Curiouser and Curiouser

Thanks to my well-documented penchant for list-making, I have whole notebooks filled with lists of all kinds. Here is one I recently found, from a notebook I kept in my first year of college. It starts out like a regular to-do list, but then... well, see for yourself.

In case you're wondering, the list starts at 3; there is no 0, 1 or 2.

Cabbage White

Our rocket plant has been looking a little poorly of late. I had assumed it was just feeling the heat, though I have been watering it diligently. Today, on closer inspection, I realised it is playing reluctant host to a small army of cabbage white caterpillars, the so-called "bane of allotment holders all over the British Isles".

I let them be, in the hope that they will pupate soon and the rocket plant will bounce back from this ordeal. I would also like to see the chrysalides, and maybe even the emergence of butterflies.

Cabbage whites have cool-looking eyes; here is one I photographed earlier.