Statistics and past experience show that monthly grid summaries like this always do particularly poorly on Instagram. Probably because they are too small for people to see the individual images and it doesn't stop the scrolling thumb in the way that a single image does.

But they give me great joy to create, and so I do them at the end of each month, a little review of my camera roll and what I have been up to and I really enjoy the process. 

It's easy to get swept up in the day to day, particularly right now when, let's face it, whatever country you are in, events seem like a bit of a bin fire.

So it makes for a nice, relaxing half an hour to sit down with my phone and a coffee and go through my selected highlights for the month.

I usually don't share them on Instagram because, as I said they don't tend to get much engagement. But if Instagram is teaching us anything right now it's that you should just post what the hell you want to. It's the online equivalent of dance like no one is watching - because they really aren't.

And so I'll be sharing it over on Instagram later, just because I want to. No other reason.

If you have a particularly beady eye you might spot a finished object nestling in among the images (bottom centre). My Paris is Always a Good Idea shawl turned out to be a particularly speedy knit. I'll do a blog post about it later, but at less than a week from cast on to cast off I rather surprised myself with how quickly this one flew off the needles.

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