Tuesday, June 28, 2022

 

Sorry about yesterday – I got swept up in Wimbledon, and then the afternoon was gone and I had had no nap. I have been more abstemious today.

 

There has been a major cat-induced glitch in the knitting. It has been recovered, but it took a while. I will never leave the room again without pitting it beyond paw-reach. It’s hard to recover colour knitting because, once everybody is back on the needle, you still have to consider the colour of every stitch – is it the colour it's supposed to be, or has it slipped back a row or two? In this case the balls themselves were tangled as well. So, no progress, but I’m back in the saddle.

 

Wordle: I am pressing ahead with my resolve only to enter words that might be right. I was rewarded with a three yesterday, with which I beat both Thomas and Alexander. I didn’t like the word, and now can’t remember what it was. Ketki also did it in three. Today Alexander and Ketki and I each got five, and their son Thomas had four. Friend Mark has mysteriously disappeared.

 

Comments: Beth, I forgot which PD James you recommended and have wound up with Shroud for a Nightingale. I will have to go on to the Private Patient.

 

Tamar, thank you for the meanings of WIELD. I love such words, my particular favourite being CLEAVE which has two opposite meanings.

 

I got the London Library magazine yesterday. I am a life member. The magazine has Antonia Fraser on the cover which made me wonder, Goodness gracious, am I really that old? (We are much of an age.) I think perhaps, after a bit more PD James, I will read her – Fraser’s – biography of Mary Queen of Scots. It’s very well recommended.

4 comments:

  1. Wordle in four today. They have had some rather strange words lately. I love words. One of my odd ones is 'wrought', which is apparently a past participle of 'work'.

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  2. Anonymous9:29 PM

    I have an old cookie tin with a tight lid for cat proofing my knitting projects. Learned the hard way that leaving it out would appear to be too much potential for fun.

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  3. =Tamar12:44 AM

    There are also plastic document boxes with a handle on top, which hold quite a lot, and latch securely. I believe some are translucent, which would allow one to see whether they contain documents or wool. The better ones are even stackable.

    Wrought is one of favorite words, too.

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  4. Jean, I think the one I'm remembering is The Lighthouse, one of her later books. If it's the one I'm thinking of, there's a knitting clue and there's also a woman doing ecclesiastical embroidery.

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