"London? Busy. Rainy. Cold, I suppose. Decent amount of crime, but that's possibly because we go looking for it." Watson paused just long enough to realize how that admission must have sounded. Oops. "My flatmate's a detective. He takes me along." Because he liked the company? Because he preferred to think aloud and needed something to talk to while he did so? "Because I'm a medical doctor."
Only partially true, but it sounded better than the other options.
"I'm from 2010, so. War in the Middle East. Elizabeth II is on the throne. We're getting the Olympics in 2012, that'll be something."
As he said it all aloud, it sounded so mundane. Nothing compared to company-based last names and a global government, really.