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Happy_One

Oh dear Caterina you must have more confidence in your ability to knit,once you 'crack' it it will be so easy. You don't need to spend your hard saved cash on a knitting class as you will meet some of the most experienced knitters who would be more than willing to show you how it's done at any local Knit and Natter group in your area.I suggest you keep a little note book and pencil in your knitting bag and jot down the sizes of needles used on the garment you are working on also anything else relevant such as measurements. Using a crochet hook is a good way to pick up a dropped stitch or I often unpick a few rows down to where it is,I've been knitting for a lifetime and I still make mistakes! it's not the end of the world,just a bit of yarn and a couple of sticks that you push it along on!!!

dorothy52

Oooooh look at us.....page 4 already and we've only known each other a fortnight! Tea has been eaten, bath and Jarmies next ready for the Unforgotten at 9....life is good

Happy_One

Good to hear you had a better day today, dorothy52 I'm watching Spy in the Wild it's really good then have got to go and wash up the tea things if I can tear myself away from the radiator. No snow where I am but so cold,even with the heating on I've got a fleece throw round my shoulders.

luvchocolate

Good morning everyone, a sprinkling of snow but I live town centre so usually ok, but will be different on them there moors!!!
Gym this morning and a bit of shopping.
Have a good day x

melanzana

Really cold here now. No settling snow though which is good, but clear skies mean a cold enough night ahead.

Anyway, Got a ton of books to the chazza. Haven't made much more progress on the second bedroom. I hate opening the wardrobe doors, and just close them pronto! Coward me, or lazy maybe, yes a bit of that too I suppose.

But tomorrow is another day.

I go to visit Mum every second day and tomorrow is the next day. Poor love has had three strokes, is immobile, but she can use one side, and eats like a horse. Last stroke finished her vision off really which is very distressing for all of us. We have to say who we are.

Mum is in full time care now. A lovely place about ten minutes from me on the banks of the river with really nice grounds to wheel her around. Thanks be for that at least.

It's very sad, but onwards and upwards. There are three offspring and thankfully we are close and share the visits out so she has someone there almost every day.

Feeling a bit sad after writing that. Quality of life is something to be prized, as is good movement, health and perception.

But there we are. Feel a bit better having written that down. Hope you don't think I was being too indulgent there.

dorothy52

Oh Mel, it's so bittersweet those last few years with our ailing parents. Just reading that made me think of my late mum......such a funny, eccentric, vibrant woman. My niece got married last year and my bro did a video montage of her when she was little for the reception, your my world by Cilla as the backing track. Suddenly, there on the screen, was mum! She must have been my age, she swept niece into her arms and kissed her, just as I do, and my sister does with our granddaughters. We just looked at other, clasped hands and cried, just as I am now.

The circle of life keeps turning, my friends, and we are lucky to have our families, and let's never be afraid of talking about them on here.

So...I will have to watch the tv film about Bobby Moore and his wife tomorrow, too tired after another mental day at work, used to really fancy him when I was little. I was only 7 when we won the World Cup in 66, bit 11 for the one in 70 when he was accused of nicking a bracelet, funny what you rembember isn't it?

margaretclare

It's our 15th wedding anniversary today. Who'd have thought it? The head-shakers, the doom-sayers...

We were both 62 when we first met, and that was the autumn of 1997.

Never thought we'd come this far.

Caterina

Hello all,

Thank you Happy One for your vote of confidence in my knitting, but I am really a desperate case! I cannot make head or tail of this second sleeve and getting very upset about it because I want to finish the jumper before the spring!!! and cannot start the second sleeve properly unless I know what I am doing.

Melanzana, glad you found somewhere good for your dear mum.
Mine is nearly 85 and living alone in a small town in Sardinia, I worry about her constantly. My sister tried to gently "enforce" a carer, just a couple of hours 2-3 times a week, someone to keep an eye on her, but oh boy, did she send her marching, it was a MASSIVE failure and caused everybody a lot of heartache and earbashing! But my mum is relatively mobile (bad knees but able to look after herself) and is sharp as a tack in her brain (thanks God!), so I am not sure that my sister's move was entirely justified. My sister is a bit of a bull in a china shop even if she meant really well.

Margaretclare Happy Anniversary! I hope you two have a lovely day together and many more anniversaries to celebrate xx

melanzana

@margaretclare, many congratulations, you sound very happy and so you should.

@Caterina, your mum sounds wonderful! Good on her for her reaction. Unfortunately our mum is just not mobile and can be a danger to herself. But she is doing ok at the moment, touch wood.

@Dorothy, your story of the wedding video brought a little tear to my eye. How lovely and at the same time very sad.

And hi everyone else hope your day is going well.