There are lots of reasons why I love my job.  In fact I don't really consider it a job.  The well known South African author, Lawrence Green, had a book called "A decent fellow doesn't work", the basis of which was if you enjoy what you're doing it doesn't really feel like work.  And that is how I feel about what I do.  Of course there are aspects which are tiresome (tax returns!) and routine (labelling yarn and photographing it), but they are small prices to pay for the rewarding nature of the rest of what I do.

But the two mains reasons why I love my job are:

1.  I can do this:

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i.e. climb up the hill behind our house and sit and look at the view, which is this:



2.  I get correspondence like this:

I bought two skeins of high twist Falkland merino from you at the Perth Knitting Show.  At your suggestion I downloaded the Haruni shawl – all 15 pages from the web.  I’ve just finished it and it is being stretched (blocked) as we speak.  This was my first shawl and I have knitted very little lace in the past, except on my machine.  I’m old fashioned and I needed the written instructions although I could now follow the chart.  Everything went smoothly once I got into it.

The yarn looks fantastic – cherries and chocolate and shows the lace off wonderfully, I’m overjoyed with the finished result.  So thank you for the fabulous yarn, giving me the courage to try hand died yarn and lace knitting

and this:

My daughter and I met you for the first time in Perth, where I fell in love with one of your shawls and you wrote Aestlight Shawl Pattern on the back of one of your cards for me.

On Tuesday night of this week I tracked it down, bought it, downloaded it and started to knit using your wool “Saltire” which I bought from you.  Tonight I completed my shawl and can’t believe I have finished my first Shetland shawl.

Many, many thanks.

Good night, God Bless

While I keep getting e-mails like that, I'll keep enjoying my job.  Long may it last.