Another May day. I didn’t go out. More effort tomorrow? 

   Knitting went forward successfully. I shouldn’t have claimed the first run-through of the stripe sequence so boldly yesterday. I now have 10 rows left to do, and then the whole sequence again, which will obviously take much longer. (I’m talking about the Margery Allingham MKAL.)

   I think I actually took out a new subscription to the New Yorker yesterday in my eagerness to read the article about Lucy Letby. Now I will have to see if I can open it, to read McPhee on Wordle. I thinkhe came to see us once in New Jersey long ago — his father and mine had known each other in the Associated Press office in Detroit. But I may be muddled about that

   Little else to report. Helen came this morning, with her youngest son Fergus. They were on their way to Strathardle. They planned to strike off into the wilderness and camp somewhere tonight. They’ll

 call in tomorrow on their way back if they’re still alive. 

   Wordle: I would say it was a toughie again. My starters gave me a green and two browns. Line three put them in order — three greens — but added nothing new. Line four made it four greens. Line five was right.

   Rachel, Mark and Thomas were fellow-fives. Six for Ketki.  Alexander and the Americans Roger and Theo all had four which has to count as distinguished today.