The kindness of the internets

Is it time to confess that I owe Tim Berners-Lee an awful lot? More than that – pretty much everything, if I’m honest. If he hadn’t invented the internet, then I would never have been building a website for my boss in ‘97, and I would never have got chatting with Mr J, who lived far away, and there would never have been a meet up and I would never have met best friend Jo, and we would never have persuaded Mr J that moving to London was a good thing, and then we would never have got together, and moved in together, and got married and bought a house and got cats and had Fitz. I also would never have been able to connect with all the lovely crafty people, who have been so kind in sending things to celebrate Fitz’s arrival. Time for some public thanks…

Susanne sent this beautiful little jacket all the way from Germany, which she’d knitted by hand of course. It got great notices when he wore it for our trip to the cinema. Susanne’s been commenting on my blog for good few years now, and has an interesting, thoughtful blog of her own: creative.mother.thinking, where she talks about being a mum, musician, crafter, spinner and woman with wonderful honesty.

The Queen of Applique sent a little collection – lovely things for the boy decorated with beautiful playful cats. This one playing with a ball of string is one of my favourites. Since Fitz gets very happy when he sees our black cat in particular already, I know he’ll be happy. Of course as the mother of two little teacakes herself she has been very wise and sent things for 6m+ so it will be a little while before Fitz is in them, but he’ll look wonderful in them.

And Helen, despite being terribly busy herself, sent this wonderful knitted jacket, with funky fabric insert. He wore it out to my NCT meet up yesterday and had lots of nice compliments on his outfit. I’m so glad I leave the knitting up to other people – they’re so much more talented than me.

Kyoko is not someone I’ve met personally, but I’m convinced she’s delightful, and as if to prove it she sent me something for the baby that doubles as a treat for me. The book is full of baby patterns all for the overlocker (or lock machine as they call it in Japan) – all deeply cute and practical. Unfortunately it makes me want to go back to Japan, and also start studying Japanese again since I’ve realised I probably don’t even know the 103 kanji I knew for level 4 anymore. That’s all beside the point. The book is gorgeous, and so is the fabric she sent with it, which I keep picking up just to look at because it’s lovely.

Lastly, I should point out that this post has taken days to put together, what with trying to manage photos, and get ten minutes together to write it. While I try to snatch time for the next post you can find me more frequently twittering away, because this is much more easily achieved with one thumb and an iPhone.