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Quiet week-end
Mar. 1st, 2009 06:05 pmCompared to last week's, this week-end was practically a holiday in itself.
Spent most of Friday writing individual notes of thanks for several of the more personal gifts that arrived at the Manor or the St James' house - thank you all again.
Draco, the card was most appreciated: Your sketching ability is really coming along. Well done! truly. I still use the quill you made for me at Christmas; it is on the writing table at St James.
Amanda, tell Mother that yes, they do fit, but I shall have to have the tailor make some adjustments before they are wholly wearable. I do like the collar especially. Unfortunately, seeing the cut made Narcissa lament the relative isolation we feel from the latest Paris trends. Our English haberdashers have of couse progressed as well, but in different directions. Or so I undersand - I admit I am not the most ... attentive to such details. It did serve to renew a discussion of how much she misses the array of shops in the wizarding sections of Paris and Le Mans.
Ari, the Carmichael - and a first edition as well! I still don't know how you found it. The binding is exquisite. I shall savour it, my friend.
Pansy, I received your owl as well. No, nothing has changed, but then, that also means there is nothing new to concern us. Look for a little something in the next day or two, to help you last until the holidays.
There were some other surprises, large and small - I never expected to be asked to the Ministry so mysteriously and should have suspected several people had potions brewing. Really, it was most gratifying.
Finally, Minerva, I completed the letters you requested and had Valerian deliver them. They should have been received by now. Let us hope they are heeded as earnestly as they were written.
Well, at any rate, another year's passing hardly seems believable, but there it is. First of the month accounts to-day, along with a cursory review of the reports on the Derby situation and the preparatory documents for the next Muggleborn Labour committtee. To-morrow I shall confer with Clarriker and Peakes' new clerk on the status of the Hogwarts infirmary's order of supplies.
Spent most of Friday writing individual notes of thanks for several of the more personal gifts that arrived at the Manor or the St James' house - thank you all again.
Draco, the card was most appreciated: Your sketching ability is really coming along. Well done! truly. I still use the quill you made for me at Christmas; it is on the writing table at St James.
Amanda, tell Mother that yes, they do fit, but I shall have to have the tailor make some adjustments before they are wholly wearable. I do like the collar especially. Unfortunately, seeing the cut made Narcissa lament the relative isolation we feel from the latest Paris trends. Our English haberdashers have of couse progressed as well, but in different directions. Or so I undersand - I admit I am not the most ... attentive to such details. It did serve to renew a discussion of how much she misses the array of shops in the wizarding sections of Paris and Le Mans.
Ari, the Carmichael - and a first edition as well! I still don't know how you found it. The binding is exquisite. I shall savour it, my friend.
Pansy, I received your owl as well. No, nothing has changed, but then, that also means there is nothing new to concern us. Look for a little something in the next day or two, to help you last until the holidays.
There were some other surprises, large and small - I never expected to be asked to the Ministry so mysteriously and should have suspected several people had potions brewing. Really, it was most gratifying.
Finally, Minerva, I completed the letters you requested and had Valerian deliver them. They should have been received by now. Let us hope they are heeded as earnestly as they were written.
Well, at any rate, another year's passing hardly seems believable, but there it is. First of the month accounts to-day, along with a cursory review of the reports on the Derby situation and the preparatory documents for the next Muggleborn Labour committtee. To-morrow I shall confer with Clarriker and Peakes' new clerk on the status of the Hogwarts infirmary's order of supplies.