All well, although I didn’t get out. I must tomorrow. Archie was meant to come, but begged off for not feeling very well. I’ve got to get that Blue Badge application done, but I’m sure I’m not up to it this evening.

 

Mary Lou, I am glad to hear of your interest in Lady Longford. I continue to enjoy her biography of Wellington. And Gretchen, I will add her biography of Queen Victoria to my Possibles list.

 

I have been reading (as above) about the siege of Seringapatam and the death of Tipoo Sahib. If you have never seen it, or haven’t seen it recently, do go to the Victoria and Albert museum the next time you have a chance, and ask for Tipoo’s Tiger. It is a life-sized clockwork model of a tiger eating a life-sized clockwork Englishman. Vaut the voyage. I was very glad to learn that it was the future DukeofW himself who “liberated” it and sent it to his brother, then Governor-General of India, through whose hands it found its way to the V&A.

 

I’m about halfway through the ribbing of the first Evendoon sleeve. Not much by way of a day’s achievement.

 

Wordle: We all got three today (Mark back on form) except for poor Thomas, who got stuck in the familiar Wordle trap. He had the first three letters in solid green form by the second row, but that guess was wrong. As was his third, and fourth, and fifth. Mercifully his sixth line was right. I got one green – the final letter – and one brown from my starter words, and following my new, virtuous practice I found a word which a) had that letter in the final position; and (b) had the brown letter somewhere, not where it had been before; and (c) didn’t employ any of the eight letters already eliminated. I typed the word in diffidently, but it was right.