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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Blog the Country II

BBC News: Blog project reveals daily lives. More than 30,000 people across Britain have recorded a diary of their day as part of a project to create an online snapshot of life in the country. The National Trust said the entries - which range from the mundane to the

Progress at last

Did 11 rows on the Eternal Sweater on Saturday, which completed the second pattern repeat on the front, and some more tonight. Feels good to pick it up again, I think the last time I worked on it was December 2005. The double moss stitch wasn't so bad

Blog the Country

BBC News: 'Mass blog' to capture UK Tuesday . People throughout the country are being asked to contribute to a mass web log recording a day in the life of Britain. Tuesday 17 October has been picked as an "ordinary day much like any other of no particular

Shannon Okey and the spinning questions

Spin to Knit, written by Shannon Okey, came out in October 2006, and Shannon agreed to do a beginning spinner's question and answer session on Quantum Tea as the last stop on her blog tour! Some of these are my own questions, some were submitted by people reading

Stranger danger

The BBC ran a series this week about internet crime to see what the average net user is up against, and it's a good read. In the first article, they logged what tried to attack a honeypot PC. They had to wipe the machine after the second article

Spin to Knit Friday

We have a date! On Friday 13th October I'll be posting Shannon Okey's answers to your spinning questions! It'll be the last stop on her blog tour. My copy of her book, Spin to Knit, arrived today from Amazon. The really quick micro-review: The

A nice hot cup of tea

BBC News: Black tea 'soothes away stress'. Scientists have evidence behind what many tea drinkers already know - a regular cuppa can help you recover more quickly from everyday life stresses. The study of black tea - instead of green or herbal varieties - found it helps cut

Knitting in progress

Made it over halfway (eleven repeats of twenty) on the trailing fuchsia scarf with the first skein, I'll have enough yarn leftover from the second skein for a potholder or a couple of coasters, but not for a matching hat. One leaf is entirely pink and purple, another

2006 Ig Nobel Winners

The award ceremony for the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winners was Thurs Oct 5th. These were the winners: Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don'

Plane old recycling

BBC News: Where old aeroplanes go to die. It was 38 years ago this weekend that the 747, the "jumbo jet", first rolled out of a factory in Everett, Washington State. It was famous for one thing - being big - and phrases like "the size of

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