Onward. I'm about halfway through the current section of Archie's sweater, where the sleeves are increased every fourth row and the fronts and back every other row. I counted the sleeves last night, and they're right.

I also read through to the end of the pattern, rather belatedly. The sleeves and bottom are finished with hems. I thought it might be nice to do the inside, doesn't-show bit using the nice green madtosh yarn I used for the vest my husband wears all the time. I had a little go at the stash cupboard, much needed, and, alas, couldn't find it. What I could and did find was a bag of madtosh sock yarn leftovers – more than I remembered.

I could use one of them, doubled. Or single, thus drawing in the sleeves and body slightly, in the absence of ribbing. I'll think about it.

I am grateful for Mary Lou's reminder that a try-on soon – when the sleeves have been abandoned and the body joined in a tube – will be valuable for verifying sleeve-hole-depth as well as chest size. Row gauge has never been a strength of mine.

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Knitlass, I envy your family – I'd love to see the All Blacks. And of course they'll slaughter Scotland. But I thought we played with a new spring in our step on Saturday – maybe it won't be as one-sided as all that. Once when a lot of us were staying with Alexander at Christmas time, we all went off to Glasgow to see the Warriors play Edinburgh (while James stayed at home with my husband). That was where we first saw Richie Gray – this was before he played for Scotland. We all thought he was rubbish. We learned later that the Scotland coach was there that evening. The rest, as they say, is history. And now we've got Jonny, too.

Jean, the dr's mistake about the insulin wasn't as bad as all that. My husband mixes two different kinds for the morning injection, and uses a pre-mixed pen for the evening one. The dr sent a prescription for a wrong one of those three, i.e., not the one I had ordered. It was long-dated so I took it and we now have enough of that one to float a small boat. And I'll have to toil back up the hill to Boots and the horrible Christmas crowds soon, to get the right one, which is running low.

Lynne, I'd love those 4mm Symphonie dpn's – I'm going to need them for the lower stretches of Archie's sleeves and my own collection doesn't go up to that size. I'll write to you. I'm very grateful.

The computer is worse than ever this morning. Will I be able to post this? I've made one useful discovery, though. I'm getting those constant messages from McAfee – “Potentially Unwanted Program Blocked”. It's no use responding, I just get another one, 10 seconds later. But what I accidentally discovered, is that I can move the message window down to the corner where it is mostly off the screen and just leave it there. McAfee van't send another one until I've responded to that one.