Flowers and fic

I think some actual dill has finally germinated while I wasn't looking; the seedlings are very hard to tell apart from poppies during the early stage! Two of the over-wintered California poppies are now in golden bloom, and there is a bud just coming out on the miniature rose, which has died back entirely to a vigorous new shoot -- apparently a rose's way of reinvigorating itself, as it has done this more than once before.

I pulled out the dying towel-tomato, which actually seemed to have quite a robust stem after all -- however, it is too late now! One of the second batch is not looking too healthy either, and the chillies are almost all still sitting there with just their single pair of seed-leaves, with only a couple showing signs of putting out a tiny pair of true leaves. But this does tend to happen...

Made some hot-cross buns for Easter, but unfortunately, due to the extreme rush of getting them through the oven after 36 hours' "slow sourdough fermentation", I forgot to put the crosses on this year! At least that means it is reasonable to freeze them and continue eating them after Easter :-P

And I have begun (and in fact now almost finished; I was hoping I might get through it in a single day, but that was several days ago and clearly over-optimistic!) a 'Three Musketeers' fan-fiction. ( A possibly inevitable admission )