Monday, September 17, 2018


A pretty good day. I have employed Archie to make a start, at least, on sorting through the papers in this house, of which there are an alarming number, many of them unsorted since we left Birmingham a quarter of a century ago. If only we lived in a castle, we could put them all up in the East Tower and they would be of enormous interest in a few hundred years. Archie is taking a year off university, and as soon as we get back from Italy will try to find a real job. Meanwhile he shows some talent as an archivist. He found, today, a popular newspaper, preserved by my husband, announcing that Princess Margaret wasn’t going to marry Group Captain Townsend.

I have finished the yoke chart of the Kirigami sweater. The needle I have been using all along proved adequate for the final number of stitches – it’s a fairly wide neck. But I’ve found a smaller one which I think will do for the ribbing. And I’ve wound the final skein, leaving another one unwound. I could have knit a larger size. I hope that won’t turn out to have been a Fatal Error. We’ll know soon.

Tonight is Jamie Oliver’s Italian cookery programme, which I am enjoying enormously. That should advance things a bit. I still haven’t solved my “Killing Eve” problem – the BBC continues to advertise it on prime-time television, saying that it is to be watched on “BBC Three iPlayer” but I still can’t figure out how to get that on the television set. There doesn’t seem to be a “BBC Three” in the enormous list of available channels.

And watching on the iPad is a good deal less conducive to knitting, But perhaps tonight, when I’m only ribbing…

One of you has written to me with the solution to my Googlemail problem. I’ve now got the option of “more labels” back. But it came with the threat that in a fortnight, I would again be subject to an upgrade…

My cleaning woman came this morning. I needed to absent myself from the kitchen while she brought it back to the gleaming state in which she always leaves it -- so I went back to sorting knitting books. I think I'm nearly finished. I have established a socks-scarves-hats section, and a worldwide-miscellaneous, and one for Shetland. "Marlisle" turned up, but there's still no sign of Lucy Hague.

7 comments:

  1. For a micro second socks-scarves-hats was processed by my absent-minded brain as a knitters' version of rock-paper-scissors...

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  2. I seem to think that BBC3 is only available online - maybe the BBC's website would be able to enlghten you. It was available on satellite and cable and showed a lot of yoof type progtamming, but then went online. But that is not a lot of help, since I can't tell you how to get it! Sorry.

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  3. Anonymous12:16 PM

    I found BBC3 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06jy6bc. It requires an account... but it has the show you are looking for.

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  4. If you can get iplayer use the search function to find the thing you want! To get iplayer on our TV we have to open the smart hub menu. I'm sure Archie will be able to help if you have that capability on your TV set.

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  5. Gmail on the iPad will get the upgrade. Gmail on your laptop or computer on which you had the collapsed label problem that one has been upgraded. Interesting news re Archie. It’s wonderful that he is so present in your life. I miss my grandmother so very much. We were as close as y’all

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  6. BBC One maybe for Killing Eve? Have just finished watching it here in the US, it's a corker!

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  7. I like the idea of Archie as archivist. That is often the premise of a certain kind of English novel that I enjoy: a young man, not yet set in life, is hired by someone, usually in a grand country house, to catalog the library or sort through generations of records or a great man's papers.

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