I've always been massively fond of both The Red-Headed League and The Solitary Cyclist (the latter because Violet is pretty BAMF, considering).
I'm wondering now if Mycroft is *not* building something sensible and grown up but completing an experiment from his teenaged years, for which he needs the engine of a Trabant (weird communist car from Eastern Europe). Perhaps he always fancied that he could soup up the engine of that thing so it was less like a lawnmower. Or that he could use the lawnower engine of the thing to build one of those mini-helicopters. I think I'm just amused by theidea of it being Mycroft for a change who is indulging some fanciful inventor/experiment ideas. Just a thought.
Instead of a blizzard of Holmeses... a gaggle of them, maybe? (I'm thinking of geese, all long necks and imperiousness and bad tempers).
The bottle may contain the results of one of his earliest experiments with chemicals, and he wants to see what the chemical soup has turned into since then?
I love those touchscreen gloves that djarum99 linked to. Apart from practical gifts, I wonder if John might find experiential gifts for him. I mean, I expect Sherlock acutally knows how to ballroom dance, but a set of lessons in salsa might come in handy for a case sometime. There's actually this neat thing you can do in Poland, where one of the last steam trains still running a commuter route exists. For a week you can learn how to be a steam engine driver and then take the train on one of its runs. With his medical contacts, John might be able to arrange for Sherlock to spend time observing some kind of medical specialist at work. Or, if he wants it to be more of a kidding around present, a cookery course in some cuisine that John really likes. I read someting recently about an apron that reads "Cooking is science for hungry people".
I wonder if Sherlock might be willing to give John sort-of experiential things too, instead of material gifts. Like a note promising to not destroy the kitchen for a month. Or to do the shopping at least once in January. (And when he does it, he does the shopping EXTRAVAGANTLY).
Though maybe he might just get John a really, really, really good bottle of whisky.
Or typing lessons. In retaliation for last year's cooking lessons.
I think Molly catching SHerlock in a dress would be all kinds of hilarious, because she'd be blurting out things and trying to be all 'Oh, it's cool, my uncle's a cross dresser and you like much nicer than he does. More feminine. Uh. And. I have a handbag that would go nicely with that..."
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Date: 2012-07-06 04:41 am (UTC)I'm wondering now if Mycroft is *not* building something sensible and grown up but completing an experiment from his teenaged years, for which he needs the engine of a Trabant (weird communist car from Eastern Europe). Perhaps he always fancied that he could soup up the engine of that thing so it was less like a lawnmower. Or that he could use the lawnower engine of the thing to build one of those mini-helicopters. I think I'm just amused by theidea of it being Mycroft for a change who is indulging some fanciful inventor/experiment ideas. Just a thought.
Instead of a blizzard of Holmeses... a gaggle of them, maybe? (I'm thinking of geese, all long necks and imperiousness and bad tempers).
The bottle may contain the results of one of his earliest experiments with chemicals, and he wants to see what the chemical soup has turned into since then?
I love those touchscreen gloves that djarum99 linked to. Apart from practical gifts, I wonder if John might find experiential gifts for him. I mean, I expect Sherlock acutally knows how to ballroom dance, but a set of lessons in salsa might come in handy for a case sometime. There's actually this neat thing you can do in Poland, where one of the last steam trains still running a commuter route exists. For a week you can learn how to be a steam engine driver and then take the train on one of its runs. With his medical contacts, John might be able to arrange for Sherlock to spend time observing some kind of medical specialist at work. Or, if he wants it to be more of a kidding around present, a cookery course in some cuisine that John really likes. I read someting recently about an apron that reads "Cooking is science for hungry people".
I wonder if Sherlock might be willing to give John sort-of experiential things too, instead of material gifts. Like a note promising to not destroy the kitchen for a month. Or to do the shopping at least once in January. (And when he does it, he does the shopping EXTRAVAGANTLY).
Though maybe he might just get John a really, really, really good bottle of whisky.
Or typing lessons. In retaliation for last year's cooking lessons.
I think Molly catching SHerlock in a dress would be all kinds of hilarious, because she'd be blurting out things and trying to be all 'Oh, it's cool, my uncle's a cross dresser and you like much nicer than he does. More feminine. Uh. And. I have a handbag that would go nicely with that..."