Hi.
My sister is here until Monday – I won’t try to blog until
Tuesday, therefore. But here I am with a quiet moment and a couple of things to
say.
Wimbledon continues well. I didn't see much yesterday, but today got to watch a great deal both of Venus' match and of Andy Murray's. I like Serena because of the bond of pulmonary embolism, but I like Venus even better because she's an elder sister and getting a bit elderly herself. She had a tough match, and she was flagging, but she won it.
Thanks for the news about glysophate. I heard it from you
first, and there is also an article in the Scotsman’s farming section today. Maybe
I’d better stockpile some myself. I remain deeply puzzled about the vote in the
European Parliament which, as I understand it, was strongly in favour of licensing glysophate some weeks ago. Did that count for nothing? And, if so, why
not?
I’m doing fine with the edging of Gudrun’s hap – I’m a few
stitches short of the first corner, and will at least be able to give my sister
an impression of what is to come. I popped into Kathy’s Knits today to buy some
point protectors, Perdita having eaten all of mine. I need one for the other
end of the circular on which the entire shawl is suspended, and one for the
other end of the short dp on which I am knitting the edging.
Kathy said that one of you – and I hope you will recognise
yourself – flew over from the US recently for her daughter’s graduation from
the University of Edinburgh, and flew back within 24 hours as a way of avoiding
jet lag, but had just time to nip into Kathy’s Knits which she had read about
here. I am sorry we didn’t meet!
I thought for a moment there that Kathy was going to make a
present to me of the point protectors, but that didn’t happen.
I see that Kate Davies is taking off for a brief and
extremely well-earned holiday. I had one of those absurd moments of panic – I must
order the kit for the Uncia pattern NOW before she shop closes. That’s rubbish,
of course, and mercifully I didn’t do it. It remains high on my HALFPINT list.
Non-knit
I have been a bit choked-up about the centenary remembering
of the battle of the Somme. The anniversary is tonight/tomorrow and it is being
observed with great solemnity. It was an extraordinarily terrible thing.