I’m feeling much better. My sister and daughters all rang up yesterday telling me to go see a dr, but I continue to believe (as you said, Hat) that this is post-viral and I’d be wasting everybody’s time. When I really did have pneumonia, several decades ago, and knew I was seriously ill, and suspected pneumonia, I got myself to a dr’s surgery with considerable difficulty and was told I had flu. That meant another 60 hours of unpleasantness as it got worse – eventually, a different dr was called to the house and injected an antibiotic. The delay probably added weeks to the long, slow recovery. So much for doctors.

While I was resting yesterday afternoon I listened to the radio, as always, and half-heard an interesting programme called “Great Lives” which yesterday was about Kenny Everett. British readers will know. People who knew him talked about his life. One of them said he was sui generis.

That’s the feeder line for our favourite joke, and Kenny E. would have been the perfect subject for it: “…indeed, perhaps, sui generis to a fault.”

But I guess they don’t know that one, down at the BBC.

Alexander has posted pictures on Facebook of his ducks having their first swim. They are  taking to it like… And surely I detect some feathers.

Knitting

I should start the heel of the first Pakokku sock today, all being well. I’ll go ahead with Fleegle-Strong on your recommendation, Hat. I looked for Pakokku on both ebay.co.uk and ebay.com, without success. Is there no skein of it for sale anywhere in the world? I could think of knitting Alexander a Gardening Sweater from Into the Whirled Delhi DK – that actually seems to be for sale on their website – but have failed so far to find out how it knits up. Even on Ravelry.

Stash Haus has left an interesting comment on a post from a couple of days ago, about Sally Melville and Amy Herzog and the general topic of knitting to fit and flatter. She had a chance to try on different sweaters at a Herzog class, and was surprised to see what did, in fact, flatter. That would be a very useful exercise.

Breaking news – an email has arrived from Craftsy since I sat down here an hour or so ago, to say that Franklin’s class is available. I’ve signed up. Would Alexander like a gardening sweater with an Heirloom Lace Edging?