who only by moving can balance

Item the first: an outstanding piece of admin post-last-Admin-event-of-2024. This specific bit of admin was "copy some art". There was less of it than I had deceived myself into dreading, and also it was fun.

Item the second: got WILDLY excited about some beetroot seed that I was not expecting to be viable... germinating????? One of eight sown so far, but this is Excellent encouragement to get the rest started and see if I can't build up a stock of seed again. (Touchstone Gold; originally bought from Real Seeds lo these many years ago, but while it's still obtainable elsewhere it's not one they have offered at all recently.)

Item the third: second batch of clove-garlic I planted is waking up! (As distinct from the ... several ... bulbs I discovered lurking in last year's bed, which are quite a long way ahead of everything that had its root systems disturbed at an earlier point in the process; fingers crossed the transplant doesn't make them sulk too much.) As mentioned I am looking at well over 50 bulbs of garlic; apparently the 900g braid I made a couple of summers ago was approximately 32 bulbs (having just counted them in the photo...), which I seem to recall lasted us a good six months, so! Fingers crossed! (Also in the allium bed: the bonus onion & shallot sets are coming up!)

Item the fourth: tripped and fell into checking the list of cookbooks available to borrow immediately from the local branch of my library against the list of books that haven't been indexed on Eat Your Books. A wailing and gnashing of teeth when I realised one I'd been given as a present and had decided I had zero interest in... has not been indexed, so that could have been a whole entire free shelf slot had I not long since made it a charity shop's problem. ALAS. On the upside, another such book had not yet gone to a charity shop, so should I be permitted further indexing that's Going To Happen. (I cannot remember if I have mentioned? The way EYB works is that free accounts get to add unlimited blog/online/magazine recipes to their bookshelf, but only five books. For each book you index, the number of slots available for books should you stop paying for your account goes up by one. Thus -- at least in combination with the special interest I'm having -- the appeal of indexing books I don't actually want to keep in my collection in their own right...)