Thomas Moore's Birthday

Here's the sleeve to Catherine Parr -- if you look closely, you can see the flecks of color in the dark gray and the brass as well:



Making nice progress. I've got more time to knit at night, now that the semester's over and I get enough sleep.

It's Thomas Moore's birthday today. We played James Flannery, singing Moore songs, during dinner, which was not an Irish dinner, though we did have pork chops, beloved by the Celts.


Now, Thomas Moore wrote such songs as "The Last Rose of Summer," "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls," "The Minstrel Boy," and "Believe me if All Those Endearing Young Charms," but let's not dismiss him -- he was one of Byron's best friends --

and Byron didn't suffer fools gladly.

So. Farewell, but whenever.