This morning I spent a couple of hours on the allotment while the weather was fairly decent. Lots of the seedlings had got to the stage of needing to be potted on so did a fair bit of that, providing new homes for sprouts, broccoli, snapdragons, calendulas (now on their second pots), mesembryanthemums and lavatera.

Some of the sprout seedlings were showing signs of having been nibbled. I think I apprehended the culprit :-

It was ejected into the compost heap where it can be actually useful.

The transplanted rhubarb seems to have barely noticed that it's been moved and is growing well. It isn't quite as big as its siblings at the original rhubarb patch, but that seems about right to me.

Some of the apple trees have started to open their leaf buds, which is a great relief to me, as I was worried that my cack-handed pruning might have killed them.

This afternoon I started preliminary work on the Great House Tidying and Junk Clearance Project, also known as the Reclamation of the Spare Room. I have yet to find any dinosaurs, but it's early days still.