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DARN GOOD SKILL
I really had to smile when I saw the article on ‘How to darn your socks’ (Month in the Country, February issue). But it brought back to me some great memories. My mum and dad both worked full time, so some jobs around the home were often left undone.
At junior school, when I was about eight, we were all in assembly when the teacher told me to pull up my socks from around my ankles. I pulled them up and revealed big