No knitting again today. I must take myself in hand, urgently.

 

Continued reading of Alan Bennett: “I still have the absurd notion that, as with any other ailment, age and infirmity will run its course and I will recover from it.” Absolutely. He was nearly a decade younger than I am -- than we are -- now, when he wrote that. 

 

However, there has been much knitting-related activity. I went with Helen and David to the Chanel-to-Westwood knitting show at the Dovecot Gallery, as mentioned yesterday. It is very interesting, although the hand-knitting and the machine-based jersey designs don’t mesh very well, exhibition-wise. The latter are often sensational. The other thing that doesn’t mesh very well is viewing from a wheelchair. I would have been better to go with my outdoor walker, which provides a seat for sitting on when required (and also a receptacle for one’s sausages, when required, under the seat).

 

Their next show is going to be Kaffe.

 

The shop had got in a lot of knitting books for the occasion. I saw a copy of Patty Lyons’ “Knitting Bag of Tricks” and, although I agree that the chosen font is a bit feeble, I found it perfectly readable and look forward keenly to the arrival of my copy. I was also struck with “In the Loop: Knitting Now” by Jessica Hemmings. The one copy at the Dovecot was a bit shopworn. The indifferent girl at the till declined to give us 50p off so I went home and bought it from Amazon for half the price. I will report at greater length about both books when I’ve actually got them.

 

Wordle: Three’s and four’s again, with myself, again, in the Four camp. Alexander was another four – he had I had identical line three’s: brn, grn, brn, grn, grn. It was just a matter of transposing the two browns. The three’s were Ketki, Mark, Thomas, and Roger.