I know this is totally unrelated to knitting but I suppose it's sometimes nice to veer away from the usual.

Does anyone else get road rage? I need to rant. I am sooo wound up. Driving home from my mums 5 minutes away, I'm driving uphill, up a road with speedbumps, and all cars park on the left hand side. The only space on the left hand side was big enough as a parking space for one car but even then it was tight.

Driving in the middle of the road due to the parked cars, another car comes flying down, does not stop to let me carry on driving up seeing as 'helllooooo' there's nowhere for me to go apart from forwards. The car ploughs forward down the road, brakes hard as it realises I'm coming forward and ain't pulling over nowhere seeing as the last gap I could have pulled over in was ten car lengths away, and then beeps angrily. At me! I was already driving up the blimmin road! So they stop. And do not move. And look at me. I look back. Where the heck do they want me to go!? The parking space near me would take even the smallest car about 5 mins to reverse into so there's no way I'm attempting that just to let some pig headed selfish driver past that should have stopped for me in the first place! They sit and stare some more. Mouthing various swearwords which I cannot repeat, I start to reverse back down the road (about 10 cars long), I make it about 2 inches before they set off with a start, up the curb on the pavement on their side, and round me and carry on their merry way. I couldn't believe it!

Argh! Sooo sorry, I needed to rant and no one is home at the moment to rant to! :rant:

Knitting related - my fingers are really stiff today for some reason. I think it's due to the large amount of knitting I have been doing lately. Does anyone else find they get stiff joints and leave knitting for a few days?

Knitting rage?
Is this Hecates twin sis?

I absolutely detest drivers like that!
Roads in portsmouth are small, as the houses were built around the 1900's. There are usually cars parked on either side, so theres only room for one car, although there are usually pull in spaces.

Well,drivers round here have to be courteous, so much so that it spoils you whenever you drive anywhere else! Even the neighbouring town where my mum lives, they're pig ignorant and some, rather than put their hand up to thank you for letting them pass, they will actually look away from you! It does get me riled, and when they're especially ignorant I've been known to yell profanities at them.
I try not to though, as I ostly have my little 2 in the car who repeat what you say!

It does get me riled, and when they're especially ignorant I've been known to yell profanities at them.
I try not to though, as I ostly have my little 2 in the car who repeat what you say!

Ha! I bet that's hilarious, although certainly not to be encouraged. I know a little boy that watches Big Brother, and as there is a guy with tourettes in there, the little boy keeps copying him by randomly shouting out swear words. His mum tries to keep a straight face whilst telling him off for it but doesn't manage it very well :)

I had a nice long shower so am more calmed down now!

Knitting rage?
Is this Hecates twin sis?

Yes, I get knitting rage too! Quite often I can be found sitting in the middle of a heap of yarn cursing and swearing about stitches and needles.

Feel free to vent whenever you wish, gempud :) .

I'm generally fairly chilled, but one thing which does annoy me intensely is dreadful, unsafe driving. Drivers who drive about a foot away from your back bumper in an attempt to get you to speed up (not going to work, matey; you're just going to pish me off). Stupid over-taking manouveres. Blasting the car horn at 4 am because they're too much of a lazy arse to get out of the car and knock on the door of whoever they're picking up.

I feel much better for that.

As for the knitting aches and pains, I tend to get what I think is tendonitis due to having to keep my fingers in a constant position. Fortunately, it doesn't happen too frequently and disappears fairly rapidly. It's most noticible when I'm using fine DPNs for sock knitting; presumably because the pressure from the needles is focussed on a smaller area.

Yes I find it is worse with smaller needles. Especially if I'm doing something more difficult as I think my fingers tense with the concentration. I've heard that contintental is supposed to be better for anyone who has problems with stiff joints, although I have no idea as to whether that is true.

Yes I find it is worse with smaller needles. Especially if I'm doing something more difficult as I think my fingers tense with the concentration. I've heard that contintental is supposed to be better for anyone who has problems with stiff joints, although I have no idea as to whether that is true.
I've heard that about continental knitting too, though I've no experience of it myself. I think it's possibly because the movements are smaller than with the English method.

I have attempted the Continental method once before, but I really couldn't get into it. I guess the method you've been taught gets deeply ingrained, so you find it difficult to change to something else.

Actually, the Tendonitis thing.

I know a good and rapid cure for it, I suffered with it for years and had to have cortizone jabs and they were even going to operate at one stage and pure fear helped me to invent a good remedy.

If you have any probs let me know and ill give you the method, its easy to do.

Ooooh let me know. Is it exercises?

Ooooh let me know. Is it exercises?
Its pretty simple stuff involving a 6 foot length of string a foot long length of broomstick and a light weight.

You tie one end of the string to the weight and the other end to the broom handle.
All you need to do is stand and reel in the weight slowly by rolling the handle with your palms facing downwards.
Once the weight is reeled in, turn your palms upwards and reel it out again. do that three times a week and in a few weeks all the pain will be gone.

sounds daft and simple but it works, ive been doing it for seven years now without a twinge.