This is nothing to do with tatting but worth reading, I hope.
Yesterday I attended (accompanied by 'you know who') a special and lovely dinner and presentation. I was given an award. Something I'd been working towards, despite a few hiccups, since I was about thirty two ish. Even though I'd been on this 'campaign' for all those years I didn't realise quite what I'd achieved!!!
You can see me in the picture BUT the bravest and most courageous people were standing either side of me. They stood up and spoke about their children (one a teenager and the other in his early twenties) who had died tragically of leukemia. I tell you it nearly made me cry to hear them speak and to hear how much help they'd needed to gain an extra few months (for one couple) and a year (for the other couple) of life for their children. Sadly they both died.
Please, please PLEASE do help people like them as it's so easy to do. All you need to do is donate a unit of blood regularly. Not a lot to ask - it doesn't hurt and it's a good health check for yourself (that's a bonus and one which I was grateful for a few years ago). If you know ANYBODY and particularly teenagers who are eligible then please encourage them to donate wherever you are in this world of ours.
Oh, I got a badge, a glass crystal plate, a big clap and the photo below as well as a stonking good meal and all I did was lie on a bed 75 times, bleed into a bag, scoff tea and biscuits and trot off home. See how easy it is.
Oh, by the way, here in the UK we do it for free too. I believe that in America people are paid for their donations so even more of a reason to donate!!!