It has been another low day, both physically and spiritually. It  has also been grey and dull (and cold). These facts are almost certainly related.

However knitting has moved forward. Now that I have divided at the armholes, it seems to go faster, to such an extent that I had better measure tomorrow.

Helen came. She is going away tomorrow, all the way to Cornwall, for a yoga retreat, if I’ve got that right. Archie also came.

But no one is scheduled for tomorrow, and I hope that means I’ll get back to that computer.

An awful lot of people have been saying “decimated” recently on the radio. I still cling to the original meaning — “to eliminate one in ten.” That is the trouble with a classical education. What they usually mean these days is something much worse — “eliminated,” perhaps. Or “devastated”. I think the BBC is on my side.

Wordle: Alexander and his sister Rachel were today’s stars, with threes. Fours for me and Thomas and Mark. Fives for Roger and Ketki. Poor Theo actually failed.

My starters gave me two greens, a vowel and a consonant. Plus a brown consonant. I struggled for quite a while but finally entered a Jean-word in line three. It was a word I am particularly fond of. It almost qualified, but included one already-eliminated letter. It turned the original brown tile green, however. And I went on to the answer in the next line.