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Mar. 29th, 2015 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_poppyAlice,
I'm not going to be back this evening. No need for concern. Simply following up on things and enjoying the chance to be out and about in Spring. I've just had quite an interesting appointment with a collection of dodgy individuals at a disused tin mine on Bodmin moor. (From Albus' list; did not disappoint.)
Am on my way now to Merrymeet beyond Liskeard. Felton Parish has invited me to a listening party this evening at the Waymark Inn: he tells me they're collecting quite a crowd that are completely taken with 'The Tuckers'.
(Do tell Ms Morgenstern that she has a burgeoning audience. Parish says it reminds them of a programme from back in the days when a bit of jiggering would get the BBC to come in over the wireless. And they're all on edge whether Tertius Apsted will let his daughter continue seeing young Bran Jones, so I hope we get a bit of progress on that front tonight!)
More farmers in this lot. Parish thinks they're ready to consider new possibilities. Even risky ones.
Which brings me to my report: I'd an excellent visit with Walter Legman out in Torpoint. He's continuing to push me on whether we couldn't Fidelius the lot of them. It's fourteen significant farms in his collective, all of them ready to put in with us if we can protect them and supply them once they're under the enchantment. They know the financial end can't work as they're accustomed, but they've had nothing but falling prices for years now, and they have a vision for being the ones that survive into the 'new era'. That's how Legman put it to me, and he was quite clearly being literal about surviving.
So. May I offer him terms?
I'm not going to be back this evening. No need for concern. Simply following up on things and enjoying the chance to be out and about in Spring. I've just had quite an interesting appointment with a collection of dodgy individuals at a disused tin mine on Bodmin moor. (From Albus' list; did not disappoint.)
Am on my way now to Merrymeet beyond Liskeard. Felton Parish has invited me to a listening party this evening at the Waymark Inn: he tells me they're collecting quite a crowd that are completely taken with 'The Tuckers'.
(Do tell Ms Morgenstern that she has a burgeoning audience. Parish says it reminds them of a programme from back in the days when a bit of jiggering would get the BBC to come in over the wireless. And they're all on edge whether Tertius Apsted will let his daughter continue seeing young Bran Jones, so I hope we get a bit of progress on that front tonight!)
More farmers in this lot. Parish thinks they're ready to consider new possibilities. Even risky ones.
Which brings me to my report: I'd an excellent visit with Walter Legman out in Torpoint. He's continuing to push me on whether we couldn't Fidelius the lot of them. It's fourteen significant farms in his collective, all of them ready to put in with us if we can protect them and supply them once they're under the enchantment. They know the financial end can't work as they're accustomed, but they've had nothing but falling prices for years now, and they have a vision for being the ones that survive into the 'new era'. That's how Legman put it to me, and he was quite clearly being literal about surviving.
So. May I offer him terms?
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Date: 2015-03-31 12:24 am (UTC)Pansy, Sally-Anne, you remember the Archetype Cafe, yes? We met there, two springs ago. It's a women's collective, several branches. There's the cafe, Poppet (the bakery with the excellent marzipan), and a farm to table ingredients box that goes out all summer. Other things, too.
Their goals mean they need to be aboveboard in any way that can be traced, but I know they'd not mind a safehouse, and they've got connections to all sorts of people. And I've been thinking about them a lot with people talking about the new restrictions, because Tamsin, who runs the cafe, is a pureblood, but her partner, Thalia, who's the chef, is a halfblood.
Anyway. The reason I was thinking of them specifically was that they might be a way to funnel food for coin, depending on the details.
I think they'd be safe to approach, carefully, even if they decide they can't take the risk. (They've deliberately cultivated a diverse customer base, and that means Ministry and MLE among others.)
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Date: 2015-03-31 03:36 am (UTC)After all, I'm a fellow woman who's very interested in this farm-to-table business, and while we're exchanging tips, have I mentioned the really phenomenal rubbish removal service I've started using recently? It's very much worth checking up. Even picks up things I'd consider scrap and pays me for it.
Or something like that.
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Date: 2015-03-31 11:10 am (UTC)If you think it'd be useful to have one from me to her, in case you need it, I can do that too. (I bought into a share in the collective a couple of years ago, at her suggestion., which is why I know as much of the background as I do.)
She's the sort of Ravenclaw, Tamsin, who likes her arithmancy to be about 'if you have 1/2 a bushel of peas and 2 dozen carrots, 5 onions, and a chicken, along with 3 loaves of bread you'd really like to use up today, and if your jam stocks are lower than you'd like, what can you put on a lunch menu that's satisfying?' To give you an idea.