Well What Do You Know

[jennyjoan]

Am sitting in my car waiting for lights to turn etc, am parallel to a bus terminal with the usual patrons sitting on the bench. A thing caught my eye and it was a beautiful white crotchet blanket across the knee of a bald headed guy in a T shirt and shorts. He bends down to his rucksack and produces a crotchet hook and proceeds to crotchet away.

First and last time I will ever see that. Never judge a book by its cover cos he looked like a hard man.

[pastafreak]

Awww! That's lovely.

[Jackdaw33]

Apparently King George VI used to knit to pass the time away.

[Spicerack]

Probably has a good left hook.

[gingejbee]

Tom Daley knits and crochets - but he's gay, so you'd expect him to knit and crochet...is that right?

[burlyshirley]

It wasn't nailit was it ?

[barry1010]

Dom from The Repair Shop knits and crochets - it is quite the thing with hipster guys

[Togo]

Lol @shirley.

Using a bent nail? :))

[Mamyalynne]

Being creative is as natural to men as it is to women, real men do knit and crochet and have done for a long long time.

Some of the best designers of knitwear are men.

[barry1010]

I have knitted the odd (very odd) scarf while my children were learning to knit :)

[burlyshirley]

Togo - he could have been .. lol

[gness]

Lots of men crochet and knit, JJ. Some of the work they produce is just beautiful....x

[bhg481]

My best mate at school took up knitting when he was about 15; the last person on earth you'd expect to do that. Not just simple stuff, Aran etc and was absolutely brilliant at it.

[Atheist]

jenny, I'm seriously shocked that you were tapping out this post while sitting in your car at the traffic lights.
I hope you typed this up later, when you got home.

[jennyjoan]

ya must be jokin Atheist - can't even text when I am alone - ya eejit ya

[jennyjoan]

referring to an earlier post - I'm just on in my computer room for now.

Anyhoo - referring to Aran knitting - I watched the niece of my very beloved stand-in/mother knitting Aran with one arm. She fell into a fire in a lowly house and burnt her arm off. She was unbelievable in holding 3 knitting needles. She held one of the needles under her arm/shoulder. Incredible to watch.

[William51]

Yes, a lot of men knit. I used to make tapestries and have got one framed in my bedroom.

[andy-hughes]

I remember when we returned from holiday wondering if my wife was pregnant.

We drove to the local testing place, and our car died on the way.

A car pulled up, and four seriously salty looking guys got out and advanced towards us, looking really menacing.

They could not have been more helpful - they pushed our car to a safe place, jump started it, and when they found out where we were going, they wished us every good wish for the future.

As you say, never judge a book ...

Actually, I experience that regularly when i attend extreme metal gigs as a music writer.

I look like a retired bank manager, I have a Number One, glasses, and I'm sixty-six - I look like someone's grandad who has turned up early to pick up his grandson and friends.

But the chances are, I have been discussing the finer points of the genre backstage with the band before the show started, and will be joining them again after for a curry and a wind-down.