Saturday, September 19, 2020

 

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.

6 comments:

  1. Have you seen Emma Darwin's book, "This is NOT a book about Charles Darwin"? They were/are another extraordinary family.

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  2. Nice 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.

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  3. How about Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont? orMay Sarton's As We Are Now?

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    1. I love May Sarton - I'll have to look for Mrs. Palfrey,

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  4. May 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.

    Andre fils wrote a memoir that is pretty rough reading.. a brutally honest depiction of his and my cousins life after Andre Jr left them.

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    1. House of Sand and Fog - such a good book. And movie!

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