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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Gravity waves

BBC News: Lab tuned to gravity's 'ripples'. One of the great scientific experiments of our age is now fully underway. A German/UK team has put the giant GEO 600 gravitational wave detector in a continuous observational mode. The Hanover lab is trying to detect the

New UFOs

Started a scarf last Sunday with South West Trading Company Karaoke in Rainbow. The yarn is half wool, half soy silk, and the thickness varies from light sportweight through chunky. It is soft and shiny but splitty, the yarn isn't plied and you can leave some of the

Urban sport

BBC News: Parkour craze reaches new heights. A young man stands poised on the edge of a roof, two storeys above the hard concrete of a London street. He rocks back on to one foot and with a sharp intake of breath his body snaps into action, clearing the void

Football World Cup 2006

I've been tracking the FIFA World Cup on the BBC website, thirty two countries are competing. I want England to win, but I wanted the USA to at least get to round 2. They lost to Ghana on Thursday and are out of the cup. Brazil and Argentina

Tools in the garden

BBC News: Front garden yields ancient tools. The Britons of 250,000 years ago were a good deal more sophisticated than they are sometimes given credit for, new archaeological evidence suggests. It comes in the form of giant flint handaxes that have been unearthed at a site at Cuxton in

Cats and a blanket

The cute kitten turned into a lean 15 pound cat who behaves like a dog (plays fetch, and comes when called, but without the drooling). Quantum will greet strangers, but prefers people she knows to sit on. Tangle runs from strangers, friends, everyone but Hubby and me. The two cats

Cuteness

Submitted this to Cute Overload for Mr Bristow: Quantum was about 8 weeks old when this was taken (she's now nearly four years old) and her tail stump was still bare. (Short version of the cat story: Owner drives over kitten tail, tail has to be amputated, owner

Spinning FO: Spindle Spun Silk

I've been spinning a silk hankie on my spindle. It's a lot of fun, even when I get snared by stray silk threads. You pull off layer after layer and there's still more. A lot more. Plied most of what I'd spun,

Lost city

BBC News: Search for India's ancient city. Archaeologists working on India's south-west coast believe they may have solved the mystery of the location of a major port which was key to trade between India and the Roman Empire - Muziris, in the modern-day state of

Spinning FO: Corriedale and BFL

Started teaching Rox how to spin on my Ashford Kiwi wheel this week, and she did very well. Beth is right, there is an obligation for spinning wheel owners to addict the next generation of spinners. It's on a slip of paper in the box the wheel comes

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