No change in the weather yet, but we are promised a dramatic rise in temperature tonight with many a burst pipe. 

Not much knitting. Kate Davies has given us Allover club members a pattern for a very jolly hat based on the yoke of the Yomp sweater I mentioned the other day. I am tempted to abandon all else and knit it in the week of the Back End, just to get things moving again. The Club is now on holiday until the 10th of January or so, after Harry’s book comes out. 

Helen came to see me, but there was no walking and no news to speak of. Her sons Fergus and Mungo are arriving this evening. Her husband David won’t be here until nearly the last moment. 

Wordle: I got another three. I was rather proud of myself. My starters gave me one green, in the first position, and three browns. I clung on grimly, resisting Jean-words, until I thought of something that qualified. Alexander got it in two, blast him. He and his wife Ketki score the same remarkably often, but today she failed altogether, due to insufficient caffein she thinks

Mark and Big Rachel were with me on three. Thomas had the only four. Five for Theo and Little Rachel.