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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Power outage

A house lit only by candles is an odd place. They are surprisingly bright when you have a couple of tealights, two tapers, and two scented candles. We are one of half a million homes without power as of Wednesday 19th July when a monster storm hit St Louis. Our

Thursday Lists

Songs on repeat on my iPod: * Fort Minor - Where'd you go? * James Blunt - You're beautiful * The Fray - Over my head (cable car) * Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the ocean * Vanessa Mae - Devil's Trill * Lacuna Coil - Comalies (the whole album) Lessons learned from my

Kanga the destroyer

BBC News: 'Killer kangaroo' evidence found. Palaeontologists digging in northern Australia have found fossil evidence of several new species - including a "killer kangaroo". The flesh-eating marsupial would have lived between 10 and 20 million years ago, scientists say. The research team has also unearthed evidence

The week in fibre

Finished the English Country Garden socks just before we left, those arrived safely in their new home on Friday. Being away from home for a week had other advantages. I did the whole foot of my cotton lace socks and found a yarn store, bead store, and Starbucks within two

Post conference

Arrived back from the Vineyard Midwest Conference late last night, thanks to various roadworks. Most people stayed on the Wheaton College campus where the conference was held. It was so nice to be able to walk to the cafeteria, eat with friends, and walk to the workshops and main sessions.

Paused for maintenance

I'll be in Chicago next week for the Vineyard Midwest Regional Conference, offline. Meantime, this is the state of play: * I'm well over halfway on sock #2 of the English Country Garden socks and the Karaoke scarf is one ball down with three to go. I&

War of the Windows

BBC News: Web perils advise switch to Macs. Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm. Sophos security said that the 10 most commonly found pieces of malicious software all targeted Windows machines. In

Spinning FO: Red BFL

Spun and plied another skein of Blue Faced Leicester, it's drying now. I've got two skeins out of the 8oz of fibre, and there's enough left for one more smaller skein. Apparently I spin better to classical music, but not the angry parts of

Bad candy

BBC News: How to get rid of 1m chocolate bars? Cadbury has recalled more than a million chocolate bars over fears they could be contaminated with salmonella. But how do you dispose of that many bars? Water leaking from a pipe and splashing on to a factory conveyor belt has

Back in business

Knitting morning will be back at Borders cafe on Brentwood next month, and every second Saturday. There is now a functional cafe with plenty of space for us. If you're in St Louis, female, and a knitter or crocheter, come and join us July 8th at 10am-12pm.

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