Gregory Goyle

[Warded Private]

I'm not going. Bloody hell. Even just writing that makes me shake but I'm not going. Getting involved with him only led to me being bloody miserable for a year and Vincent dying. What did we get out of out? Nothing. And that's what we'll continue to get out of it. Nothing. I've spoken to Aksel and we're going to start preparations this afternoon.

Bugger it. I've got a good life and I'm not turning it on it's head for something that doesn't matter anymore. The Muggles are gone and frankly in that case we need all the witches and wizards we can. Maybe he ought to look up inbreeding. Dealt with it enough in animals, don't want to see it in humans.

[/Warded Private]

[Warded to Draco]

Are you going?

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Note to self - when treating tadfoals, always bring a change of clothes. Or two changes of clothes. And a towel. Tadfoals are curious, excitable and don't know their own strength and will knock you into the deeper water... more than once. It's no fun having to slog up from the dam to the house in sopping wet clothes. And it's bloody cold too.

This wasn't exactly what Aksel and I had in mind when we came to England. We were supposed to be setting up a animal healing and veterinary clinic, not running around seeing to the welfare of dozens of abandoned animals while attempting to set up an animal healing and veterinary clinic.

I think we've more or less sorted things out close to us. We've figured out which cattle herds were dairy herds and which were beef herds so we'll be in milk and meat for a while. Thank Merlin we set up at a farm. We've been able to transfer a lot of the chickens and pigs to our farm so that's eggs, chicken and pork taken care of. Once we get the vegetable garden going we're going to be almost self-sufficient.

It's good to finally get back to what we're supposed to be doing. Aksel will have the clinic open by the end of the week and I've got to sort out the dam on the property to get it ready for the hippocampi we found. They're close to foaling so we want them settled before the tadfoals arrive. I think there's a small herd of thestrals in the local woods too. I'll have to go and have a look.

( Gregory Goyle )