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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Independence Day

Saturday was our first Independence Day as American citizens. There's an irony in celebrating liberation from the country we were born in. We spent the day around Ste Genevieve with Pat and Jodi and Pat's family, swallowed up as siblings for the day. We got to

Tweets for the week of July 3rd

<li>Found out Michael Jackson died in the Mac store. Didn't believe it till we saw it on the BBC website too. Weird. <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2342532870">#</a></li> <li>Committing acts

Heatwave?

Monday night Hubby and I drove down to the Chocolate Bar for late night dessert: 10:20 pm, 28C (82.4F), and summer has finally arrived in St Louis. Facing a week of temperatures over 30C, Britain is declaring a heatwave. BBC News: Ten ways to beat the heat. After

Handspun Halfdome in progress

Knitting with handspun is a strange experience for me because I know this yarn. I knew it in roving form, when it was the softest of the 4oz balls of chocolate and vanilla fuzz on the shelf. Over several months I spun it onto a bobbin of singles, taking care

Tweets for the week of June 26th

<li>Citizenship ceremony starts in seven hours. Will not be handing back the British accent at the courthouse. <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2236839752">#</a></li> <li>Found a sewing pattern I might have to try.

Vulture bone flutes

BBC News: 'Oldest musical instrument' found. Scientists in Germany have published details of flutes dating back to the time that modern humans began colonising Europe, 35,000 years ago. The flutes are the oldest musical instruments found to date. The researchers say in the Journal Nature that music

Tour de Fleece 2009

The Tour de Fleece is coming up, from July 4th to July 26th. It is the spinning analogue to the Tour De France bicycle race. Last year I made valiant efforts to spin every day, but circumstances thought otherwise and I skipped several days. One Tour De Fleece goal for

US Citizenship

Our swearing in ceremony took place on the 28th floor of the courthouse on a blazing hot day. Twenty applicants with friends and family milled around in a marble corridor with great views of the downtown area. We recognised three people from our citizenship test. A court official got us

Tweets for the week of June 19th

<li>Pleasantly surprised I can still walk this morning. John said the worst will hit me on Saturday... <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2129973594">#</a></li> <li>Finished the short story just in time for the

The anonymity of bloggers

Blogging about work under a pseudonym is a more risky business today than it was last week. There was a British police detective who blogged anonymously under the name NightJack and received an Orwell Prize for it. A reporter for the Times newspaper decided to find out who was behind

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