Mystery plant thing

The past week and a half has been pretty terrible. I've been working on another piece of coursework, a computer-based DNA analysis to follow on from the phylogenetics sessions, and it's mostly been an exercise in Murphy's law. The people running the course have been helpful but the instructions are dreadful. It's so frustrating.

I took a break from crying over my laptop to set up a little something I bought from the museum: an apple-sized lump of dried compost. It was only 50p because it had lost its packaging, apart from a sticker saying 'Grow by June 2016'. I put it in water and the compost split slightly, revealing a mesh bag that might contain something alive. We'll see!