Summer plans continue to proliferate. Theo is coming (without his wife). We will have to take the group photograph to end ‘em all. There was once, only once, when my mother, late in her life, was on the same spot as her surviving children and grandchildren. We had a group photograph taken but she wasn’t interested  in it at all. My husband’s sister was also there (it was a wedding) and was “spitting mad”, she told us afterwards, that she wasn’t included in the picture.

Then what to do with the photograph? Too much for a mug. A clock? A tray? A chopping board? The answer is probably to create a 2014 calendar with the group on the cover. We’ll need to take enough other pictures through that week to fill 12 months. Shouldn’t be difficult.

Let’s concentrate on knitting.

The Mind the Gap socks are finished. Wonderful, no?

The Pakokku socks have been resumed. I might get to the heel shaping on the first of them today.

Amazon is getting better at tempting me. They came up with this, this morning: “Knitting Masterclass”. Customer reviews are enthusiastic. But do I need another book?

I have dissipated my time this morning, googling photographic chopping boards and planning accommodation for all these people when they get to Strathardle. I have many more interesting observations to make, but they will have to be postponed.