It’s still very hot.

 

I had a wonderful visit with the kittens. There are four of them, all black as pitch. When their black mother lies down with them, it is difficult to tell where cat ends and kittens begin. And impossible to tell the kittens apart. One of them is said to be a boy, but one can’t always be picking people up and turning them over to check on that point:

 

The cage is on loan from a neighbour, perfect for keeping kittens tidily out from underfoot in the sitting room.

 

Meanwhile Christina is full-term with her second baby, very uncomfortable in the heat.

 

So not much knitting has been done. I did finish the current broad stripe, however. The pattern is ten rounds of the current colour, followed by two rounds of white. I’ve done three such combinations since the sleeves were left behind on waste yarn, and there are three to go. I remember that the first time around I made it too long for Helen’s taste – she tends to like them nipped off at the waist, while my own preference verges towards knee-length. But I don’t remember the details. I’ll do this one the way it appears in the pattern pictures. It’s easily changed, either way.

 

Wordle: five for Alexander and Ketki, four for me and Mark and Thomas. And I wasted a guess – I must learn to be more careful. My starter words gave me only two brown vowels. I worked hard and found a word which employed them both, and didn’t use any forbidden letters, and proudly entered it. I had failed to notice that one of the brown vowels was in the same position as it had occupied in my starter word. Wasted guess, except for eliminating a couple more consonants. I worked even harder, and got it right on the next line.

 

Yes, Kirsten (comment yesterday): my usual practice is to compose in Word, save to Dropbox, copy and paste into Blogger. I don’t know what I think I am accomplishing, except that everything is saved twice. Pictures can be added at either end.