Transplantation

I split up the five sturdy towel-tomato seedlings of the second batch into three separate pots (having run out of the smaller ones), and the *twelve*(!) marigolds of the second batch (I shall definitely have to give some away), which are far bigger and healthier than their predecessors, across four pots. The four survivors of the frosted marigolds have actually managed to produce a healthy set of true leaves each, although distinctly small, to supplant the stubs of their seed-leaves, but the others will probably catch them up and overtake them!

We have mesembryanthemum germination, although I think at least one of those seedlings is a rogue marigold, and the Gypsophila elegans from the six-pack.

Leadership

Episode 50, La traversée de l'éléphant: I have been dragging these out because I know from the episode numbers that I am almost at the end, and wish to prolong the enjoyment...

Athos makes the (correct) call that they cannot possibly endanger the life of Prince Philippe and the future of the realm on the chance of being able to save the little mercer's daughter Constance from almost certain death, however much she means to them personally; Aramis makes the (correct) call to abandon the assault on the island by her small-boat force because the casualties among her men, who don't have Plot Armour, are too great; Treville manages to persuade the King to lead from the rear in order to keep the flagship out of range, which turns out to be the correct call, and Rochefort is obliged to make the call to abandon ship when they are almost within range after the fleet succumbs to red-hot shot from the fortress (the defences of which have been completed with the aid of the titular elephant). And Milady and the Iron Mask, having managed to drive off the two-pronged attack of the entire royal forces against their single point of refuge, make the unexpected call that they need to embroil foreign forces - 'France has plenty of enemies' -- in order to survive this, rather than just cackling villainously and assuming that they are invincible.

( D'Artagnan's plot armour )