Little to report. Evening knitting was
interrupted by the welcome arrival of the Waitrose order, and I'm
pretty sure I didn't resume in the right place. Not a disaster, just
another imperfection. No Carol Sunday, no Archie. Our soap opera has gone off until some time in
the new year, taking with it a peaceful half-hour of knitting. This
time of year is hard to bear.
The Financial Times – we read it on
Saturday – has an occasional big glossy supplement called How to
Spend It, full of pictures of improbably expensive things. It reaches
new heights at this gloomy season. Is anybody really that rich?
Yesterday's issue has a knitwear
section. Does anybody really go out dressed like that? I mention it
because snug-fitting is not in evidence at all. Ease is everywhere. I
was particularly struck by a simple-looking sweater in a very
heavyweight-looking cashmere yarn for “about £2800”. Except
perhaps for the big collar – just as you said in yesterday's
comment, Jane -- you or I could knock it out in a weekend. At The
Row, if you're interested.
Non-knit
Google Chrome now loads without
Google's opening page. Is that a response to the EU demand for
“unbundling”? Or just this endlessly irritating computer finding
another way to slow me down and infuriate?
One of the most persistent of the
pop-ups is purportedly from Adobe Flash, wanting to update the
version it says I've got. Do you think they'd let me alone if I went
ahead and did it? It's hard to see how things could be worse.
I have ambitious plans for Getting
Things Done today. I'll feel briefly better if I succeed.
Out of curiousity, I looked at The Row on Barney's website. You could get a sweater that looks like a badly fitting version of the Relax, in cashmere, on sale for about $1,000.
ReplyDeleteAdobe Flash will indeed leave you alone if you update your version, at least until the next new version appears! This isn't an ad so much as a reminder to keep your software current.
ReplyDeleteI passed by a Gap store yesterday - they were showing a variety of knit sweaters which have been finished inside out with the purl side showing. The seams are on the "good" knit side. These are stranded colourwork sweaters so we see the loops. Not sure I am convinced!
ReplyDeleteOne friend thought perhaps the factory made an error and they decided to sell the garments anyway.
The fashion world is definitely beyond me.
LisaRR
Yes - those inside out sweaters are really trying for knitters. There are just too many each year for it to be an accident!
DeleteMind you last week I gently told a student that he was wearing his cabled Aran sweater inside out!
A learn from my mistake warning. You can get popups that claim to be from Adobe but are in fact virus download sites. Something I learned the hard way. After that experience I go to the Adobe flash website on my own to download the updates rather than following a link in a popup.
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