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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Leaving Blighty

BBC News: Brits Abroad. This is a clickable map of the world with stats about emigration to each area. An estimated 5.5m British people live permanently abroad - almost one in 10 of the UK population. The emigration of British people has happened in cycles over 200 years. The

Published! Sort of...

Ordered a copy of my NaNoWriMo novel through Lulu, who is offering one free printed copy to all NaNoWriMo winners. You have to start from that link, and go through the whole book creation process, create a PDF with OpenOffice (it rejected the Apple Pages PDF) and pick one of

Themage

One of the handy things about WordPress is the ability to put together (or download) a theme and completely change the whole look of the site. Hubby built this theme for me, based around a picture of Tierra del Fuego, and I love it!

Knitty and Picot

Knitting morning is tomorrow at Brentwood Borders cafe, 10-12, second Saturday of every month. If you're in St Louis (and you're female), drop by! Winter Knitty is up, with some very cute patterns. I liked: * Norberta, a dragon. * Sheldon the turtle with a cute detachable shell,

Rhubarb and Custard

(Rox, you might want to avert your eyes, this is your Christmas present.) I'm not the Yarn Harlot, I can't knit a sock a day. But for starting late Saturday night and having a day job to do, this one's going pretty well. It&

Uncertain faith

BBC News: God. Who knows? With religion increasingly polarised, is there any benefit in not knowing if there is a higher power? Mark Vernon - an ex-vicar - explains why agnosticism is his creed. "We are in a period of intense debate about religion. It seems there are believers,

Eternal Sweater progress report VI

Having an evening alone to spin and knit greatly helped progress. As did finishing the novel! * 29th Nov: 10 rows * 30th Nov: 7 rows * 1st Dec: 4 rows Unfortunately I need to take a break and make a pair of socks, and a small piece of Christmas knitting. I made

Spinning FO: Moonflower BFL

The great thing about learning to spin is that each new skein is a personal best. Spun 4oz of Blue Faced Leicester this week, my eleventh skein. It was Moon Flower almost-solid roving from Spunky Eclectic. This is great stuff, you could still see the crimp in the fibres when

Cold snap

There was a "winter storm" on Thursday night, sleet and frozen rain and snow. We're OK, both cars have new tires, and the house is fine. It wasn't fun hacking off 2 inch thick chunks of snow and ice from the windscreen at 6am

NaNoWriMo 2006 Winner!

Validated my novel on Sunday at the last St Louis write-in, 50007 words! Story needs a few hundred more to finish, but I'm about there. Managed to drop in lyrics for Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" and the Wordworth daffodils poem, plus some Shakespeare

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