Su

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My age does not usually bother me in negative ways. In France they say, “Quel âge as-tu?”, literally “What age have you?”, which I think is much better than, “How old are you?” (at any age) –

– but when I anglicise this to, “What age are you?” it seems to confuse a surprising number of people. I keep doing it though.

Entering my 60s, I did find myself dwelling rather more on my own mortality than I ever used to. Death itself is not the worry, rather the manner of ones death.

Will it be quick and relatively pain free or long and drawn out and painful? Fortunately I am fairly good at living in the moment – not dwelling on the past or fretting about the future.

Having lived in Zimbabwe and travelled in other parts of Africa, one thing I love is seeing women in beautiful outfits (mostly dresses) in great fabrics which have been made to fit (and suit) their own bodies perfectly.

I love a frock! And I love having ones that I have made using my own patterns with my own measurements (at the time).

The trouble with sewing is you really need to have a sewing space set up (and an even bigger cutting space). Knitting is great because you can just pick up your project bag (I have many – very many) and sit and knit. So I knit. A lot! Especially since I “retired”.

And because I like unique things I do a lot of my own designs. I say, “a lot” but when I do a round up at the end if each year it is probably only a dozen things. So when people say (as some often do) “You should make things to sell.” I try not to laugh. If I wanted to make money I would go back to being an accountant!

I’ve always been pretty happy with my body. I think being a bit lighter would be good from a health point of view, but I feel fairly healthy.

Age brings more aches and pains and the body heals more slowly than it did in the past, but I’m lucky not to be too troubled by such things. 

At 62 (soon to be 63) I’m hoping for another 20 to 30 years. I love life and am not tired of it yet.

– Su’s offering to the project is a knitted image of kelpies. A kelpie is a mythical shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Scottish folklore. Kelpies are usually described as black horse-like creatures able to adopt human form. Some accounts state that the kelpie retains its hooves when appearing as a human.

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