Death Metal

reckon this is in the zone or what?  Try as I may, I still don't fully get death metal.... I listen to the radio a lot when I'm knitting, and often to two late night shows largely devoted to metal or its hybrids, so I'll keep trying for another while so I can try to understand the urge to seek out the soothsayer of orpheus because of the hell cats of the dæmon and so on.  No one could ever accuse them of lack of effort and that's for sure, and more power to their elbows (spoken with total sincerity of a knitter). 

I actually made this black and white shawl for a lawyer called Jane who apparently dresses in black and white a lot - It's Pagona by Stephen West and the yarn is Katia.  I don't know lawyer Jane so well, but what I do know is she helped Nira from Mauritius out with a citizenship application.  Nira's the main family breadwinner, and works very, very hard as a beautician while simultaneously processing all the troubles and triumphs of raising adolescents... Her struggle to keep her family in Europe for their education was titanic and leaves me not just in awe, but more than a bit shamefaced about certain things I took completely for granted.   

But, yabba-dabba-dobah... NIRA FINALLY GOT HER CITIZENSHIP THIS WEEK!   But another unsung herione is Jane who put in many hours on Nira's case and is refusing to take a cent.