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Thank you so much everyone for the JuJu and good wishes. The surgery went very well and the surgeons are delighted with DHs recovery so far. He is still on the ward but hopes to be released on Wednesday. It's only a few minutes walk from our apartment here, so I go up for an hour each morning and evening. Good to hear if the various Rhinebeck visits. We both have fond memories of the year I attended. Long ago.... Jenny On 12 Oct 2023 01:34, Amy Brotslaw Schweiger <brotslaw@...> wrote: Sending juju for successful surgery in Geneva! Because of Facebook connecting me to other people with my chronic disease, alas I hear horror stories about the NHS and access to care on a nearly daily basis. It’s really a shame that it is so underfunded and unable to help everyone who needs health care. Amy On Oct 11, 2023, at 2:22 AM, Jenny Swanson <jenny@...> wrote: ? Dear Everyone, We have had a tricky summer, as DH needs a particular, uncommon, surgical solution for his aggressive prostate cancer, and after it was cancelled in London two days before it was due to happen (late August) it now turns out there is currently nobody in the Uk who is able to offer it at present. After six weeks of struggling with funding authorities of various kinds, he turned to the University Hospital in Geneva, just up the road from our apartment there, and they have come through wonderfully. He is booked to have a similar (though not identical) surgery on Thursday 19th October. Fingers crossed no covid or anything else holds it up this time. We are told there is a 50% chance of a full cure following this procedure, but that’s the best anyone has been able to offer us so that is what we have to go with. More finger crossing! Any spare juju, both that the op goes ahead, and that it goes well and has a successful outcome, would be very much appreciated!!!!! As anyone on Ravelry will know, I have been browsing Christmas Stocking patterns, and also advent projects as these tend to use small amounts of a lot of different colours and I have several kilograms of 4 ply bits and pieces which need used up. Realistically, I won’t be doing anything like that for the few days up to and following the surgery, because I know that in a hospital situation the only things I can manage are simple socks or endless stripy blankets. But one can imagiknit (as I learned from this group decades ago). Goodness, I can remember when a whole group of us turned 40 – and its my 65th birthday this coming December. It has been a very strange year, both family-wise and indeed weather wise. I hope everyone else, and families, are staying well and finding joy in life. We are trying to keep cheerful. Jenny

Dear Everyone, We have had a tricky summer, as DH needs a particular, uncommon, surgical solution for his aggressive prostate cancer, and after it was cancelled in London two days before it was due to happen (late August) it now turns out there is currently nobody in the Uk who is able to offer it at present. After six weeks of struggling with funding authorities of various kinds, he turned to the University Hospital in Geneva, just up the road from our apartment there, and they have come through wonderfully. He is booked to have a similar (though not identical) surgery on Thursday 19th October. Fingers crossed no covid or anything else holds it up this time. We are told there is a 50% chance of a full cure following this procedure, but that’s the best anyone has been able to offer us so that is what we have to go with. More finger crossing! Any spare juju, both that the op goes ahead, and that it goes well and has a successful outcome, would be very much appreciated!!!!! As anyone on Ravelry will know, I have been browsing Christmas Stocking patterns, and also advent projects as these tend to use small amounts of a lot of different colours and I have several kilograms of 4 ply bits and pieces which need used up. Realistically, I won’t be doing anything like that for the few days up to and following the surgery, because I know that in a hospital situation the only things I can manage are simple socks or endless stripy blankets. But one can imagiknit (as I learned from this group decades ago). Goodness, I can remember when a whole group of us turned 40 – and its my 65th birthday this coming December. It has been a very strange year, both family-wise and indeed weather wise. I hope everyone else, and families, are staying well and finding joy in life. We are trying to keep cheerful. Jenny

We “did” the fair today. Checked my results 24 first place, 12 second place, 3 third place. One item (I’m embarrassed to say—it was my knitted dishcloth) failed to place (sob) and one (baby afghan) I couldn’t spot the tag on (high shelf, bottom edge buried by other entries). The *black* adult sweater that I agonized over for weeks was one of the blue ribbon winners. Ann McManus in PA

Hello all, This might sound a bit cheeky, but is there anyone in the US who could buy me an English language DVD of “Star Sand” by Roger Pulver, which was released in 2017, and mail it to me? The cheapest quote I can find for the mailing is $35, which seems excessive. Full reimbursement by Paypal! We are reading the novella in Book Group (at the end of October, so no rush) and I wanted a copy of the DVD to share around. But not at over $50 for the purchase and mailing….. I hope everyone is having a restful summer. Here in the south of England we have been having a pleasantly cool, if wet, “traditional Scottish summer pre 2000”. Only 500 miles south, and many years on, from when this was customary. Personally I love it, and so does the garden. I didn’t even know our tree could produce such huge apples, after drought summers all the eleven years we have now been in Oxfordshire. DH’s scheduled treatment of a month of radiotherapy is off, as due to his haemorrhages in June this was no longer considered safe. The surgeons had already rejected the conventional abdominal surgeries as unsafe for several reasons, so we had eight unpleasant weeks while the consultants argued to and fro about which was the “least bad option”. Finally someone thought of a specialist in London who does a rare (experimental) robotic keyhole surgery which seemed as though it might be a good choice. So that is now booked for 29 August, and it is fingers crossed all round that everything will go smoothly. I have now been in one place for 5 weeks, which is a rare thing in recent years, and am feeling a little more grounded. Doing more knitting again, and lots of reading and gardening. And dog-walking, of course, courtesy of the adorable Freddie. DH will be home next week for a scan, and then for a month at the end of August for surgery and recovery. After seven months of waiting, you can imagine how much we look forward to getting this done. Jenny

Juju needed for my DIL. They have just moved from NY City to Florence, Italy for son’s work. On the 8th day there DIL (Amanda) fell over and broke her left tibia and right ankle! Luckily they have an apartment until the end of August while they find long term accommodation. Also Adam is on holiday until the end of the month. Son & granddaughter (13 next month) are learning to do bed pans & bed baths! So, juju please Beryl

Ok so my baby crocheting has turned into baby knitting. I seriously haven’t knit in at least 4+ years. I knit a bunch of stuff for Waylon when he was born and some after, but with babysitting and other craft stuff, (weaving, spinning, etc), I just got away from it. Now I can’t remember diddley. I once found a really easy, really stretchy cast on. Like ridiculously stretchy! Almost unlimited stretchiness!. and now I can’t find it again. Not long tail Not Old German long tail Not cable cast on Not tubular cast on This was really simple. I can almost picture the video of the lady doing it. Said she’d never seen it anywhere and that her mother taught her. Anyone? Connie

My DH just suggested making a Diamond design with the bright white. Connie

It was great that Beryl called out to us, and I enjoyed reading the various updates. As you can see me talking to Connie about her upcoming grandchild, you can work out that I am “still here” – although just where that is has me in a bit of a muddle some days. We had a tough time through the covid restrictions, with all four parents fading quite fast and needing support which it was difficult to give them, and DH stuck for much of the time in Switzerland, while one of the girls was effectively trapped in Scotland with only very limited movement for the best part of two years. Not fun, but we all got through with lot of Zooming and sending of parcels. My mother moved into a lovely care home on October 2021, at her own request, as she had a hip fracture which did not repair well and my father, with increasing dementia, could not grasp why she could no longer run around after him full time. Unluckily she tripped and fell on her first day, hit her head and died 12 days later of a subdural haematoma. Dad by then was in hospital with a hip fracture of his own and we had to delay the funeral by three weeks until we could find him a nursing home placement near both the funeral location and my sister and myself (to facilitate visiting). Got all that sorted out and in the interim we had a call from DH’s parents’ GP in Scotland to say his father had only weeks to live and his mother had significant dementia, and they both needed nursing home care ASAP, but she was resisting it (some of you may remember she was always a very “determined” character). That kept us pretty busy, and apart from Mum’s funeral I was with them 24/7 for nearly a month until we finally found a really nice place which could take them both. They went in in early November, and FIL died the first week of January having had eight weeks of rest and comfort at the end, which he richly deserved. It all sounds awful, and it was. Three days after FIL died, my own father died. Luckily my sister and I were able to be with him at the end (and we sat with Mum for the twelve last days as she faded). We did the two funerals for the fathers in one week and then all went down with covid caught at the first one. It took us a while to get over that. I suppose with three deaths in ten weeks that is not too surprising. Since then life has been a blur of six-weekly trips north 400 miles to Glasgow to see MIL (the girls have been fabulous about taking turns to do the trip so that she gets plenty of visits), endless work to clear out the Glasgow flat as MIL was the original pack rat and never threw anything away, huge amounts of paperwork as executor of multiple wills, four parents’ mail coming here, all bills to be processed and paid, etc etc etc. MIL is very frail, and week by week is losing her grasp on the realities of life, but bizarrely seems now happy and content. She spent almost her whole life weighed down by her huge burden of collected “grievances” against the world – and now she has forgotten them all it makes a huge difference to her behaviour! I try to get out to Geneva one week in four to be with DH, who had now been off work for some months with stress and exhaustion (not surprising really). When we can, we meet in Glasgow to attend to MIL and her affairs. Some days I wake up and I’m really not sure where I am. I rely on dog walks and easy knitting to get me through but I am pretty weary myself and looking forward hopefully to more restful times. The upside is that the girls are both well and busy. Kitty made partner at Mayer Brown in London at the end of 2021, age 33. She worked very hard while restricted to home and it paid off for her. Charlotte is an anaesthetist at a specialist veterinary hospital only an hour’s drive from here, and is thoroughly enjoying a good working and learning atmosphere. Freddie the labrador and Ellie the crazy Bengal-cross cat take good care of me, and hopefully in 18 months or so DH will retire and return home properly. Hope everyone stays well. I see some of you on Facebook from time to time and enjoy your pictures. Jenny X

I ended up at Hobby Lobby tonight. I went to get the I Love This Yarn in sportweight but not enough colors were in stock. I ended up with their Yarntopia. The colors are perfect. It’s extremely soft with a silky feel. Should drape beautifully. I intend to order some Stylecraft DK for other baby items. Lots and lots of things will be made! I’ll post a pic as soon as I get some blocks done. Thanks guys!! Connie