A fairly
productive day. I’m exhausted. Only1890 steps, despite a circuit of the garden
with Archie, and my new up-and-down-the-six-steps routine.
However, I’ve made
my sourdough. Whether successful or not, we won’t know until it comes out of
the oven tomorrow. I have high hopes for it. It’s currently proving for a
rather brief second time before spending the night in the refrigerator. I knit
a few more stripes on the Polliwog sleeve, and realised that it is not
impossible in such a situation – narrow stripes on a small sleeve – to keep the
unused yarn from wrapping itself around the work, if one pays attention to what
is going on.
Archie’s main
achievement, besides walking me around the garden, was to get Audio Books set
up on my iPad, so now I can listen to a complete “Wives and Daughters” while I
knit. I used to be able to do that by myself – perhaps on a previous iPad. Once
Archie had effortlessly done it, there, sure enough! were the Italian books I
used to listen to. So that is a step forward.
Gretchen (comment
yesterday), I’m inclined to agree with you that it might be interesting to seek
out the rest of Mrs Gaskell. At her best, she’s terrific.
Yes, but unlike, say, Dickens, Mrs G is variable. a friend of mine said that she had read "Ruth" first and found it fascinating. I thought it a very poor example and without even the excuse of being social commentary as Mary Barton is.
ReplyDeleteHooray for Archie! Audiobooks and podcasts are wonderful for knitting, when your mind wanders too much, you can pause and rewind. If rewind is what one does in this digital set up!
ReplyDeleteI found Ruth utterly depressing and then — starting it after — could not finish Mary Barton.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! I did finish "Mary Barton" but not "Ruth". It did not feel authentic to me - unlike "North and South" which I think is a masterpiece - and has a happy ending.
DeleteI have never understood why people want to read fiction that doesn't have a happy ending, or at least a solid resolution of a question (with regard to medical mysteries). There's enough of that in history.
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