More progress on Gudrun’s hap. I have nearly finished the borders, and should be ready for the edging tomorrow if the yarn turns up. The borders end with four rounds of Main Colour. That’s what I’m doing now. I’m not entirely happy with the way they will separate the border colours from the blue edging. If I had thought this through from the beginning, I could have put the extra four rounds of Main Colour at the beginning of the borders, and done the decrease round in the final gold stripe.

Too late now.

I must now re-watch the bit of the Craftsy class in which the borders are finished and the edging commenced.

Non-knit

Thank you, Marilyn. I have covered the compost in the avocado tree pot with foil, and Perdita has lost all interest in the sitting room. She is purring as she sits beside the computer this evening. She never purrs. I hope she’s not ill.

I am having a dry January (not a vegan one, thank you) in the hopes of being restored to youth and vigour. There is not much sign of that, so far, but I did get out for a walk around the gardens by myself today. I usually only attempt it when I have a companion. Our eucalyptus tree has blown down. It was fine when I was there on Thursday with my Personal Trainer. I am sorry to see it go, not least because it was the only tree I could identify with certainty.

“The Three Clerks” is going well, in the sense that things are going from bad to worse for nearly all the characters. Undecimus Scott -- who is leading one of them astray -- is wonderfully like a lawyer we once had who wound up in gaol.