All is well. I had feared that Archie would only be acquainted with powerful games machines and the Apple operating system, but he was able to put all right with a few clicks. The essence of the problem seemed to be that Chrome was loading all right, but confining itself to a small square in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. I had noticed that myself. What I had to do was drag it up -- right-clicking may have been involved – to fill the screen. He did some other things, too.

My suspicion is that it was all Perdita’s fault. She often comes and sits on the keyboard when I am here, and she knows a number of key combinations which are foreign to me. Archie, who is devoted to her, doesn’t believe this.

So here’s where we are:

a)     I blocked the second Dathan today. And

b)    I have started the Cameron shawl, and am enjoying myself immensely.

Here’s the latest picture. A couple of problems: the right-side, odd-numbered rows begin with a sl1 purlwise with-yarn-in-front (to make a nice chained edging for picking up the border stitches later), followed immediately with a yo k2tog. And, as I think you can see even from this blurry picture, I was making a mess of it. The yo wasn’t presenting itself properly on the following row.

So I decided to add another k1, between the slipped stitch and the yo. That’s working fine. If I were Andrea, I’d rip it all out and start again, but I’m not so I didn’t.

At the time of writing, I’ve done 5 ½ scallops. That’s half of 11. And 11 is half of the 22 scallops needed per edge. (My plan, as I’ve mentioned before, is to knit two borders at a time, so that I can knit back and forth and avoid purling, but still have only two corners to sew up at the end.) So I feel I’m making a good start.

Looking for something else, I found a circular needle of the right gauge with a wooden end, and I was right, it certainly helps. Then I (rather belatedly) reflected that what I really need is a set of dp’s. This edging is going to be with me for a while. So I ordered some.