... knitting needles? I'm having a problem... Which is, of course, caused by the fact that I am a bl**dy foreigner and started out knitting in Germany, where sizes are different! I know I can get all the needles in all the sizes in Shetland (Lerwick is knitter's paradise!), but at the moment I can't even find a mailorder place to get needles from, and I don't happen to have the small change necessary to pop up north for a day. John Lewis in Aberdeen used to be good at these odd sizes, but now they don't even sell anything smaller than 2.75mm - and I rarely use anything larger than 2.5mm... And I have already tried all the craft shops in the area.
Anyway - I need circular needles, 2.5mm and 3.5mm, 100cm long at least. That's for the top-down jumpers; they get quite big across the chest. I have several in both thicknesses in 80cm (thank you, Lidl - plus some from way back which I've "imported"), and I have already started in that size, so don't want to undo what I have already and start again!
If I can't get them locally (i.e. in UK), I'll order them from Germany. But I thought I'd try here first...