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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Tweets for September 16th to September 30th

* "Here’s the riddle: what does an 8000 pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flathead V8 engine & no natural predators think about?" * What's the LD50 for daytime TV to kill half my braincells? * UltraEdit for Mac coming soon! This is the

FO: Persimmon eyelet socks

I started these in March, whipped out one sock and got bored. It languished on my desk until I had time off for surgery, when I picked it up and slowly worked on it. Turns out "slow" finishes things faster than "not at all", and you

FO: Cashmere Campanula scarf

Finally finished my Campanula scarf. It felt like this took forever, and how do you make scarf progress reports interesting? Pattern: Campanula from knitspot (Ravelry link) Yarn: Jade Sapphire Silk/Cashmere 2-ply Needles: US3 Blackthorn dpns Duration: 14th June to 13 September 2010 Ravelry project: Cashmere Campanula I started tweeting

Tweets for September 1st to September 15th

* Gorgeous lilac sky, fading to stormy blue-grey with pale orange street lights. Can I get yarn in that colour? * My web server is populated by zombie files, my blog is fragged, but I have a clean set of database tables. I'm calling that progress. * Scarf progress: 21/27.

Patchy progress

The Cashmere Campanula Scarf (Rav link) is up to 22 repeats, and the ball of yarn is finally nearing the end. You're supposed to do 25 repeats, I think I can get 27 out of. I started this on July 14th, and I'm more than ready

Technical difficulties

I believe that's the polite term for what happened to my blog. The more accurate description is totally fragged and plagued by zombies. What's galling is that the trauma I went through was unnecessary because it was a web server/FTP server syncing issue. The blog

Karate blue belt!

I tested for my karate blue belt on 30th August, and I passed! I study at Tracy's Karate, the Kirkwood location. After my test, Karen took me into the sparring class and introduced me as a new blue belt, Ben hugged me, Dan shook my hand, random people

Tweets for August 16th to August 31st

* Two hours playing language/accent coach for a friend of a friend, wonderful to hear her accent narrowing in on the correct pronunciation! * Desperately seeking NaNoWriMo plot ideas, I promise credit if I pen a bestseller. No ninja, pirates, or dinosaurs need apply. Thx! * I have storage! Four usable shelves

Writing class

Telegraph Education: Putting pen to paper. ... handwriting has never been more modish. Everyone and their dog would appear to be having stationery designed. The theory is that this is a recession thing: despite being destitute, we are making time for real relationships, and nothing says "human touch" more

Minor surgery

I should have learned this by now. If I can see a mistake in my knitting and find it every single time I pick it up, I'm not going to be happy until I've fixed it, even if that means losing a chunk of work. My

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