We had some blessed rain this morning. Scotland often feels sorry for itself, with some justification, when England basks in summer sun and we have nothing but cloud and midges. But England – and indeed much of Europe – sounds too hot for comfort just now whereas things are very pleasant here. A dry spring has meant fewer midges than usual, too. Today’s rain has gone and the sun is now shining, gently.

 

Helen came and we got all the way around the garden with my new walking machine.

 

I’ve finished the Lilias Day except for blocking. I have seen tidier underarm grafting in my day, but in general I am very pleased with it. Now I’ve got to face back up to those legwarmers. The secret is to keep at it.

 

I had a message this morning from Misa Hay about the fourth volume of Shetland Wool Adventures, which will be with us soon. It was she who organised and led the woolly trip to Shetland which I went on relatively recently. I have been tempted by previous issues of SWA but have abstained: too expensive. This one I think I’ll go for. Here's the link. The patterns look good and the text looks interesting.

 

Wordle: My two starter words yielded only one letter, but that one green. I used a Jean-word in line three, which yielded another green and a brown. I set myself to find a possible word for line four – and it was right! Alexander also got four, five for Mark, six for Ketki. So I wasn’t the class dunce today!