Excess and shortages

I split up some of the extra seedlings in my Pot With Too Many Marigolds -- not quite as scientifically as I'd intended, as levering with an ordinary fork out of the cutlery drawer simply sent half the compost flying in a huge chunk! I retrieved and planted three in one large pot and three in another, and threw away a couple of the small ones left over in the spilt earth. Since they grow to eighteen inches or so, I only need two or three adult plants, but survival at this age is far from certain.

I am still finding new slugs emerging from the pansy pots daily -- every time I lift the pots, there's a new batch of inch-long slugs curled up in the drainage holes. I can only assume they must be living in the soil. They seem to be thinning out the poppies ;-p

( hot cross buns )

( supermarket )

The magic mackerel was nice, though -- even made without dill, with parsley instead of rocket, without the hazelnuts, and with frozen broccoli. (I simply couldn't bring myself to buy the Kenyan, and after all a big bag of frozen broccoli will go a long way before the summer vegetables come in...)
And I did have some sunflower seeds, which I 'toasted' in the frying-pan and which contributed a significant flavour.

How to make two helpings of lunch out of one fillet of smoked mackerel and half a lemon ;-p