An exciting day. Joe — a grandson — rang up this morning to say that  he and Becca are expecting another baby in February. They’ve already got two. So as far as knitting was concerned, the rest of the day was devoted to thinking about that.

   Your Overlap Baby Sweater is well in the lead, Mary Lou, unless I can find something simpler and chunkier. My eyes are not what they were, nor am I in my first youth. Suggestions welcome.

   C. came. So did Helen, back from Kirkmichael. 

   I learned today that the New Yorker is about to run another big did-he-do-it piece next week, on Jeremy Bamber. There was a television series on that case in 2020. I got very interested. For what it’s worth, Rachel was hanging around the high court at the time of one of his appeals, because she had been called for jury duty, and she came away convinc3d of his guilt

    Wordle: four for me again. The starters gave me two browns. I thought of a word for line three — not at all a good one, but a qualifier. It turned both browns green. 

   Mark, Alexander, Theo and Roger were fellow fours.  Ketki and Thomas did it in three. Rachel needed five.