Seeds, seedlings and progress

Pricked out the nasturtiums and poached-egg plants, some spare kale seedlings, the marigolds, and the (one) tomato, for the mini-greenhouse. Interestingly there was no sign whatsover of the paper towelling left in the pot, so it had completely biodegraded over the course of only three weeks! The difference in size between that tomato seedling and the chilli seedlings planted at the same time and kept in the same conditions is incredible...

Sowed pak choi (end of commercial seed), rocket (1 pot old commercial seed, 1 pot saved from last year) pink poppy (I think we are going to have plenty of red poppies...), blue Swan River Daisy, and mesembryanthemum and another square of towel-tomatoes (indoors).

I am still battling away at "The Remorse of Others" (and trying to make it fit the title a little better), having decided that I simply couldn't end the fic either with Roland following de Brencourt out of the door (as I had originally intended) or with the two of them in a hire-carriage on the way to Mirabel (which was my next expected end-point). The characters have spent so much of this scene angsting about the question of travelling to see Gaston de Trélan's dead body that I ended up driven to the conclusion that the story really does need to show them actually viewing it, because otherwise (authorial intention or not) the story is going to come across to the reader as incomplete. Which means I now need to show Valentine as an actual character in person, and tie in with the final chapter of the original novel as well, as opposed to just the events of the penultimate one.
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