{"id":451,"date":"2005-12-01T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T21:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=451"},"modified":"2005-12-01T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T21:42:30","slug":"451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Aah, Life. It’s getting in the way of my knitting!
\nIt’s been raining here. A lot. Sydney is in severe drought right now, so bad that we’re on Level 3 water restrictions<\/a>. Which basically means that we can’t use water for wasteful purposes, like hosing off driveways, sprinklers and the like. In any case, we’re not used to rain. On Tuesday there was 46mm in Sydney.
\nYesterday, I was driving down to the shops, and I braked at the roundabout. I heard water running. I looked over my shoulder, to see water coming from underneath the back seat<\/I>.
\nI first thought that my petrol tank had sprung a leak, but I then realised that I couldn’t smell petrol. I got home, opened the boot, and saw that the carpet in the boot was soaking wet. Lifted it up, and the whole spare tyre well was full of water. There is a leak somewhere, and I think I’d better keep the car out of the rain!
\nI also think I’d better stop buying yarn, and think about that new car we’ve been idly considering.
\nSo I spent a great deal of yesterday bailing out and mopping up the car. The carpets are all wet, and I’ve been leaving the car with everything open, and hoping that we don’t get more rain.
\nToday we’re off to visit my grandmother.
\nShe’s the one who taught me how to knit, many years ago. My mother (her daughter) was killed in a car accident when I was eight years old, so my siblings and I went to live with my father and stepmother on the other sde of Sydney. Consequently, we didn’t see a lot of her, or other members of that side of the family. I barely know her. However, she had a fall a few weeks back, and has been in hospital. We saw her there a couple of times, but she was sent to a nursing home last week, so we’re going to see her there today.
\nMy Aunt and cousins apparently cleaned out her house. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe we had any right to Grandma’s belongings. My Aunt and cousins are much closer to her than my sister and I. I have very little contact with my cousins, but one of them is close in age to my sister, and they stay in touch. My cousin rang my sister and told her that there was nothing of value in the house, and everything was old and\/or dirty, so everything had been bundled up and thrown out.
\nThe more I think about this, the angrier I’m getting. Who decides what is “of value”? It was probably all of value to Gandma, who never got to go home and collect the things that were precious to her. She never got to say goodbye to her dog. We saw my Aunt at the hospital a couple of times, and she just didn’t care. All she could talk about was finding a nursing home. I’m angry to think that they just shipped Grandma off when she wanted to go home.
\nI can’t believe that there was nothing of value in the house. But I’m not talking about jewellery or knick knacks or appliances.
\nWhat happened to her knitting things? Maybe they were only old plastic needles and stuff, but they would have had great value to me. That’s what I associate with my grandma. She taught me to knit, and I would have liked to have some of her “stuff”, cheap crap or not. But they didn’t even ask.
\nBut the thing my sister and I agree on is the photos. I have only three pictures of my mother. My sister has two. So my sister asked my cousin what happened to the photos. No one seems willing to give her an answer. They’re going to ask around for them.
\nI don’t care about Grandma’s “valuables”. My aunt’s definition of valuables and mine are obviously far different. Nice of her to ask though.
\nThe scarf is done, but due to the crappy weather, it’s unblocked. And I’m out today, so it won’t happen today either.
\nLet’s hope it doesn’t rain while I’m out with the car!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aah, Life. It’s getting in the way of my knitting! It’s been raining here. A lot. Sydney is in severe drought right now, so bad that we’re on Level 3 water restrictions. Which basically means that we can’t use water for wasteful purposes, like hosing off driveways, sprinklers and the like. In any case, we’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}