A Taurus born on May 1 has an indomitable will and endless ambition. The energy of these individuals inspires everyone around them. They make natural leaders.

Friends and Lovers

May 1 individuals bring out the very best in their compatriots and are often responsible for helping their friends make important decisions. Romance is a positive, energizing emotion in their lives. They don’t just fall in love, they live through it with a vigor that has a transcendental effect upon themselves and their partner.

Children and Family

The ability of May 1 natives to draw the very best from their familial experience has much to do with their generally happy and successful lives. They take an energetic role in raising their children but are unlikely to sculpt out any pathway for the kids, hoping their youngsters will be fair-minded in assessing their own performance.

Health

May 1 people take good health habits as a matter of course, integrating them into their everyday lives. Instead of joining a gym or purchasing expensive in-home equipment, they prefer to do their own housework, yardwork, and home repairs. It’s all part of their desire to keep their lives as uncomplicated and “real” as possible.

Career and Finances

With so many talents at their disposal, it’s amazing that all May 1 individuals aren’t success stories. Despite their natural charm, they are much more at home delegating authority than taking it for themselves. The same attitude applies to finances. Money is important to them only in the way that it can bring them security and provide for family and friends.

Dreams and Goals

May 1 natives embody their goals and strive to meet them. Yet as serious as they appear to be, they have little interest in achieving success. They want to live up to their potential and see if others do the same.

Astrology information from howstuffworks.com

SHERLOCK DESKTOP WALLPAPER WEDNESDAY!

It is about time we updated our Sherlock Desktop Wallpapers as we’ve had the original set for some time now and felt it was time for a change.

We hope to offer a range of different Sherlock themed wallpapers to choose from over the upcoming months, but thought we’d start off with some character wallpapers for you to choose from.

To download the wallpaper of your favourite Sherlock character, visit the ‘Downloads and Extras’ area of our website by clicking HERE

bizarre-sugar:

#HQ - Specsavers Crime thriller Awards 2012 held at the Grovsenor Hotel, Park Lane. London - 18.10.12 

Una Stubbs talking about the people who have inspired her the most through her life.

Rebecca Blond

I feel very lucky to have her as my agent; she’s a strong and funny woman. Sometimes people will say, “Your agent is tough,” and I think, “Yes, she is. But only as an agent, not as a human being.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

What a writer. I always thought Crime and Punishment was completely out of my league but then discovered it is a real page-turner. I used to get up in the middle of the night to read another chapter and it made me quiver, like watching a fantastic film that grips you.

Michael Grandage 

He cast me as Hester in The Deep Blue Sea and has encouraged me ever since. A lot of directors will say Shakespeare has to be done in a certain way but he used to tell me to just say the words because if you have rhythm in yourself it will come out in the way you speak the verse.

Kathleen Daisy Rawlinson

My gran was very funny and a little bit naughty too. When we listened to the radio, if the jokes were smutty she would giggle for ages – tears pouring down her face.

Dougie Squires 

The choreographer and director has been one of my closest friends for 50 years. He is immensely loyal, wise and kind, and was especially brilliant when I was bringing up my boys.

From Seven, The Sunday Telegraph magazine, published September 23 2012.

schweizercomics:

So I’ve been making these paper figures for myself for a while (they’re lining the walls of my studio), and I thought I’d make them available to everyone else.  For free. Every Monday.  Print the figures out yourself on your own printer, or you can take them to your local print shop (that’s what I do) for the best quality.

I figured I’d start with a set of figures from the BBC show SHERLOCK, given that if it weren’t for that marvelous show I probably wouldn’t be on tumblr in the first place.

I don’t usually do backgrounds for these, but this set comes with a Baker Street diorama, because come on, Baker Street.

Anyway, click here to download the print file.  It’s a little shy of 27MB, which isn’t HUGE, but it’s probably better suited to a laptop or a desktop than a phone.  If you want to get OTHER paper figure sets, just go to the paper figure page at CroganAdventures.com and pick out the set(s) you want (more of these will pop up each Monday, so check back each week or follow to see what’s new).

I want as many folks as possible who might enjoy these to see ‘em.  So I’m doing a

Since this is the first of what’ll be lots and lots of these sets, I’m gonna make this contest a BIG one.  THREE winners!

• First Prize: A professionally printed set of the Sherlock figures, a set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures, and AN ORIGINAL PAPER FIGURE OF YOUR CHOICE THAT I WILL DRAW JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT IT.  Maybe you’ll want a portrait of yourself in a London constable outfit so that you can hang out in Baker Street with the others.  Maybe you want red pants John.  Maybe you want the hound.  Maybe you want something entirely unrelated to Sherlock, like the janitor from Scrubs or Totoro.  So long as I consider it within the bounds of good taste (I do make all ages comics, after all), it’s your call.  You’ll get the digital file, a professionally printed copy, AND the original art.  Usually I charge eighty bucks for one of these, so that’s a real steal!

• Second Prize: A professionally printed set of the Sherlock figures, a set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures

• Third Prize: A set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures

And, because it’s important to share, whomever the winners reblogged from will ALSO receive the same prize as their follower winner!  (winners who reblog from themselves only get one prize, and there’s no additional prize if you reblog directly from me)

• likes aren’t eligible, ONLY reblogs.

• You can reblog as often as you like, but Tumblr only shows your most recent reblog, so you’ll only show up once.  Sorry.  Tumblr’s doing, not mine.

• You don’t have to follow me to win, but I’ll be doing contests like this fairly regularly and posting new figures along with occasional contest updates, so it might be an easy way to keep up.

• I’m lousy with numbers, so no spreadsheets or anything like that for me, because if I tried it I’d end up leaving people off.  I’m going to use a random number generator (random.org) to pick a number.  If that number happens to be a reblog, it wins!  If it’s a like, I pick another random number, and repeat ‘til there’s a winner.  I’ll do third place first, then second, then first.

• The winners will be chosen at 4am Eastern Time early on Saturday, September 29^th.  I’ll be helping to run the SCAD-Atlanta 24-hour comics event, so there will be plenty of witnesses on hand and we’ll make a big to-do about it.  Obviously, no reblogs after 4am Eastern on September 29^th will be eligible.  

• If this reaches 5K notes, I’ll add another prize.  Something fun.

As always, art collectors can find the originals on my original art page.

A lovely new image of Una Stubbs in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, just released by The National Theatre on their Facebook page.

The superb play, adapted from Mark Haddon’s novel, screens around the world on September 6th as part of the National Theatre Live programme. Check here for details on screenings in your region, and click here for our review of the play.

Trailer for the upcoming National Theatre Live broadcast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, screening worldwide on September 6.

Based upon the book by Mark Haddon, the play features a remarkable lead performance by Luke Treadaway and features Sherlock’s Una Stubbs in a supporting role. Click here to find venues in your region.

Read our review of the play here.

We’ve just added the fourth of our Sherlock Episode Trailer videos to our site - A Scandal In Belgravia.

A huge thank you to the VERY talented Lee Dawson for working with us on this project. You can check out more of Lee’s work here.

Una Stubbs: ‘I just think, Oh, I hope I can be good enough’

From an interview in the Observer newspaper, viewable over at The Guardian website:

“Some people say to me, ‘Oh, did they tell you to play Mrs Hudson like that?’ Well, no, I just came up with it. I was given the script and I got on with it. I just saw her more like a mother figure to these two boys. There’s so much nastiness going on [in the series] that maybe to introduce something a little nicer is a good thing.”

Can she see why Benedict Cumberbatch has become a sex symbol? “Yes, I can because he’s just so unusual. He’s joli laid. One minute, you think [she breaks off and does a little moue of distaste], but then the next minute you think, ‘Oh, you’re so gorgeous.’”

Read the entire interview with Una, with a focus on her new play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the National Theatre, here on The Guardian website.

Fancy yourself as a bit of a detective? Why not try out the PBS Sherlock Observation Game.