Mouldy

Some of my clothes came out of the wash with mould stains on them :-( I can only assume that it was because I used the 'overnight' setting, which delays the final drain/spin cycle until the user returns and manually triggers it... although the irony is that I did so specifically in order to avoid the washing cycle finishing while I was out and the damp clothes sitting around for hours inside the machine! And I have used it numerous times before with no problems...

I tried soaking the affected items overnight in a gallon of water with half a cup of vinegar in it, as suggested, and then tried using a toothbrush and undiluted vinegar to scrub the stains. Neither expedient had any perceptible effect, so all I can do is put them in for another rinse and spin to get rid of the vinegar and then hang them out to dry, black spots and all. You're supposed to put mould-stained garments through a hot wash to kill the spores, but that's a bit difficult for items that aren't supposed to be washed above 30C and ideally should be hand-washed only :-(

Fortunately we have a little bit of sunshine this afternoon.

( winter plants )

My Roma tomatoes have successfully gone red (and need using up) after being stored in temperatures of around 16C for a month or so... all except one, the smallest. Presumably that was the last to set, and failed to reach whatever point of maturity is needed for the fruit to start ripening?



( cuff repairs )

Random character (or plot!) generator

I came across this https://mediachomp.com/npc-personality-generator/ as a quick NPC generator for role-playing games, intended to randomise the characters that the players meet.

But thanks to the way my mind works (in terms of people and tropes rather than plot arcs and Hero's Journeys) it seems to me that it would actually serve quite well to generate story ideas via a main character around whom the plot can be built ;-)
( for example )