I think I'm going to take up a new career as a spy.  I have nothing better to do.....and this seems like it might be a fun job.

I'm going to use my knitting as a cover operation, and I'm going to write to people, volunteering to knit a hat for them....and then I'm going to use the information they give me to spy on them.

Yes, I'm going to leave my home and my family, waste all my husband's hard earned money on gas, cheap motels and fast food, and I'm going to spy on people.  I'm going to use my 3 megapixel cheap-o digital camera, wear my Sam Spade trenchcoat and hat, take up smoking, drinking coffee from a thermos, eat a dozen doughnuts every day and cultivate a nice set of hemmarhoids and I'm going to sit outside people's houses and apartments and take pictures of them. Then, when I've got 'inside' information on them, I'm going to use that information...for what I don't know yet, but I'm sure something will come to me.

So, if I've knitted or have volunteered to knit a beanie for you, look out.  Keep your blinds pulled tight and lock your doors, change your telephone numbers, keep a lookout for a short redheaded chick wearing a variety of fake noses, glasses with no lenses and an assortment of different hats when you're strolling through the park or the mall,  and take a different route to and from work every day because you never know when I might be there, watching you.....

...and don't think that living in a different country means you're 'safe' from me....Quantas and British Airways are offering some remarkably cheap flights at this time you year, y'know.

No-one is safe from Dharma the spy.....

(this might have seemed like a crack-headed article to some of you, but there are a few who will hopefully get a giggle out of it....either that or become a little more paranoid....)