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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Second Annual Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading

I missed this last year. More info here. A Martian Sends A Postcard Home by Craig Raine Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings - they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain. I have never seen one

Neolithic Henge Fest

BBC News: Stonehenge builders' houses found. A huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge has been found, archaeologists have said. Excavations at Durrington Walls, near the legendary Salisbury Plain monument, uncovered remains of ancient houses. People seem to have occupied the sites seasonally, using them for

Handspun secret pal!

Came home to find a parcel from my Handspun secret pal waiting for me, and I'm blown away: That beautiful skein of yarn was spun on a drop spindle, then hand-dyed in my favourite colours! It came out gorgeous, spun thick and thin, "poor woman's

Chitin socks

For Susan at Myer's House, I have this picture: It's the Tofutsies yarn (wool, cotton, soy silk and chitin from crab and shrimp shells), with the Elfine Socks pattern (PDF). The yarn label says: Chitin is fiber from shrimp and crab shells! It's naturally

Fancy a Farmer?

BBC News: Lonely farmers advertise on milk. A group of lonely heart farmers have put their photographs on milk bottles in an attempt to find love. Five single dairy farmers are advertising on Calon Wen milk with the slogan Fancy a Farmer to mark St Dwynwen's Day, the

Lace patterns

Couldn't resist it, I grabbed a ball of Tofutsies, the wool/cotton/soy silk/chitin yarn. It looks thinner than some sock yarns, feels softer than wool/cotton blends, and colour 728 (also knows as three feet short) is very similar to the Wild Thing roving I got

Cupboard for sale

BBC News: 'Table-sized flat' for Â£170,000. A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for Â£170,000 [$340,000] in London's upmarket Chelsea. The former janitor's storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place

alt.sock.yarn

While loving the many wonderful wool sock yarns out there, I'm wondering if there's anything I could wear in spring/autumn when it's not well below freezing outside. I still don't really like the wool cotton blends, but what about merino/tencel,

Reminder

Someone gave me this reference last week. It's here to remind me. Hebrews 12: 1-3 (English Standard Version) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with

Needles and colours

My sock needle has died, it is an ex-needle. Back in May 2005 I bought an Addi size 1 needle for Magic Loop socks, and loved it. It made 12 pairs of socks and a nose warmer, but the plating wore off and the needles bent every time I used

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