Beside the card, three short rows state the constants: mornings ashore, afternoons with the needles, evenings that run long. The card is the worked example. Told rather than shown.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
Mornings
Ashore, in whichever town you woke up in. Small groups, a walking pace, and back aboard for lunch.
Afternoons
Aboard, with the valley sliding past. A workshop with Margit, or a chair by the window and your own project.
Evenings
Dinner, then needles again until someone notices the time. This is where the friendships get made.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Tuesday, 9 November
Vienna
Day 4 · alongside 06.00 · sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore. The Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. Cast on with Margit in the lounge
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00.
2 · The stack
Vienna’s card on top of the other seven, fanned so only their headers show: the dates and towns of the trip, from the route. Eight cards under one door is the rhythm made visible.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
Saturday 6 NovemberSat 6· Budapest
Sunday 7 NovemberSun 7· Budapest
Monday 8 NovemberMon 8· Bratislava
Wednesday 10 NovemberWed 10· Dürnstein
Thursday 11 NovemberThu 11· Melk
Friday 12 NovemberFri 12· Passau
Saturday 13 NovemberSat 13· Passau
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Tuesday, 9 November
Vienna
Day 4 · alongside 06.00 · sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore. The Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. Cast on with Margit in the lounge
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00.
3 · Two cards side by side
Vienna and Dürnstein, same shape, different towns. The eye lines up the repeated times. Honest, and a lot of reading.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Tuesday, 9 November
Vienna
Day 4 · alongside 06.00 · sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore. The Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. Cast on with Margit in the lounge
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Wednesday, 10 November
Dürnstein
Day 5 · alongside 08.00 · sailing 17.00
07.30Breakfast in the Wachau, vineyards both sides
09.00Ashore. The blue abbey tower, the terraces on foot, apricots in everything
12.30Lunch aboard
14.30Colourwork clinic with Margit, port side
17.00Lines away, up the valley as the light goes
19.00Dinner. The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Melk, alongside 07.30.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
4 · A flickable day strip
One card, the eight days as a row beneath it. Click a day and the card changes. Thorough, but seven days are hidden behind clicks, and a piece of paper has become a widget.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Saturday, 6 November
Budapest
Day 1 · embarkation 14.00 · alongside overnight
14.00Embarkation on the Pest side. Cabins ready, wool to the lounge
16.00Tea. Margit says hello; needles out, nothing formal
18.30The captain’s welcome in the lounge
19.30Dinner as Parliament lights up across the water
21.00The first cast-on of the week, and the long evening
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Budapest, alongside all day.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Sunday, 7 November
Budapest
Day 2 · alongside all day · sailing 21.00
07.30Breakfast, the Chain Bridge coming out of the mist
09.00Ashore. The bridge on foot, the Great Market Hall, the castle hill
13.00Lunch aboard. The afternoon is the Széchenyi baths, or the lounge with Margit
16.00Tea. Swatch clinic, port side
19.00Dinner. Then lines away as the city lights up
21.00The long evening. Wool, wine, and Budapest going astern
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Bratislava, alongside 08.00.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Monday, 8 November
Bratislava
Day 3 · alongside 08.00 · sailing 14.00
07.30Breakfast as we come alongside under the castle
09.00Ashore. The castle hill, the crooked old town, coffee under the arcades
12.30Lunch aboard
14.00Lines away. Steeks with Margit in the lounge, for the brave
16.30Tea, with Austria beginning on the starboard side
19.00Dinner. The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Vienna, alongside 06.00.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Tuesday, 9 November
Vienna
Day 4 · alongside 06.00 · sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore. The Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. Cast on with Margit in the lounge
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Wednesday, 10 November
Dürnstein
Day 5 · alongside 08.00 · sailing 17.00
07.30Breakfast in the Wachau, vineyards both sides
09.00Ashore. The blue abbey tower, the terraces on foot, apricots in everything
12.30Lunch aboard
14.30Colourwork clinic with Margit, port side
17.00Lines away, up the valley as the light goes
19.00Dinner. The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Melk, alongside 07.30.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Thursday, 11 November
Melk
Day 6 · alongside 07.30 · sailing 16.00
07.30Breakfast under the abbey
09.00Ashore. The abbey on its bluff, the painted library, the view back down the river
12.30Lunch aboard
14.00Show and tell in the lounge: the week’s work so far
16.00Lines away. Tea in the lounge
19.00Dinner. The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: on the river all morning, Passau alongside 13.00.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Friday, 12 November
Passau
Day 7 · river until 13.00 · alongside overnight
07.30Breakfast on the river, Bavaria arriving slowly
09.30Margit’s last workshop: finishing, blocking, and what to do with the ends
13.00Alongside Passau. Lunch aboard
15.00Ashore. Three rivers meeting, the old town above the water
19.00The last dinner aboard
21.00The long evening, longer than usual
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: disembarkation after breakfast.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Saturday, 13 November
Passau
Day 8 · disembarkation from 09.00
07.30Breakfast, the last one
09.00Disembarkation. Coaches to Munich for the afternoon flights
09.30Addresses swapped, ends woven in
Edition No. 02 will be announced in the spring. Members hear first.
5 · The week on the reverse
The programme is printed both sides. The front is Vienna in full; the back is the week at a glance, eight rows that are near-identical except for the town, which is the point. Today’s row is tinted.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Tuesday, 9 November
Vienna
Day 4 · alongside 06.00 · sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore. The Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. Cast on with Margit in the lounge
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00.
Reverse · The week at a glance
Day
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Sat 6Budapest
Arrive, unpack
Tea, meet Margit
Welcome dinner, cast on
Sun 7Budapest
Ashore: bridge, market
Baths, or the lounge
Dinner, sailing, wool
Mon 8Bratislava
Ashore: castle, old town
Sailing; steeks with Margit
Dinner, wool
Tue 9Vienna
Ashore: Ringstrasse, yarn shop
Cast on with Margit
Sailing at dinner, wool
Wed 10Dürnstein
Ashore: abbey, terraces
Colourwork with Margit
Sailing, dinner, wool
Thu 11Melk
Ashore: abbey, library
Show and tell
Sailing, dinner, wool
Fri 12Passau
On the river; last workshop
Ashore: three rivers
Last dinner, wool
Sat 13Passau
Breakfast, disembark
Coaches to Munich
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Eight cards, one shape. Turn over for today.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
6 · The pinned-up strip
The eight programmes pinned in a row on the ship’s noticeboard, small, with Vienna’s unpinned and lying in front at full size. The row reads as a calendar. More scene than object, so the riskiest tonally.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
Day 1
Sat 6 Nov
Budapest
Day 2
Sun 7 Nov
Budapest
Day 3
Mon 8 Nov
Bratislava
Day 5
Wed 10 Nov
Dürnstein
Day 6
Thu 11 Nov
Melk
Day 7
Fri 12 Nov
Passau
Day 8
Sat 13 Nov
Passau
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Tuesday, 9 November
Vienna
Day 4 · alongside 06.00 · sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore. The Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. Cast on with Margit in the lounge
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
7 · The printer’s master
One card, two inks. Times and the constant events are set in type in green; the day’s particulars, the town, the excursion, the sailing time, are filled in by hand in blue. Pre-printed says every day; handwriting says this day. My pick.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Date
Tuesday, 9 November
Port of call
Vienna
Alongside from 06.00· sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore: the Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. With Margit in the lounge: cast on for the Danube colourwork
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00
7b · The master, on the pile
Option 7’s card on top of option 2’s pile, if the printed-and-handwritten idea feels too quiet on its own.
A Day Aboard
The same shape every day, a different town every morning.
Every evening a card like this goes under the cabin door. Nothing on it is compulsory and nothing on it clashes — the point of chartering the whole ship is that the timetable belongs to knitters.
Sea days do not exist on a river. You are never more than an hour from a town, and never obliged to go into one.
Saturday 6 NovemberSat 6· Budapest
Sunday 7 NovemberSun 7· Budapest
Monday 8 NovemberMon 8· Bratislava
Wednesday 10 NovemberWed 10· Dürnstein
Thursday 11 NovemberThu 11· Melk
Friday 12 NovemberFri 12· Passau
Saturday 13 NovemberSat 13· Passau
MS Oscar Wilde · Daily Programme
Date
Tuesday, 9 November
Port of call
Vienna
Alongside from 06.00· sailing 18.30
07.30Breakfast in the restaurant as we come alongside
09.00Ashore: the Ringstrasse, a coffeehouse, the yarn shop on Kärntner Straße
13.00Lunch aboard. With Margit in the lounge: cast on for the Danube colourwork
16.00Tea. Sock clinic, port side
18.30Lines away. Dinner as Vienna goes astern
20.30The long evening. Wool, wine, and the river in the dark
Dress for dinner: whatever you have knitted. Tomorrow: Dürnstein, alongside 08.00