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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Time shifts

My laptop is back! It got done early, I'm really pleased. The space bar doesn't squeak and the keyboard feels totally different and much nicer. BBC News: Venezuela and the politics of time. The move to put the clocks back half an hour adds Venezuela to

FO: Doomed to Comfort Socks

Finished the bellamoden socks on Thursday 6th. It took 3 days for each sock, and they feel wonderful on! Put them on at home on Thursday after driving home in sleet and ice. Yarn: bellamoden sport weight in The Colour Purple Needles: 3.25mm circular Pattern: International Socks of Doom

Down for repair

My beloved MacBook Pro is in the Apple Store getting a replacement keyboard under warranty. I'm tired of the squeaky spacebar and keys that don't always type when you press them. It'll be gone for a week (they told me), so I'll

Instant gratification

It is a rare thing that I get some yarn I wasn't planning to get and start using it straight away. The purple bellamoden sport weight just sucked me in and it looks fantastic knitted up. Cast on Friday and finished the first sock on Sunday, three days

After the ball was over

After the ball was over, she took out her glass eye, Put her false teeth in the water, hung up her wig to dry; Placed her false arm on the table, laid her false leg on the chair; Then what was left went to bye-byes, after the ball. NaNoWriMo

Stash enhancement

It's been a while since I ordered yarn in a Loopy Ewe Sneak Up. Got the email on Monday just as I'd made my 2000 words on the novel and was shutting the machine down. bellamoden in The Colour Purple (merino sport weight) and Gypsy Knits

Greeb and Purble!

When your NaNoWriMo word count goes over the magic 50,000, you get a green bar on your profile. When you put your novel through the validator, you get a purple winner's bar, a certificate, icons for your website, an entry on the winner's list, and

G.R.O.W.L

Or: Gateway Region Of Wordwarrior Legends. St Louis is in a Regional word war with W.H.A.T. (the Warmongering Hoosier Attack Team from Indianapolis) and D.A.N.G (Dayton Area NaNo Group from Ohio), so we needed a threatening acronym too. One of our guys gate-crashed

Today is "No Music Day"

BBC News: How No Music Day struck a chord. No Music Day is on the 21 November. This is the third year to have one. The first in 2005 was almost a private affair. Other than me [former KLF frontman Bill Drummond] sorting out in my head why I needed

Miscellany

I'm still writing my novel. They say everything comes together in week 3 and once you hit the 35k mark you're golden. I made 35102 last night and it feels good. This is the fourth year I've done NaNoWriMo and it's a

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