Life’s irritation number 1 –

Don’t you just hate it when you have a really good idea only to find someone else has had the same thought before you!

In my job I have written a series of articles for inclusion in a local free twice yearly publication and while writing the most recent one I realised that it was the tenth piece I had written! So after five years of writing for work I decided it was the right time for me to write for pleasure, I enjoy writing and have loads of off the wall thoughts so why not share them with others. I'm not sure if there actually are many others who are interested in hearing those thoughts but I'm posting them here and only time will tell if anyone reads them.

I have been thinking about writing a blog for a while now and have had plenty of ideas for titles but when I have researched them each and every one has already been used by others. But now, though a chance comment passed by a friend, I think I have come up with something that is original.

It had to be something to do with knitting because that is what I do in my spare time, that is what keeps me sane after the frustrations of a 9 to 5 job and that is what I would rather be doing all day and every day. Unfortunately I am yet to find anyone who is willing to pay me a living wage to do just that so the 9 to 5 job (including all the extra days and hours I work) it has to be for the moment and knitting is relegated to my spare time and that it just one of life’s little irritations that knitting soothes.

It is possible that I am irritated by life slightly more than others are or maybe I just notice things that others don't and that is why they are not irritated by them. Hopefully you will find the things that irritate me also irritate you or at the least find my view of them slightly amusing, I don't intend this to be one long moan!

So Dear Reader this is my first blog, I am learning as I go along and my photos may not be very good but please be kind to me, you may not agree with everything I write or share my sometimes unusual view of life but I only hope that you will want to come back and read my future posts.

And what’s on my needles right now?

Well, it’s red, a strange shape and a bit of a secret but I will tell you more about it later!