What Millie and Grandma did next

Today we went to Derby for the first time in about two years to see the Mr Men at the Assembly Rooms.

Millie and the other million or so children really enjoyed it - at least judging by the joining in with the 'He's behind you' and the songs and games they did.
Being in Derby today for some reason brought back lots of memories. I was taken there from time to time when I was no older than Millie and the Market Hall has changed little apart from the addition of a glass elevator which would have been undreamed of when there was a tripe shop just outside.

Derby was the last place I visited with my mother before she went into her decline, although, with the benefit of hindsight,I realise it had already started. We went to Derby to take my Dad to the hospital for a cataract operation. I couldn't understand then why she didn't want to stay with him.
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Here is a cardigan which I struggled to finish. it is in Rowan Tapestry and Isabel gave me the first two balls as part of my Mother's day present which everyone except Isabel and me thought very strange. Well as I loved the colour so much I added a few balls and cardiganised a jumper pattern in the book 'Knitter's Stash'. It didn't take long to knit and I took it to Yorkshire when we went at the end of April to sew it up.....only I didn't. It came home still in pieces and minus the front band. At last, this weekend I took it upon myself to get it done and sewed it up - but the ******* band was so much trouble............I picked up the stitches all round the front - twice obviously cos it's never right the first time - and garter stitched a couple of rows.I was running out of yarn so I cast off, only the yarn ran out with a foot or more to go so I started to frog the last row. I left it off and the next day, during my major stash stirring, found a small ball left over. Hurrah!!! Well it's all finished now and I rather like it. There are ribs and cables which don't show to well in the pictures but which give a nice shape to the back and make the cuffs grip nicely. It's really comfortable.

Oh and somehow through serendipity and a little juggling ( I think that's where the little left over ball came from) the fronts kind of match.