Mindfulness.......maybe

[Gemini]

Enfys, you are so right!

To my mind 3 things which really help us cope are

1 Losing ourselves in something creative, as you say
2 A good walk, for those physically able (running and swimming are good too)
3 The company of friends. Both to talk about our worries but equally important to laugh and enjoy life with.

[WeeGranny]

I can relate to your OH, Nana! I did that last year and got carried away with the job! It's a very 'switching off' kind of task. Did quite a good job of it too....though I say-so myself!
And, no, it was definitely an upside -down cardigan.....not leggings! Can you imagine what hand knitted leggings would look and feel like! More to the point, can you imagine wearing them?

[Gemini]

The thought of hand knitted leggings is really making me laugh

[Enfys]

For the man in your life...🤣😆🤣

[Clover]

Remember the old-fashioned knitted
swim suits..? I never had one but remember seeing pictures How uncomfortable must they have been especially when wet

I agree about keeping occupied to prevent worrying thoughts. This is why lying awake at night can be so stressful.
I also keep the radio on all day

At the moment I’m sewing up about 70 knitted squares to make a blanket

[Nana]

Awww the pictures are hilarious😂🤣 Maybe I should make it my next project.

Clover, I remember the knitted swimming trunks as my Dad & Uncles wore them when we went to the seaside. They started off not a bad fit but when they came out of the sea the men had trouble holding them up they were so heavy. Of course as children we thought it was really funny.

[Daisy]

"I knit with my face"......Daisy???😂🤣🤔

Nana - Close your eyes and picture a frowning face and clenched white knuckles round the needles, one hand slowly releasing a needle, grabbing the wool, painstakingly wrapping it round said needle, missing the stitch with the needle. Drop needle, all stitches fall off. Grab needle and pick up lost knitting, unravelling half of it on the way. Muttering expletives like "oh deary me, I seem to have dropped the b*****s". Deeper frowning (it helps the concentration) while the needle's shoved back on to what few stitches have survived. By now, the frown is getting painful, so clench jaws - which doesn't help, but it might - and start again, Stick needle into stitch, wrap wool round, hurray, big smile, got it right this time. Slide stitch off one needle - but it doesn't land on the other. Frowns, clenched jaw, teeth grinding and white knuckles, haunched shoulders, clenched derrière, curled toes. Suddenly I remember I have something really important to do so put it all away and go and polish my Frisbee!!! Relaxing, it is not!!

[Nana]

In bed but laughing my head off, trying not to wake OH. 🤣🤣 Daisy that is such a funny picture. My advice would be to just stick to polishing the Frisbee.

[Mimi]

Oh Daisy you have made me chuckle, the deep frowning to help concentrating is equal to reading out loud to OH the destructions...ooops sorry, instructions of self assembly furniture. At the third attempt to assemble to stupid thing I have taken to reading it out very slowly as this obviously helps!

[Daisy]

Mimi - that's so true about reading out loud slowly. The thing that gets me with instructions like those is the line diagrams - a 2-dimensional drawing to assemble a 3-dimensional object! Arrrgggghhhhh!

Nana - I've got the shiniest Frisbee in the country!

[Nana]

WeeG yet another job women are good at too. Mimi I have to be in another room when OH is assembling a flat pack piece of furniture & just be on hand if he shouts me to hold 1/2 a wobbly piece of constructed 'whatever'. It's never long until I get the giggles so am demoted to the room I came from.🤣😂

Daisy the more I learn about you...you knit with your face, you chit as you chat & now you have the shiniest Frisbee in the country. I daren't ask what next?

[Grauntie Mag]

Enfys they are spectacular! 😂😂

[Nana]

When will you start knitting then Grauntie?😂🤣

[Grauntie Mag]

🤣😆😂 Nana, the finished object on my portly OH would be a sight for sore eyes! 😆😆😆

[Nana]

Go Grauntie ...Go Grauntie ...Go Grauntie.💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻