Eddas, no, I'd love to meet NorthernLurker, maybe some time when I'm in Yorkshire we'll get to organise some way of doing so.
When I was so sad about my baby blanket being taken to carry off items of greater financial value in our burglary last month, Dippy asked a friend from Mumsnet to make a replacement.
DutchOma not only knitted a lovely new blanket for us, she came to deliver it in person and to meet Danny and me. I understand CD and DO know each other from the prayer threads and DO also posts on arts and crafts. Her daughter is a mumsnetter and that's how DO discovered the site.
I was wondering where I might take her, as the cafe culture areas are 2 miles from here in the opposite direction from our nearest tube station, and finally thought of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, named after our former local MP who died 8 years ago. They have a nice but rather posh cafe with highchairs - no proper changing facilities but at least the toilet floors are clean - I changed D in the disabled one and at least he didn't spray the floor.
We chatted about lots of stuff for well over 2 hours and it was a really lovely afternoon.
Thanks so much Dippy, and I'm thinking of my thank you post for DutchOma now.
Oh, and the blanket is really nice - the choice of colours is very like the one that was taken, but I think the wool is probably rather softer and nicer. I just need to recreate the marks where I burned the old one (can't remember how) and give it to the cats to sleep on for a few months now! (only kidding, I will treasure this blanket and treat it nicely but we'll definitely use it).