Perdita was
sitting by the inner door when I came along the passage this morning, after a
night half-devoted to lying awake worrying about her and half to dozing to the
sound of the radio telling me about the American elections. I haven’t seen her
since, although others have. Helen and I are forming a plan to take Paradox to
live with her (Helen) for a week or so, to see if Perdita will revert to being
my cat. I’m not quite sure I could bear to do it. Paradox has faults of
character, undoubtedly, but she is my
cat, too.
Anyway, it was
otherwise not much of a day. Helen and my accountant came in the morning and
went off with a lot of tax files. I spent a rather dopey afternoon,
inattentively watching The Crown on my iPad while slowly knitting. Still, I
made some progress.
Kate Davies’
Allover club produced an interesting essay this morning by a Shetland designer
about choosing colours. And I tackled Craftsy and found that I can, indeed,
with perseverance, recover Gudrun Johnston’s hap lessons. So the moral is to
press on briskly with Fergus’ sweater.
Wordle: another
four! But today that was a rather laggard score. Theo got two (I told you he
was good). Everybody else got three except for Alexander,
who joined me with four. I’ve got the nicest grid of them all, though. My two
starter words gave me four brown tiles, in the last four places. I hate
anagrams, but I thought of a rather superior and perfectly qualified word for
line three. My brown tiles were still in the last four places. But it was
wrong, and yielded nothing except to eliminate the new letter I had used and to
give me, for each tile, one more place where it couldn’t appear. I lept from there to the right answer. I hope I’ll be
able to remember that superior word. I have started keeping track of the
answers and my daily scores, but not of my brilliant wrong answers. I’ll tell
you tomorrow if I can.
As soon as I read Kate Davies' essay this morning, I sat down and did the exercise with my sweater quantity of fingering yarn to figure out what looked good. I think I follow her because of your recommendation. Thank you! I also play wordle because of your interest, barely made it this morning with a 6. I just wanted to say your blog is a bright spot in my day every time it appears.
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It always amazes me, Jean, to discover our impact on other people. I've followed your blog for some years. Lately, you inspired me to take up Stephen's MKAL, which I first thought to abandon, but now am proceeding with because I found a contrasting color I liked, and saw some of the shawls worn with dignity and aplomb. Likewise, I almost always take a stab at Wordle upon reading of your group's efforts.
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