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Wool I never!

Click click click, clack clack clack.

It was a sound I'd been used to since my childhood.

My mum, Elizabeth, and my big sister, Lynda, tapping away with their knitting needles!

Mum taught Lynda to make colourful scarfs, woolly bedspreads and jumpers.

I learnt a little but could never get the hang of it

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