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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

NaNoWriMo planning

It's October now. My novel idea has more shape, my good guy has a face, and a sidekick, and a couple of minor quests to pull off before she faces the bad guy. I have a way to tell a bunch of back story and experiment with writing

Aquarium Day

The next day in Chicago was Aquarium day. We took the blue line into the centre of town from the airport. At least, we tried, there was a section of line closed so everyone was dumped off the train and onto shuttle buses to reach the next train. After some

Visiting The Fold

Friday morning we drove out to The Fold, about an hour from our hotel, going from city, to suburb, to country. It was a nice sunny day and we were driving past cornfields and farms, and houses. We almost drove straight past The Fold because it looked like just another

It's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses

We're going to Chicago for a long weekend. Plans are to visit the Field Museum and see Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and visit the Shedd Aquarium. Hubby is also taking me to visit The Fold, I'm excited! I have budget to spend from my failed attempt

Addiction, thy name is Lego

Hello, my name is Ali and I'm addicted to the Lego Star Wars game on the XBox 360. The first four levels are complete and I have everyone on the Millennium Falcon en route to the wreckage of Alderaan. I'm not solving all the puzzles and

LHC damaged

BBC News: Hadron Collider halted for months. The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says. Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure. But

Loose threads

I have a misbehaving plot bunny. It arrived all enthusiastic with a NaNoWriMo 2008 t-shirt on, and now it's just loafing around and not contributing to anything. I have a great bad guy with a cool back story and an actor lined up to play him (David Anders

Dragon eggs

If they get enough clicks and visits, they should hatch. I like the look of the orange one.

Christmas is coming

I used to hate the smug people that got all their Christmas shopping done by October, until I moved to the US and had to be one of them. The last mailing date for parcels to the UK sent by sea used to be some time in October. Sea mail

Autumn Knitty

The autumn Knitty is out! It was up, it went down, it got back up again... First, the patterns. Waves of Grain is a beaded lace scarf pattern that might be perfect for my Wollmeise. Anne Shirley is nice, but for some other yarn. The 1840 Nightcap would be a

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