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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

The Lace Bug

Winter Knitty is out! The Poinsettia neck warmer looks perfect for me, I hate the gap between coat and neck. Ordered a skein of Opulence yarn from The Woolen Rabbit in Burning Embers, a warm orange that's perfect for dispelling winter greyness. The greyer the days, the more

Technoslang

BBC News: Don't be 404, know the tech slang. A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them. For instance, "404" - the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage - has come to mean "clueless"

Go play on the highway

How many times do you get the chance to go play on the highway? Actually ON the highway, walking down the centre lane snapping photos and dodging bikes and basset hounds? A five mile stretch of Highway 40/Interstate 64 in St Louis has been closed all year. This was

Recipe: Roast Potatoes

We made 2 batches of these over Thanksgiving, and both were very well received. I don't think this is a familiar recipe to Americans, but it's a standard part of the British Christmas Dinner menu. * Enough potatoes to feed everyone * Vegetable oil Peel the potatoes and

Just rewards

I ordered some fibre from Susan's Spinning Bunny as my reward for completing my NaNoWriMo novel this year, and it has arrived: (I'm having a hard time taking good photos because the sun is setting earlier, so the colours you see are not necessarily accurate.) I&

Keeping the clocks on time

BBC News: Meet the world's director of time. As 2008 turns to 2009 at the end of this month, an extra second will be added to every clock. But who decides exactly what time it is? Professor Brian Cox meets the man in charge of all our timekeeping

Back to the Routine

I took a long-neglected, half-knitted sock to the final Sunday NaNoWriMo write-in and chatted with the other winners. The sock came to work with me this week instead of my laptop. The cable isn't as visible as I'd like, but this yarn has

Winding down

It was all drama this weekend, Hubby was right down to the wire. He wrote four thousand words on Saturday at the final St Charles write-in, and over ten thousand words on Sunday night to squeak over the finish line around 10pm. I am so proud of him for

The End

Went to the final St Charles write-in today and finished my NaNoWriMo story at the Crooked Tree Coffee Shop. I can actually type "The End" without feeling guilty. 51,785 words and it ended at a really good point. My December writng project is to write the

Green!

I crossed the threshold at lunchtime, my NaNoWriMo 2008 novel is at 50138 words. I'm writing chapter eleven of twelve, so I still have some story to get done, but it's a good feeling to see the icon change from "Participant" to "WINNER&

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