The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

mardatha

It's a gorgeous shade though isn't it? Deep emerald green. My last carpet was that colour. I'm still sat at the fire knitting... although the sun is oot and the sky has blue bits. This summer I just cannot be assed to do anything at all much.

monnagran

Mar: If that's how you feel just do it. Life is to short to spend it trying to force yourself to do things just because the sun shines, other people think you should be doing something, you feel vaguely guilty that you are not living up to other people's expectations, the invisible Greek choir of judges are sitting on your shoulder and berating you..................

Who's in favour of guilt-free laziness. ME ME ME.

I have battled with this all my life, Mar. I don't have your health problems but I have always had an aversion to activity for the sake of activity.

Yep! Mother Nature intended me to be a sloth.

x

ivyleaf

Mar I was lucky enough to get an emerald green teeshirt in the sales this spring Very good quality, was originally £25 but I paid £8.00, I think.

mardatha

Ivy, I saw beautiful deep green wool on Etsy and bought it. Didn't have a clue what it was going to be as it's too nice for socks. Then I saw metallic thread that you use along with your yarn and it gives things a lovely glimmer, so am thinking a green & gold or green & silver mini-shawl sounds nice...

mardatha

And the first person who tells me to knit kale with it is soo dead!

ivyleaf

mardatha wrote: »

Ivy, I saw beautiful deep green wool on Etsy and bought it. Didn't have a clue what it was going to be as it's too nice for socks. Then I saw metallic thread that you use along with your yarn and it gives things a lovely glimmer, so am thinking a green & gold or green & silver mini-shawl sounds nice...

Sounds lovely and a nice change from socks!

camelot1001

Perhaps a wooly courgette Mar?

There was a car parked across the road with a wheel missing, obviously someone has had a puncture. Saw a lady out on her own trying to put on the spare wheel, went to offer my (limited) help and she said 'Why would I need your help?', tightened the last bolt thingy and drove off!

I think I'll just carry on watching the olympics.

candygirl

camelot1001 wrote: »

Perhaps a wooly courgette Mar?

There was a car parked across the road with a wheel missing, obviously someone has had a puncture. Saw a lady out on her own trying to put on the spare wheel, went to offer my (limited) help and she said 'Why would I need your help?', tightened the last bolt thingy and drove off!

I think I'll just carry on watching the olympics.

Omg the ungrateful b***h :mad:

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We gave up being conventional and obeying conventions years ago. If we want to do it we do but neither one of us will do anything because society expects us to. There is an awful lot to be said for taking time just to BE and not DO and if there are no others to see you doing nothing why the guilt trip. Besides knitting is doing knitting not doing nothing and is jolly useful because it produces nice warm things to wear doesn't it? We have more fun (admittedly not always other folks 'fun') than lots of people because we don't care what anyone else thinks, try it, it's liberating!

Jazee

I've always done what I want to do, as long as I'm not harming anyone, and if no one wants to join in, I'll do it on my own.

I am very good at doing 'nothing' too. I feel no guilt sitting (anywhere out and about) and just staring and taking in the world around me, or at home just reading or watching absolute trash on the TV.

Have a great day everyone.