A better day, in that I felt normal again. I didn’t walk, because Tuesday is bath day. I failed at Wordle – I found myself in one of those familiar and irritating situations where I had four green tiles but there were a variety of letters which could occupy the empty slot, and I guessed wrong twice.

 

However I did finish the second sleeve of the Aroon jacket and picked up all the stitches for the long, long front binding.

 

When I got up to pee in the night last night – it happens often – I found my ankles entwined with knitting wool. Paradox is lucky I didn’t fall to my death -- although I'm sure she would have been all innocence when my corpse was eventually discovered. I gathered up the work, the yarn, and the ball and put them in a cat-proof place. In the morning I was pleased to find that my beautiful Lykke “driftwood” dps were all still there. I had to spend a certain amount of knitting time untangling the wool; no harm done.

 

However as I was having my lunch today, Paradox appeared in the kitchen carrying the Aroon again. By then it was on a circular needle, and stitches slid off at both ends. I probably should have pulled the edging out and started again but I had found the picking up of all those stitches – 150, more or less – rather tedious, so I made do and the edging is not quite as neat as it would have been without Paradox’ intervention. Clearly I must never put it down again without defending it. I should finish tomorrow, anyway (except for ends, and blocking, and BUTTONS).

 

Comments

 

JennyS, the NHS gave me a nice, high plastic toilet seat on legs, to fit over the permanent one. This has been a great help, since the permanent one is quite unusually low and was becoming difficult to negotiate. The Great Man who used to live in this house must have been very small. They gave it to me to bring home from the hospital in October or whenever it was.  After I had been home about a week, someone appeared at the door with another one which I now have over the toilet in the so-called downstairs lavatory. That one is at a normal height and really doesn’t need extra help but I thought it would be ill-mannered to refuse.

 

Mary Lou, thank you very much for your help with the search for a suitable yarn for that vest in the FT. I think Schiehallion is too soft and perhaps too thick but I will get some out and contemplate it. I will also investigate the other possibilities you mention.