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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Nonsense on food labels

"Organic sea salt" Salt is a mineral, so it can't be organic because organic stuff comes from organisms. I think they meant to say "natural sea salt" which is better, but it's still plain old sodium chloride, two pretty nasty chemicals if

Wish list yarn

(Don't have it, unlikely to get it, but nice to look at) * Opal Bumblebee (no longer available, except at extortionate prices on eBay) * Opal Crocodile 1 in olive green ($12.95 / 100g) * Polo cotton in beige stripe ($5.95 / 50g) * American Alpaca in undyed beige ($5.50 / 50g,

NAYY

I've been seeing that on the Knitlist and the Socknitters mailing list for weeks, finally found a place to explain what on earth it means: The Acronym Dictionary.

Return of the Jedi

I'm back. Crocuses are blooming, albeit only when I'm not looking at them, the yarn for Sarah's socks just arrived, there's a warm cat asleep on the chair next to me, season 6 of Stargate SG-1 on the telly, and a

On break

I'm taking a short blog break. Barring one Blogger Idol post, don't expect to see anything here until March 8th.

Blogger Idol Week Six - Movies

Movies that should never be made: * Anything based on a video game, or computer game (e.g. Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat). Just don't go there. * Sequels of movies based on games (e.g. Resident Evil 2) * Battles that pit the evil bad guys from two totally

Yarn tales

Started knitting my fourth sock today, the first two were trial socks, this pair is for my sister. It will be the first completed project I've done for someone who is not me, Hubby's sweater is still half done. I started the eternal sweater when we

Net heroes and villains

Top net villains and heroes named. Verisign got the villain of the year award. Britain's net industry has named internet domain giant Verisign as its villain of the year. It won the accolade for a system it set up that hijacked mistyped web queries and sent people to

Blogger Idol week 5 - Picture This

Did you ever read those photo comic strips in kids magazines? The wily hunter stalks her prey. "Who? Me?" (Play theme for "Jaws" here) "You don't scare me. Besides, there's better prey upstairs" In its lair upstairs, the vicious sock

Church planting

Quote from the Vineyard Leadership Institute intensive on church planting: "The secret of church planting is chocolate." John Mumford, National Director Vineyard Churches UK & Eire (Finished knitting my socks during the first half of John's video lecture on Saturday.)

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