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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Recipe: Better garlic bread

Hubby came up with this one as an experiment. Roasted garlic is milder and without the aftertaste. You end up with a golden brown garlic cheese loaf. * 1 head of garlic * some butter * grated cheese * 1 roll of Pillsbury dough * a little milk Slice the top off the head of

Four days of La Tour de Fleece

My goal for La Tour De Fleece is to spin a little every day, and I'm counting fibre preparation as spinning time. It's been fun cruising the participant list to see who's doing what. I'm going to save up my rest days

Tudor re-enactment

Fascinating article about Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk BBC News: Upstairs, downstairs. Last weekend I travelled back in time to a place where the worlds of those with lavish lifestyles were of necessity closely intertwined with those who provided them with all their everyday needs - the year

Diverted

There just happened to be this sock yarn in my knitting bag along with Eris, Mama Blue BFL semi-solid in Beekeeper, which reminds me of the inside of a Cadbury's Crunchie bar. Plus my sock needle, and the yarn I use for provisional cast ons... BFL (Blue

Le Tour De Fleece 2008

I signed up for Le Tour De Fleece! This year is a "spin from your stash" event, and purely by chance, I just enhanced my stash with some Wensleydale and Gotland from Copper Moose and some Lincoln locks from sheepsandpeeps on Etsy, both of which are still en

Adipose

In the first episode of season 4 of Doctor Who, there's a creature called an Adipose, made from living fat cells. The Adipose isn't a bad guy as such, and they're cute little blobs. Mazzmatazz wrote a pattern for a knitted Adipose and posted

Snapshot - State of the Onion

Apologies to Bloglines and Google Reader people, I cut the RSS feed to a summary to make it harder for thieving spammer weasels to steal my posts. Hope you like the rotating image at the top of the page (hit refresh to see the others). It's been a

Snail mail, for real

BBC News: 'Snail mail' blazes slow e-trail Muriel, Austin and Cecil are snails for the electronic age. The gastropods have been fitted with equipment to allow them to send e-mails on behalf of visitors to a website. Instead of instantaneous communication, sent messages will travel at

Ladytron

Back in March, Hubby surprised me with tickets to see one of my favourite bands, Ladytron. They were at the Pageant on Monday night with Datarock. We arrived at the Halo Bar early and were rewarded with first access passes, which got us to the front of the line when

X-Com Apocalypse

Hubby managed to give me my all-time favourite PC game back, X-COM Apocalypse! It's running in a VM Ware install of MS-DOS, on the Mac Mini, which is contrary to all nature, but I don't care. It's one of the few

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