Aha! I thought, I'll be smart this year and do lots of my Christmas shopping online. No hassle fighting through the crowds, no queues for the car park, queues for the cafe, queues for the loos.
Off went the orders, back came some of the parcels.....
Then the phone call - "we'll get back to you" - no, they don't.
The e-mail - no response at all.
Guess I'll have to join the queue for the car park.
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On the knitting front, I'm feeling pleased with myself, as I've probably just re-invented the wheel, so to speak.
Having knitted a sample for a technique I've never tried before, it occurred to me that working in a slightly different way would be much easier, so I drew myself a little sketch (OK, designed a shawl) and started to knit. This wasn't, of course, the project I was planning to do next, or indeed in the middle of another one, but I got carried away with my idea.
Now, if I investigate, I shall find that the world and his wife have been knitting this sort of thing for ages and ages; after all, there's very little in knitting that hasn't already been done by thousands of people all over the world centuries ago. But I still feel pleased that I can unvent some of these things for myself. And it demonstrates that beginner's mind still works, too.
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Has anyone in the history of the telephone ever "got back to you"?
You could just do socks for everyone?
lucy - that's OK if a) they like hand-knitted socks, b) I know what size and colour to make, and c) I have enough weeks, and yarn, available for the making. Sadly, it mostly falls down at a).
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