Govt. announcement - Financial bail (bale) out for the wool trade unnecessary.

...dovegreyreader single-handedly injects sufficient cash into the marketplace to quantitatively ease and shore up the wool trade against the recession. Governor of Bank of England Mervyn King sends personal message of gratitude and now able to re-direct his £75bn of new money currently being printed to other more needy markets ...there is talk of dovegreyreader being enshrined on a high value bank note in recognition of services to the nation's wool economy.
We went here...again.
And there it was, wool...snug and warm, happy and content, cosied up on the shelves and by one heck of a stroke of good fortune up for adoption.
Today.
As you know Spin-A-Yarn love their wool dearly so I had to go through a pretty rigorous assessment and selection process to even be shortlisted, but imagine my delight when they agreed that I had been accepted as a wool-mother.
After a lot of umming and aahing, holding and stroking, shall-I-shalln't-I-ing I eventually decided to re-home 400gms of Noro Kochoran, a wool,silk and angora 50-20-30% mix which is like knitting with smooth spun butter but less messy.
and I made room for some of this Noro Sock Wool to keep it company.
I then decided that the principle of workman-tools-best must apply and so have also taken in a stray pair of Lantern Moon Rosewood needles.
Lantern Moons I now discover are the equivalent of knitting with an Alfa Romeo Mito GTA ( yes I typed 'must-have car' into google) when you've been used to chugging along with a 1960s Ford Cortina even if it did have a go-faster stripe.
All of which gains me promotion to the elite. I have now spent enough to reside in Spin-A-Yarn Loyalty Card 10% discount territory for ever and ever.
The non-knitter might erroneously think that to knit was just well...to knit.
Any old needles, doesn't matter what they are like.
Us knitters know otherwise, and yea though we be in possession of many hundreds of needles these are never sufficient for the next piece of work.
These are the tools of our trade to be upgraded and improved upon at every opportunity (is this convincing enough?) and with Lantern Moons, which are indeed like swapping a Fiesta for a Bentley, and my Brittany birchwoods, my days of plastic Aero's are long gone.
It seemed imperative to get the Kochoran onto the Lantern Moons and settled into their new home right away and I love the little Colinette Prism waistcoat so much I 'need' another one.
This wool really is the such stuff as dreams are made on and I must remember that's The Tempest in case it comes up in next year's book day quiz.