All well, but oh! dear. How little it takes to throw us old folks off course!
Last night, as I
was going to bed, I noticed that my keys weren’t in Their Place. I looked
around a bit. No luck.
I went to bed, and
even got to sleep. But then woke up, starkly worrying. And then got up and
started looking anew.
When we went out
for my walk, the day before, had I handed the keys to Archie when we got back,
while I inspected my beans? Had he put them in his pocket? (I’ve got a
surprisingly good crop of beans on the doorstep.) I emailed him.
Then I found the
keys – in a place where I must have laid them down myself. I was drafting a
second email when he phoned (emails are date-stamped, so he knew I was awake
and up). It was a comfort to speak to him. I went to bed, after a bit (it was
then about 3), expecting to sleep instantly and soundly, but I didn’t. I had an
Italian lesson this morning at 7:30, not at my brightest, and have spent the
rest of the day recovering.
So the moral is, put
the keys away where they belong promptly. I don’t go out more than once a day.
I should be able to manage that.
Knitting
I was very
interested to have you say, Mary Lou, that an odd number of rows in a stripe
look better than even. So I instinctively feel, on no evidence. So I’ll press
on. I may have enough yarn to do seven rows in this first yoke stripe. If not,
at least part of the 7th.
No knitting, no reading, even, other than journalism, on this unsettled day.
You are lucky to get your journalism - the demonstrators managed to prevent the papers from leaving the printers for us here in the midlands.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a beader I was told that the most pleasing spacing between single or dominant beads on a necklace was 1-1/2 inches. Looks like stripes are the same type of thing. Chloe
ReplyDeleteThe odd number stripe is based on something told to me once by a knitter I admire. I'm sure there is a scientific reason, but it just is more visually appealing. Glad you found the keys!
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