Today I am knitting lace, eating clementines and brazil nuts, listening to the sweet voice of Kate Rusby and feeling a deep sense of well-being, calm and gentle joy. Because today the postman has brought a brown envelope containing not more forms but some actual good news. Thanks to some extra evidence that we submitted a couple of weeks back the decision regarding Toby's entitlement has been changed in his favour and we will no longer need to go to a tribunal. I am so deeply grateful that we've had the support of Toby's head teacher and the very eminent clinical psychologist who originally assessed and diagnosed Toby's autism. They both took time to write very succinct and compelling evidence about the severity of his condition and these two letters have obviously made much more impact on the decision than anything we as parents submitted. Anyway, it's resolved and a great weight has been lifted from me – today I am relief personified 🙂

While I'm here I'll show you some pictures of what else I've been knitting lately.

 

 

There have been socks on my needles! My first ever pair knitted in a soft dove grey and a second pair in a mustardy yellow. Both of these pairs from a lovely simple pattern- Laule'a by Cabinfour using worsted weight yarn (which means they knit up quickly). I've used lovely soft Rooster Almerino aran in 'shimmer' and 'custard' which I had in my stash.

 

 

In other news I had a very nice mention on the Love Knitting blog the other day as part of their '5 minutes with…' series. If you'd like to read it you can find it here.

 

 

Lastly, I'll leave you with some of the glorious skies that I've snapped over the last few weeks and put on Instagram. The last few days have been flat, dull and grey but when it has been clear the sky has been beautiful.

 

 

 

Thanks for popping in and visiting with me. The School Christmas break starts this coming Friday at lunchtime and so I don't expect I'll be around as much but I will be back to wish you a very merry Christmas so see you then x

 

Thanks so very much for all of the kind comments on the previous post. It's especially helpful to hear from others who've had similar experiences and I really appreciate all of the suggestions too. I'll be trying to reply to all of your comments over the next day or two.

Is it really the last day of November today? Considering that Christmas is always at the same time each year it really does have a way of sneaking up on a person. I need to get my act together and finish off all of the animals that I'm working on because it's getting awfully close to last posting dates.

 

 

I've been working on this little mouse today and she at least is now finished. Hopefully a few more of them will be ready soon. I'll keep you posted if you are interested.