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Crescents in the sky
Mar. 1st, 2009 08:52 amBeen a busy couple of weeks, and I didn't get the chance to comment on all the uproar last week. No matter - life continues on, doesn't it?
This week has brought another pleasant chat with Poppy, this time with some discussion about something in a letter from my mother. I think I mentioned my sister Diana's pregnant again (her sixth!). Mum's been rummaging around in some of our grandmother's recipes for older foods - you know, the things that grow here, without being transfigured. She's got this bizarre theory that transfigured foods might not be as healthy for an unborn child. (Me, I pointed out that we certainly eat enough of them here, and surely there's ways to balance it for health if we're feeding them here at Hogwarts. It's just a matter of making sure you start with a healthy diet before you transfigure it, and don't do it all out of one kind of food.)
On the other hand, she sent along some of the recipes, and there are some rather nice things in there that certainly look like good eating whether or not you agree with the rationale. Not, of course, that I have a chance to cook here, as the house elves are most attentive, but perhaps some holiday, just for fun. Mum made sure we all knew how to cook for ourselves, and all of the best charms for it - and for the washing up after - as a matter of course, and it's nice to keep my hand in.
I spent last night up on the tower with a few students who had some catchup work to do for OWLS and NEWTS - and both the moon and Venus were showing lovely crescents. Beautifully clear night, so the students got a good chance to fill out the parts of the star charts they'd been struggling with.
This week has brought another pleasant chat with Poppy, this time with some discussion about something in a letter from my mother. I think I mentioned my sister Diana's pregnant again (her sixth!). Mum's been rummaging around in some of our grandmother's recipes for older foods - you know, the things that grow here, without being transfigured. She's got this bizarre theory that transfigured foods might not be as healthy for an unborn child. (Me, I pointed out that we certainly eat enough of them here, and surely there's ways to balance it for health if we're feeding them here at Hogwarts. It's just a matter of making sure you start with a healthy diet before you transfigure it, and don't do it all out of one kind of food.)
On the other hand, she sent along some of the recipes, and there are some rather nice things in there that certainly look like good eating whether or not you agree with the rationale. Not, of course, that I have a chance to cook here, as the house elves are most attentive, but perhaps some holiday, just for fun. Mum made sure we all knew how to cook for ourselves, and all of the best charms for it - and for the washing up after - as a matter of course, and it's nice to keep my hand in.
I spent last night up on the tower with a few students who had some catchup work to do for OWLS and NEWTS - and both the moon and Venus were showing lovely crescents. Beautifully clear night, so the students got a good chance to fill out the parts of the star charts they'd been struggling with.
