Reasons To Be Cheerful

Friday is Oxfam Shop Day. The secret is out now - there is going to be an Oxfam in Hexham dedicated to just books and I will work in there on Fridays. This is great news, I will be able to have whole sections of books for children now, instead of 'young kids' and 'older kids'  which is what we have in the general shop. I can have big picture books and 'read it yourself' books and 'make it' books and really good books for older kids. Very satisfying! Today, I found this for Geoff - a late birthday present.

and I got this for me

which I am sure you'll agree is wonderful. Tomorrow some of the Knitting Group are coming to eat food, drink tea and knit, lovely pastimes, and we will be thinking about the squares for Wateraid I wrote about in the last post. And I kept an article from the weekend Guardian where Michael Morpurgo talks about the knitted quilt his wife made for their granddaughter. I wonder if I can find a link to it? Well, what do you know - here it is - (isn't the Internet wonderful). Well, with all these knitted squares about, I am thinking that I may have to have to start a few to have to hand at that odd moment when I haven't got anything else to do.......

Its World Cup Time. Owen had fun with this image in photoshop.