Knitting keeps you calm

Thank goodness for my sock knitting. These ones are for my mum - to keep her feet toasty warm in the long winter evenings in her Devon cob cottage. With all the drama of late, I think I would have completely lost the plot if it hadn't been for my knitting. Cool and collected is what they've kept me! I've now gone back to the Thai top and want to try to get that finished before I start my new job in 10 days time. 

Family Crisis

Thank goodness for knitting. It's the only thing that has kept me going for the last fortnight. I was supposed to meet my brother for tea a few weeks ago, but he collapsed and had both cardiac and respiratory arrest. He spent days on a life support machine. Thanks to an off duty nurse, who gave him cardiac massage, I still have my brother. He's recovering in a hospital and we owe this nurse absolutely everything. I'm stuck now as to how to repay her - thank you's, flowers, chocolates - these are all tokens and hardly enough for saving someone's life - she's a credit to her profession, and I'm proud to have known her, and so grateful for what she did. She knows who she is, and I salute her....