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.
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.
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Date: 2012-06-20 11:47 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-06-22 02:06 am (UTC)(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.
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