No yarn yet. Stephen and Penelope say they’ve sent it. The carrier says there is a delay. I can but wait. Well, I could knit something else I suppose.

   Lots of activity today. My friend who reads the bible with me brought along a seminarian this morning, a thoroughly nice man. He is studying in Rome, here for the summer to help in the parish. I sympathised about the weather but he seemed to think that Rome in the summer could have disadvantages — and even that cool grey Scotland wasn’t all that bad.

   Then Alexander came back, this time with all his family. They reported well of Burnside. Helen is about to have some changes made so that she and her family can actually live there. I think they brought some things away.

   The  lunch. Then Archie came, too late to be fed.

   Finally a bit of nap.

   Wordle: I would almost say, same old, same old. A green and two browns from my starters. A carefully-selected and fully-deliberate Jean-word for line three — now three greens. And the right guess, for line four.

   Alexander and Mark did it in three. Poor Rachel got stuck in a Wordle special and limped in with a six. Fellow-fours for the others. More fours from Theo and Roger.

   My winning streak has reached 20. It’s a start.