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I've not posted much here in the last week, due to a combination of factors, most of which I won't bore you with. My health took a slight downturn early last week. It was nothing major, but it left me with very little energy for anything, other than lounging around and watching rubbish on the TV. I think I've watched more TV in the last few days than I would normally watch in six months. How people can sit in front of the box all day, I really don't know.

One good thing has come out of my enforced lounging around. I found the TV so diabolically boring most of the time, I decided to make a couple more baby hats for Save the Children. I kept going until I'd used up all my yarn oddments. I assumed I had about nine or ten little hats. When I counted them up, I had somehow made twenty two. How? I really don't know. I think the clicking of the needles must have hypnotised me.

I'm off out soon, to escape the infernal bashing, crashing and drilling coming from next door. My neighbours are having demolition construction work done. Ugh. I may as well head to the post office with my parcel of baby hats. Don't know how much it'll cost me to send them - they don't weigh much - no more than about 250 grams. Probably less than the cost of a large cappucino in a coffee shop. Oh well, time to make myself look human, if I'm off out...

Nutty knitter update!

Following yesterday's post, where I let you all know about Save The Children's appeal for knitted baby hats, I decided to dig deep into my hall cupboard. I retrieved a bag of knitting bits and bobs, left over from a couple of abandoned projects. I'm no great fan of knitting, but occasionally make little things like cushion covers, etc. Anyway, I got my needles clicking last night, and within two hours or so, produced my first baby hat. I started a second one earlier today.

So, like I said yesterday, if any of you can knit, and fancy helping to save the lives of newborn babies in places like Tibet and Angola, please get those needles a-clicking. The pattern provided is so simple, even a beginner can follow it. And it's something you can do when watching the telly. Go on, give it a go!

P.S. Many thanks to Dragonstar and The Holistic Knitter for deciding to get their needles clicking for those babies. So far, that's three Welsh ladies, two in Wales, one in Ireland. We now need a few of you from other parts of the British Isles, to even up the score!

Calling all nutty knitters!

Are any of you ladies - or gentlemen - handy with the knitting needles? If so, and you have a few scraps of wool lying around, how do you fancy making woolly hats for newborn babies in the developing world? Believe it or not, a woolly hat could actually save a baby's life. If you want to find out more, visit Save the Children's Knit One, Save One page. All the details are there, including a downloadable knitting pattern for a hat. And no, this post is not for pay! I just saw an article about this in my local paper, and thought it seemed like a good idea. I'm now off to dig deep into my long-abandoned knitting bag, to see what bits and pieces I have.

Please note: if you do participate, whatever you do, please don't knit any plain white hats. I know babies look cute in them and they're very traditional in many cultures. But in some African cultures, white is the colour of death, so for obvious reasons, a mum wouldn't put a white hat on her baby. Get knitting!