Every now and again, I experience a moment when it seems as if the universe is trying to give you a helping hand.  

Last year I learnt to do the basic chain, but I’ve never progressed beyond that.  I can’t quite follow the double and treble instructions in the books that I have and I didn’t practise enough after my aunt showed me to remember what to do.  Last night, I was decided that I really, really want to get on the case with crochet again.  This morning I got an email from the same people as ran the bike maintenance course I went on last month to say that they are running a crochet workshop in a few weeks.  Perfect.

As the writer Paulo Coelho put it, ‘When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it’.