Clothing

Woke up this morning and decided that I can finally retire what is probably the last item of parental clothing still in active use, to wit one heavy duty brown woollen sweater, which we suspect of being more than 40 years old. It was getting very frayed around the edges and it took up a lot of shelf space. I shall have to manage with the new blue sweater which is a little lighter and the newish-to-me multi coloured (Jacob sheep sort of thing) sweater which is a little heavier. Hopefully I shall manage. Hopefully also the large amount - 1lb 9oz - maybe £50 worth of wool retail - of sound brown wool will be recycled somewhere useful.

PS: after I had made this post, BH told me that she knows at least one person who unpicks old sweaters and reuses the wool. Unravel the sweater, wash the resultant wool, do something to get most of the wrinkles out, rewind it and you are ready to go. Apparently wool will go around many times in this way; you lose a bit each time but the wool itself is sturdy stuff. We thought about doing something of the sort, mainly so that we could boast about it later, but decided against. Let the recyclers do their stuff.