My hat!
I neglected to mention yesterday (the very big news!) that I finished my hat! I actually finished the base of it on Monday, and just had to do the flower yesterday, which took nearly as long as the hat. (It’s very difficult to get a decent photo of something in particular in your own phone! And I don’t have a button to attach the flower properly yet, which is why it is just balanced randomly on my head.) I was home yesterday too. After getting up in the middle of the night on Monday to do something about a paining ear I went to the doctor on Tuesday morning and discovered that I have a middle-ear infection. Those of you who have read this blog for a while, and remember small details, might recall that I’ve already HAD a middle-ear infection, not so long ago. I was perturbed about this too, as up until last year I had never had one in my life and taken very few antibiotics. But, apparently last year has nothing to do with this year and it’s just “bad luck” that I got another one. I compared sick-notes with a lady at work this morning, who was away recently with this same bug, and her niece had a middle-ear infection with it. So it seems it’s just part of the deal. (I am home again this afternoon. I went into work for a few hours this morning to get a few things done before press day, and the air-conditioning is broken and it’s a little horrible and I'm a little stuffed up – AND I have a medical certificate for today, which I think is my first one ever, and so when I had finished I thought I might as well make the most of it and go home.) Anyway, in my search for a local doctor I was at Broadway shopping centre and had some time to kill before the appointment and I noticed that the large poster in the Sportsgirl window displays a girl in a yellow crocheted hat, not unlike my own. So I went into the shop for a closer look, and hanging nearby was another hat, complete with flower! So, I don’t usually let Sportsgirl dictate my clothing choices, but it’s nice to know that I am somewhere within the ball-park of fashion.