The new series of
The Crown is out today on Netflix, and I’m afraid I’ve been binging as on a big
box of chocolates. Some of it is preposterous; all of it is fascinating. I didn’t
even get much knitting done to compensate. I have embarked on the final broad
stripe of the Evandoon, as the pattern is written, and I strongly suspect that
more length will be needed. And that a try-on would be a good idea.
The difficulty will
be that in the pattern as written, the final rib is the colour that the next
stripe would have been -- and that matches, in turn, the colour at the top. How does
Kate Davies handle this problem in her larger sizes? I think I’ll have to apply
myself to find out. Although I think the only possible answer is to lengthen,
keeping the stripe sequence as set, and then revert to the start-and-finish
colour when it’s long enough, even though it won’t be that colour’s turn.
Today’s weekend
essay from Kate is about the colour yellow, predominant in this week’s sweater
pattern. I trust these essays will be in the book at the end – I am finding
them very interesting.
Life
I did a bit better
with my morning walk today, with C. We set out earlier than Archie and I had yesterday:
that’s probably why. Her daughter Christina, whose neck is broken, is making
good progress. Doctors say that, if she weren’t breast-feeding, she could leave
off the neck brace at night. Wee Hamish, who is in fine fettle, is six months
old. I think she might think of weaning.
I can't believe that I'm more active than you are, Tamar (comment yesterday). No one could be more droopy than I. The circuit of Drummond Place Garden is a very scant 1/4 mile.
The weekend papers
have published the first of the year’s Christmas Present Suggestions, a genre I
love. I am much struck with the fact that 60 years ago, when I first began
reading such journalism, I always felt that I couldn’t afford that much
for a single present. And the feeling is exactly the same now, when I am so
much more prosperous. The Suggestions manage to keep two squares ahead.
I am also
suffering from my annual tendency to find things that I would like for myself
in greater abundance than useful Present Suggestions.
Both my daughters, who each have two children, nursed forever, it seems, well past one year. And after her maternity leave was up, my older daughter pumped and froze the breast milk for the baby. My younger daughter lives in Melbourne Australia, which has a standard one year maternity leave. She is still nursing the little one who is now nine months. She will not pump, but gradually wean by only nursing in the evenings. I do see the convenience; no bottles to sterilize or formula to mix but it does mean one is tethered to the baby!
ReplyDeleteI admire your persistence with Italian. Learning a second language at an older age is not easy!
Both my daughters, who each have two children, nursed forever, it seems, well past one year. And after her maternity leave was up, my older daughter pumped and froze the breast milk for the baby. My younger daughter lives in Melbourne Australia, which has a standard one year maternity leave. She is still nursing the little one who is now nine months. She will not pump, but gradually wean by only nursing in the evenings. I do see the convenience; no bottles to sterilize or formula to mix but it does mean one is tethered to the baby!
ReplyDeleteI admire your persistence with Italian. Learning a second language at an older age is not easy!
Oh I forgot about The Crown. I know what I’ll be watching this evening!
ReplyDeleteI am indolent by nature and this quarantine thing has made it worse by giving me a solid excuse for not going out window-shopping, which used to be my major inducement to walk instead of sit.
ReplyDeleteOh, those suggested gift lists! Many of them are absurd to begin with, even before the price tag. Some years ago I saw a plain knitted beanie offered for close to three hundred dollars. It was identical in style, materials, and gauge to one offered elsewhere for five dollars. The price tag should have been solid gold!