Public Appearances

[therealpm]

The necessity to avoid attending public appearances in person is beginning to grate, though it does provide ample validation of The Machine's projectile capabilities.

The other project progresses apace, or at the very least, generates copious piles of notes. Certain matters of sport have provided an amusing distraction.

Comments

[paddythebamf.livejournal.com]

Projectile capabilities, eh?

Hmmm.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

I am hardly going to turn up to a public event with this thing attached to my ankle. It would be absurd.

[paddythebamf.livejournal.com]

I don't see why not. You make it sound like a frustrated terrier, instead of a perfectly serviceable plaster cast.

Sad to see it's not the kind of projectiles that I prefer to play with. I'd hoped you were growing some refinement in your old age.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

I wish it were, one can always bribe them with dog biscuits.

It is ungainly and undignified.

I would, but John gets so tetchy when he has to rearrange the memories of 13 million Londoners; not to mention being forced to apologise to Boris Johnson for 'failure to guard the capital against any and all threats of a thaumaturgical nature'.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

You're an evil, evil man and thanks to you I have that song stuck in my head. I hope you're happy.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

I'm bored!

If you're going to accuse me of being morally bankrupt, I demand you make a fresh pot of tea first.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm stating a fact.

...fine, I'll go and make a pot of tea.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*returns to reading notes*

*pauses*

*begins to say something, stops, reconsiders*

*calls out*

Don't use the milk. Not unless you particularly enjoy the taste of rat.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

*returns with tea*

So what are you working on, anyway?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Oh, just a modified detection spell. I'm considering compiling a collection of the more commonly altered incantations that haven't found their way into the official texts yet.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Another book? Why, isn't the paperback edition of your memoirs selling as well as you thought it would?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Publication of 'The Third Man' has irritated a number of my non-magical colleagues quite enough, it would be remiss of me not to pay the same attention to my peers in the craft.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

How very thoughtful of you indeed.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

I would make trouble for your erstwhile companions, but they appear to be doing a marvellous job on their own.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

They'll be rebelling against their own rebellion soon enough, I'm sure.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Frontbenchers have midbenchers,
Annoyed enough to fight 'em,
Midbenchers have backbenchers,
And so ad infinitum?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Quite.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

How were your bleeding stumps?

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Burnt to a cinder

A little overdone for my tastes but otherwise enjoyable, thank you for asking.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*snigger*

I take it Freddie and Oliver have been most assiduous in their music practice.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

They were but Sally took them kite flying when I caught what lyrics Oliver was singing. Thank you for that, by the way.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

I am glad to have brought a little music to your otherwise drab and-

*ducks*

It's not that bad a tune! Stop overreacting! It's bad manners to assault an invalid.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

"Bad manners"?!

I specifically asked you not to even hum the damn thing and what do you do? You send my children the lyrics and sheet music that's what! Next time I don't want you to do something, do I have to include "and no influencing anyone else, including my children, in any way to do anything at all that is in even a slightly similar vein to the thing I have requested you do not do"?! Do I?

That was low and vindictive even by your standards!

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

...what did you expect?

Oh don't look like that.

...it is only a tune, John.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

That's not the point and you know it. I get enough of this kind of rubbish from the entirety of the Conservative Party, growing numbers of your backbenchers, most of the media, even theatre directors now... One thing, Peter, I asked you not to do just one tiny thing.

Are you clinically incapable of feeling empathy, perchance?