I was a bit more energetic today. I walked in the corridor, as far as the dining room and back, but not at a meal time. I did some knitting. The current score is 14 scallops — 2/3rds of the way along the first side. 

I looked up the pattern for Gidrun’s hap.which you see above wrapped around great-grandson Freddie. The edging is very similar — a row of fagotting adjacent and parallel to the join with the main body of the shawl: and a row of eyelet holes that goes up and down at the outside edge. On Gudrun’s shawl it is a single row of holes and there is one every row. On the current shawl it is a double row but they’re only inserted every other row. I very much prefer the current system although more effort must be employed remembering how many plain-vanilla knit stitches there are in each row.

Helen came to see me briefly this morning on her way back from Kirkmichael. We are set fair for reinstating me in Drummond Place at the end of August, although there are problems to be overcome such as, what about Paradox? And the bathtub? Wafa works for an agency called something like Care at Home. I am hoping (as is she) that it is going to be possible to get her back to DP long-term through them, with Care at Home supplying relief from time to time.

Wordle: I think I have achieved a long-dreamed-of goal: I have scored better than anybody else in my little group. And I think everybody has been heard from, including the two from DC. It was all down to my starters, of course, which provide five vowels — everything except Y — and five consonants very high in the letter-frequency alphabet. I got the answer easily on the third line. Others found it difficult. Alexander and Thomas both scored six.

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