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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

The World According to Tea

The Coronet Hat is finished. It is going to a good home with a good friend. I'll take photos before I send it off. Happy travels, Hat, it was fun making you. It took almost all of the skein of Lamb's Pride worsted in Raspberry, and

Required ranting

Song for the day: Tears for Fears "Everybody wants to rule the world." Watching the BBC interactive election map thing last night was addictive. Frequent downloads of new information, states flashing red, blue, or grey, predictions and assumptions flying. Kerry has officially conceded so Bush wins, also winning

Plutonium

Russian man kept 'bomb' plutonium. This is worrying. A former Russian nuclear scientist has reportedly handed over to police eight containers of weapons-grade plutonium he had stored at home for eight years. The 400g (14oz) of plutonium-238 - a highly radioactive compound that could be used in

Poll results

I finished the Coronet hat last night, after two failed attempts at the decreases. It looks pretty nifty. Sometime this week I will start on the hemp blend socks. Thanks to everyone who voted! I'll work on the front of the Eternal Sweater next, and after that I&

Severe novel-related writing panic

I may not be posting much for the month of November. I've been anticipating NaNoWriMo since October 9th when I signed up. I've never done anything like this before and I must be crazy! I figure I have some time at lunch to write, and an

Lost Keys

How stress can make you lose your keys. Evidence of how stress disrupts rational decision-making and short-term memory is reported today in research that could lead to drugs to treat mental illness. The work sheds light on why it is harder to remember where you left your keys

Brain dump

The great thing about supporting the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team is that when they lose, it's not splashed all over the US radio, TV, and newspapers like with some St Louis Cardinals I could mention. And because the All Blacks are one of the best rugby

Project philosophy

Back when I started knitting my first sweater it was unthinkable that I have more than one project running at once. Now I'm more in a "one big project and a couple of small ones" mode. The top limit is four projects. Right now I'

A Lather of Indecision

The band of the Coronet hat is complete, now comes the really scary part: picking up ninety stitches around it. Picking up stitches is something I taught myself and I'm not good at it. Norma the Incorrigible (sounds like a Viking, or a Veggie Tales character!) provided an

Demolition Rabbits

Rabbit threat: Rabbit invasion puts Roman forts under siege. Rabbit warrens are undermining the foundations of forts and other structures. I love the last quote though! "Ardoch is without question the best preserved Roman fort in Scotland, and it would be a tragedy if it too was to be

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