Little to say. I have started the double-mitre at the neck edge, don’t entirely understand the instructions. I should have either a photograph of success, or a tale of woe, for tomorrow.

I am re-loving madelinetosh, and thinking of where she might go next. Jared has a new collection. The Eternity Cardigan? The Hayward top? And Cookie A (Ravelry link) has branched out from socks. Quotient? Obtuse? One day, whether it turns out to be the Effortless or not, I must knit – and then surely never wear – something asymmetrical and swirly. And madelinetosh-y.

There’s a new blog post up from Helen C.K.S, always an event. She's knitting a cowl called Rayures. I think it's what is called a snood in Strathardle, and I wish I had knit it for the Games. Maybe someone would like one for Christmas. Helen's post also includes an amazing picture of the Queen, and a link to a link – but I’ve saved you the trouble – for the Internet Cat Video Festival.

Politics, random

It might be interesting one day – but not this year – to ask Theo what sort of budget he was working with, for the Convention.

America is far more deeply polarised than it was when I was young. Maybe the fear of nuclear annihilation – it was very real, always there; it began to recede only after the Cuban Missile Crisis  – made us aware of our common humanity.

Here’s something you can help me with. Does one ever say those rather awful acronyms, POTUS and FLOTUS, out loud? (I had never heard of them until George W. Bush’s day.) If so, how is the first syllable pronounced? To rhyme with “float”? Or “pot”?