Well, how’s that for an October surprise?

 

I heard from the Majestic Line in Oban today – our cruise is on. I’m feeling even feebler than usual, after yesterday’s excitements.

 

Rachel and Ed have gone west after all. Alexander and Ketki have an “annex” in their garden, a separate building a fair distance from the house. R&E will stay in it, and eat outdoors. They’ll go on to Kirkmichael tomorrow. We’re having another splendid autumn day, although a bit nippy.

 

Instead of thinking about Orkney hats, I wound a skein of Carol Sunday’s lovely Nirvana yarn (mostly merino, with a dash of cashmere) and looked at her Machu Picchu pattern with a view of converting it to another EPS. The original pattern has some waist shaping. I certainly don’t want that. It’s also top down. I’m not planning to do that. The remaining question is to discover whether all the patterning is above the point where sleeves and body are joined.

 

This week’s batch of kimchi is effervescing all over the kitchen counter in a most satisfactory way.

Blogger gets odder and odder. Usually comments come to me as emails. Today I got nothing except, late in the day, from Peggy and then Tamar. I was feeling unloved. But I looked at the post itself just now, and there's a whole conversation's-worth of comments. Thanks.