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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Blogger idol week one: "The 80s"

The big event in the 1980s for me was moving from the new house to That House. The 1980s was when we moved from Stowemarket, a small village in Suffolk, England, to Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. We bought That House in 1981. It seemed like a decent house

Circle Journey

Circle Journey is an interesting idea: you send a small notebook back and forth between two people like an ongoing letter. I mailed one to my sister today, should arrive in about a week.

Wallpaper

If you're going to stare at a screen all day, it may as well have something decent on it. I like computer generated artwork, usually landscapes and planetscapes, and these are my favourite artists: * Digital Blasphemy * Rob Randtoul * Ensar Yanar * Inga Nielsen * Ferenc Haraszti * Karen Williams * Juergen Eilts

Another haiku

I haven't posted in a couple of days because I was freaked out how far and wide the Cardinal Sins of Blogging list went. Someone in the Netherlands linked to it, a couple of places whose languages I can't identify, and a pile of other linkers.

Harold Shipman dead

Harold Shipman is dead, he hanged himself in his cell. [Shipman] was jailed for life in January 2000 for murdering 15 patients while working in Hyde, Greater Manchester. An official report later concluded he killed between 215 and 260 people over a 23-year period in Hyde and Todmorden, West

A haiku a day

Keeps everyone away? Journal writing class gave us a choice of several assignments and I went for the daily haiku, starting with this: I cannot write a haiku a day for a week. Much too hard for me. I am not a poet. Be thankful.

Cardinal Sins of Blogging

It's been a while since I created my list of the Cardinal Sins of Web Design, high time for a new list: the Cardinal Sins of Blogging. These are the content sins, for the design sins, you'll have to go read the full list. For the

Leaving a Trace

From "Leaving a trace" by Alexandra Johnson Today, sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life, a time when we're not graded, not performing. It's a time when one attempts some truth, silencing

Blogdom Kerfuffle

The "Blogdom of God" kerfuffle has been mentioned on several blogs of late (Bene Diction, Irene Q, Can You Hear Me Now and others). I mention it partly as an excuse to use the word "kerfuffle" in a semi-serious context. The Blogdom is an aggregator

Writing colours

An Onionboy prompt Close your eyes. With your eyes closed turn your head in some direction, wait a beat, open your eyes ... ... describe your impression(s) of the first colour that took your interest. Cream. The cream colour of the curtains in the study, set against the white walls and

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