I really wanted to make an update for Wild Folk to let you all know about progress I have been making, so, I made a short film, wrote a blogpost, then realised when almost finished that I had put it onto the wrong site. Now, I am almost 2 weeks out of having a knee operation, am walking on crutches, coming off painkillers, and obviously addle brained. It takes a maximum of effort to get anything done, and I was feeling so good about achieving this one small piece of work, until I realised I had put it onto The Unwinding Cards site instead of here. So, I decided to leave it there. 

Needless to say it has been a hard few weeks, both in the run up to the op, and since. I have never had an operation before. One of the things that has carried me through has been the kindness of friends and strangers. Another has been this story; a place to lose myself, to hide, a place of refuge and respite, a dreaming. 

There is knitting in the story, song, myth, seawater and the colours of the sea, weather, wild. Above are some small boots I made for my first  grandchild, due in December, currently sailing in the Baltic. 

If you would like to read the posting that should have been here please follow this link. For now, I need to go and rest, with an icepack on my knee. I'm resting still in my knitting, which is soft and complex, and in this book, the cover of which haunted me, demanding that I buy it, until I did, and I have not been sorry:

Tamsin has been creating some amazing artwork and will also be posting an update soon. For now I turn my attention to rivers, and the small folk who live along these arteries on the land. Can you tell me, what is your favourite river?