What is Mycroft building?

[impulsereader]

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[221b-hound.livejournal.com]

An empire?

Do you mean at the house or in general?

If it's at the house, he might be attempting to build one of those rose gates, those archways with climbing roses? Though Mycroft is notoriously *not into field work* (in canon and in the show) so he is probably *planning* a thing and then getting *other people* to build it.

Maybe he's building, or repairing, an old boat. For the lake. I can see him having been a big fan of Wind in the Willows and all he wants to do is mess about in a boat, far away from all the noise and general ridiculousness.

Or a boat in a bottle. Bet he'd like doing that. I wonder if he's snuck a little pirate figure into it, just for his own amusement.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the point is to see what all the lovely, imaginative and intelligent people on my flist come up with when they have absolutely no context...you've done very well!

It is at the house. I'm starting to try and get a feel for the second holiday - the Much Ado holiday - so that I know what there won't be room for there and can subsequently stick things into the first holiday, which is coming together nicely but must be finished before we can move on.

The Baker Street interludes are like a caramel break - guilty wonderful pleasure.

I think you may have missed my last lemon post...I reported back on how it went but have had woefully few - though substantive in the extreme - responses...

[221b-hound.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmm caramel Baker Street delight. Mmmmmmmm.

I am SO looking forward to this fic, you have no idea.

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

A perfect in every detail 1/12th scale miniature of the House. :) Maybe he's commissioning people to make the china for the display cabinets and the soft furnishings and porcelain dolls of the family while he does all the woodwork? And binds minature books in leather etc etc.

(Because I'm a dolls' house enthusiast and I think Mycroft might like Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor.)

Or maybe he's building a 1/12th scale theatre set of one of the Much Ado scenes?

1/12th work is fiddly and delicate and not *heavy* woodwork and I can see it being a Mycroftian thing.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

I like it! It's now firmly swirling around with all the rest of holiday #2 and perhaps it will take root.

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

BTW, you do know the whole of "Round and round the garden", don't you? (And also "Jim'll Fix It"?)

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. I'm going to go out on a limb and say most americans wouldn't even know those were 'things' which could/should be googled, so this would be a good entry for your series.

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

The "Dear Jim, please can you fix it for me..." bit from Great Game is a reference to a long-running (1970s to 1990s) TV show, "Jim'll Fix It".

People (mostly children) wrote in to Sir Jimmy Saville asking for him to make their various wishes/dreams come true. The programme aired on a Saturday tea-time. The letters invariably began "Dear Jim, please can/could you fix it for me..." and my Scout troop to eat our packed lunches on a roller coaster, to play "Mimi" in that scene in La Boheme with the "Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen" aria, etc etc etc. Children who appeared on the show also got a medalion on a red ribbon with proclaimed "Jim Fixed It For Me". :D

"Round and round the garden" is a game/rhyme with actions played by an adult on a small child.

"Round and round the garden, like a teddy-bear" -- you draw circles on the child's hand or tummy with a finger.

"One step, two steps" -- you "walk" your fingers to the child's armpit.

"Tickle you under there!" -- um, well, it's obvious, isn't it? :D

Given that Sherlock deleted the solar system, enquiring minds want to know why - when there is so very much pop-culture on which he is blank - he retained *these*. lol