Public Message to Arista Selwyn
Apr. 12th, 2013 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_ronHullo, Arista!
Yeah, I know it's been a while since I wrote. Sorry about that. It's good, though, that you figured out you can write me anytime with a note on one of these messages I've sent, just to remind me that I should tell you more about what Satsuma's doing. Cause sometimes I need reminding to get me to write. My mum says that about me all the time.
Or, y'know, you can write me any time just to say hiya, too, if you want.
So, hiya!
Did you know that Satsuma and I are home on hols? Actually, it's almost time to go back. We take the train north on Sunday.
But we've been having loads of fun. Last night, we went flying with my brother, Charlie. We took our fishing poles and flew upriver to our favourite place. Satsuma helped me charm the lure on my hook, and he helped watch the fish we caught so they wouldn't jump out of the pail and back in the water. Satsuma likes to watch fish flopping about. It makes him lick his lips and twitch his whiskers.
Mostly, I've been doing a lot of revising for exams. It's nice that Satsuma likes to curl up in a sunny spot and sleep while I read. He does that a lot, actually. Especially when I have to read Divination or History or Runes. Those are the worst for making him sleepy, but really he can sleep pretty much anywhere, anytime. I told him last week I think he might be the napping champion of the whole Protectorate! (There should totally be a contest for that.)
Unless there's a mouse to play with. Or someone to Leviosa feathers or string for him to chase! Then he wakes up, for sure.
I bet he used to chase his own tail, didn't he? Back when he had a proper tail, I mean. I guess I should ask him how he lost so much of it, huh? Do you think he'd tell me?
Anywiz, the other day, I tied some string on his stump with a fuzzy bit at the bottom, and you should have seen him trying to catch it! He'd go around one way, pouncing at it, and spinning round and round. Then he'd stop and look fast over his other shoulder and then pounce that way, trying to surprise it. It was the funniest thing ever, Arista! You'd have laughed and laughed to see him!
Um. What else have we done?
Oh. Satsuma loves it when Mum cooks supper. He stays in the kitchen while I go out to feed the goats. Well, he does now. After what happened the first night I was home. Let's just say Satsuma doesn't like goats very much. And one of ours thought he might be tasty, which wasn't good. I'd never heard him hiss like that before!
But, that's all right, because now he stays in the kitchen on a shelf while I go out and watches Mum charm the knives and the pans. He says that sometimes when she doesn't think anyone's watching, she charms the vegetables to fly around like somebody invisible's juggling them! She used to do that sometimes when I was small, too. Because I thought it was funny. She likes it when people laugh, Mum does. And she can be really funny. Sometimes it's on purpose, even!
Yeah, so that's what we've been getting up to. How are you? Thanks for coming to see the Revue. It was really nice of your parents to bring you and Hector. That's your brother, right? Hector? It was funny to look out at you from the stage and see him out there, standing on his seat, waving that swirl-whirly around in time with the music. I guess he liked it! Tell him hey from me, yeah?
Anywiz, I hope I see you again sometime soon. Oh, and Satsuma says to tell you he's having a nice dish of milk every night at bedtime, just like you said.
Your friend,
Ronald Weasley
Yeah, I know it's been a while since I wrote. Sorry about that. It's good, though, that you figured out you can write me anytime with a note on one of these messages I've sent, just to remind me that I should tell you more about what Satsuma's doing. Cause sometimes I need reminding to get me to write. My mum says that about me all the time.
Or, y'know, you can write me any time just to say hiya, too, if you want.
So, hiya!
Did you know that Satsuma and I are home on hols? Actually, it's almost time to go back. We take the train north on Sunday.
But we've been having loads of fun. Last night, we went flying with my brother, Charlie. We took our fishing poles and flew upriver to our favourite place. Satsuma helped me charm the lure on my hook, and he helped watch the fish we caught so they wouldn't jump out of the pail and back in the water. Satsuma likes to watch fish flopping about. It makes him lick his lips and twitch his whiskers.
Mostly, I've been doing a lot of revising for exams. It's nice that Satsuma likes to curl up in a sunny spot and sleep while I read. He does that a lot, actually. Especially when I have to read Divination or History or Runes. Those are the worst for making him sleepy, but really he can sleep pretty much anywhere, anytime. I told him last week I think he might be the napping champion of the whole Protectorate! (There should totally be a contest for that.)
Unless there's a mouse to play with. Or someone to Leviosa feathers or string for him to chase! Then he wakes up, for sure.
I bet he used to chase his own tail, didn't he? Back when he had a proper tail, I mean. I guess I should ask him how he lost so much of it, huh? Do you think he'd tell me?
Anywiz, the other day, I tied some string on his stump with a fuzzy bit at the bottom, and you should have seen him trying to catch it! He'd go around one way, pouncing at it, and spinning round and round. Then he'd stop and look fast over his other shoulder and then pounce that way, trying to surprise it. It was the funniest thing ever, Arista! You'd have laughed and laughed to see him!
Um. What else have we done?
Oh. Satsuma loves it when Mum cooks supper. He stays in the kitchen while I go out to feed the goats. Well, he does now. After what happened the first night I was home. Let's just say Satsuma doesn't like goats very much. And one of ours thought he might be tasty, which wasn't good. I'd never heard him hiss like that before!
But, that's all right, because now he stays in the kitchen on a shelf while I go out and watches Mum charm the knives and the pans. He says that sometimes when she doesn't think anyone's watching, she charms the vegetables to fly around like somebody invisible's juggling them! She used to do that sometimes when I was small, too. Because I thought it was funny. She likes it when people laugh, Mum does. And she can be really funny. Sometimes it's on purpose, even!
Yeah, so that's what we've been getting up to. How are you? Thanks for coming to see the Revue. It was really nice of your parents to bring you and Hector. That's your brother, right? Hector? It was funny to look out at you from the stage and see him out there, standing on his seat, waving that swirl-whirly around in time with the music. I guess he liked it! Tell him hey from me, yeah?
Anywiz, I hope I see you again sometime soon. Oh, and Satsuma says to tell you he's having a nice dish of milk every night at bedtime, just like you said.
Your friend,
Ronald Weasley
