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igenlodeI 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. It was meant to be one pot, but the calendula was really so large that it needed a pot of its own to prevent it crushing everything else I tried to transplant, and I was then able to tuck some of the overflow in around it. A complete waste of pots and compost, of course, especially as I really don't need yet *another* calendula to add to all the ones that have self-seeded in all sorts of places, but this one is so well developed that it seemed a pity to waste all that vigour. I am very bad at destroying plants :-(
The Roma tomatoes definitely have germinated (typically, the seed that was on the surface putting out encouraging visible roots has done far less well than the ones that were buried deeper and got on with it in peace; this is why we bury seed!) This does at least give me a reference point to suggest that a couple of the things that have been germinating in the towel-tomatoes pot actually are tiny, weedy tomato seedlings -- it has been so long since I saw any that I couldn't be certain what they look like! Encouraged by this, I have moved that pot into the mini-greenhouse in the hopes of giving it a boost.
The garlic in my vegetable box is busy sprouting (and rooting) mightily, so I have earthed up a couple of cloves of that as well. Again, it is a waste of my very limited space -- I would do better to be planting chives -- since the yield from home-grown garlic bulbs is always derisory and the stuff is so cheap to buy from the greengrocer, but the poor things so desperately do want to grow that it is hard to deny them all.
(This does not, however, apply to my sprouting potatoes :-p)
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.
If it were "Phantom", then I could cut off on a note of dramatic irony with Gaston going back for his hat in the conviction that he has completely blown his chances, and the audience would be able to anticipate Gigi's famous announcement of "I had rather be unhappy with you than without you" (which did make it into the script -- in fact, it looks as if a great deal more of the dialogue was used verbatim than I had imagined, which means it is just as well(?) that I *didn't* use it...) However, I still don't think sufficient of the readers, if there are any at all, are likely to be familiar with either Colette or film/musical to be able to fill in an implicit ending.
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. It was meant to be one pot, but the calendula was really so large that it needed a pot of its own to prevent it crushing everything else I tried to transplant, and I was then able to tuck some of the overflow in around it. A complete waste of pots and compost, of course, especially as I really don't need yet *another* calendula to add to all the ones that have self-seeded in all sorts of places, but this one is so well developed that it seemed a pity to waste all that vigour. I am very bad at destroying plants :-(
The Roma tomatoes definitely have germinated (typically, the seed that was on the surface putting out encouraging visible roots has done far less well than the ones that were buried deeper and got on with it in peace; this is why we bury seed!) This does at least give me a reference point to suggest that a couple of the things that have been germinating in the towel-tomatoes pot actually are tiny, weedy tomato seedlings -- it has been so long since I saw any that I couldn't be certain what they look like! Encouraged by this, I have moved that pot into the mini-greenhouse in the hopes of giving it a boost.
The garlic in my vegetable box is busy sprouting (and rooting) mightily, so I have earthed up a couple of cloves of that as well. Again, it is a waste of my very limited space -- I would do better to be planting chives -- since the yield from home-grown garlic bulbs is always derisory and the stuff is so cheap to buy from the greengrocer, but the poor things so desperately do want to grow that it is hard to deny them all.
(This does not, however, apply to my sprouting potatoes :-p)
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.
If it were "Phantom", then I could cut off on a note of dramatic irony with Gaston going back for his hat in the conviction that he has completely blown his chances, and the audience would be able to anticipate Gigi's famous announcement of "I had rather be unhappy with you than without you" (which did make it into the script -- in fact, it looks as if a great deal more of the dialogue was used verbatim than I had imagined, which means it is just as well(?) that I *didn't* use it...) However, I still don't think sufficient of the readers, if there are any at all, are likely to be familiar with either Colette or film/musical to be able to fill in an implicit ending.