I am sorry about the gaps. All is well, essentially. And here we are with the “back end” behind us, and 2024 in all its glory, stretching ahead. I am going to have a lot of trouble remembering that number.

  C. was here this morning and we packed the Christmas decorations away. Her family — Christina and Manaba and two little boys — are in the iron grip of a house move. C. is much involved. Vans tomorrow.

  The knitting progresses. There is going to be a visible line where one system hands over to the other (back-and-forth to in-the-round) and it is going to be particularly conspicuous on one of the fronts where there is a mistake in that row as well. And there’s nothing to be done about it.

  Wordle: there may be gaps in the blog, but I never fail to attempt Wordle first thing in the morning. And today I scored 2024’s first (for me) three! (Fours on each of the missing days, I think.)  Mark and Theo and Roger were fellow threes. Thomas, Alexander and Ketki needed four, and Rachel trailed home with five.