Colours of Change

Helene Beret by Harpa  Jónsdóttir in Jamieson & Smith 100% Shetland Wool

... in a serious colour phase, which remains undiminished no matter how finnickety the work  or how diminished my eyesight too.  Each row is a surprise, and even when working a pattern knit before, five whole new fresh colours makes the end result an imponderable too.

While knitting this, I heard that my favourite radio station - Phantom FM - is effectively going out of business.  One way to view this is as the hard, cold loss of 16 jobs and knock-on effects on families concerned - as well as deprivation for the myriad of listeners of our chosen company for an hour or two as we make our various ways through days and nights.   And if you only thought that way,  you could get very upset.  

But then there's the other aspect that says maybe this is just the fork in the road, and just because automation works for high finance doesn't knock humanity out of the picture in every context...! and how often have we all been derailed into trying to knock square pegs into round holes? And hasn't Phantom survived other similar onslaughts in the past? And isn't a very interactive community with a niche following precisely the type of model around which the internet evolved? ! (And how I'm sure there are people miles ahead of me with this already)(hopefully)(because you can't keep a good ghost down)

And rather than a calamity, could this in fact be a potential half-way through to something leaner, meaner and all-round better? A liberation and potential blessing in disguise - ok, a very alarming one - for those most directly involved?