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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

ET went home

BBC News: UFO study finds no sign of aliens. A confidential Ministry of Defence report on Unidentified Flying Objects has concluded that there is no proof of alien life forms. In spite of the secrecy surrounding the UFO study, it seems citizens of planet Earth have little to worry about.

Geocaching

It is now possible to circumnavigate Creve Coeur Lake. You didn't used to be able to get all the way around, this was our first complete loop. It's a 3.7 mile trail, more if you're wandering off doing an excellent 3 part multi-

Spinning FO: Identification

The Yarn Harlot's new book Knitting Rules mentions several ways to identify anonymous yarn, including setting it on fire and dissolving it in bleach. I found a slightly less dangerous way: Shipping tags. You can label each piece of yarn with what it is and where it came

Bullet points

Spun, plied, and washed my mini-skein on Tuesday, it's dry now. George was not as easy to spin as the Coopworth, but the dyed fibre was nice. It's a lot less even than my wheel-spun, but it's not as thick as my

You can't see me

BBC News: 'Cloaking device' idea proposed. The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed. They have outlined their concept in a research paper published in one of the UK Royal Society's scientific

Bible study

Martha and I got drafted to do the study for 1 Corinthians 3 tonight. The text breaks into three sections, v1-9, v10-17, v18-22. This is what we came up with as study questions. What do you think? (v4) For when one says, "I follow Paul,"

Back in the saddle

It's Tuesday, Hubby's out, there's Stargate SG-1 in the DVD player, and I'm spinning on the spindle again. My plan is to use George, the chunk of cream roving I got free from the yarn store, and the puff of green

Hello Spinner

Today was the final spinning class and I had to give the spinning wheel back. We plied our homework into skeins of real live yarn, wound it using a niddy-noddy, flick-carded some unwashed fleece, and hand carded some washed and dyed fleece. I spun a little ball of

Incoming!

Harloted (verb) To find your blog innundated by a vast army of knitters in response to a link from the Yarn Harlot. (Similar to getting Slashdotted but by much nicer people.) Effects include blog comments from total strangers and a feeling of bogglement that lasts at least 24 hours after

"Obsession is normal" - Yarn Harlot

(I'm mildly freaked out that there's a real live picture of me online, this has never happened before. Everyone that's turned up from Yarn Harlot, hi there! Thanks for the comments, and come back and visit. Or run away screaming, it's all

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