I wouldn't hazard a guess about what sort of apprenticeship our new Councilwizards will be offered, apart from feeling certain that Antosha, at least, is a careful mentor. I do rather wish they'd waited until the children had left school; I'd hoped that it would only be those who'd finished NEWTs that were chosen. And I expect this isn't the last time I'll say so, but that's nothing I would not say to Antosha himself.
But about flying and swimming. I think both are excellent pursuits for you. Coincidentally, I've enjoyed a week with a perfectly wonderful lido to swim in up in Gourock. It's a salt-water pool, cordoned off from the Firth and purified. I've no idea how sophisticated that magic might be, but if you've a pond nearby, I should think you could do something roughly similar, at least insofar as defining the area and banishing the weeds and muck. I'm rather hoping that this next week I'll find a reasonable place for swimming while I'm at Weymouth.
Afraid you're right to expect difficult losses as you come to the end of the book, but then I don't imagine that's spoiling anything to say so.
(I'm inclined not to take anything for granted. Not that I ever have much to say that would interest anyone else who might read it.)
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Date: 2014-07-13 10:52 pm (UTC)I wouldn't hazard a guess about what sort of apprenticeship our new Councilwizards will be offered, apart from feeling certain that Antosha, at least, is a careful mentor. I do rather wish they'd waited until the children had left school; I'd hoped that it would only be those who'd finished NEWTs that were chosen. And I expect this isn't the last time I'll say so, but that's nothing I would not say to Antosha himself.
But about flying and swimming. I think both are excellent pursuits for you. Coincidentally, I've enjoyed a week with a perfectly wonderful lido to swim in up in Gourock. It's a salt-water pool, cordoned off from the Firth and purified. I've no idea how sophisticated that magic might be, but if you've a pond nearby, I should think you could do something roughly similar, at least insofar as defining the area and banishing the weeds and muck. I'm rather hoping that this next week I'll find a reasonable place for swimming while I'm at Weymouth.
Afraid you're right to expect difficult losses as you come to the end of the book, but then I don't imagine that's spoiling anything to say so.
(I'm inclined not to take anything for granted. Not that I ever have much to say that would interest anyone else who might read it.)