27/05/2026
So confession time.
As a Yarn Shop Owner, we HATE the hot weather. Nobody is buying yarn. Even me, who will knit throughout the whole year, didn't knit this weekend. Even I won't knit when it's 35 degrees.
Yet I've still got to pay the mortgage (both mine and the shop!), pay staff costs, pay tutors, pay yarn bills. And with next to nothing coming in, that's a conundrum.
But you know what, on a personal level, I LOVE the sun. I've spent a whole weekend splashing round in a paddling pool with my small people and my parents. I've had white wine spritzers, long evenings chatting, and all the giggling.
Even today when I'm back in mostly work mode (I mean not properly, it's half term, I'm a parent this week 🤣) I've listened to the giggling and splashing, and now we're having a BBQ and soaking up the evening sun.
So it's a constant contradiction in my brain. Yay, it's sunny, followed by aaaaaaaargh I've got to pay the mortgage next week. Shortly followed by let's have a water fight, and aaaaargh I need to pay the wages!
Anyone else work in a job where their work brain argues with their home brain the whole time?!! 🙈🤣
PS please buy some yarn?!
