A Tiny Reward

Kirriemuir, 1944 — The Knitter’s Break. Effie Boyd took in knitting to help make ends meet, her fingers aching by the time the clock crept near midnight. She’d stop for ten minutes, make a mug of Ovaltine, and stir it with her 1910 apostle spoon — a tiny reward, a pause no one else saw but her. Those ten minutes became sacred. She used them to plan, to dream, to count blessings instead of stitches. Work still filled the days, but life no longer felt like only work. Now made into a ring, the spoon honours the small boundary she made between effort and exhaustion — and how it kept her going.