Knitting projects in particular keep arriving often in the form of a new baby related to me or a friend, and I have 3 to complete as soon as possible, since the later you do them, the bigger the baby gets, and you might have to make a bigger item. But in addition, to my surprise, Paul, from Birmingham, contacted on Hogmanay to tell me about a crafting project to make bunting to celebrate Hadrian’s wall becoming 1900 years old. They would like people from all over Britain and beyond to make 1900 flags to make the Roman themed bunting. I thought one small flag won’t take long, but couldn’t find details of dimensions or patterns in any of the links related to the organisers. Eventually I found the co-ordinator was on Facebook and I looked there. There were some crochet flag designs, requesting test crocheters, which I can’t do but, but no knitted ones. Learning to crochet may be a new year’s resolution in itself. This person runs courses, but the canal doesn’t go as far north as Hadrian’s wall, where she lives, so I can’t join hers. I sent a message asking about knitting designs and dimensions and she replied saying there wasn’t one (journalist might have been a bit misleading in the news article then) but she would be delighted if I could supply one and gave me the size of the flag. So either I learn to crochet or I have to write a pattern myself, definitely a new challenge for 2022. This will be a joint project with Bryn! Luckily he was about to join us on the boat again, and didn’t flinch at the suggestion on Hogmanay, and he wasn’t drunk either.