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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Feel better

BBC News: 10 ways to beat the blues? Charities are calling for a nationwide campaign to help promote mental health after a survey suggested more people are growing anxious. But what sort of advice might be offered? Blame a long winter, blame media fixations with bad news, blame the credit

Kakapo chicks!

BBC News: Big brood of rotund rare parrots. The New Zealand kakapo are breeding! One of the world's rarest birds, New Zealand's kakapo, is now not quite so rare thanks to the arrival of 34 kakapo chicks. Those chicks, born over the past few months, take

Take a break at 11:45 today

According to the Telegraph, Tuesday at 11:45 is the most stressful time of the week: Researchers found that nearly half of British workers identified mid-morning on their second working day of the week as the moment when they were most under pressure. Most workers coast through Monday getting their

Please hold

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Something blue

I have two light blue scarves in progress. One is Juno Regina, using Conjoined Creations Pastimes, a soy lace weight. I've never knit with lace weight before and it's weird. I can't snap the yarn by hand, it's like knitting with a

Laser Fusion experiment

BBC News: Giant laser experiment powers up. The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment aimed at recreating conditions at the heart of our Sun. The US National Ignition Facility is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion, a process that could offer abundant clean energy. The lab

Back from MOPACA part 3

There's no sun at five in the morning, but the hotel had a snow plough clearing the parking lot and the interstate looked good. The sun came out early in the morning and by the end of the day, everything was melting. Jodi and I went to the

Back from MOPACA part 2

Saturday morning started off grey and the snow predictions for Kansas City were revised down to less than 12 inches. It started sleeting in the late morning and people were getting worried. We were up at 5am and hit Starbucks on our way. There was poop to clean up when

Back from MOPACA part 1

Took Friday off work and drove down to Pat and Jodi's place to meet Connie of Breezy Ridge Alpacas. She had rigged her van to be an alpaca transport, and it was piled high with hay, tables, stuff to sell, two alpaca, and all the alpaca paraphernalia to

Going to MOPACA

I am heading out to Kansas City tomorrow to visit MOPACA! It is the annual show of the Midwest Alpaca Breeder's Association. Travelling up with Jodi, Connie, and Max Storm, a Suri alpaca (his parents were Max Factor and Kong Storm). Max has a travel buddy and the

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