Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Is it really so long?

I can't believe it's months, not weeks, since I updated the blog. We finished 2011 with our usual end-of-year party - all sorts of goodies to eat from many different cultures, a choice of teas and coffee and lots of talk and laughter. As usual, I was having so much fun that I forgot to take any photos! Next time I think we'll need a designated "photo monitor"!

The group has had its fair share of operations and illnesses over the last twelve months and our thoughts are with Brigid who has been very ill, and Gina, whose husband is recovering from major surgery. We hope to see them both back later in the year.

We seem to have a bit of steam up in the knitting of rugs and children's clothing - I've updated the figures in the side column for Mahboba's Promise, and will give a tally of the number of completed wraps in the next post - hopefully that will be in weeks, not months this time.

Do you ever check out the flag counter on the side? It monitors the visits to this blog. In the last 17 months, we have had 1,101 unique visitors to our page, from 32 different countries!


Country   Unique Visitors Last New Visitor
1.Australia867January 17, 2012
2.United States111January 16, 2012
3.United Kingdom36January 8, 2012
4.Taiwan34January 7, 2012
5.Russia8November 26, 2011
6.Japan6January 23, 2011
7.Germany4January 4, 2012
8.Canada4August 22, 2011
9.New Zealand3March 31, 2011
10.Belgium2January 14, 2012
11.Netherlands2January 4, 2012
12.South Africa2October 10, 2011
13.Romania2February 10, 2011
14.Jordan1December 5, 2011
15.Mexico1November 24, 2011
16.Spain1November 8, 2011
17.Serbia1October 23, 2011
18.Poland1October 4, 2011
19.Austria1September 9, 2011
20.Argentina1August 14, 2011
21.Israel1July 31, 2011
22.Portugal1June 29, 2011
23.Hong Kong1June 2, 2011
24.Brazil1April 10, 2011
25.Malaysia1February 14, 2011
26.Italy1December 26, 2010
27.Croatia1December 21, 2010
28.Iceland1December 16, 2010
29.Northern Mariana Islands1November 14, 2010
30.Sweden1October 21, 2010
31.Lithuania1August 19, 2010
32.Switzerland1August 19, 2010

No doubt a number found their way here by mistake! But we hope that everyone enjoyed their visit. If you do visit, we'd love you to leave a comment and tell us where you are from, and what sort of knitting you do.

We returned to the Library on January 12 after a short break over Christmas and New Year and will be meeting each Thursday as usual. We welcome new members and can always teach you to knit or crochet if you would like to join us.

As usual, donations of knitting wool/yarn are always welcome and can be dropped in at the library any time, or contact us on our email address and we can arrange to collect it.

Happy New Year to everyone - may much knitting be done!






No comments:

Post a Comment