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impulsereaderGrandmere is dying to hear about one of Sherlock and John’s adventures. Which ACD story should be adapted for her benefit? Come on – throw me your favourite – Silver Blaze, Yellow Face and Speckled Band are the only stories off the table as I’m trying/planning to use or have already used those.
I’m still not sure what Mycroft is building – or assembling – he has the MJN crew bringing in one element and Sandy Arbuthnot flying in another – there may very well be other components as well... This leads one of the opening scenes in the Much Ado season to feature a dogfight bringing down Sandy’s plane and a group of armed men hijacking Gertie! Luckily, John and Not Anthea look harmless and are taken along as hostages. It does not take them long to return control to Martin (who displays a slightly startling willingness to be Captain even when doing so requires him to be kidnapped at gunpoint. “No, being Captain means taking the bad with the good, Douglas.”).
What is Mycroft building/assembling? Maybe he’s let one of you in on it? He doesn’t seem inclined currently to tell me.
Mycroft refers to the clan as ‘a blizzard of Holmeses’. Do we like that or can you lot come up with something better? I know djarum99 is good at this – a charm of hummingbirds - *happy sigh*.
Do John and Sherlock exchange gifts? If yes, what would you like to see them give each other? Two holidays here, mind…is anyone interested in any other possible gift exchanges?
What do you think might be in the bottle (sealed with lead) which Sherlock pocketed in the attic?
The boys are scheduled for a final fitting of their costumes. I think this requires another canon character (anyone but Donovan *glares at Sally*) to drop by the flat coincidentally while Sherlock is trying on dresses. Who would you like it to be? What else is going on in November at Baker Street? What are we talking about while the fitting is going on? Is there a case on? Maybe we can even put in another ACD adaptation here…go wild!
I’m still not sure what Mycroft is building – or assembling – he has the MJN crew bringing in one element and Sandy Arbuthnot flying in another – there may very well be other components as well... This leads one of the opening scenes in the Much Ado season to feature a dogfight bringing down Sandy’s plane and a group of armed men hijacking Gertie! Luckily, John and Not Anthea look harmless and are taken along as hostages. It does not take them long to return control to Martin (who displays a slightly startling willingness to be Captain even when doing so requires him to be kidnapped at gunpoint. “No, being Captain means taking the bad with the good, Douglas.”).
What is Mycroft building/assembling? Maybe he’s let one of you in on it? He doesn’t seem inclined currently to tell me.
Mycroft refers to the clan as ‘a blizzard of Holmeses’. Do we like that or can you lot come up with something better? I know djarum99 is good at this – a charm of hummingbirds - *happy sigh*.
Do John and Sherlock exchange gifts? If yes, what would you like to see them give each other? Two holidays here, mind…is anyone interested in any other possible gift exchanges?
What do you think might be in the bottle (sealed with lead) which Sherlock pocketed in the attic?
The boys are scheduled for a final fitting of their costumes. I think this requires another canon character (anyone but Donovan *glares at Sally*) to drop by the flat coincidentally while Sherlock is trying on dresses. Who would you like it to be? What else is going on in November at Baker Street? What are we talking about while the fitting is going on? Is there a case on? Maybe we can even put in another ACD adaptation here…go wild!
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Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-08 06:27 pm (UTC)I now have a mental image of Mycroft hand-embroidering the chair and sofa covers in petite-point...
OH! Okay, now I really want to make BC and MF 1/12 dolls (I doll-make in craft-clay not porcelain unfortunately) and dress them in 16thC period costume... one of them in drag. :D
Or at least draw/paint that. I *am* working on John but your blasted oak is complicating matters, unless I want the whole thing to be is shadow tones...
My Dad - who is 76 - owns a wax-sealed bottle of scotch that is older than he is (sort of, it was 25yo when it was bottled in 1950) which is apparently worth at least £1k. (An 18yo or 21yo Scotch will probably set you back £90-150, as a guide. A decent 12yo is about £30. The youngest aged Scotches are 8yo.)
What else could be in the bottle? Great Aunt Maud's extremely potent home-made elderberry port? What else does one bottle? Messages, naturally... but wouldn't someone have opened it by now?
Something pickled? Walnuts or a shrew or something?
OH! In some parts of Greece they used to bottle scorpions and other venomous beasties in oil - the scorpion-oil was then supposed to be an anti-venom if you did get stung or bitten!!! How about a snake or some such in oil or brandy that was once supposed to be an antidote to all poisons or something? Or *actual* snake oil from the 19thC?
5th November is Guy Fawkes' Day aka Bonfire Night aka Fireworks Night. We remember the foiled Gunpowder Plot when the Catholics (allegedly) tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King in them (in about 1605!!!) with fireworks and bonfires. It is traditional to have an effigy of a man - representing either Guy Fawkes or the Pope! depending on where you live - on top of the bonfire. I was severely traumatised aged 5 or 6 by the burning of my cousins' extremely life-like "Guy".
"Remember, remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot! I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot!"
And unlike Advent calendars, Advent proper begins in November, 4 Sundays before Christmas. Some people put their Christmas decorations up on the 1st Sunday in Advent.
Any use?
Re: Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-10 05:04 pm (UTC)Even if Mycroft isn't currently building a miniature of the House, there is now definitely one built by him either in the attic or on display somewhere.
Very useful. I'm having a devil of a time deciding what is in the bottle because I sort of want it to lead to something happening during one of the interludes. I like your ideas very much, and something has to unlock something eventually. Oh! Maybe it's a map...I was stuck on note, but it could be a map...hmmmmmm Could I use this to send the boys on a treasure hunt of some sort? hmmmmmm...
Re: Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-10 05:40 pm (UTC)Re: Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-10 07:58 pm (UTC)But petite-point is very repetetive and soothing. And I'm always insanely pleased when you like one of my ideas. lol I'm just... concerned.
Re: Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-10 11:31 pm (UTC)Thank you very much for both loling as well as being concerned at the same time - I was feeling that way myself once I realized how much longer this story was going to be than anything else I had written. I actually totally freaked out about it in a journal post.
I'm feeling pretty good about it just now - I'm approaching 25k words on the first section and have a good grasp of what I have left to fit in. It actually was very very lucky that I wrote the beginning and then the end. If I hadn't this probably would have taken a turn toward the tragic. I think I'll be able to finish and post the first holiday section within the next couple of weeks.
The interludes are definitely limited to twelve at most and I'll post as I finish them, once I know what each of them is and what order they go in, and I'm doing pretty well on this. I have one long one complete and a total of around 5k words. Some of these will probably be short - a definite nod to your concern.
I assure you I'm prompting pretty carefully, and there's no way all of the responses are going to make their way into the story. The attic was the exception - everyone's wonderful suggestions are fantastic to read but they're mostly to see what sparks and make me think thinky thoughts - take your model of the house - I'll fit it in as an aside, but it's not fitting my vision for Mycroft's gadget so it will not in fact become Mycroft's gadget.
I'm also not going to post or pimp any of this anywhere other than my journal until the entire thing is complete. If I do manage to epically fail there's no need to disappoint any more people than I have to.