Snow, Love it? or Hate it?...

As I sit here looking out of the window at my little garden, covered in untouched snow, it looks very pretty and peaceful, quite calming in fact. Tomorrow, when I have to dig the car out (slight exaggeration!) and negotiate the slush, not so good! One thing it does do is give us an excuse for staying in and picking up the needles (of whatever shape takes your fancy). I will be getting on with some of my knitting later, without feeling guilty, as apart from the snow, today is my birthday. Without being able to celebrate in any other way, Emily said she will cook my favourite dinner and we will cosy up, with our projects and watch the box. (Not so different to any other night really.) Tomorrow I have a Zoom 'get together' with my old school friends. Another of them has a birthday on Weds, so we are having a joint virtual party! If everybody manages to negotiate the technology and the time zones (one is in Germany, one in Italy and another in the US) there will be 12 of us. I'm not admitting how old we are, but we met at senior school and have been friends for over 50 years! We have been through so much together, the up's and the down's, disco's (yes were teenagers in the 70's) exams, celebrations, boyfriends/dumping boyfriends/being dumped, flat sharing, engagements, weddings, children, dogs, moving house, divorces, looking after parents, illnesses, losing parents, grandchildren arriving, and now coping with a pandemic. We might not have seen each other regularly all of the time, but we have never lost touch and always just seem to pick up where we left off. We have celebrated our 'Big' birthdays together, not easy when everybody has family, jobs etc to juggle, but we've done it. Our 'whatsapp' group, 'Besties', has been busier over this past year than ever before, offering humour, sympathy and love to get us all through. One of the biggest joys of such a long standing friendship is that there is no judgement, just acceptance, love and support. You cannot replace these kinds of friendships that have been built over a lifetime. We are all different and life has taken us in different directions, but we are still together. If friends are a blessing, I consider myself truly blessed. What are we planning once this is over? A bloody good party, that's what! This imposed 'slowing down' has given us all time to reset and think about the important things in life and enjoying what we have has become much more important than missing what we don't have. Think positive! (and yes, some of them even knit!)

Well, we have been busy, ordering stock and adding more things to the website. Let us know if there is anything you would like to see on there and we will try to oblige. You can always send us an email with a request and we will do our best to sort it out for you. (info@craft-days.co.uk). Generally 'Click and Collect' days are Tuesdays and Thursdays, although we are quite often there for a couple of hours on a Saturday too and can sort a time out if that helps. We are very happy to post out parcels too.