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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Life and knitting

On Monday I discovered the cure for the common cold, it works almost instantly. Struck oil in the back yard on Tuesday and invented a car engine that runs on cold fusion lunchtime today. My cat Quantum got nominated for the Nobel Prize for Economics and the novel I wrote

Skydiving

No-one ever told me before today it is possible to lose a shoe while skydiving. I was with two other first timers, and all three of us immediately tightened our shoes. "If you lose one, just kick the other one off so you don't look like an

Wow!

Weekend to do list * Finish sewing up Summer purse (half done) * Collect Harry Potter book (probably Sunday afternoon) * Drive out to Vandalia IL, watch training video, spend some time with instructor, put on harness and jumpsuit, fly up to 14,000 feet, exit plane strapped to tandem skydive instructor, do

Pattern help

Came in to work to find a pretty bag containing two balls of Blue Sky Alpacas Worsted yarn, and a lovely card from Nancy. Thank you! Cuddly soft yarn in a good colour, what in the world do I knit with it? It happened that today was a mite chilly

Saturday random

Saw AAA get into my friends locked car in under five minutes, turning up only thirty five minutes after they were called. Wonderful service! I've never seen anyone break into a car before. Taught two people to knit today, mother and daughter. It went surprisingly well. Got a

Britishness

Excellent LJ icon created by jslayeruk: The massive quotes post from Uncle Steve. The London Transport Museum has nifty little bears wearing sweaters with station names on. The official London Underground (aka the Tube) map bears absolutely no relation to real distance or scale, and evolved from a design by

Quantum Tea, Inc.

Quantum Tea Inc. is an official corporation in the state of Missouri. I just filed the annual report and tidied up some tax paperwork, there's a new logo coming, designed by the lovely and highly talented Gloria Buckman, and all is shiny and wonderful. Nothing's going

Lemming sheep

450 sheep jump to their death in Turkey. ISTANBUL, Turkey - First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported. In

London

Someone bombed my favourite city. Three bombs in the London Underground system, one on a double decker bus. A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others. Three explosions on the Underground left 35 dead, two died

Opal

New Opal sock yarn is coming out, four collections later this year. The Rainforest collection has some good colours, especially the Fish, Flamingo, Owl, and Tiger. No, it's not the legendary Opal Tiger, but it looks like the same colours.

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