The Golden Neep IC

Who: 1991 Study Group + Significant Others (or Alternate Guests) + Gina (until bedtime)
What: Pye Day! (AKA Happy Birthday, Augustus!)
When: Wednesday evening, March 14
Where: Charlie, Dani, and Gina's house
Warnings: Likely nothing?

( Kal had dropped off quite a few of the things that morning. )

Who: Alec Urquhart, Maggie MacDougal, and a lot of drunk Catapults supporters.
What: Young scottish Quid owner accidentally ends up the pianist of a Welsh broom gang who are fervent Catapults fans. (And a self-indulgent mini-narrative in the comments.)
When: Sunday, February 18, after the Catapults/Bats match. (Yes yes a while ago)
Where: The Salty Gargoyle, Glasgow.
Warnings: Language! (Not a warning: Also some links to songs that go with)

( Four minutes was a long time to sit still and not offer Alec disparaging comments on his attitude or lifestyle. )

How is Skeeter still employed by the Prophet?

[Lex]
Alright?

[Meaghan]
Missed you at the match last week. Make it through alright?

[Dunbar]
So?

[Study Group]
If any of you need to get in touch with me after tonight, send an owl.

How’s Kal, Auggie?

Congratulations, Magpies!

[Lennox]

Saw Witch Weekly. Anything you need from me?

[Lex]

Saw the Prophet. How do you want to play this? Would you feel at all comfortable with putting together a Letter to the Editor to put your thoughts out there?

Has there ever been a pact between two teams to boost their points in a league match?

PEGGY URQUHART:

BESTIE SOS

Bairn's first book launch. What's the dress code? Anything I need to know? Ink magnates you need taken care of?

OWEN MACFARLANE

I've got an appointment Friday morning so I'll be a wee bit late.

ALEC URQUHART:

I need your opinion on something.

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The Pride of Portree (7-1-1 0.778) versus Caerphilly Catapults (6-4-0 0.600)
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Play Started:2000-03-09 at Rannoch Moor
Snitch caught in : 1 hours, 35 minutes
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The Pride of Portree : 430
Caerphilly Catapults : 50
Congratulations, The Pride of Portree
( It's always a sad day when they let us out of the stadium before happy hour... )

If a very tall man asks if you're familiar with me during the match on Friday, please inform him that you've never heard of any "Maighread MacDougal." I'd appreciate it if you even went so far as to insist the Pride's medic is a wizard named "Smith" and has been such for some number of years.

I'll be wearing pink to support Uplift and muggleborn witches and wizards at large. [...] I don't possess the artistic skills necessary to do enough to the tent, however, so [...] use your imagination where that's concerned.

MEAGHAN MCCORMACK:

What the fuck is your

Never do that again.

FLORRIE MCGONAGALL:

I didn't see "minding bairns" in the fucking job des

ALEC URQUHART:

Do [...] The lads asked if you're coming round after the match.

Woke up to screaming bairns going Co-là-breith math. At least they are learning their Gaelic.

And the best gifts so far this year are...

Spell-o-Taped in

[ Private to Friends and Family ]
[ooc: If you think your character is a friend and/or family, you probably are]

Nothing too fancy, but there will be some food and cake tonight if anyone wants to drop by and say hi. No gifts necessary, please. The bairns decorated the house and the cake.

[Pride staff/management team]

Following our previous discussion on the wearing of Uplift pink, I'm announcing our agreement that players are permitted and even encouraged, if they are so moved, to wear pink for the Caerphilly match, but they are not required to. Also that Graham and Terry Edevane of the Catapults are talking about this as a joint exercise for the two teams.

Owen, please be ready to assist with league-approved methods of decorating brooms, uniforms, and accessories. I know this is short notice, but I have faith in you.

Anybody else who has questions or comments, let me know, and if necessary I can add to or amend my message to the team. Thanks.

[Pride +]

Team:

This is to let you all know that management and ownership are aware of the discussions in the league following on the incident at the Falmouth/Wigtown match, and further to that, the show of support for Muggleborns that has resulted during this bloc.

Mr Urquhart is speaking with Mr Edevane of the Catapults so that Portree and Caerphilly players and staff can jointly express their support by wearing pink along with their regulation uniforms. Any player or staff member who wants to wear pink will receive help in accessorising in ways that meet League regulations. You don't have to charm it on your own.

That having been said, there is no requirement to wear pink and anyone who does not feel it appropriate to wear pink for whatever reason does not have to. If you do feel it appropriate, I personally encourage you to do so. If you're not sure, please feel free to talk to me about it. I can explain my own reasons for doing so. If they're not good enough for you, or you don't feel moved, we're square. It will make no difference in how Coach MacFusty or I coach or play you.

Thanks for your attention to this matter. Please feel free to speak to me or Coach MacFusty with any questions.

[McBrides & Robertses]

Portree management is in for pink for the Caerphilly match. I just announced it to the team and we'll see how it goes. I think we'll get some support and some pushback but I'm hoping most of the players will go for it.

Congratulations to my good friend Des Parkin on assuming the headship of the Scottish Office. And congratulations to my talented wife Kirsten on taking up a position in the Office. You're worth the wait.

Two very important things on my personal agenda today:

First

Congratulations to Desmond Parkin. I'll be following the new office with interest, and I know my da is looking forward to the opportunity to work with you.

Second

(And substantially less important to the future and stability of Scotland, I might add.)

To whomever decided it would be a brilliant plan to charm my shower to spray seemingly benign and normal water that proceeded to turn my whole body green:

I guess this was supposed to upset me. I was a little surprised to see my reflection, particularly since I was getting ready to head into practice. However, luckily for me, I happen to know someone whose particular specialty is reversing effects just like this and much worse. He's just usually the one who caused them, too. (Friendship-obligated plug: Visit Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley!) It's too bad that you apparently know me well to be able to get into my flat, but not well enough to know that. No worries. The wards have been changed now.

Also, if you were paying attention to the news you would know:

I would have preferred Pink.

[Percy]

I'm pretty sure I made George's day. He laughed for a full ten minutes before he'd help me. I haven't seen him laugh like that in

[Ernie]

One guess who I suspect is behind this particularly clever bit of prankery.

Any insight on your own situation since Valentine's Day? It was good to see you at the match last week, but we still need to grab a drink sometime when we're not half-exhausted from the long match.

Congrats Da! You're the most ostensibly Scottish person I know and it finally paid off!

[Parkin/Miracles]

YES DA! How are we celebrating you becoming the equivalent of the magical King of Scotland?

(I kid I kid)

(But you know, just between us we can pretend for the day)

Seriously Da, congrats! Big move up! Please remember the (once) little people who helped you to the top. Or well...remember the once little people you had take too much care of is more accurate.

[Study Group 91]

Alright, who was in on the Scottish Minister bet? Pony up! Gina is now the first family in Scotland and I need to get her used to a certain lifestyle.

(ooc: Feel free to make up whatever not!money bet they had. The more ridic the better)

My birthday's in like two weeks.

[Alec Urq]
Did she really say Good article.

( Owl to Maggie MacDougal )

( Not an IC cut. )


Pink clothing felt like cheating since I wear it all the time, so I came up with something new!

My first gossip article. Now I know how Harry Potter felt at fourteen. The article was just about as truthful as one by Rita Skeeter as well. Congratulations.

First, lets set the record straight:

I dislike boats immensely. I get sea sick. I also dislike horses, but that’s a story for another time.

The Mediterranean was on the shortlist, but not anymore.

I have invited Monte over and he has met my muggle parents. There is no shame here. Also, for the record, outing an idividual without their knowledge or consent is just bad form.

You never reached out to myself or, to my knowledge, Monte. Do not go claiming things you cannot back up.

A bitter ex-girlfriend of a good friend is not a close insider.

The Muggleborn Pink Movement may have put Monte and I in contact initially, but it deserves much more than an afterthought in a poorly researched article. You also forgot several key individuals: Isla Cameron, Dawn Withey, Gregor McGregor, to name just a few. There mare many more of us now, more than I can name and I am glad. That means our ideas are spreading and we are more than just a footnote.

Next time, if there is a next time, I suggest reaching out. You’d get a better story.

Tags: ! journal, hamish roberts, jason king, justin finch-fletchley, maggie macdougal, monte cameron

Breakfast with my parents is always an enjoyable time, but today came with especially interesting news—they're moving! They've been in the same house in Leicester ever since getting married when I was eleven, so it's a little sad, but I can see why they want a change. Rani and I have the convenience of coming to see them whenever we want, no matter how far away we live, but they don't have the same benefit. Since Rani is in London now, and so are a few of our other relatives, they decided to find a place there.

That makes me the oddball up here in Scotland. (I can already see the faces of my Scottish mates now. Not oddball, right? Obviously the only smart one.)

[Augustus]

It's your birthday soon, right? I'd like to plan to take you out, even if we can't on your actual birthday. When will you know what your schedule will be like?

[Study Group - Augustus + Kal]

Officially putting feelers out there for the birthday party date. I'll let you all know once Augustus has confirmed when he's off work. For now, he'll think it's only going to be the two of us.

Thursday, 15 March 2000, Celtic v Kilmarnock at Celtic Park in Glasgow- who's in?

if I can get a good count, I can see about group ticket sales. We can bring food and make a day of it. Please let me know by 8 March.

If you can see this, you're invited! ....and, since it's unwarded- You're Invited!

TO: Pip Parkinson
FROM: Maggie MacDougal
WHEN: Friday Morning, 2 March

( Left on Maggie's Desk, Pride of Portree Facilities )

When I first finished healer training, my mum gave me a stethoscope as a congratulations gift. So, I am ashamed to admit that I had mixed feelings about it at the time. It was a thoughtful gift and it wasn't cheap but I didn't feel comfortable actually using it. The stethoscope is pretty much a universal symbol for a Muggle Doctor, for those of you who have never been or seen a Doctor before. Healers typically use listening trumpets which basically do the same thing, internal listening of the human body. At the time I remember thinking that if I walked into Mungo's wearing a stethoscope, I might get in trouble again for trying to incorporate 'barbaric muggle medicine' into my work again.

I had already gotten in trouble once for using stitches for a snake bite instead of simply using a spell to mend the wound. I think the only reason I wasn't really reprimanded was because the patient wanted stitches, and actually had been fascinated about how muggles did things differently. Regardless, as a young healer I'd already been worried about standing out. This was also in 1996 when people admitting your support for muggles and muggleborns could get you killed.

So, the more I think and help out with the Uplift/Pink Movement, I keep thinking about what changes I want to see and how I can help out more than just wearing pink at a Quidditch match. So, I've been doing an experiment since Tuesday. I found my stethoscope and I wore it to work and waited to see what happened. Of course I got strange looks, and a lot of curious questions about where I got it and what it was for. Some older patients looked at it like it was a dangerous creature around my neck ready to attack, but whatever. What was consistent was how I explained each time that my Mum, who was a muggle, gave it to me to use it like muggle doctors do.

Spell-o-Taped in

I also transfigured them pink. Just in case the muggleborn message wasn't clear enough. I think the colour goes well with the lime green robes. Maybe it will catch on, but at least I can support Uplift and friends at work too, and not just in the stands at a Quidditch match. Congratulations to the Kestrals.

( Owl to Maggie MacDougal )