I was desperately trying to think of something to different to write about msf, and about why the money we are raising was so important. Everything I was wanting to say sounded so trivial, and I also wanted to do something different.

After all p/hop is all about being different, knitting in itself is different, standing out fro the crowd and saying “I care enough to do something” is different. Every time I log on to Ravelry I see that someone else has p/hopped something different. I even gained a spinning wheel and the chance to do something different thanks to p/hop.

In the end I decided to revert to type, I’m a teacher, I’ve just finished teaching my Year 9’s about vaccination, we were discussing why vaccinations are done. They had no idea what many diseases were. The words measles, mumps, rubella, TB, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio mean nothing to them. None of them had ever known anyone with any of those diseases. Every child in the UK will get vaccinated against those diseases, it won’t cost their parents anything.

I want to live in a world where every teacher can talk about vaccinations and have to explain what the diseases they protect against are.

That’s why I design patterns for p/hop, that’s why I offer things I don’t want to others, that’s why I donate.

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Thank you HilltopKatie. You can read more from Hilltopkatie here including a competion to win some ready knitted p/hop patterns and other knitted goodies, all in aid of p/hop.

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