Why don't I dress up as Debbie Bliss and lie in a camp bed during your knitting event? I could sign folks' jotters and knitting bags and if they ask me, I'd just say I caught MRSA from a dirty knitting needle and have to wear a bag on my head to hide the hole in my face eaten away by the flesh-eating bug...
Let me know if you want me to do that and I'll come down.
Sam (or should that be Debbie...)
Yeah, Debbie...
No, wait... Sam
Yeah, Sam