The Coofle yarns
came today: so now there is nothing to stand between me and panic, to which I
am beginning to succumb. I’ll leave here on Saturday morning about 10:30,
returning the following Friday. Everything is moving forward pretty well, in
fact, except that I am sinking into Hogarthian squalor without my Romanians. Clothes
for the cruise are clean and ironed and kept separate – that’s something.
I’ll see a doctor,
tomorrow, to discuss my “bloods”. I don’t expect any news, but I’ll let you
know.
Helen came and we
got perhaps 2/3rds of the way around the garden. 1930 steps.
And I finished
turning my heel, and picked up the gusset stitches, and have embarked on their
decreasing.
Have you seen
Brooklyn Tweed’s new “Tones” yarn? Very nice indeed. I can’t think of how to
use it, but I’m sure Jared will come up with something interesting soon.
I wish that
interesting Irish podcast which I mentioned yesterday, hadn’t turned my
thoughts to Robert Black. He is a most unpleasant thought. One of his victims
was the daughter of the Scotsman’s agriculture editor Fordyce Maxwell whom I
used to read devotedly and regarded almost as an acquaintance. The day after
the Dunblane massacre he wrote about his daughter’s murder.
Black wasn’t
arrested until 13 years after Mary Boyle’s disappearance, although police
suspected that a serial killer was at work and there had been a major manhunt. But that was in another country (the UK). Difficult, perhaps, for
everybody to shift mental gears after so long. Even so. He was in the vicinity
when Mary vanished, and there was a witness who thought she heard bumping
noises such as a trussed and gagged child might make, from the back of his
parked van.
I' have thought that level of mobility was perfectly adequate for the cruise. It might be that you will be doing far less walking there than you manage each day. Perhaps it is as well that you have the walk back to your cabin for the facilities.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you need to listen to a different podcast.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the new Brooklyn Tweed yarn in person, and the colors are lovely. I have a stash of some yarn dyed a few years ago in that way by Jill Draper that I adore looking at, but haven't used yet! I think we all get a bit anxious before leaving on a trip. And there has been so little traveling in the past few years that I am out of practice!
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