2106 steps. A bit dim.

 

I’ve done 10 scallops (out of 16 ½) of the edging on the third side of Gudrun’s hap – I think. Perdita is curled up on it at the moment, so I can’t be absolutely sure. Four more points for the sidebar, anyway – I’m sure of that.

 

Gaughan’s travelling stitch book is here, and it’s wonderful. I agree with Chloe, Mary Lou, that it may have been the cotton rather than the travelling stitch that did for your wrists that time. Gaughan makes right-side travelling stiches sound very easy and peaceful. And if you knit in the round (which she mostly doesn’t) everything is right-side. Chloe, yes, I’ve got “Knitting Nature” – and I actually checked today to make sure it is on the shelf where it belongs, and it is. I haven’t looked at it for a long time. Now I will.

 

Dry January behind me, I’m now trying to reduce cider consumption, a far more difficult exercise. I’m aiming for four dry days a week, and they might as well be Monday-Thursday since those are the days that present themselves this week, and for the moment it’s easy. I’ve got an app on my telephone that lets me paste a virtual sticker on my calendar every day – “dry” or “drink” or “planned”. I might as well be back in nursery school.

 

I think I am perhaps somewhat more energetic than before – I notice that I haven’t been complaining of weakness here. But I am weak. I have started using a stick to walk about the house with.

 

Le Carre’s “Perfect Spy” is more than a bit gloomy. It’s his most autobiographical, apparently. I may lay it aside in favour of some of the excellent suggestions you have offered, or some of the things already in my Kindle library such as Willa Cather.