A good day for exercise, anyway.

I walked up to Valvona & Crolla. The route took me past a classy new local restaurant – so classy it has no menu, and an unpronounceable Gaelic name like a Kate Davies pattern. So classy, as it turns out, that I couldn’t find it, although I had left home with the assurance from Google Maps that it was a 5-minute walk from here, and a firm impression of exactly where it was.

I’ll persevere.

Valvona & Crolla, at least, was where I have always found it in the past. I was in search of ingredients for Gennaro Contaldo’s “Ultimate Stuffed Amalfi Lemon”. You’ll find it on YouTube, under that title. There’s something similar in the book “Jamie’s Italian”. I got my ingredients, and found some other things including a string of Tropea onions which I had looked for in vain in Palermo. The total weight made the return journey an ordeal.

But I got here, and will soon stuff a lemon for my supper.

I got not much further with Rachel’s sock last night. I really need some compelling television. 

I like Kate Davies’ new pattern “St Catherines”. [Jean, it is no use admiring patterns when you can’t knit more than half-a-heel-flap in 24 hours.] The link is to a blog entry, and I am on the edge of my chair to discover what she means by the statement that “…my appearance has recently undergone quite a radical change.” We are promised a revelation soon, along with another version of St Catherines with more ease.

So I didn’t go to Kathy’s Knits to buy “Ziggurat” after all. Kathy’s is still there on Broughton Street, no such difficulty, I saw it as I tottered past, but I was by then really struggling under the weight of those onions. Next week.