Today I cut down a tree.
This may seem rather hypocritical given my recent distress over similar shenanigans by the city council (I can feel Treebeard and Dogmatix looking at me reproachfully), but hear me out.
Knitting Handcuffs
Old Flossie settled down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the thread.
“I knit handcuffs as a hobby,” explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. “Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.”
from What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire