Aramis' vengeance ("Duel sur la Falaise")

Episode 51 of Sous le Signe des Mousquetaires: Aramis' secret is revealed when she is wounded in the shoulder and d'Artagnan tries to tend the injury -- I was confounded at the time as to how she had previously managed to go through at least two episodes in the first series with an almost identical wound without anybody noticing anything, but on looking back I see that she actually threw a pail of water in d'Artagnan's face under similar circumstances (which I had entirely forgotten) and insisted on bandaging it up single-handed ;-p

D'Artagnan goggles at her and exclaims redundantly that she is a woman, to which Aramis retorts, with some point, that this is scarcely the most important issue right now when the two of them are under attack. ( Read more... )

Things that didn't germinate

( Rudbeckia and mesembryanthemum )

( Coreopsis, spring onion, wildflower packet, pink Swan River )

More to my surprise, the second batch of rocket appears to have almost completely failed, with only one unenthusiastic-looking seedling, although the lettuce planted at the same time is flourishing. Put in some more of the saved rocket seed, which normally germinates with abandon.

Ironically enough I think I have a self-sown corn-camomile germinated in the sage pot, although no sage as such! And another one that got transplanted alongside the sweet peas some weeks ago, although that is now looking so feathery that I wonder if it might not actually be love-in-the-mist or something similar instead.

( Sweet peas and dwarf pea plants )

( Basil )

I also pricked out/potted up the flourishing flax, or at least separated it into one larger pot and one slightly larger (but now with fewer plants in it than the original!) pot...