Sophisticated Scorn

Last week I took a friend’s sock to knitting to be mended.  I showed it to Janet, since the sock was crocheted and she said it simply needed to be darned by picking up the loose stitches and that she would show me how.  A few stitches into it, she realized she was nearly finished and told me to start my knitting while she finished the job.  Then she laughed about how she was spending a Thursday morning knitting another woman’s husband’s sock when if it was her own husband she would tell him to ‘toss it in the bin’.  She then reflected on the sock she was mending and somewhat under her breath said ‘vile garment!’ followed by ‘objectionable object’ as if in awe that she was really fixing it:)  Andrea quickly took some snaps and wrote down the hilarious sayings, although I doubt we’ll soon forget them:)  Quite a delightful English moment!

Later that afternoon Janet came over for tea, my first English tea guest with proper tea cups:)  and Andrea plopped her curd (what a hideous combination of words for such a lovely food!) in the shape of a bird!  Given her artistic inclinations, it isn’t that surprising:)  The funniest part was that Andrea wanted to show it to us before she ate it, so she waited for a break in Janet’s story, but that break didn’t come for a long time, so she sat patiently for nearly a half hour!  A curd bird is rare enough that I’m sure it was worth the wait:)

Janet, one of my favorite English women!

Smiling as she mends the ‘objectionable object’:)

The vile garment!

Andrea’s curd bird:)