And if you search on the internet for ‘how to crochet’, you will be inundated with video tutorials of people wanting to share their crafting skills. (This is something I made use of last year as learning to crochet was one of the things I wanted to do during 2024!)

With the increasing pressures of ‘normality’ and the cost of living crisis, it is easy to worry that our sense of community will disappear again. But it seems to me that the evidence suggests otherwise.

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