So today Helen came and we walked twice around the garden, adding the May tree to our catalogue. The trouble with that was that I wasn’t good for much else for the rest of the day. However, I got a couple of business-y things done, including ringing the AA to explain why I had cancelled the direct debit. My husband had been with them for 65 years so I thought I ought to do that. I was rewarded with a £27 refund which I didn’t expect – a bit more to add to the car’s account.

But no knitting yet today.

Thanks for comments, as always. I knew a man at Oberlin who had taught himself touch typing. I think he went on to be a professor of economics at Harvard. I continue to type clumsily, but at least I use both hands.

Mary Lou, thank you for the link to the Hopkins translation of Horace.