Monday 6th January - also Twelfth Night?

I've never fathomd out whether the official Twelfth Night was the 5th or the 6th of January. I tend to choose to suit myself. I read it depends on whether you count Christmas Day as the first of the 12 days, or start counting on Boxing Day. In my diary it says today is Epiphany. Does that help at all? 

The mice on my Corinne Lapierre calendar are still busy putting up taking down their Christmas decorations.  They'll have finished tomorrow. Who would have thought it would take so l9ng to sew a length of tinsel. 

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Today was the first visit to my father’s flat. We are still sending out scores of emails and tracking down addresses and people who need to know. I carried away three shopping  bags of random paperwork to go through  - tomorrow is soon enough for that voyage of duscovery. We discovered a stash of individual ice cream pots in the freezer - yum yum! He wouldn't have wanted them to go to waste so we had some today after lunch. 

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I have ripped a sock I had begun for the third time. It us on my list of works-in-progress to finish this year, but I realised I was never, never going to finish it. I found the colours and the feel of the yarn totally uninspiring and had treated myself to

Well, it's a game changer. I've never knitted with merino before but my word, such squishyness, such smoothness, those glowing colours...

I remember the first time I played a seriously good piano, at school.  I was allowed to play the Bosendorfer concert grand when I reached grade 8. This wool is the Bosendorfer of sock yarn. I am ruined for cheap yarn forever. 

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Books; 

currently La Vie by John Stempel Lewis and The House at the End of the Sea by Elly Griffiths. I finished Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton and know far more about hares than I ever wanted or needed to know, but beautiful writing, I'll give her that.