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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

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.

Factoids

Remind me never to drink a whole can of Redbull. Never again. Jittery and fast-forward-speed all morning, much to the amusement of my officemates, dull and nauseaus all afternoon. Next time I'm sticking with grapefruit juice. Still working on the back of the summer purse. Planned

Summer purse

Finished the front of my handbag. I think I'm going to need a fastener. There is an inset pocket, topped off with a half inch of contrast-coloured ribbing. I like it so far. There will be a patch pocket inside the back, and contrast-coloured sides and

Design mine

I started making the new purse. The front is mostly knitted now, it's lime, turquoise and yellow variegated Lily Sugar n Cream, the inset pocket is lime Sugar n Cream. Picked up a light blue canvas belt in an army surplus store to use as the strap. Pictures

Insecure passwords rampant

Computer passwords 'up for grabs'. Half of IT managers employed by large-sized companies believe it would be relatively easy to gain the core passwords for their computer systems. That is the warning of a survey by IT security firm Cyber-Ark. It said that 10% of firms

Surveying

Found this on Norma's blog. Larger sample sets lead to more accurate data, so go take the survey. Then peek at the preliminary results. More females have taken the survey than males as of today.

Houston, we have a problem

I had this nifty idea. Knit a blanket out of all the leftover bits of yarn! Then each time you see it, it will remind you of all the wonderful projects you've completed, it will be a piece of living history. Nice idea. I got this far with

Theory of time travel

New model 'permits time travel'. Fire up the TARDIS. If you went back in time and met your teenage parents, you could not split them up and prevent your birth - even if you wanted to, a new quantum model has stated. Researchers speculate that time travel can occur

Random facts

Nectarine stones can be digested by a hefty waste disposal, but please don't try this yourself. It's really noisy, it was an accident, and I'm not planning to do it again. There really is a creperie in St Louis. They have nutella and strawberry

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