Shop window

A quick trip into Stanhope on the bus for a few essentials, but I couldn't resist a look in the window of the knitting shop! I want to make something little to put in the girl's bags when I've  finished them. I noticed this display and thought felt cats will be perfect as they have a cat and love her. I also noticed a knitting pattern hung in the window that I couldn't resist, for myself this time, and promptly went inside and purchased both it and the wool! I have almost finished the first of the girls sweaters and don't want to start a second until it's been tried on and I can decide on the second size to knit. I also popped into the Lime Gallery, lovely Alex Clarke outlet shop, and bought a New Home card, and a very appropriate coaster that I could pop in the envelope, for our niece who is moving house on Friday. I usually fill the last little while before the return bus with a visit to this shop!
Two really good phone calls with mum. She had a busy day, a coffee morning at her old home literally two minutes away on her electric scooter. This was followed by lunch in the garden at her new home with other residents and a good old chinwag with another real person for a couple of hours before going back to her flat. The human interaction is just so essential to her well being and mine too! Long may it continue.