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RE: #needleworkmonday | Birds on a Wire | Nigel Cheney | #maybeaminnow
I can remember playing with these as well, learning to neatly wind them up, and then pushing the tape out of the middle, or taking the outer end and letting the tape cascade ... before winding it up again.
YES! and my Mum still uses the same pale blue tape measure even now and is still knitting!
What great writing as always. Again, enjoyed reading that but doesn't Nigels mum look like Annie Sugden?
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Well, you know, I'm a city girl, a Londoner, so I don't understand all these rural references, but something about Emmerdale is ringing in my head? I remember when that first started, it was on in the afternoons, and I was unemployed and round my mate Bo's (he had a broken leg and couldn't go bait-digging at the time), watching Emmerdale in front of a blazing fire and resting my legs on his cast to warm my toes.