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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Tea Party

Spotted the pattern for the Fiesta Tea Set by Annie Modesitt in the Summer 2004 Interweave Knits and fell in love with it. I've ordered her book, Confessions of a Knitting Heretic, just waiting for it to arrive. Also waiting for my stranded colour knitting book by Nanette

Unfenced

It is a measure of how nasty the old fence was that the house looked nicer with no fence at all. It was an elderly stockade fence with peeling white paint that leaned in all the wrong places. The corpse of the old fence was stacked on the driveway last

Ray of sunshine

The Itchy Feet hiking socks Travel Bug I knitted is currently somewhere in Minnesota. I made a miniature pair of Mermaid socks from Lucy Neatby's Cool socks, Warm feet book. It's just been picked up, and the geocacher who nabbed it left this comment: ...gathering TBugs

Teleportation

Quantum physics news: Teleportation breakthrough made. Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports. The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem in the US and Austria. The ability to transfer key properties of one particle to

Therapy cat

Quantum is about two years old now, she was our house warming present from Pat and Jodi. Her tail had been crushed, and then amputated since it wouldn't have healed, so she's a bobtail cat. Her previous owners didn't want her without the tail,

God and free will

Interesting post on connexions by Mike: Gods great game. Go read the whole thing in context, I picked these paragraphs out because they made me stop and think what I believe. Maybe I'm looking at the issue on too large a canvas; surely I have to believe that

Funeral

I'm getting Princess-Diana-Funeral-Week flashbacks. When Princess Diana died, we'd just come out of watching Conspiracy Theory, and we were sneaking a shortcut through Guildford Railway Station to get home. There was a late edition of the Evening Standard on sale in the station WHSmiths saying Diana

Grab bag

Lipmedic International Lip Balm Boutique, link via Kat. If you had any idea how many lip balms I've sent through the washer, you'd be getting shares in this place. Charlotte's Web is beautiful, but it's a shawl. I'm not going

Gardening Observations

Three people multiplied by two and a quarter hours plus one electric hedge trimmer, two rakes, and one broom equals eight and a half bags of yard waste plus one dramatically improved yard. Contemplative hedge trimming doesn't work too well. Contemplative raking and sweeping works a lot better.

Ear Worms

I picked up a new CD at the weekend, The Rough Guide to Brazilian Electronica, and it's full of "ear worms." That's not a bad thing, it's a great CD and the songs stick in my head. I found this BBC Science

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