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Tuesday catch up

Got my Mac back on Friday, 20 days after they took it in for a three to five day repair. By a strange coincidence, the repair was completed 40 minutes before I called the repair centre on Thursday, and on a truck heading home by 8pm that night. I'

WIMPs to the rescue

BBC News: Dark matter comes out of the cold. Astronomers have for the first time put some real numbers on the physical characteristics of dark matter. This strange material that dominates the Universe but which is invisible to current telescope technology is one of the great enigmas of modern science.

Big cats

BBC News: Print 'proof' of big cat presence. Police believe they have the first conclusive proof a big cat, dubbed the "Beast of Balbirnie", could be on the loose in Fife. There have been numerous reports of big cats in the Kingdom in recent years. Now

Recipe: Bacon pie

It's been a while since I posted a recipe here and I'm thinking of cooking this tonight. It's comfort food, serve it with a vegetable and good bread, then curl up in front of the fire. Bacon Pie * 1 pound of thick sliced, smoked

One down, seven to go

Finished the first KnitPicks Sock Landscape sock on Sunday with plenty of yarn to spare: It took eight days start to finish and I'm getting 9st per inch on a 2.75mm needle. The yarn is very soft, and the colours look good together. It is somewhat splitty,

Sock yarn swap

I joined the Great Unloved Sock Yarn Swap: You have until Sunday to sign up! Who knows what skeins of hideousness yarn you might get? I think I'm dumping something pink. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought it. Heaven save me from

Whale waste

BBC News: Whale 'vomit' sparks cash bonanza. An Australian couple who picked up an odd-looking fatty lump from a quiet beach are in line for a cash windfall. Leon Wright and his wife took home a 14.75kg lump of ambergris, found in the innards of sperm whales

Juice content

It's been bugging me for a while that there are a shelf-load of drinks out there with varying juice contents (1%, 5%, 7.3%) and no-one's explained what that actually means beyond the raw facts. So I present you with my handy juice level explaination chart.

Deliveries!

The replacement skein of Socks That Rock yarn from The Fold arrived on Thursday, it was a 360yd skein of Jade. Looks good, no knots or problems visible when I was winding it this morning, I'm happy. It's a 360yd skein instead of a 325yd, colour

Watery News

BBC News: Whale spotted in central London. A large whale has been spotted in the River Thames in central London by boaters and sightseers. The mammal, thought to be a 17ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale, was seen swimming past the Houses of Parliament. "I saw it blow, it was

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