Part 3 of the
television “Suitable Boy” wasn’t quite as good as last week, but it got all the
knitting done that I had failed to do yesterday, and a bit more. It is very
wonderful to look at, but I think I would have been lost in places if I hadn’t
re-read it so recently.
I have six more
rows to do at the end of the Stillness Shawl MKAL, including the purl row I’m
toiling along at the moment.
The kimchi is
quiet. I hope to see some activity before I leave for Kirkmichael on Wednesday
afternoon.
I finished
Trollope’s “Belton Estate”. The last page was totally familiar, and so delightful
that it was worth reading the whole thing a second time for the pleasure of
re-discovering it. I’ve started Barbara Pym’s “Excellent Women” but it may be a
bit too female and lowering for my present state. I should spend more time
knitting and less time hunched over a book in the kitchen. I need more
television to watch – some mindless Netflix documentary about the Royal Family,
perhaps.
I have become addicted to YouTube shows. Right now people cruising on the canal system in narrow boats are my favourite, followed by makeup videos. (And I don’t often wear any makeup). I also listen to old BBC radio dramas while I knit. If I just listen they put me to sleep in about 5 minutes, which can be useful sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI’ve watched all of “Cruising the Cut”, about life on a canal boat. There are several additional “slow TV” episodes of just cruising the canals.
DeleteI'm a fan of "Cruising the Cut", too. I also highly recommend Max Miller's YouTube show, "Tasting History". It's a gem!
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Oh good. Maybe those will tear me away from the insides of well-outfitted travel vans. The ingenuity can be amazing. Chloe
ReplyDeleteI've spent a fair amount of time watching the mudlarks search the foreshore of the Thames and dig up Victorian dumps. They find some neat stuff, and there are birds. Some of them show what they do with the things they dig up.
ReplyDeleteHave you read Lara Maiklem's recent book Mudlark? Loved it and made me want to immediately fly to London and try my hand. Alas.
DeleteI thoroughly recommend Mrs America, the story of the struggle to get the ERA passed in the US in the 1970s. It might not sound that fascinating, but they concentrate on the personalities involved, such as Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafly, and I loved it. All episodes on BBC iPlayer.
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