Mini succulent

This may be third time lucky with a succulent cutting. I tried to get some to take in the summer. No luck. Then a few months ago I found a single leaf that was sprouting that had dropped off of its own accord. It didn't take when I put it in a new pot. And then a couple of days ago I found this much more developed new growth based on another discarded leaf when I was watering the succulent. I hope this one will take. It's now in its own pot and hopefully it will settle in properly and develop. What it clearly needs is more neglect than I gave the previous ones. For the record, the daffs I bought nearly three weeks ago have now finally all come out. And the poinsettia from December is still doing reasonably ok.

It's been a properly busy day. Lots of meetings, and then a lecture I listened to whilst on the spinning bike. The iPads sent off for recycling have arrived at their destination, and I was duly rewarded with some Apple gift vouchers that I promptly invested back in some of their best tat. Won't arrive until the end of February, though. Then out after dinner, because my disclosing two days of sore throat and swollen gland symptoms to the ZOE covid app led to me being invited to take a Covid test. That bit was easy. I could sign up to go along at 7pm, just along the road at Leith Library. Doing it was much less pleasant, but hopefully I managed it in the end.

I'm 99.99% sure I don't have Covid and this is just a minor (and one-sided) bout of tonsilitis (only one tonsil is sore and a bit inflamed). But someone has to contribute to the 95% of tests that now come back negative. Mr A met me afterwards, and we walked down to the Sandport Bridge and back around - me hoping to get a photograph of the reflections from the bridge. This idea was ruined by the fact that parts of the Water of Leith currently have a thin covering of ice. So no proper reflections So back home we came empty handed, and I had to make do with the rather out of focus pictures I took this morning.

Gloriously sunny all day, and of course very cold. It would have been nicer to be out all day, but it wasn't too bad to see the blue sky from my desk. L and L flew off to Bermuda this afternoon, and they are still in the air. It's quite a strange feeling.