Sign in Subscribe

Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

About the sock yarn

Wow! Thirty seven comments in just one day! Thanks Norma, much obliged. I'll mail to Canada too, sorry for excluding the Canadians unfairly. On Friday night I'll pick the winner out of my colander (Friday's the first free night this week). The sad story

Free to a good home

Thank you for all the comments, the sock yarn was mailed out to the winner on Monday 18th April. I was going out of town this weekend, and I wanted to start a pair of socks to take with me. I pulled the best sock yarn I own out of

Tapas

Homegroup was officially off last night, and we went out for dinner. It was my first ever tapas experience at Modesto. Amazing food! Went with a group of about ten people, everyone trying everyone else's food. Everyone ordered two dishes and shared them. There were forks flying everywhere

Black holes

Black holes 'do not exist' Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed cannot exist. Over the past few

Pocket full of random

Traded iPods with a co-worker today, an interesting experience. Alice Cooper, Backstreet Boys, Ozzy Osbourne, and Barry Manilow make for an odd mix. I think I've corrupted him with Vanessa Mae. Hubby got me Alice Cooper's "Poison" on iTunes, one of my favourite songs.

Themes and nightmares

"Five to one against and falling ..." she said, "four to one against and falling ... three to one ... two ... one ... probability factor of one to one ... we have normality, I repeat we have normality." She turned her microphone off - then turned it back on, with a

New look

I'm upgrading Wordpress and all is not well in paradise. I'm using the default theme until I get it straightened out. Comments are my problem, and I am working on it. You might see some wierd stuff while I'm poking at the PHP. Sehlat

Peeps!

Things to do with leftover Peeps: * Heat tests * Cold tests * Acid and solvent tests * Vacuum tests Do not eat the eyes! Even phenol, a fairly vicious solvent, couldn't dissolve them.

Photo Op

It may come as a surprise, but I do own an ironing board. Comes in handy for photo shoots, blocking recalcitrant scarves, storing things on, all kinds of uses. Even ironing occasionally. This is the first Fair Isle I ever did, impaled on the ironing board. It really worked, after

Endangered

I love the kakapo. How can you not? It's a chubby, green, and flightless parrot, probably has a funny walk and is horribly endangered. These are some more of my favourite things: The Spotted-tailed Quoll Another endangered animal, another oasis of cute. This one's from Australia,

Follow me on Mastodon