I’m taking a little time away from work for health reasons. Cast On will return in a few months, most likely in the Spring.
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My best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Brenda you are missed
I hope everything is going well and you are getting better.
Brenda, I hope your recovery from your health challenges is complete and rapid. You are sorely missed at this house. Donna
Isn’t it amazing that one can feel so connected to a person they have never met? I do feel that way about you and your family. Your podcasts are so lovely: informative and intelligent and great music. I have grown as a knitter because of them and as a person. You have introduced me to a world of ideas and experiences with which I am not acquainted. My most sincere wishes for your speedy recovery. Perhaps you need a little sunshine and time away from the damp Welsh weather. Do take good care.
Dear Brenda, I’ve never contacted you before to tell you how much I enjoy your podcasts. I’ve listened to all of them. They are never deleted because I listen to them again and again. Your voice is a pleasure to listen to; every episode is intelligent and thought provoking; I love the variety of subjects; the interviews are so interesting because YOU are interested in the person; ….
I could go on and on and …..
Please look after yourself. Don’t come back until you are really, really better. I will miss Cast-On very much.
Miss you, get well
So sorry to hear this. Hope that you feel much better soon. Hugs
I very much miss hearing the new podcasts and I hope you feel better soon (and not just for the selfish reason of wanting new podcasts).
I hope you are feeling better. Your podcast is a treat to look forward to.When I have some time off and my sons are at school, my greatest indulgence is to sit at the kitchen table with some knitting and listen to cast on. Now I’m going to decide which past episode to choose to listen to.
Very best wishes for recovery.
I hope the sun is shining there in my homeland.
Lucy Williams xxx
Dear Brenda
you will never know just how much your podcasts have meant to me and how much hearing your voice inspiring me to knit, and to imagine creative things, to escape and allow myself to make nice things: all this you did for me whilst I tried to get my head around my real life, the one where my brother had cancer and sadly died last month. I knit and knit through those months, listening to you and enjoying rediscovering that old craft, years ago I knit because I could not afford nice things. Now I was knitting to create nice things, to feel and smell wool, to dream of colours and patterns. I could not have dealt with the long journeys to be with my brother or the long periods of time when nothing was happening if I had not had my needles and yarn.
Reading about your shoulder and your pain made me want to give you something back, I don’t know what, perhaps it is enough for you to know what an inspiration you have been. I think as well that I can share your frustration as I too am temporarily unable to knit. Nine weeks ago I fell in the ice and broke both my arms. The right has healed but the left arm had to have an op to reconstruct the elbow, so I understand entirely your description of pain and lack of movement. And then the desperation of not being able to knit is so intense. I have just, in the last week, managed to start crocheting as a compromise, as I can feed the wool through my fat swollen fingers and just about get the hook going in a rythym, I trynot to listen to the clicks and clunks in my arm. I have completed thirteen yellow daisy squares. Pitiful really but at the rate of two an evening I might have a throw at the end of two months. I wonder if you can crochet perhaps?
I do hope you improve and get back to that knitting, it is such a feeling of loss when you can’t get that yarn moving.
Love,
trish
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