Fish and other News!

This is a short post until I have got round to taking a photo of the ... square.

As you know I am a huge fan of Debbie Abraham's and her skills as a designer of blankets but on some rare occasions I have been known to mutter her name with a few added swear words. Those of you who know me will know that I don't hold back when it comes to externalising my feelings!!!! So during the week when I started a new square I was excited to be doing the sequined one. Then on reading the pattern I discover there are 153 sequins per square. Yes 153 sequins!! Anyway they were duly threaded onto the cotton glace (colour Tickle - what a name) and over a couple of evenings I completed the square. It is stunning. So worth the effort. This is turning into the very best blanket ever.

There is another important event going on for me at the moment. Many years ago when my contemporaries were finishing school and going onto university I became very unwell and had a breakdown. Nothing that remarkable but the consequences of bowing out of the rat race for a while meant I missed many of the normal events that my peer group experienced. I was having a whole range of experiences that I'm not sure others would particularly want to have!! Psychiatric wards back in the late '70's were not that brilliant for a 19 year old and it was a very sad time for me and my family. Anyway I'll get to the point, yesterday I enrolled at university. This brings tears to my eyes. Yes I have professional qualifications - I caught up a bit later in life - and I am studying a new model of psychotherapy rather than getting a degree in Ancient Roman History or some other grand subject but none the less I have experienced the enrolment process and felt so welcome. I thought to myself "better late than never"!!! My 50's are proving to be an exciting time of life.

The course is part time, 26 Thursday's a year, and I am doing it for myself, I'm pleased that I don't really need the qualification for work, so I am under no external pressures. I feel very lucky and am really looking forward to the course starting. I shall keep you informed and hope I keep up this positive frame of mind when I'm knee deep in reading and assignments!!

Jane