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The simplest of tasks: from a skein to a ball

This Easter weekend, we went for our traditional trip to the city. Sydney downtown, for us, means taking the train to Central Station, walking to China town and Paddy's market, buying a bit of this and a bit of that (a pair of earrings this time to add to my collection of earrings from around the world), then eating wontons in hot chilli broth at our favourite china town place, finally walking down Darling Harbour, to the Queen Victoria building (QVB), where my son loves playing the public piano. His main love these days is Chopin, and he pulled quite a little happy crowd.  With all this under our belts, mum gets her treat - we go to Morris and Sons , the yarn shop on York Street, just 2 minutes from the QVB, that makes a yarn lover think that they are in a candy shop. Anyway, as always, my persistent observation that we knitters and crocheters end up buying way too much yarn. And well, it was Easter weekend after all, and I had been working crazy hard at the University, so I did