My mossy scarf

Thanks, Ophelia! I love dark and gloomy weather! Because I'm anti-sun. I blame it on being a nurse. My poor son will grow up with rickets because he wears so much sun block in the summer!

Pam

Oh heavens:)) You would be very happy in Scotland in the winter:))

Whoa... your taste buds can actually get stuck in something? Weird!! That's kind of scary! :o/

Gemini

The Pacific Northwest would suit you well too, Pam. Athough I must say that we have a bit of sun today - but after almost a straight month without it, it is very welcome.

And actually in SE England this past couple of weeks too. Yuk, grey and grimbly!! I'm also very anti sun, for the same reasons but also because it makes come out in a rash (polymorphic light reaction) when it's at all strong, and so do my daughters. The son just goes golden brown, but still gets nagged about sunscreen!! Love & higs Christine

:D You've motivated me! Someday I'll be frolicking around in a dress I knitted myself! It's an exciting thought. What an accomplishment that would be!

Pam

But then you have to weigh my dislike of the sun against my fear of earthquakes.... Pam

Oh my! That would be awful to deal with. But yes, do keep flinging sunscreen at the boy. It's for his own good!

Pam

LOL! I'm a mutant. Maybe it wasn't a taste bud...I'm not sure but the needle got stuck on something!

Pam

This winter Italy has had similar weather. It has rained almost constantly since the beginning of December, and it had rained a lot in October and November as well. Today on the news we saw that an ancient town wall, almost 3000 years old, had fallen and they blame it on the weight of the water-logged earth behind it. Italy is usually very rainy in the winter, but this year is most unusual. Many of the farmers around here were never able to plant their winter wheat because their fields have been waterlogged since the fall.

There's lots of work for my husband, an engineer, because lots of smaller retaining walls around where we live are ceding in places.

The funny thing is that I read today that there's very little snow in Turin, where the winter Olympics are being held, because they're having a drought there. Almost the entire country (and it's not a very big country) is having unusually wet weather and Turin is having a drought!

Hi Pam,

Welcome to the group. You and Christine (and any other nurse here) could call yourselves "Knitting Knurses." LOL I cannot be a member of your club, as I am not a nurse. However, I am a doctor's wife.

I'm happy you found us. And I hope you keep enjoying your finished knitting projects.

Janise, in upstate NY

LOL! That's cute! I think I'll get that on a T shirt!

Maybe our club can be "Knitting people somehow connected to the medical profession". :)

Thanks! :) Pam

Funnily enough my yahoo ID is "knitnurse", an allusion to the time when school nurses went round schools checking heads for nits. They don't do it any more and rely on parents to diagnose and treat their own children. Which is why as a nurse working in a GP practice (i.e. in the community) I can tell when there's an outbreak, 'cos the mums all turn up wanting us to check their little darling's heads!! You get quite good at telling the difference between dandruff and nits!! Love & higs Christine

OHHH my husband is a Physict and worked many years with manufacturing Ultrasounds ,,, do i qualify??? mirjam

Do not worry about the med affliation, just get together (in a virtual clubroom) and knit. Sure there will be some shop talk. Anyone that does not want to listen can sit there in cyberspace and -- knit.

Aaron (I once took a first aid course)

OK you're all in, us nurses are a fairly inclusive group, we like people, else we couldn't do the job. Right Pam? Love & higs Christine

LOL That would take up the entire front of the shirt! ;o)

Gemini

Well I had the flu shot this year, do I qualify too then? LOL

Gemini