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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Monsters in the closet

Popped into Barnes and Noble yesterday for some quiet time after a wildly sucessful knitting morning at my house. Around fifteen people crammed into my living room, stitching and talking, learning new techniques and ogling patterns. I'm a person who values alone time, so we went to the

Phantom

If you haven't already seen the movie version of Phantom of the Opera, go see it now. Today. It's excellent. The Phantom is handsome then repulsive, Raoul is a little blond for my taste but well played, and Minnie Driver plays Carlotta brilliantly. The voices are

Music

Bowling for Soup "1985" The Killers "Somebody told me" Ingram Hill "Will I ever make it home" Howie Day "Collide" Gavin Degraw "I don't want to be" Green Day "Boulevard of broken dreams" If I could

Mini Mac

Fresh off the press, a Mac Mini for $499. A Mac people have a hope of affording without mortgaging the cat, one you can use with your existing monitor and peripherals, one that looks oddly like a biscuit tin or a toaster, but way cooler and much better in the

Quick coaster pattern

Materials: One reference coaster Size 7 needles (Or larger, I knit really tightly) 1 ball of Lily Sugar n Cream Cast on 21 stitches. Work four rows in knit 3 purl 3 rib. Work four rows in purl 3 knit 3 rib. Continue until size matches the reference coaster. Cast

Ouch!

I'm sat on the floor in front of the coffee table, peaceably eating my chicken curry. Behind me, Quantum the cat is sleeping on the futon. Suddenly it feels like I've been whacked on the head by the phone directory! My neck burns, my eyes water.

UK Blogs to read

Found two nifty blogs linked from a BBC article about blogging. The article starts with Queen of the Sky, a blogger fired when her employer spotted a picture it didn't like on her blog. Random Acts of Reality is a blog written by "an E.M.T

Commodore rides again?

Commodore finds new lease of life. The once-famous Commodore computer brand could be resurrected after being bought by a US-based digital music distributor. New owner Yeahronimo Media Ventures has not ruled out the possibility of a new breed of Commodore computers. It also plans to develop a "

Rounding up the year

The Tsunami blog has links to sites you can donate to. On the home front, the basement has been painted a happy shade of pale yellow, as opposed to the dingy white it used to be. Finished the second coat today, and it's a huge improvement. The Morehouse

Toxic green!

This is my favourite Christmas gift from Hubby: The Morehouse Farm Snake Scarf kit: Every other project is temporarily on hold while I knit this scarf. Aside from the gorgeous variegated toxic green colour, I get to wear the unwound skein like a big necklace while I'm working.

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