A beautiful spring day. I didn’t go out — too tired and sleepy. I must somehow contrive a better night’s sleep, at night in my bed, if this most glorious moment of the year is to be appreciated.

  The yarn for KD’s MKAL has arrived, as I confidently predicted it would. Sometime between now and next Wednesday I must label each ball A-E. Since I have bought a pre-selected colourway (called Jeanette, I think) all I have to do is find the page on which it is described. I am sure the pattern., when it arrives, will express itself in terms of letters.

  I have stumbled upon the perfect book for napping to — J. Kengi Lopez-Alt’s “The Food Lab”. Audible makes it available on its Free list, which is a good start. I am a big Kenji fan on Youtube. This book tells you everything you need to know about the science of cooking. But if you fall asleep during the list of Essential Kitchen Kit (an instant-read digital meat thermometer is top) and wake up during How to Cook an Egg, there’s no great difficulty in picking up the thread. Perhaps when I finish, I’ll start again, and hope to catch the bits I missed this time.

   I’ve nearly finished Allingham’s “Flowers for the Judge”. Far from her best. There I’ll leave it, until we move on in the club — staying two titles ahead, but only two,  in the hopes of remembering what I’ve recently re-read.

   Wordle: three vowels again from my two starters — horror, horror. I struggled mightily but finally put a Jean-word in line three. One of my brown vowels was in its original position. It was useful, as Jean-words often are. I now had a brown consonant. I got it on line four.

   Thomas and Mark were today’s stars with three. Rachel, Ketki, Theo and Roger joined me at four. Five for Alexander.