A wonderful way to end hols
Apr. 26th, 2014 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraRaz and I both were delighted to host last night and we're certainly hoping to do something again over the summer. It was a particular pleasure to see people from different parts of our lives having such excellent (if sometimes extremely lively) conversations. I kept catching hints of all sorts of serendipitous discoveries of mutual interest in one topic or another.
I would never guessed that my father talking to Lionel Moon about some of the arcane beauties of accounting would turn into a conversation about the golden ratio and the implications for garden design, but I suppose I shouldn't be that surprised, it all being the beauty of numbers at root, as it were.
When I pointed out the new garden design that's going in now is based on various numeric patterns, they started laughing. Clearly, we'll have to have both of them and Septima over sometime this summer just to see the effect in full bloom. (And Pomona and my mother, of course, so someone will appreciate the actual plants properly.)
Anyway, the whole evening felt rather like that, introducing this person who was interested in this thing to that person who would love to talk about it. My particular thanks to those who were so generous with their time with both my current and former students. I'm sure they'll reward your attention at least five-fold.
I would never guessed that my father talking to Lionel Moon about some of the arcane beauties of accounting would turn into a conversation about the golden ratio and the implications for garden design, but I suppose I shouldn't be that surprised, it all being the beauty of numbers at root, as it were.
When I pointed out the new garden design that's going in now is based on various numeric patterns, they started laughing. Clearly, we'll have to have both of them and Septima over sometime this summer just to see the effect in full bloom. (And Pomona and my mother, of course, so someone will appreciate the actual plants properly.)
Anyway, the whole evening felt rather like that, introducing this person who was interested in this thing to that person who would love to talk about it. My particular thanks to those who were so generous with their time with both my current and former students. I'm sure they'll reward your attention at least five-fold.
Re: Private Message to Rory
Date: 2014-04-26 08:52 pm (UTC)As to Ms Patil - she wrote back a few minutes ago, saying she's better now, but no details at all. Not that I'd push. It really was very embarassing last night for her, I'm sure. I'm just glad Lares was handy, he's got a good sense of how to manage her.
I admit, I'm rather worried about Katie, too. Especially after talking to Harry this morning. I can see his point, and yet - well. This matter of being a role model is so very complicated sometimes. Especially when they deserve the right to choose for themselves the things they get to choose. (Could you have a word with Cal, or would that make everything worse?)
The rest of the house and our guests seem to have survived well enough, though the elves just fished another dozen glasses out of odd places in the library. And Mum sent round a lovely note (from her and Dad and Diane and Chiron) you can have a look at when you wander down here again.