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[impulsereader]

I'm not getting any real writing done right now between work and the upcoming trip, and this is more than a bit not good. I'm also stuck on this scene pulling in the Cabin Pressure crew, and I keep going over the same things in my head, so I've come to the conclusion it's time to enlist you guys to introduce some new elements to swirl around...

1. Gifts Mycroft will try to give Not Anthea. I'm going to need a lot of them since he's going to end up being seriously thwarted in his attempts. At least one of them needs to be fairly delicate because I need it to be smashed to pieces in Gertie's hold when Not Anthea takes control and performs a few barrel rolls.

2. A word game for Douglas and Martin - cabin address or just between the two of them in the flight deck. I just keep cycling through all the ones we've heard on the show and cannot come up with any good new ones.

3. And I'll just throw this in since I'm stuck with milk and eggs at this point - anything specific you'd like to see Sherlock do whilst shopping. This is the most frustrating for me at this point because I feel if I could just marshal my attention, sit down, and type the darn thing, I could bang this out pretty quickly. Grrrr...

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[pargoletta.livejournal.com]

1. Gifts Mycroft will try to give Not Anthea.

Flowers. Candy. Jewelry. Electronics (maybe she's worn out her BlackBerry?) Clothes that don't fit or are the wrong color. Lingerie that doesn't fit and is the wrong color! An heirloom china vase from The Attic that gets smashed to pieces during the barrel rolls. Something painstakingly handmade that's really really awful, like a paint-by-numbers. A handsomely leather-bound edition of a book that Anthea really hated reading in school.

2. A word game for Douglas and Martin

I suspect that Douglas could be really good at (and Martin and Arthur would suck at) Botticelli.

anything specific you'd like to see Sherlock do whilst shopping.

Taking along a shopping list that John's written and realizing that a) John has Doctor Handwriting, b) John uses convenient shorthand and nicknames for items, for instance "doolies" to refer to things like bite-sized ice cream snacks, or "lavatory goop" to refer to some kind of cleaning product, things like that, and finally c) Sherlock has no idea where in the store these things are located, and is reduced to wandering around completely lost.

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

If you'd get on messenger I could chat to you and help ...

And when shopping where exactly are you sending them? If it is a specific (if Waitrose Marylebone High Street or Finchley Road I am presuming) I can actually describe the shops and tell you what he would get up to in there. Have an idea for Marylebone certainly but Finchley Road is as bad in other ways.

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

p.s.

And if you really want to make it awkward the Waitrose which is based in the basement of John Lewis on Oxford Street is even more of an odd layout.

[northernwalker]

1. Delicate jewelry- very girly. Frilly lingerie. Little china boxes.

3. Trying to read John's handwriting- he's a doctor, it's bound to be hopeless. Getting annoyed because he can't see why he should be buying cleaning supplies.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Ugh, sorry! I posted this when I was on my way out, we had tickets to a matinee of Frankenstein at a local theater. I have to start dinner in a bit, and a lot of the problem right now is that I'm really really busy. I'm actually having to work while at work and I leave on Saturday with so much to do before then that I don't even want to pretend that I'll have time to myself until I'm on the darn plane.

I'm not sure how fiddly I want to get with the layout of the store. Again, being able to sit down and work on it would be helpful for this *grumbles*. I might just jump around within the aisles based upon what I want Sherlock putting into the cart.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Oh, Botticelli is a great suggestion, thank you!

I actually think that the attic is going to come to Mycroft's rescue. Once he has spectacularly failed in all his efforts, he has the idea to take her into the attic for a 'shopping spree' of sorts.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

lol - in the taxi on the way to the store (before dropping John off) there is a conversation about soap, in fact...

[f-m-r-l.livejournal.com]

Sherlock can deduce the history of produce, which may or may not help. Perhaps he is too picky for anything there. Perhaps while his immediate deductions are correct, his extrapolations as to what that would mean for the produce are incorrect. After all, how much does he know about produce?

Sherlock is familiar enough with chemistry that when sent to get cleaning products, he brings home and substitutes things that would be more "effective", thus ending up etching/corroding/delaminating/etc. the work surfaces/appliances/bathtub/etc.

[221b-hound.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of Sherlock getting stuck for twenty minutes in just one section because WHO KNEW there were 15 different brands of baked beans and HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO KNOW which ones are the best unless he reads ALL THE LABELLING and he can't deduce it or just get what John normally gets be Aust John comes home every week WITH RANDOM BEANS and then he's furious to discover that John just gets whatever's on special because JOHN THAT'S NO WAY TO SELECT THE BEST BEANS IT'S NOT SCIENTIFIC.

And he finally moves on to the pasta shelf and AARGH THE WHOLE BUSINESS WITH TOO MUCH CHOICE AGAIN

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

It's a trolley, and if you can tell me what you want I can tell you where it is in (at least) three different geographical Waitroses near Baker Street.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

lol - I'd hit on the individual ideas of his being frustrated by TOO MANY CHOICES and doing some sort of experiment, but hadn't linked the two, so that's helpful, thank you!