can quote from my retirement-fic draft (for indeed, that's where the great majority of my retirement headcanons end up going):
...there on the page before me, I saw the inescapable paradox: even as Holmes came alive at the first hint of the chase, it was that self-same chase that brought him to such broken lethargy again. I had encouraged his passion for crime as both a prophylactic and an antidote to his cocaine, but there on the page, the similarities between the two were undeniable. The same grueling cycle of highs and lows, the highs exhausting him until his listlessness could be relieved only with a new dose.
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But this man who stood in my foyer, hale and vibrant, no longer at the mercy of cocaine and criminals for his entertainment, was a stark contrast to the man I had been writing about. The Holmes before me had as keen a passion for scientific apiculture as he ever had for scientific deduction -- but a passion without the dangerous highs and lows of crime...
(And wholly off-topic, but I like the website you linked that article from. I subscribe to an easy-reading-level Japanese newsite, but I'm still only managing headlines there.)
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Date: 2019-09-25 08:40 pm (UTC)Re beekeeping being therapeutic for Holmes, I agree. If I can quote from my retirement-fic draft (for indeed, that's where the great majority of my retirement headcanons end up going):
(And wholly off-topic, but I like the website you linked that article from. I subscribe to an easy-reading-level Japanese newsite, but I'm still only managing headlines there.)