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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Left vs Right

BBC News: Sinister secret of snail's escape. Snails with left-handed shells can have a big advantage in life - predators may find it impossible to eat them. That is the conclusion of research just published in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters. Scientists from the US

An almost FO and a dilemma

Finished knitting the Bittersweet mittens, now comes the hard part: putting the decoration on. The pattern came with directions for chain stitch embroidery, I used to be good at this. There is a definite left and right mitten, which had to be marked. It snowed yesterday, so it is still

Frankenstein's Mac

This is so very wrong. BBC News: Hackers get Mac running Windows. Hackers have managed to get Microsoft's Windows XP operating system running on an Apple Mac computer. The success ends a competition started to see if the feat was even possible when Apple unveiled computers that used

Mail with added fibre

Two parcels in the mail on Wednesday and one on Thursday from Norma. I love getting mail. From left to right, the big bag of roving is Dark Coopworth from Copper Moose, and the label says it's from New Zealand, which makes me very happy. It's

Big Cat Sightings

BBC News: SW claws to top of big cats list. The numbers of big cats being seen roaming the countryside around Britain is increasing, a report says, with South West England being a hot spot. Devon, Cornwall and Somerset feature in the top 10 locations, according to the British Big

Sunflower

I'm done tinkering with WordPress themes, at least for a few days, and I've finished my first theme. It's got a sunflower header image from stock.xchg, a background from Squid Fingers, and a whole lot of CSS. Adding a screenshot image makes life

Pi day

Today is Pi day, March 14th! It is also Albert Einstein's birthday. 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058 209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480 865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502 841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659 334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486 104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748 815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204 66521384146951941511609... Go

Smitten

(If you see anything odd here in the next week or so, it's just me testing out a new theme.) Finished one of the Bittersweet mittens on Sunday, here it is posing with George, my pet roving: I made some changes to the pattern (start with 4 less

Knit 1, crochet 2, spin!

Rox gave me a birthday present at knitting group on Saturday: a skein of KnitPicks colour-your-own sock yarn, another of Wool of the Andes in natural, and some Kool-Aid for dying! Having done some research on various blogs, I think I'm going to try for

Thematic

I changed the template again. I'm not abandoning the Desert 1.5 theme, I just like this Green Track one better, at least for today. I have a few others socked away for rainy days. I think I'd like to try designing my own one, but

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