Kate Davies has had a great rush on her MKAL kits. Her husband has been pressed into service in the mail room. They are starting with New Zealand and working inwards.

   This couldn’t be (entirely) because of a groundswell of enthusiasm for Margery Allingham. In that case, they would have noticed the unusual number of subscriptions to the club.But KD has never done an MKAL before, that I remember.

   I have knit resolutely on. Maybe I should resolve to reach a new decrease round every day? (Sleeve, top down from dropped shoulder.) I think I have resigned myself to coping with four dp’s. 

  Comments yesterday: Maureen, it would seem very likely indeed that it was Jeanette’s shop we went to. Shandy, thank you for the news of her BEM. 

  Wordle: another five for me, and again I don’t care: I got it. I try very hard not to use Jean-words, and again today managed to confine myself to genuine guesses. Theo was my only companion at that lofty score. Ketki and Mark were the threes. Fours everywhere else.