I will get my Covid
booster tomorrow, fairly early. Helen will drive me. I’ve had no reaction at
all to the first two (Astra Zeneca) or to my flu jab. Helen had an odd reaction
to her first Covid, and for a while abstained from the second. We shall see.
She is meant to go to Greece on Friday, but European numbers are not very
encouraging and she is anxious, as my sister was when she was here, about the possibility
of getting stuck.
A most encouraging
photograph has been posted today of the Queen receiving a retiring general,
stiff with gold braid. She is standing without a stick and seems comfortable in
that posture (it’s not so much a photograph as a brief video). Helen is anxious
for her (we all are), and afraid they weren’t telling us the truth.
The cheetahs come
and go. It’s worth persevering. (Link yesterday)
I’ve had a good
day, with some knitting. I’ve started reading “Rubicon”, a history of the late
Roman republic, on Rachel’s recommendation. It’s very good, and perhaps a step
up, intellectually, from the re-reading of Marjorie Allingham.
Vogue Live (or
whatever it’s called) is about to happen. I am tempted by Amy Detjen’s “Ladder-back
jacquard” (title not guaranteed, but I think that would give you enough to find
it). I love Amy. She was at the first Camp Stitches I attended in 1999. I’ve
got her Craftsy course on a yoke sweater. The point of this class is to teach
a technique for colour-work with substantial blocks of colour in which, by some
magic, you don’t have to catch the second colour in behind. If such magic is
possible, it must be available on YouTube here in the third millennium, but it
would be more fun to be taught by Amy. Alas, the timing – 6pm to 8pm British
Standard Time – is too late for me. I’ve wilted by then.
Good luck with the booster! Hurrah! And yes, the surges both here and in Europe are unsettling.
ReplyDeleteSorry to give you an advisory - I had the flu shot and the COVID booster the same day and I felt poorly the next day. Just FYI.
ReplyDeleteThe pharmacy where I got my booster won't let you get two shots closer than 14 days apart, despite things I've read elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteSome people say 28 days between.
I found two tutorials on youtube for Ladder Back Jacquard. It seems like something I could do.
I managed to get an appointment for my booster shot exactly 6 months after the second shot. It was not easy. Everybody tells you to get a third shot, but not where to get it. A friend had to wait three and a half hours in a queue at a vaccination bus, on a parking lot at 4° Celsius.
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I've been curious about the ladder-back jacquard for a while now, and have watched this hat tutorial video thinking that I should give it a go. I don't particularly love the Halloween inspired project, but it would make a quick knit to try the technique.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntEcHzj5lg4
Best wishes on the booster shot!