Health

The family are worried about me – Rachel phoned yesterday, as their spokesperson – and you nice people are too. I'll phone the practice on Monday and insist on seeing a dr, if only to eliminate a heart diagnosis.

Miscellaneous

Saturday has got away from me. I got up a bit late, and the day has impinged. Imploded.

So, in haste:

Helen sent this yesterday, her latest mosaic, a gift for a friend. Isn't it wonderful?

The “unswept floor” is based on a Roman mosaic. I gather from a rapid Google that there may be more than one, but I think Helen is working from the one in the Vatican Museum. Helen says that the mouse, the fish, wishbone, cherries, and shell are from the original, and she has added other things to represent her friend's life. I don't know how big it is – Helen says it will be divided into four and re-assembled on-site and with grouting you won't see the joins.

Helen herself has recognised that mosaic-making is just knitting displaced.

She and her family are off to Constantinople today, which must be the mosaic-maker's equivalent of a knitter's trip to Shetland.

And as for myself:

I didn't get much done yesterday, but I did look up the jogless join. I have also measured out the remaining knitting of the first sleeve and lined up the colours needed. I'll hope today goes better.

The jogless join – you probably know – is done by joining in the next colour as usual and knitting all the way around with it. THEN you insert the right-hand needle from behind into the first leg of the old-colour stitch in the row below the first stitch of the new-colour, lift it onto the left-hand needle, and knit it together with the first stitch of the next round. There's lots on YouTube if that doesn't make sense.