Bulletin

[kaberett]

• The Enfield Poundland is selling 10l of coco coir (compressed bricks; volume once made up), which appears to be much better value that is achievable on eBay, so I am somewhat suspicious but We Shall See How It Goes.
  
• I... accidentally a low-tech heated propagator from Robert Dyas in town... yesterday? Yesterday. It's got a 10W base, has in the last 24 hours made it up to 32°C during the sunniest part of the day (but is happily hanging out at 25°C even when it's cold and dark), and will hold two ex-dozen-egg-boxes if they're squished a little.
  
• It therefore currently contains (i) chilli seeds, and (ii) passionfruit seeds. The chilli should germinate in another week or so; the passionfruit might... take up to a year, lolsob, but at least I've got them nice and cozy now.
  
• Meanwhile, there's the first sowing of peas (two types) in the bathroom (which is the warmest room in the house; the chillis might even have managed in there, as it's routinely around 20-21°C, but they'll be happier in the Warm Plant Box.)
  
• Today has been a day of A largely working from home, and also repair humans. The oven has been bodged so as to work provided one is careful, and will hopefully be fixed for realsies come Friday; I have got the first loaf of back-in-London sourdough going.
  
• The other Repair Human was someone who was supposed to be hooking up our new internet connection. This did not In Fact happen, because the human in question wasn't qualified to do the necessaries (we don't have a BT socket inside the flat) and hadn't looked it up in advance despite having all of the necessary information (that there's an internal hub) so it didn't even matter that we didn't have the relevant keys (and everybody else in the building who might have done was out).
  
• We... shuffled a lot of the furniture we hadn't first thought of shuffling around, a lot, in the process of confirming that things weren't where it would have been convenient to have them be, but in the process we have at least identified more tributes for the charity shop.
  
• ... I want my plants to hatch.