It was my birthday a few days ago and I had slept way too little. There was a full moon that night and I would have slept through anything but a wide-eyed four-year-old needing a little company in the moon light. I get easily irritated when someone wakes me up in the middle of the night, in fact I think I stormed out of bed to get some water and a biscuit. It is not a streak in my personality that I am particularly proud of. When I came back into Tyras bedroom I saw her standing beside the window gazing at the sky. She did not say anything. She just held out her arms for a hug. My anger simply melted.

Autumn is definitely in the air in Stockholm, with colder crisper days. My office at the museum is cold and I need something to warm my back. So I started a quick bolero which now looks like this,

but will shortly turn into this:

And lastly, many thanks to lausse for this wonderful and funny idea; a knitted Leia wig! Why not?