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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Tweets for the week of 12th February

* Survived kata class, first full run-through of kata in public with judges, shaking by the end of it! * Writing for post NaNoWriMo group, aiming for creepy horror story. * Writing story about serial-killing orchid guy, and Gmail keeps giving me orchid care ads... * I post ONE Google Buzz and two disparate

FO: Blue Coronet Hat

Finished the Coronet hat I've been working on and wore it the same day Pattern: Coronet hat from Knitty Yarn: Imperial Stock Ranch 2 ply in Canyon Shadow Blue Needles: US8 circular, magic loop Duration: 31st January to 9th February 2010 Ravelry project: Blue Coronet The hat came

Newton and the Apple

BBC News: Newton's apple story goes online. The original version of the story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple has been made available online. Newton recounted the story that inspired his theory of gravitation to scholar William Stukeley. It then appeared in Stukeley's 1752

Tweets for the week of February 5th

Our first date was February 5th, 1994, sixteen years ago today! We went to a little Italian restaurant off the High Street in Guildford, which has since closed. Paul got us a table for two in a quiet corner with candles. I ate all my pizza, he pushed his pasta

Knitfail

Utter loss of my knitting skills last week. Two projects started, two ripped out: Pyroclastic socks and the Ivy Vines cowl. My Pyroclastic sock is gone. I got through the cuff, heel, and started the arch shaping, then it all went wrong. I believe I followed the instructions for marker

Kakapo given NZ Government job

The Telegraph: Parrot that tried to mate with Mark Carwardine is given a government role. The New Zealand prime minster has given the country’s most famous parrot a job in his government, it has emerged. An endangered kakapo parrot, named Sirocco, which rose to fame last year after it

Tweets for the week of January 29th

* Everything aches after kata class, can't believe what I've got myself into! Going to IL for a tournament in March * Karate lesson + gym = wipeout. No brain left. Send more brain plz. Brains.... * Sun! First time in 2 weeks I saw the sun for more than a

Milestones and inchpebbles

This is my 1500th blog post. I started on January 10th 2002, using Blogger and free hosting on a site long gone. These days I have WordPress and my own domain name on paid hosting. It's time to make a new blog theme. Some elements will stay the

Tweets for the week of January 22nd

* Second best music video ever http://bit.ly/8DdLUc * The Traveling Shovel of Death will be appearing at the Fictional Authors meetup 2pm @ Crooked Tree. Write, or else! * 2 skeins of handspun drying in the bathroom, Gotland wool DK weight and suri/bamboo laceweight * The definition of squee: when the

Spinning FO: Gotland and Suri/Bamboo

It's difficult to take pictures because St Louis has been living under thick fog all week. After a couple of weeks of -15C weather, it's nice to be above freezing but we're definitely missing the sun. Desktop wallpaper on my computer is a desert

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