I'll tell her you said so. But yes, I do rather trust her advice over the WRO, given her track record of having children when she wanted, and not when she didn't. (Diane's, too, actually, though she made a start at it younger than Mum did.)
I'll suggest the Ferula to Temp, then. If you do find a recipe you like, I'd love to pass it along, but it's nice to have the commercial variant as a backup. (The hours she's keeping right now are worse than mine.) And you're quite right that the pamphlets mention not a word about what a witch might do if she finds herself in need of something after the fact.
As to the charm, yes. Always thought it's a particularly intriguing design, mimicking what used to be a potion. (The idea that there's a plant that was so widely used for centuries and then just went extinct almost makes me fascinated by the herbology, too.) And I do like that I don't need to think about it except once a month.
I'd be curious what your set of pamphlets say when you get a chance. Frankly, I wonder if they're as pervasively, what's the word, rhetorical in the same ways. (And not even all that effective. On the first, I can't think of a list of things more likely to make Raz run the other way. Except that he did appreciate my cooking last Sunday morning.)
But this round's pile includes everything from the philosophy of magical lineage (and thus choosing a mate whose magical skills and line complement yours) to avoiding squibs to exhortation that motherhood is the greatest thing a witch can ever aspire to.
I admit I am less averse to the eventual idea than I was a year ago, but really. Does that actually work with anyone not already inclined to want children?
The contraceptive one worries me, though. That people might take their advice and find themselves in difficulty because of it. And yet, one can scarcely complain, surely. (Especially not me, at the moment.)
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Date: 2012-06-01 04:05 pm (UTC)I'll suggest the Ferula to Temp, then. If you do find a recipe you like, I'd love to pass it along, but it's nice to have the commercial variant as a backup. (The hours she's keeping right now are worse than mine.) And you're quite right that the pamphlets mention not a word about what a witch might do if she finds herself in need of something after the fact.
As to the charm, yes. Always thought it's a particularly intriguing design, mimicking what used to be a potion. (The idea that there's a plant that was so widely used for centuries and then just went extinct almost makes me fascinated by the herbology, too.) And I do like that I don't need to think about it except once a month.
I'd be curious what your set of pamphlets say when you get a chance. Frankly, I wonder if they're as pervasively, what's the word, rhetorical in the same ways. (And not even all that effective. On the first, I can't think of a list of things more likely to make Raz run the other way. Except that he did appreciate my cooking last Sunday morning.)
But this round's pile includes everything from the philosophy of magical lineage (and thus choosing a mate whose magical skills and line complement yours) to avoiding squibs to exhortation that motherhood is the greatest thing a witch can ever aspire to.
I admit I am less averse to the eventual idea than I was a year ago, but really. Does that actually work with anyone not already inclined to want children?
The contraceptive one worries me, though. That people might take their advice and find themselves in difficulty because of it. And yet, one can scarcely complain, surely. (Especially not me, at the moment.)