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alt_sirius) wrote2012-12-28 09:45 am
alt_sirius) wrote2012-12-28 09:45 am
Order Only: Status Report
Weasleys: How are you all? Poppy said she brought your potion yesterday, Bill. Courage, mate. We'll be a little busy tonight but come by the garden if you're in the mood for company, you and Charlie. Molly, you'd be welcome, too. Dora'd love to show you all she's done with the place.
Next: As far as that meeting Remus asked us all about, it's going to be a couple of days, at least. Well, more than a couple. Bill's busy tonight, of course, and so are Moony and I, and the weekend's a terrible time to leave Ellie alone at Laszlo's Unlimited.
But it's also going to be a while before Minerva's up to it.
We've been at her New London house since last night - Poppy and Severus and I, that is. They tried to intervene in her drinking for good and all and ... it didn't go as they'd hoped.
So, they've spent the last night using slower methods to purge her system, but in the meantime, they plan to brew what amounts to a highly complex potion, which I gather they've not tried before because it could have disastrous results. I guess we've reached the point where the risk is worth it.
Dora, when you can free Ellie or yourself, we need someone to go round the apothecary's on Camden Road. The one near Holloway? I'm reasonably certain they'll have the ingredients our shop hasn't got. I've got a list I can give you. (If buying them doesn't work, then Poppy might have to try to sweet-talk Horace into fetching the items from the Potioneers' Guild and we'd really rather not have to go that route.)
Anyway. With all that in mind, I propose postponing our gathering until after the 1st. Other than that I'm not fussed about the date, so if anyone else has a preference, let's hear it. (Hermione, that includes you, kiddo.)
Oh, and if anyone else would care to come take a shift, particularly this evening, I'd be grateful.
Next: As far as that meeting Remus asked us all about, it's going to be a couple of days, at least. Well, more than a couple. Bill's busy tonight, of course, and so are Moony and I, and the weekend's a terrible time to leave Ellie alone at Laszlo's Unlimited.
But it's also going to be a while before Minerva's up to it.
We've been at her New London house since last night - Poppy and Severus and I, that is. They tried to intervene in her drinking for good and all and ... it didn't go as they'd hoped.
So, they've spent the last night using slower methods to purge her system, but in the meantime, they plan to brew what amounts to a highly complex potion, which I gather they've not tried before because it could have disastrous results. I guess we've reached the point where the risk is worth it.
Dora, when you can free Ellie or yourself, we need someone to go round the apothecary's on Camden Road. The one near Holloway? I'm reasonably certain they'll have the ingredients our shop hasn't got. I've got a list I can give you. (If buying them doesn't work, then Poppy might have to try to sweet-talk Horace into fetching the items from the Potioneers' Guild and we'd really rather not have to go that route.)
Anyway. With all that in mind, I propose postponing our gathering until after the 1st. Other than that I'm not fussed about the date, so if anyone else has a preference, let's hear it. (Hermione, that includes you, kiddo.)
Oh, and if anyone else would care to come take a shift, particularly this evening, I'd be grateful.
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As it happened, his highness the repugnant prince insisted on answering. Says the myrrh resin's got to be as pure as possible, no additives, oils, perfumes or thickeners, no enhancement of any kind. If the saleswitch claims it's 'extra strength' or anything like that, probably not what we need.
The calamus must come from the Himalayas, Mongolia, or Central Siberia (which I think I already noted on the shopping list but twice told, etc.) and the cardamom we had was 'all wrong' according to his nibs. It's Indian. The strain he wants (needs?) comes from Bhutan or Nepal. In fact, it's black cardamom he really wants, not the other kind. That means the black or brown pods, not the green ones. (Amomum if you need to be technical about it. Sorry but he keeps shouting new information at me, which if he'd told Aleks probably would have saved us all a lot of - hang on.)