Folly (not Fluff)

"Folly" finally got done, and can be worn to work, where among other things I will be explaining the absolute brilliance of the late medieval English play, "Mankind," which has no peer ever, anywhere, in its ability to manipulate an audience into 1) giving money to the actors and 2) repenting of the terrible sin they've committed in giving money to the actors, who are involved in being Little Demons:



Alert and Faithful readers will notice the resemblance of "Folly" to "Mindless Bit O'Fluff." Yes! It's the same pattern! Vintage Bear Brand pattern from 1963. Also, I have more mohair in the stash to make it twice more. Quick. Easy. Dependable. Wearable, Mindless. Fluffy. Shiny, if you get the yarn that does that. (Folly's been done in Trendsetter "Dune.")

Now I plan to finish up the "Swirl Pullover," which should end up being a good spring and cool-summer-weather sweater. Will give you updates as to whether or not the pattern corrections actually work.

Back when I finished the Mindless Bit O'Fluff, it was snowing, a fact obvious from the picture, as you saw if you clicked on it a few sentences back. Now it's not. It's been cold, it's getting warmer; it'll get cold again probably, but maybe it won't actually snow. If it does, Lileks (who gets more snow than we do) says he's going out with a flamethower. You get tired of snow, lovely and meaningful as it is.

I'd like just enough cool weather to allow me to wear Folly a few more times, then that's it. Warmth, please.

So I'm off to work. For about a week now, it's been all meetings all the time. Constant events, some of which I have to perform at and some of which I get to mostly listen.

At one of them the other day, a talk given by a visiting history professor, I heard about a Bad Work of Semi-History which contained many interesting stories, all of them carefully footnoted. But the footnotes, when you went to the back of the book and looked them up, all read "This story is synthetic."

Now that's bad history, though admittedly truthful.

Do not use this in your histories.

And yet, it has such a nice ring to it. I intend to use it myself sometime soon.

So. Meetings, and also I need to work on some details of my summer research trip to England -- like, you know, when am I going, and where am I staying. I've got work to do -- manuscripts to look at, a conference to go to (note to self: do not forget to write the paper for that) -- but it's also been a while since we were in England, and therefore we're low on supplies. Now, one can purchase some things from American importers, but it's more expensive. I've gotten some good deals on Yorkshire Gold occasionally. But I cannot find ANYBODY who's interested in importing Birds Angel Delite instant custard, with no sugar added. And Sam misses that stuff a lot. So I have to, at some point while traveling all over Western East Anglia -- well, and London, too. Ok, and York and Leeds -- drop by a Sainsbury's, buy a bunch of English food, pack it up, and mail it back home.

Here's what we need: Yorkshire Gold tea. Brodies Edinburgh tea. Angel Delite, sugar-free, all flavors. Hobnobs. Sainsbury's Ginger Creams. Branston Pickle. Demerara Sugar cubes.

And of course, anything Lush, which requires yet another trip to yeat another store. Because we can order that stuff by mail, but it's cheaper to go to the source. And I'm running out of glitter.