Impulsively Reading Since...

Yea! Till We Have Faces has shipped! Woo hoo!

I have decided that ‘when I grow up’ I want to be C.S. Lewis. He liked to take a daily walk whenever possible and when he went on holiday he went on long cross-country walks with his friends. This is what I want to do all the time. So I should really get to work on that original stuff I keep threatening to write. That would really speed things up toward being Lewis for me.
( A bit of tea but mostly lemons under the cut, also a bit of fandom blathering )

Grandmere wants to hear about Sherlock and John's adventures. Which ACD adaptation should they relate to her?

Can I actually get away with having John refer - in his head, not out loud - to her as Not Anthea?

Dear Suffolk, are you sure you're still there? The USPS lady I spoke with yesterday, in all her seventeen years working there, hadn't heard of you. I assured her I had.

Everyone cross your fingers and hope that lemons 21, 22, 23, 31 and 32 arrive in time to be taken to London! On a related note, really Fedex? You seriously want $120 to send my $5 worth of plastic lemons across the pond? You must think I'm completely insane. I'm not.

I am assured that there are lemons officially in play and there may soon be pictures! http://traveling-lemon.livejournal.com/1162.html

I was forced to overpay for lemons yesterday because the only ones I had ready to go were sent off by post, and I didn't want to delay 221b_hound's tea shipment, but I also wasn't going to skip adding a little bit of artificial citrus to the package. But my Pier One was out of the bags! They had plenty of limes, but I think the green is a little dark for being written on in black. I might have to get some white pens. The hardest part of all this lemon business is the writing on them and keeping as much of the cat hair as possible out of the varnish.

Mycroft is delicious. He's such a complicated blend I initially tried to drink him usweetened, but he is much better with a pinch of sugar.
( cut for a few pics )

Well, as I rather expected, my post to cabin_pressure proposing a game of hunt the lemon in real life has so far met with resounding - crickets.  I remain undaunted and have obtained supplies with which to tag this first peel of lemons to be put into play.

So, today I wrote the arrival of John's portrait and - well - it's flipping awesome - Claude's portrait, not my writing...I've also finally managed to drag Lestrade into my story for what I'm hoping will amount to more than a cameo because Sherlock is going to make him be 'everyone else' while J & S rehearse the scene during which Benedick arrives and spars with Beatrice.  I still can't decide where to set the darn thing.  Something visually obvious - Ancient Rome?  Sherlock in a toga isn't terribly 'Beatrice' in the way I was hoping it would come across.  Sigh.

----
“Jesus!  Did he make it life-sized?”

“Lestrade, watch that -,”

BLAM

“What are you boys doing up there?  Was that my wall?”

“No, Mrs Hudson,” three male voices chorused untruthfully.

--------

“Sexy.  Dead sexy, in fact.  Good show, John.”

Sherlock rolled his eyes at this assessment.

John’s tone was thoughtful when he tentatively gave his opinion.  “It’s – actually – not terrible, is it?  I mean, of course Claude is very good, but – I’m not exactly – I wasn’t expecting to look -,”

“Impressive,” Sherlock purred.  “The word you are looking for is impressive.  Don’t worry, John, when you’re not standing next to me you always look quite impressive.”

“Berk.”

I'm writing up the sticky post for hunt_the_lemon which is where the lemons/citrus will be instructing finders to go, and I need to know if I've left out anything important...please proof and suggest!  I do realize I might have to work to keep the youtube links current if they are taken down...

( hunt the lemon )

I have drunk the kool-aid which is Cabin Pressure. Then I ran across the Lemons and Landmarks project via this post http://cabin-pressure.livejournal.com/183916.html Well, I'm a little late to the party and still waiting to hear back if additional Chicago offerings are needed/wanted but my initial thought was, 'Well, this is what I've been doing recently anyway; walking and taking pics in Chicago; might just as well do it with a lemon as not, right?' So after a little more thought I realized that this is in fact not what I've been doing - I've been taking pics of rather small things, generally. It just seems to be what I do. Well, Landmarks, especially the ones that leapt to mind as the big ones in Chicago, are rather large. Huh, I thought, that's interesting. Then, I thought, 'And - my angles are going to have to be pretty playful since while Landmarks are rather large, Lemons are rather small. Wow! What a great new prompt!'

So today, instead of penetrating further into Sherlock's psyche I went 'round the Loop with a lemon and had a grand time. Results below.
( Go 'round )