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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Lavender nonsense

Heard a radio ad today for a new range of lavender stuff called calm to your sensesTM from Origins. Normally I wouldn't pay much attention, I can't stand the smell of lavender, but the ad was focussed on Josephine, wife of Napoleon, and mentioned the year

Quiet time

Scheduling a regular quiet time is a headache. Sticking to the schedule is hard. How do you dig out a half hour of time when there's laundry to do, cats to feed, litter boxes to muck out, a house to keep clean, and a life to keep organised?

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Plan B:: Three Mile Island, nuclear meltdown. 2. Seattle:: Microsoft, home of the General Protection Fault and the Fatal Exception. 1. The lady wore:: red. 2. Upsetting:: flat cats on the road to work. 3. Tampon:: mouse. 4. Celebrity:: deathmatch. 5. Baja:: Suburu

Don't feed the birds

Feeding Trafalgar's pigeons illegal. Feeding Trafalgar Square's numerous pigeons becomes illegal from Monday. People caught feeding the birds face possible prosecution and a 50 fine, under a new by-law. But campaigners have said a legal loophole will let them carry on giving food to the

Judge Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments

CNN story Moore: 'Absolutely no regrets' A nine-judge panel unanimously voted to remove Roy Moore from his position as Alabama state Supreme Court chief justice Thursday, midway through his term. The judicial ethics panel removed him for defying a federal judge's order to move a

Miscellany

Great post on Ian's Messy Desk, a list of You know you're living in 2003 when... One of my best friends sent me a York Peppermint Patty through company internal mail yesterday, hand delivered by the mail guy. I'd never had one before and

No longer an Insignificant Microbe!

Wahoo! I've made it all the way up to Slithering Reptile as of today. Yay! I've finally evolved.

Where I'm from

Found an interesting writing assignment on Fragments from Floyd, based on the poem "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyons. Where I'm from I am from tea cups, from Twinings and tannin. I am from the haunted bathroom, (cold and primrose yellow, feeling dead

Three things

Meme from bardling, swiped from Plaid Dragon's blog. "Look around you right now and name 3 things you can see in the room you're in that make you smile/happy, even if it is just the tiniest little bit!" 1. Two pictures of my

Free association

Playing Unconscious Mutterings game of free association again. 1. Leapfrog:: playtime in Broke Hall Primary, stinging nettles. 2. Co-workers:: lawn mower, cookies, food days, friends. 3. Mustang:: Michelle from Alpha, watching Nicky Gumbel in the Engleman's living room. 4. Wafer:: communion at Evanston Vineyard IL, eighth wedding

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