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Seedlings gone
14 April 2021 10:30 amApparently Mesembryanthemum seedlings are particularly tasty. After I noticed that half the seedlings in the pot had disappeared overnight, I conducted a search for the culprit under neighbouring pots, removed a largish (by my standards -- about half an inch in diameter) snail, and moved the pot to the other side of the balcony to break any telltale slime trails. But this morning all the remainder have gone, save for a single stem with a single cotyledon adhering to it; every other scrap of green has been eaten off. None of the neighbouring seedlings appear to have been touched at all.( Read more... )
I have managed with great labour to get Hertha and Christine to the roof-top, and am trying to negotiate an alternate "All I ask of You", though I'm not terribly happy with it. ( Read more... )
To be honest, the only bits of all this I remember finding at all easy or enjoyable to write were getting Hertha into Box 5 in the first place (her idea; after all, we know that it is the last available box that night, and she *doesn't* know that the Phantom has been making a fuss over it) and killing off Buquet. Not because I particularly hate him, but because it's a nice little horror scene. Hertha, of course, takes it for granted that this is an actual accident, since she has no reason to assume that the mystery blackmailer has any grudge against random backstage staff, and given the chaos of the sudden scene change a tragic accident is actually far from improbable at this point -- something which had never occurred to me...
I have managed with great labour to get Hertha and Christine to the roof-top, and am trying to negotiate an alternate "All I ask of You", though I'm not terribly happy with it. ( Read more... )
To be honest, the only bits of all this I remember finding at all easy or enjoyable to write were getting Hertha into Box 5 in the first place (her idea; after all, we know that it is the last available box that night, and she *doesn't* know that the Phantom has been making a fuss over it) and killing off Buquet. Not because I particularly hate him, but because it's a nice little horror scene. Hertha, of course, takes it for granted that this is an actual accident, since she has no reason to assume that the mystery blackmailer has any grudge against random backstage staff, and given the chaos of the sudden scene change a tragic accident is actually far from improbable at this point -- something which had never occurred to me...
