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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Tweets for April 16th to April 30th

* TopatoCo: Keep Calm And Shoot Them In The Head Print. * The Nutella experiment: toasted hazelnuts cooling before being blended. Not easy to get the skins off. * RIP 12 year old blender, you died in the service of a good cause: 3 jars of chunky nutella cooling in the fridge. * Those

FO: Cobalt Squash scarf

Finished my second Butternut scarf: Pattern: Butternut scarf from knitspot (Ravelry link) Yarn: Wollmeise 100% superwash merino in Spina di Pesce Needles: US3 double points (my Blackthorn needles) Duration: 27th February to 24th April Ravelry project: Cobalt Squash I like this pattern, it's simple but pretty. What I

The Nutella Experiment

A friend sent me a recipe in the New York Times to make your own chocolate hazelnut paste, aiming to re-create Nutella at home. The first step is toasting the hazelnuts. How to toast hazelnuts Heat the oven to 350F. Spread the hazelnuts out in a single layer on a

Tweets for April 1st to April 15th

* List of April 1st RFCs on Wikipedia * OH at least twice a week: "I'm not being argumentative but... (argue argue argue f-bomb argue disagree)" * What does one wear, on Casual Friday, to an interview with Federal Investigative Services about a security clearance one already got? * There&

Cool Etsy shops

I'm confident these Etsy shops will never end up on Regretsy. I've either bought from these, or love their stores. Idle Hands Designs Maker of the sutured heart necklace, which I have been wearing most days since I got one earlier this year. Mine is oxidised

Monroe County Sheep & Craft Festival

Saturday we went to the Monroe County Sheep & Craft Festival in Waterloo IL. Google maps failed us and sent us out of town on the wrong side of town, but a nice person at the gas station put us on the right route. We met friends and had the

Zen Waves

I have three projects in progress, which is unusual for me. The most fun are the Zen Waves socks (Ravelry link). This project had a troubled start. I did the toe quickly, stalled while I picked out a cable pattern, stalled again waiting for a fitting, and finally it took

Tweets for March 16th to March 31st

* Why is it considered OK for doctors to be over an hour late? No other profession gets away with that & it messes up your whole day. * By coincidence I brought British Flapjacks to work on the day of my performance review. Raise now please? * Begone caffeine headache, the power

Tweets for March 1st to March 15th

* Blinky screen RIGHT BY MY FACE while new hard drive sorts itself out. The blink tag was banned under the Geneva Convention for a reason! * My phone thinks I am at an Amtrak station in Alexandria VA, & has set its timezone accordingly. Bloody GPS won't stick on

Sparring

The karate I learn comes in three parts: self defence techniques, kata (display forms), and sparring. I've been back in sparring class since January, and doing sparring lessons with my instructor before then to get me back up to speed after six months away. It's an

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