back in the office, praying for snow...
I staggered back to the office yesterday and am doing a passable impression of a human being, albeit one stuck with a bad case of January, which is accurate.
Tomorrow there's a forecast of snow in London, which would be charming. If there's more than 2 cm there's a good chance of all public transportation grinding to a halt, and school cancellations. I alternate between being amused and appalled by the English in winter, and wonder how they will cope with an increasingly extreme climate. More moaning, I suspect...
While laid-up on the sofa, I did get a chunk of knitting done - a cardigan for me is now well underway. It's a clever design for knitting from the neck down on circular needles, with an absolute minimum of sewing-up required (something I look for in a pattern).
I'm using some of the huge mass of yarn donated to me by Master Paul when he gave up on his warp-weighted loom project, plus a lilac varigated colour yarn carried alongside.
Another kitty-pang: I had no 'help' in knitting this project, as I've sometimes enjoyed in the past. Sigh.
However, I should be back to the slope this evening with a couple of projects to start for Coronet.
Today I discovered that the whole of Jane Grey's prayerbook was online. It's not pristine, but it's clear enough to see the combination of very Renaissance capital letters (cutting-edge artwork), used alongside the more traditional secretary hand, that I associate with 15th c (think of Christine de Pisan's city of ladies, or other French 15th c MS). AND it's in English.
Glorious.
Tomorrow there's a forecast of snow in London, which would be charming. If there's more than 2 cm there's a good chance of all public transportation grinding to a halt, and school cancellations. I alternate between being amused and appalled by the English in winter, and wonder how they will cope with an increasingly extreme climate. More moaning, I suspect...
While laid-up on the sofa, I did get a chunk of knitting done - a cardigan for me is now well underway. It's a clever design for knitting from the neck down on circular needles, with an absolute minimum of sewing-up required (something I look for in a pattern).
I'm using some of the huge mass of yarn donated to me by Master Paul when he gave up on his warp-weighted loom project, plus a lilac varigated colour yarn carried alongside.
Another kitty-pang: I had no 'help' in knitting this project, as I've sometimes enjoyed in the past. Sigh.
However, I should be back to the slope this evening with a couple of projects to start for Coronet.
Today I discovered that the whole of Jane Grey's prayerbook was online. It's not pristine, but it's clear enough to see the combination of very Renaissance capital letters (cutting-edge artwork), used alongside the more traditional secretary hand, that I associate with 15th c (think of Christine de Pisan's city of ladies, or other French 15th c MS). AND it's in English.
Glorious.