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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Making lightning

BBC News: Tripping the light fantastic. It is near pitch-black in the viewing room where we are standing; a soft red glow exuding from a warning light above the door barely cuts through the darkness. A klaxon sounds, and, suddenly, a giant flash of lightning bolts through the air, accompanied

The price of fuel

(Gas station at the corner of Ballas and Clayton, St Louis MO.)

Round the Bend

Started my Eris cardigan last week, I haven't started a sweater-sized project since the Eternal Sweater for Hubby in 1994. Short rows with cabling is an interesting experience! You knit two sides of a U shaped yoke (with a torturous pick up in the middle) then pick up

Tagged!

I got tagged by Sue for another meme: The Rules: Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged

FO: Maizy Monkey socks

Finished the Maizy Monkey socks last week: Pattern: My own (picot hem, half-linen stitch heel flap, panels of Monkey lace, ribbing at the sides) Yarn: Crystal Palace Maizy in Stormy Purple from Chris Needlecraft Duration: 28th April to 21 May 2008 Wore these on Thursday, they stretched out once they

Meme me this

I don't often do memes, but it's Merinda, so.. Leave me a random comment, and I'll respond with five questions you can answer in your own blog, leaving open the invitation for other people to give you comments o' randomness, and then you

Polwarth

I'm trying something I haven't done before: spinning fleece locks. A Verb For Keeping Warm had some grey Polwarth locks and I'd ordered two sets, but there was a stocking glitch and Kristine only had one. After a little discussion, she sent a grey

Spinning FO: Undyed Jacob

Jacobs have been my favourite sheep since I was a kid. Dad used to get free tickets for the Suffolk Show every year. The best place to visit was the Raptor Society who always had several owls tethered and sleeping outside their tent, plus some vicious looking hawks. They did

The other kind of UFO

Quite the rash of Unidentified Flying Object articles on the BBC News website on Wednesday! The Ministry of Defense (MoD) declassified some files on alleged UFO sightings between 1978 and 1987, they can be downloaded for free for the first month only from the National Archive in their UFO section.

Living in America

Phoeknits wrote an excellent post on Expat living. She's an American living in England, I'm a Briton living in America. This is what it's like on the other side of the equation. America is such a young country. A hundred years is a long

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