My doppelganger

Too weird….

I’ve been reading back through Mad Hair Day and growing increasingly weirded out by the things I have in common with the writer…

• We are both in New Zealand (ok, not so weird – with 4 million people and 40 million sheep you expect a few knitters)
• We are both 38
• Her birthday is 13 December; mine is 30 December
• We are both once divorced
• We have both been with our current partners for ten years
• We both have two young daughters
• We both have one brother, and two sisters (OK, I’m guessing – she may have more than two)
• We both went to school in Hong Kong
• We are both unabashed feminists
• We seem to have read many of the same books (I got the quote from Swallows and Amazons) – ok, not weird, but nice – I like it when people read the same stuff I do.
  

Oooh! Spooky huh!

Of course there are probably an equal number of things we don’t have in common – not least of which is that she is a superwoman who works full-time while being a mother to three children and she spins, weaves, knits and cooks, and she can do the whole dpn thing and make socks; while I am a full-time stay at home mum who can’t work up the energy to get off the sofa and do housework ever, and I still believe dpns are the devil’s work. It’ll probably turn out that we sat next to each other in upper 5 at Glenealy Primary School… (We didn’t did we?)

Okay, now I promise I won't even mention her blog again for at least a month, because, you know, I don't want to come across like some kind of obsessive stalker and scare the poor woman to pieces!

On the knitting front... I finished the front and back of the green jersey for the little one, and I've done one sleeve. And I now have SO MUCH RESPECT for people who write knitting patterns - I've been trying to type it all nicely as I go along and it's a chore people. I've written the whole front, and I thought I'd written the back, and then I realised I'd written half of it backwards (or something) and I need to sit down and look at it compared to the actual back. I started writing the sleeve pattern, and then changed my mind about what I was doing, and now I feel like writing: 'it's a sleeve for god's sake - just knit the damn thing so it looks like this one'. I don't know that this is quite what people expect in a pattern though. And boy, do I understand the whole 'work increases while keeping the pattern consistent' thing - if I ever do write the sleeve up that's the cop out I'm going to use!

I did some other knitting in between but I just frogged the whole lot and it's too depressing to write about. I'll try, try and try again :-)

And tell me, is it actually illegal to sell your children on trademe or ebay? Or is it just frowned upon?