Prepared 8 24-cell seed trays for our conservatory today. This of course meant clearing all the shelves of my wife's stuff, sneakily, while she was out, and waterproofing the bottom of all the seed trays by taping big council bin bags over them (ie under them), to try to minimise leakage over the next few months, and so hopefully avoid too many tellings-off.
I have sworn a deep oath that, although the compost will have a couple of weeks to warm up, I shall not sow a single seed until well into February - maybe, say, nearly the end of the first week. Last year, for the first time ever, I managed to get through January without sowing anything. Of course I still had problems with plants being ready to go out before conditions really suited - but, with a bit of fiddling around, everything survived. These will all be things destined for the allotment greenhouses, which, with last year's weather produced best ever crops of aubergines, lots of tomatoes and peppers, but, as usual for me, rather pathetic cucumbers