Hellblazer: Hogwarts, Part 4b

Slight note: this was taken largely from "Extraordinary Requirements" so it may look a little familiar.

( The rims of Albus Dumbledore's spectacles glittered in the firelight. )

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Yak yarn arrived today from Copper Moose (a yarn and fiber company in Vermont). It's 50% yak and 50% alpaca. I had been hoping to make someone a scarf from it, but it's three ounces of light sportweight and wouldn't knit up quite the way I'd hoped. I think it's going to become part of a dubblemassa pointed cap with patterning now, although I would like to rough out some moose shapes on graph paper rather than just use the stars in the hat pattern I already have. I've got some grey doubleknit weight wool that should do nicely for a few of the pattern elements and I can get some sport weight white somewhere, I'm sure...

( The rest of this entry is fanfiction geekery relating to Hellblazer: Hogwarts. Specifically, song/soundtrack geekery, which you are free to skip as you like. )

Oooh...

1918 killer flu secrets revealed

Scientists have worked out how the virus which caused the world's worst ever flu epidemic infected man.

They believe the virus, which claimed the lives of 50m people around the world, jumped from birds to humans... They also say their work is unlikely to aid the current fight against avian flu in the Far East as knowing the structure of a virus is not enough to block its progress.


What bothers me is that my instinctive reaction to this article was 'oh COOL, they figured out 1918!... oooooh I WANT the virus' structure on a T-shirt...'