Knitting Nannas

I had the opportunity over a period of time to join in on a knitting circle with a group of lovely ladies at a nursing home. This activity was mainly designed to get the ladies out of their rooms, to interact and keep busy. For some this was a serious task, for others it was the opportunity to chat about their families and gossip about the goings on around the place. For the alzeimer's sufferers it was therapeutic.

One of the ladies who turned up for the first time the day I took my camera hadn't knitted in over 20 years. She'd spent most of her life knitting but her hands got so riddled with chronic arthritis as she aged that she had to give it up. She was in her late nineties. She struggled to handle the needles but hadn't forgotten how to do it. She managed to knit some rows despite the pain she was in. She knitted with a huge smile on her face in amazement that she was actually doing it again after 20 years.

I really enjoyed my time in the knitting circle. I learned heaps about appreciating the really simple things in life.