Developments

I finally bit the bullet and sorted out the Demon Red chilli pot; the chillies themselves were pretty easy to identify since they were the sprouts with no root to speak of, which at least made it relatively easy to transplant them back into sterile compost -- yet again, I was astonished to find a fairly large and vigorous worm in that pots, where there had previously been no sign of it but where it had at least been getting watered, and another in the supposedly dried-out spent compost bag, where it had now been surviving ever since October...

I split the rest of the plants between two pots, and dumped them out into the outdoors temperatures to take their chance, with no gesture at hardening-off.( Read more... )

( Tomatoes )

( Garlic )

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I had an idea about how to make my Gaston rewrite scene more interesting, namely by jumping ahead (of course) and putting in an episode where he *does*, in fact, go back to Liane d'Exelmans that evening, in the interval between walking out without his hat and coming back for it shamefaced the next day. Not canonical, but it is in fact suggested as a possibility (Lachaille est parti d’ici dans l’état d’esprit où un homme fait toutes les bêtises! [...]On me dirait qu’à l’heure qu’il est il est fiancé, ou en train de se remettre avec Liane, je n’en serais pas surprise) And it makes the end of the story into something more than just a rewrite... although I still don't know what I'm going to do for an actual end. ( Read more... )