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OK, so most of you are knitters, so you’ve already read these, but for those of you who aren’t – 3 takes on Valentine’s Day:
Yarn Harlot – this woman is phenomenal.
The Panopticon (It’s #6, go for #6!)
and Crazy Aunt Purl, just because.
four comments:
I found your blog today and just wanted to say hello from BristolMadwag () (link) - 15 February '07 - 13:33
Great selection!I’ll just comment on Yarn Harlot’s (and I’ll do it here, cos no-one see me amongst the crowd over there!!). I totally agree with what YH says (and LOVE her blog), BUT (and maybe it’s me being cynical), I just don’t think that any of these wise words will ‘work’ on a teenager. I think that so many of us are ‘fools for love’ at some time or another (esp. in our early years, but later too). I think that it’s soooooo easy to see the ‘sensible path’ when you are ‘old, spent and married’ (like me), but impossible to follow it when you’re young,free and single.
A couple of years ago I spent lots of quality time with the 20 year old daughter of a family friend who came to stay with us. She seemed very level-headed. We chatted and I gave her the ‘benefit of some of my wisdom’(by which I mean I told her of the total cock-ups I’ve made in my life so that she may learn from my mistakes). I really thought, as we chatted, that she was, in fact, unlkely to make such a hash of things as I have in the past – so sensible, so independent, so ambitious.
She’s now up to her eyeballs in her own love-mess as we speak!
I don’t quite know how I’ll handle all of this as a mother – cross that bridge when I come to it – but I question whether I have much power to influence the daft things they might do for the love of some unworthy toad! I suspect the most I might be able to do is be there with my tissues when it all goes wrong!
Big Ruth () (link) - 16 February '07 - 14:39
As the mother of a 20 year old whose first ever real romance fell apart with shattering impact on..oh heavens…7th February, I can only hope and pray that some of that wondrous sense will get through. I loved reading it…Sorry, Anne and Ruth – you’re at the more manageable end of parenting, I think
Kathryn () (link) - 16 February '07 - 21:03
It’s a sad fact of life that no one ever learns from someone else’s mistakes. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try! I much prefer YH’s take on VDay. We’re so soppy about about True Love and it’s just as ridiculous as arranged marriages.I’d take any # from Franklin’s list. And Poor Aunt Purl! Can you imagine?? Good God.
Carrie K () (link) - 16 February '07 - 21:25
