I am grateful to
you indeed for reading so valiantly on through yesterday’s bad formatting. I
still don’t know what was wrong (nor whether it is now right). I compose in
Word, save, copy; and then paste into Blogger. Both programs seemed singularly
unco-operative last night.
I’ve had a good
day, knitting-wise and otherwise-wise, but not exercise. A dear friend whom I
haven’t seen for a while came around. She has a yappy dog. Perdita sat on a
windowsill and frowned at it. (Perdita does frowning well.) Paradox disappeared
for hours. G. and I talked.
And the yoke of
the EPS sweater is well advanced. Arne and Carlos have started doing a “Sit and
Knit a Bit with A&C” podcast. I discovered that it is indeed pleasant to do
just that. Both have been ill with Covid-19, Carlos severely so. These podcasts
are meant to be every Wednesday, I believe. No instruction, no
pattern-launches, just chat. In fact, I suspect that there is nothing else I
want them to tell me about patterns. I have several of their books. I love
Norwegian sweaters. But their recent designs don’t seem to add anything.
Covid-19
Britain’s
situation seems to be getting rather briskly worse. Rachel and Ed are planning
to come up from London for a visit at the end of the month, which is of course
almost upon us. And C. and I are meant to be going on a little cruise in the
middle of next month. Will either happen?
Reading
After my Cormoran
Strike binge, I was somewhat bereft. I read Jessica Mitford’s “Hons and Rebels”
with pleasure – she was the left-wing Mitford. What an extraordinary family! G. offered a title this morning which she said her mother (my age!) recommends. I'll have a look.
Have you seen Emma Darwin's book, "This is NOT a book about Charles Darwin"? They were/are another extraordinary family.
ReplyDeleteNice to have a friend visit. I hope your cruise will go on. I stopped to drop off some garden produce for a friend who is undergoing chemotherapy. She said if she heard the world was coming to an end, she would believe it. We are going to have a socially distanced knitting visit this week while it is still warm. Perhaps I should suggest Arne and Carlos for her.
ReplyDeleteHow about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont? orMay Sarton's As We Are Now?
ReplyDeleteI love May Sarton - I'll have to look for Mrs. Palfrey,
DeleteMay I suggest my Uncle Andre Dubus Jr and my cousin his son Andre Dubus III. Andre pere was a master of the short story, his son novels including one you may know HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG. a book before the movie which was made bec Andre the son's wife sent the book to Ben Kingsley.
ReplyDeleteAndre fils wrote a memoir that is pretty rough reading.. a brutally honest depiction of his and my cousins life after Andre Jr left them.
House of Sand and Fog - such a good book. And movie!
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