Darrell’s Strikes Gold For Hugh

What on earth do you give your best friend and mentor of all things everything, who also wants for absolutely nothing for Christmas? A problem akin, perhaps, to what Camilla, the Queen Consort must also go through every year, pondering what to pop into her cherished husband, King Charles’s royal, bejewelled stocking! 

Poor Darrell has spent so many hours online he’s almost gone cross eyed, not to mention pounding the streets of Evesham looking for that “perfect something” to no avail, until this morning that is, when he returned home absolutely triumphant …..

….. holding aloft something that just wasn’t even in his head until he saw it, to wit a knitted wreath kit, that he, himself, personally was going to make for his beloved friend, who loves nothing more than a hand knitted article of any description, made even better if it came from a charity shop, thus benefiting all manner of needy causes ……..  

Now, it’s been quite a while since Darrell has picked up his needles and never ones quite as mahoooosive as these, but as he says knitting is like falling off a bike, you never forget how to! 

It all looked pretty simple and each stitch that was cast on and off, purled and knitted was done with great love.

Perhaps the getting it on to the ring and then sewing up was a little more, how shall I say, challenging, hence no photos, but bless him, Darrell persevered and got there in the end.  No pain and a few choice words without gain I suppose ……..

……. making adding all the extra frou frou afterwards all the more delicious, when Darrell could really see his gift slowly coming together.

Finally satisfied, a quick try on our front door to make sure it all looked ok and balanced and then said wreath was carefully packaged up ready for Darrell to take down to Hugh’s just before the start of the festive season, and where he could help Hugh choose the optimum spot for Hugh’s “Man What Does” to hammer a select nail from which to hang it.

A true gift of love, that will hopefully continue to keep giving over the next few years   No doubt there’ll also be a couple of other bits and pieces to add to Hugh’s stocking now I think Darrell is finally on a gift finding roll.  Happy, happy, happy days …..