In Oxford's covered market, there is a charity shop  which sells yarn, alongside the donated goods. I found three balls of Trekking XXL, so decided that, since I have been using stash quite successfully of late, I was entitled to purchase. The shop raises funds for Helen and Douglas house - a children and young people's hospice. We have never needed anything like that in our family, so count ourselves very  fortunate. In 1966 I was working on the children's ward of a large general hospital, and some of the dying I saw has never left me. We need hospices.

I have been knitting a couple of manly little tank tops for the grandson. He is starting on solid food now, and just as the weather gets colder, he has learned how to put his cuffs in the dinner!