All well. I’m somewhat advanced with the front bib of the baby sweater, enjoying the peaceful garter stitch.

Thank you for your kind comments about the fullness of my programme. Most of the items you mention, such as Italian grammar and knitting and Daniel Deronda, can be done sitting down. Even pesto-making doesn’t involve standing for long. My difficulty comes when I start trying to totter about, although there’s nothing specifically wrong.

I have an appt with a geriatric consultant on Wednesday. I am formulating a list of all my symptoms – no sense of smell, hair has stopped growing, life-long nasal drip, general weakness, surely there must be more. I did well on walking this morning.

I discovered, reading my morning paper today, that the BBC and Andrew Davies – the prince of translators of books into television (“Pride and Prejudice”, “Middlemarch”, amongst many others) – have done “Daniel Deronda”, and that it’s available on Netflix! So that takes care of my television for the next few days, except that I mustn’t start until I finish the book. My sister – who was engaged upon a PhD in Eng Lit until she threw it up for medicine – says she certainly isn’t going to read it again. The final portions, which I have now reached, are livelier than the beginning.

I also discovered, even more to my surprise, in the course of my Googl’ing, that Davies and the BBC have done “He Knew He Was Right”. I don’t remember ever having heard of it until I plucked it by random from the shelf recently. That seems to be available only on a disk. That would play on my computer, right? Although that’s not a very comfortable arrangement for evening viewing and knitting.