[stompy]

There is no way my OH ould let me do that, she'd go nuts.
I bet it's dark in that room though 

[Kristen]

The Photo exaggerates it - honest.

She's got two choices:  Veg throughout the year, or not ... does that help? My DW is happy with veg for the rest of the year

Have you got a room that is warm enough, does not face North, but is not much used?  I use the windowsill in my study

[DD.]

We live in a semi and the south facing wall is next door's house!

I use an east facing windows - the spare room and the kitchen window with no problems.Mrs Digger puts up with it in return for the produce.

[stompy]

We have a loft conversion that we use as our hobbie room and it's got a large roof window.
We have one of the tables underneith it and i start everything off up there.

[Kristen]

That's sounding to me like the roof window is quite a long way above the seedlings? (which I think will "draw" them quite a bit anyway, but I haven't seen your set up of course).

I suppose a growing-lamp is out of the question? That would solve the problem at a stroke - although there is still the problem of housing early-sown-veg until its warm enough to plant out.

[A. Fallowfield]

Mine, now with a foil backing, are in the front room window with my aloe vera! I'm a widower, but I can still imagine what would have been said!