[lace] somebody made my PC sick - I'm sorry, but :

2003-09-01 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I got this message today and must forward it - I hope you do *not* find it ! but if you *find* the named virus, you must follow the instructions to get rid of it from your computer and send this message on to all the people in your address book . . . I had *two copies* of the virus on my PC - and

[lace-chat] au revoir, so long, ta ta - etc. . . .

2003-08-27 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Well, ladies, it's been both fun and educational, but I'm not leaving to stagnate (compost ? g) - I will be 'growing' in a different direction. I'm going to lurk for awhile, weaning myself away before I unsub, meanwhile getting over missing you . . . Thank you to all who have replied to my

[lace] au revoir, so long, ta ta - etc. . . .

2003-08-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Well, ladies, it's been both fun and educational, but I'm not leaving to stagnate (compost ? g) - I will be 'growing' in a different direction. I'm going to lurk for awhile, weaning myself away before I unsub, meanwhile getting over missing you . . . Thank you to all who have replied to my

Re: [lace-chat] Old people

2003-08-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
here is some news about a piece of research into how our sense of humour changes with age:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3181489.stm Linda Walton, (wondering whether passing this test should be made compulsory for anyone wanting to stand for election . . .). I find that many so-called

Re: [lace] bobbin on ebay - alleviating ?

2003-08-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) A brass pin would lend strength to the relatively fragile part, like steel rebar in pre-stressed concrete. If the pin were recessed into the head to produce a smooth surface, you wouldn't even notice it was there, except that your bobbins wouldn't break at the head. Patty

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Food Allergies

2003-08-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I'm allergic to my own perspiration... The skin is the body's largest 'filtering' organ . . . It never *really* surfaced in Poland (except when I wore clothes made with more than 50% un-natural fiber), (snip) Tamara Or when whatever was in the 'unnatural' fiber, added to whatever was being

Re: [lace-chat] re: forest fires

2003-08-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
All of you should know, no one was killed Bev Update - how grievously sad - is that a van-full of firefighters *were* killed on their way home . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to

[lace-chat] extinctions - *long*

2003-08-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Just going through some 'old' e-mails, reminded me that a few months ago I had half-heartedly agreed with someone that perhaps there had been no extinctions on a 'local' level - but which I now refute !! : = For Immediate Release: December

[lace-chat] tell it to all the un- and under-employed . . .

2003-08-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://autos.msn.com/as/pebblebeach2003/article.aspx?xml=veyron excerpts 1 and 2 : . . . will reach a speed of 252 mph. The Veyron 16ยท4 is expected to sell for more than $1 million. Only a few dozen cars will be produced each year and total production will be limited to 300, guaranteeing the

Re: [lace] businesses that care for linens

2003-08-24 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I finally 'bought the book' (The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework, Anniversary Edition, (Fourth Edition) ISBN 0-7624-1318-2) (soft cover - $15.95). The first thing I read was that this was the complete edition, in spite of the fact that the original had over 800 pages and this one has only 702

Re: [lace-chat] Omnium gatherum

2003-08-24 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Yes. But I dislike the smell and the taste, so never had enough to *really* test it :) And I only have a *mild* lactose intolerance; Tamara I don't know what the rates might be *historically* - but I wonder if any of the research 'scientists' have published anything about how much lactose

Re: [lace-chat] Food Allergies - how 'real' ?

2003-08-23 Thread Toni Hawryluk
- food 'additives' - plastic food containers leaching ?what? into the food - GE/GM *crap* poisoning foods that we were *used* to . . . I don't think it's quite as simple as that... I was told (way back in my childhood) that allergies (food or otherwise) are genetic -- that we pass them

Re: [lace-chat] Food Allergies

2003-08-22 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Question : how many allergy cases does it take before consumers start thinking : - food 'additives' - plastic food containers leaching ?what? into the food - GE/GM *crap* poisoning foods that we were *used* to . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

Re: [lace] A report from the Professor

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Here is the lace URL for those who don't have it yet: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html And for my part, the first volume of Ricci has been scanned: on to the second! Tess Many thanks, Tess (and The Professor !) and particularly for reminding me about the 'direct' URL

[lace] Re: [not lace] Re: Lovebirds

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(perhaps it should be a requirement that an editor of a lace-related magazine should be a Deborah or a version of the name? g) Oops - 'another country heard from' - Bev is doing wonders with the Canadian Lace Gazette, thank you . . . The design (I got the second, BTW and, from all I've heard,

[lace] Re: [not lace] Re: IOLI

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) Greetings from Ilske in very hot and dry (nature is suffering a lot) Hamburg in Germany The people are also 'suffering a lot' - how about planting more trees ? even if it's just in containers someplace outside - the interchange of water through plant transpiration is what keeps forests

Re: [lace-chat] Basic lacemaking supplies - long

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
9400 lightning strikes in 24 hrs. 65 fires. Alice in Oregon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Planting trees

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Jean ? Your original post was an observation about celebrities moving in and wanting to remove the oaks and plant palms, so your question does not apply chronologically : And before we sailed to America for the first time? Palm trees do actually grow in Poole - (snip) There are varieties of

Re: [lace-chat] Lavender ? growing

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Aberdeen and Royal Deeside are not in England; they are in Scotland. And the Gulf Stream warms the west side of Scotland (there are tropical gardens at Inverewe) but the east coast (Aberdeen and Royal Deeside) are chilled by winds direct from the Russian Steppes. Margery. How in the world

[lace-chat] who says 'numbers don't lie' ?

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://slate.msn.com/id/2086617/ Faith-Based Fudging How a Bush-promoted Christian prison program fakes success by massaging data. By Mark A.R. Kleiman Posted Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 9:35 AM PT The White House, the Wall Street Journal, and Christian conservatives have been crowing since

[lace-chat] Re: [lace moved to -chat] Deterioration in threads (long)

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) The most likely source of the phenolic chemical is antioxidants added to such as plastic Including plastic bottles for water/ pickled food (salad dressings/tartar sauce . . . ? (snip) The common factors which influence it are: (i) pH - a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a

Re: [lace-chat] Be careful when picking domain names

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Jean in Poole The UK hit it's highest temperature since records began at 3 pm yesterday - 38 degrees C (just over 100 F) at Heathrow. Roll on winter! Be careful what you ask for - if this is El Nino 'summer', it's gonna be colder'n _ _ _ _ this winter - with La Nina in the *winter* ??

Re: [lace-chat] (more than) Lavender growing

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I'm pleased to see someone in North America is aware of the effect of the Gulf Stream on Britain :-) When I said something about the Gulf Stream in 1969 to two otherwise very intelligent and well educated friends in Boston they thought I was pulling their legs. This despite the fact they were

[lace-chat] aha - identities - at least for now . . .

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Who *are* these people ? . Eddy Marin . George Rand . Alan Ralsky . John Ritzer . Juan Garavaglia . Eric Reinertsen . Mike Cunningham . Gaven Stubberfield . Carl Henderson . DocDrugs/Pinnacle Meds

Re: [lace-chat] BASIC LACEMAKING SUPPLIES

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I have learnt that there are 3 things that I cannot do: 1) I can't speak french - but most french people speak better english than me 2) I can't make puff pastry - but I don't eat wheat so no problem 3) I can't draw - but I make fantastic lace Liz Beecher H - - - English - puff -

Re: [lace-chat] A modest young man

2003-08-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
We then found out he got a bravery award on the last day at camp. Seems he was a little unhappy about this as he felt a young lad who had never left home before was very home sick, my grandson took him under his wing. Nan he was brave, he stayed. The young make you think sometimes. Jean in

Re: [lace-chat] Planting trees

2003-08-12 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) What's more maritime than the oaks our ships used to be built from? Jea in Poole Port Orford cedars ? They provided masts for those oaken ships - sent world-wide from the coast of Oregon in the U.S. Toni in Seattle as for the palm trees, if they don't like oaks tell them to move where

Re: [lace-chat] Lavender growing

2003-08-11 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Far from being limited to Southern Europe lavender is also grown in the north east of Scotland - on Royal Deeside - and hand creams etc made with it. Patricia in Wales Fifteen years ago, a little town called Sequim was dying due to being so far 'out of the way' . . . until some Californians moved

Re: [lace-chat] Basic lacemaking supplies - long

2003-08-10 Thread Toni Hawryluk
We don't now take our bottles, even though what we used to take were the non-alcoholic wines - we thought the reputation may well take some time to live down! Carol I'm sure it's different where you are, but if it had been me, I would have invited him to sit, have a drink, and join me in

Re: [lace-chat] Basic lacemaking supplies - URL

2003-08-10 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.langendorfkloeppel.de/proamer/produkt/kloeppz_a.htm Linda Walton, Thanks, Linda - and the glass light-globes are what made me start counting my pennies . . . g Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL

Re: [lace-chat] Lavender growing

2003-08-09 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Of course, Oregon *is* south of Royal Deeside :-) And, yes, I do know your seasons are more extreme than ours. I used to reckon that Aberdeen was about half way up the Hudson Bay, to give relative locations. Patricia in Wales Yes and no : On the 'wet side' of the Cascade Range (which runs

[lace] 'green horseshoe' - well, so much for 'housekeeping' -

2003-08-08 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I'm too quick with the 'delete' today : http://www.kleinhout.com/GB/tools/index.html can be added to the 'displays' list of the lace-maker who was drawing attention to a 'green horseshoe' - first I saw the horseshoe and then I saw the if you live outside the E.U. !! 20 percent off !! in the

[lace] book about clothes - and yo, Bjarne !

2003-08-08 Thread Toni Hawryluk
because I don't have his private address - What Clothes Reveal by Linda Baumgarten about collecting for the Colonial Williamsburg . . . It's an 'oversize' (coffee table) book and past the Preface, and Acknowledgments, opposite the Introduction - - - is Bjarne's waistcoat - full and glorious page

Re: [lace-chat]global..fires..etc.

2003-08-08 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I'm not aware of any species that became extinct due to a naturally occuring forest fire, such as we have happening right now. Bev On a 'local' level, 'probably' not - but when there's no place to creep/run/fly to for *literal miles* because the trees have been cut and erosion has removed

Re: [lace-chat] BASIC LACEMAKING SUPPLIES - ebay link

2003-08-08 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Tatters? Knitters? Needle-lacers? Crocheters? Clay It's the *real* thing : Irish Crochet Lace - none of your afghan granny squares !! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2338905339category=3095 Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

[lace-chat] $30 million vs $5000 - who's losing ?

2003-08-07 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Just don't 'forget' : the *first* bounty paid, and don't 'forget' the **it that started this, was $30,000,000 of *American* tax money . . . http://www.msnbc.com/news/949443.asp?vts=080720031050cp1=1 Bounty raised on U.S. soldiers General: Killing GIs may now be worth $5,000 To

Re: [lace-chat] Hot weather and the British railway system and fires

2003-08-06 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) As for global warming, Patricia in Wales My own outlook on 'global warming' is that the Earth has been made sick by humanity's stupidity, and 'she' is getting feverish . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL

Re: [lace-chat] music help needed

2003-08-05 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I'm looking for the music for Improvisata by Edgar Tinel, a Belgian composer of the mid 19th to early 20th century. There are one or two new CDs out featuring his music, so one would think the music is available somewhere. But no luck with Schirmer or Novello or any other major, minor, or

Re: [lace-chat] Hot weather and the British railway system

2003-08-05 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) I agree with my father, who used to lay track back in the days of thirty men to a sixty foot length - the problems are caused by the continuous weld type of track used, which has none of the expansion joints of the old type. Consequently, you get hot weather, and the track buckles; other

[lace-chat] yeah, right . . .

2003-08-05 Thread Toni Hawryluk
That's what was said about bin Laden, too . . . so where's the body ?? Or do we need the threat of bin Laden to support the **it in the White House while it spends tax dollars as bounty-rewards . . . http://www.msnbc.com/news/934483.asp?cp1=1 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] richest man in the world

2003-08-04 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I'm catching up - Science (magazine) Vol 299 January 2003 devoted half a page to Bill Gates : excerpt : ... announced that his philanthropic organization will spend $200,000,000 (yes, all those zeroes !) on research into . . . some of the world's most deadly diseases (because they) are

[lace-chat] quick-thinking fellow !

2003-08-04 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/946976.asp?cp1=1 Camera phone used as crime-stopper Teen's photos reportedly led to alleged assailant's arrest To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Lace Fans to :

2003-08-03 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I too am a great fan of the Fan Museum in Greenwich. They pulled out all the stops last year with an exhibition of lace fans to mark the OIDFA visit. Over now, alas, but there are some pictures on their website: www.fan-museum.org Bridget, in Watford, England. Thank you, Bridget, not only

[lace] Re: [not lace] sage advice wanted

2003-08-02 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snio) As for wotcher, I think of it as meaning something like hello, how are you. Ruth Sounds to me as though it's what's happened to What cheer ? over many years (probably I read it in one of the Bronte books - or Dickens ?) Toni in Seattle - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace] Advice, please, on the donut candle holders

2003-08-02 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) The lace would look best if it was held against the top curve of the glass, but that would only be possible with glue. (snip) Jacquie If you were to consider the 'donut' to be a 'mold', and wet the lace - put it wrong side *up* *in the mold* - and let it dry that way - does the lace

Re: [lace-chat] Health tips

2003-08-01 Thread Toni Hawryluk
try a few of David's remedies. Lynn in Wollongong, Australia Gotta 'get some *spice* into your life' - jalapeno, cayenne, etc. and work on that from the inside, 'cell' level - steam from the outside-inside added to the *hot*-spiced foods 'through' the skin from inside . . . ? Toni in Seattle

[lace-chat] Re: lace-chat entry

2003-08-01 Thread Toni Hawryluk
In this case, your tax dollars won't even be involved, in all likelihood. Since this was a personal reply, I'm omitting the ID. But somebody help me out, here, OK ? I don't know which 'industry' ?? pays for other governments - but the U.S. is run on monies from one type of tax or another. And

[lace-chat] new one on me . . .

2003-07-31 Thread Toni Hawryluk
If *this* is war, why are Americans still getting killed ? And I want a refund of the taxes I paid - they were not meant to provide a bounty to settle a personal grudge of an 'enemy' having so many sons while **it doesn't . . . http://www.msnbc.com/news/934483.asp?cp1=1 To unsubscribe send email

[lace-chat] well, there went another election . . .

2003-07-31 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://slate.msn.com/id/2086455/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] all together now, sing ! Who's crazy now, who's . . .

2003-07-30 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Today on MSN a.. Memo warns of new airliner hijack plots MSNBC News a.. Air marshals pulled from key flights To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Urgent help required - - -

2003-07-30 Thread Toni Hawryluk
David wrote: in the next couple of days I need to send her a snail mail telling she has failed her audition. What about saying that although you were impressed, there were only x number of spaces free in the choir, and that you had too many applying who were whatever she sings (soprano,

Re: [lace-chat] health tips?

2003-07-30 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) Anyone in lace-land have any other old-fashioned (or new-fashioned) aids to getting bronchitisi/sinusitis to hurry up and go away? I do want to thank Dr. Tamara Duvall, however, with providing us with the usual humour almost everyday to read -- laughter is excellent medicine!! (Even

[lace-chat] . . . have I got a deal for you !

2003-07-28 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/944126.asp?cp1=1 Meet the dirty dozen of business To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] what are you thinking or are you . . .

2003-07-28 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Many cars/trucks Americans buy are not built here. *Most* ships Americans sail on are not built here. The planes . . . well, probably not for much longer, the way Boeing is headed. The steel industry is sick, to say the least . . . The food . . . . . . and the jobs ?

Re: [lace-chat] Weapons of mass destruction ban in the UK :-)

2003-07-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
As from midnight last night certain weapons of mass destruction were banned in the UK (and, I think, other European countries). Whoa !! Then the it in our White House is no longer allowed entry to the UK or some of the other European countries ? ... The stupid thing is that the

Re: [lace-chat] RE: Onions

2003-07-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Reminds me of a story that's at least twenty years older than I am. (So don't ask for provenance!) After the Great War (WWI), when there was a lot of war surplus lying around, one little boy got his hands on a real, working gas mask -- and for miles around, no housewife had to grate her own

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Mugwump to Adam and Eve

2003-07-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) It all Started with Adam and Eve (human history), Tamara P Duvall I pulled up the Seattle Library System screens on my PC, only to discover that *they* apparently do not *have* that title by Armour, Richard whatever-his- middle-initial was . . . sigh . . . so I'm waiting now to see how

Re: [lace-chat] re: Mugwump and more

2003-07-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/wordimp/wordimp.htm for an article that mentions mugwump etymology and a few other interesting words. Tamara The bottom line ? (for that article) The Man (usually capitalized) soon personified the System, especially as conceived in neo-Marxist

Re: [lace-chat] For a laugh

2003-07-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Martha Stewart may soon have a new captive audience http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/ Pene Correction ? . . . soon *be* a captive - - - audience ? Thanks for the update, Pene, 'that girl' upset me so much after I've been cheering her on for being a 'real (business) role model' - - that I

[lace] lace 'tool' :)

2003-07-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Lace d'oyleys you can eat ! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2336376334category=121 Toni in Seattle . - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] are you/your family still employed ?

2003-07-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
While we make lace, things may change . . .. The House just passed the Singapore Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 2739) by a 272-155 vote. And it passed the Chile Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 2738) 270-156 just a little bit later. Republicans almost totally deserted the higher-skilled American worker

[lace-chat] what British 'reserve' ?? ; )

2003-07-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s908482.htm Man drops trousers at royal garden party The Queen got an unexpected view of one of her subjects when a guest at one of her regular garden parties dropped his trousers and scampered off among the tea-drinking crowd. He was a young man, an invited

[lace-chat] anybody wanna sing ? ; )

2003-07-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://home.golden.net/~dhobson/consongs.htm Toni in Seattle (I'm a lonely little petunia - in . . .) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Summer Reading

2003-07-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I got so irritated with that soppy Bridget Jones and her daft ideas that I wanted to rip her arm off and beat her to death with the soggy end - Carol - in a wet and very windy East Anglia. Whoa ! Hold it ! you had better get some medication - I think whatever it is that the bloodthirsty it in

[lace-chat] what is being taught *here* to American children ?

2003-07-24 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/943393.asp?0sl=-12 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] still Advertising . . .

2003-07-22 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Plus in the beginning, we would be told about many lace making trips that lacemakers have taken, telling us what they have seen, what they liked etc. This is seldom done, I myself have taken many trips but would not post to Arachne what I had seen and done. Angela is currently giving us the

Re: [lace-chat] Summer reading

2003-07-22 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Which reminds me...not far down the shelf are the books by Miss Read, about life of a schoolteacher in a small English village. (To UK members -- are these stories plausible to you who are more familiar with real villages? As an ex-teacher, I rather enjoyed the stories.) My library even has

[lace-chat] do you know your home's history ?

2003-07-22 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Insurance/Insureyourhome/P35345.asp excerpt : What's more, the problem is derailing their plans to sell their home. The Garders say they have been told by their real estate agent and others that they may have a tough time getting a good price for a home that's

Re: [lace-chat] Re: lace-chat-digest V1 #2167

2003-07-21 Thread Toni Hawryluk
--sue, in beastly hot, dry, smoky Montana (yes, it's too hot to make lace!) And that's the truth !! It's going to be 93 F (according to this morning's radio DJ) in Seattle - makes me think of moving farther north - - - Bev ? what's the temp like on The Island ? like day before the Lace

Re: [lace-chat] third list *for* advertising !

2003-07-20 Thread Toni Hawryluk
I wonder if it's worth suggesting that extra split here? I know some people here feel strongly on both sides of the fence ... Margery. I'm not against advertising, I just don't want to *deal* with it on a daily/hourly basis. A third list for *sales/marketing* is an absolutely wonderful idea.

Re: [lace-chat] Vivienne/ Biggins

2003-07-19 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Hi, for some time there has been a problem with people wanting me to tell them of special offers and new additions to our web site. The problem being a hand full of people who don't like it. Excuse me - don't like it ? My understanding is that *advertising is prohibited* ?? but an *URL*

Re: [lace-chat] Winston Graham - Poldark

2003-07-17 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) I'm such a fan that not only have I got the first 11 books in paperback, but all 12 in hardback as well. I've also got the videos of the TV series amounting to 27 hours of viewing, including the dreadful episode made by ITV. Jean in Poole I did the same (bookwise only) with the Anne of

Re: [lace-chat] - Poldark ** second reply **

2003-07-17 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.poldark.com/poldark/thehorsedealer.htm Jean in Poole Whoa ! that site offers an HTML version as well - that flipped up on my monitor in the space of 1.5 seconds instead of the ?? *minutes* required by .pdf files . . . *And* the second paragraph of the story : He lived in a

Re: [lace-chat] Male/female brains

2003-07-15 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) It was also suggested that the concentration on one thing at a time explains why there are more men specialists in some professions. Jean in Poole I was reading along and 'learning', until I got to the 'bottom line' - and 'learned' that somebody is still trying to fool all the people

[lace-chat] more Missing body parts :

2003-07-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
One of DH's women in one of his internet groups was wondering if she should apply to the Guiness Book of Records as having the most number of body parts missing. (snip) Jean in Poole === I think my brother in law could be an equal or close second. He is missing Lynn in Wollongong

Re: [lace-chat] Book Help

2003-07-14 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) What I am hoping is that some of you might list a few books that you have read over the years that stick out in your minds as having been worthwhile. (snip Susan Webster . . . And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Sant Myer A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold Noah's Garden by Sarah

Re: [lace-chat] Stars in their eyes

2003-07-12 Thread Toni Hawryluk
. . . But better looking as he gets older G . . . never mind who . . . g So - which *woman* is better looking as she gets older ? Or maybe *we* haven't *earned* 'equal treatment/rights' yet . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace-chat] probably of interest only to Americans ?

2003-07-12 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://slate.msn.com/id/2085481/ excerpt : In the out years, by their own estimate, their plan is a job and growth killer, says Jared Bernstein, economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Instead of doing what serious analysts would do and going to the drawing board to re-evaluate, they just

[lace-chat] protection/censorship

2003-07-08 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://slate.msn.com/id/2085183/ The magazine Redbook will be wearing a 'brown-paper cover' on Wal-Mart shelves, and the bottom line expresses an opinion : . . . the principles Wal-Mart has lately espoused-prescriptive religion, sexism, corporate strong-arming to prevent unionization-(it) is

[lace-chat] good news - if it's true . . .

2003-07-05 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/933922.asp?cp1=1 Microbe gobbles toxic plastic waste Researchers see new approach to removing vinyl chloride ASSOCIATED PRESS July 2 - Scientists have identified a microbe that gobbles up toxic waste deep underground, a potential remedy for

Re: [lace-chat] Women astronauts

2003-07-03 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Hi All, At the risk of raising Toni's blood pressure I want to tell you about something I read. This weeks People magazine has an article on women who were in the astronaut program in the 1960s! Jane To the contrary, my dear, seeing women's accomplishments is very soothing . . . not that I

[lace-chat] that's all, folks . . .

2003-07-03 Thread Toni Hawryluk
This is it - if anybody wants to off the it in the White House, they're welcome . . . Unemployment is climbing and people are running out of benefits they've been collecting for so long, interest rates on savings are down to 2 percent and less, so retired people who *can't* work are hurting along

[lace-chat] ah, yes, the ?last? of those southern gentlemen

2003-07-02 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Don't do as I do, do as I *say* . . . and other powermaniacs . . . http://slate.msn.com/id/2085087/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] yeah, right . . .

2003-07-02 Thread Toni Hawryluk
There's lots of Americans to 'spend' - none of *its*, however . . . http://www.msnbc.com/news/933766.asp?0sl=-30 Bush challenge to Iraq attackers: 'Bring them on' excerpt : But with opinion surveys showing public confidence in the U.S. campaign falling to below 60 percent, the president

Re: [lace] bones and thorns and pins - and linen thread ?

2003-07-01 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) The best-known lace in Finland comes from Rauma, where a sophisticated industry flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries, but in rural areas they used what they had: unshaped twigs for bobbins and even birchbark for prickings, to make peasant laces, often of coloured linens, which

[lace-chat] well, there went my cool . . .

2003-07-01 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Muslim women wear personal tents to 'protect' men from thinking 'sinful thoughts', in the U.S. women are supposed to : http://www.msnbc.com/news/933424.asp?vts=070120031650 Who gives a *#%$? about *women* if *they* don't look out for each other Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] collections/libraries

2003-06-30 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Margot, out of the kindness of her heart, has asked for donations to the library being rebuilt/restocked in Alexandria . . . Jeri has collected, over a lifetime, an 'inheritance' for lace-makers, and also has asked for suggestions on how to best use/maintain it . . . . . . Putting all one's eggs

Re: [lace] bones, thorns etc.

2003-06-29 Thread Toni Hawryluk
A friend of mine made a lacepillow with knuckles from sheep's feet as bobbins, it looked very convincing, but her dog ate the bones before she had made a photo. Vibeke in Copenhagen I had to smile at this one, Vibeke, our school-children used to tell their teachers, when their class work had

Re: [lace] Needlework clamps pictures by request.

2003-06-28 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Brian from Cooranbong, Australia wrote : I have 5 pictures that I will send anyone to their personal email address. They will be sent in HTML and will take approximately 25 secs to download (with a 56 kps modem) A little more with a slower modem. Please send me a personal email to request

Re: [lace] Fish bones and thorns

2003-06-28 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) . . . suitable bones (and I think thorns as well); from what I can remember without much success. Perhaps they are now reading this and can recall the results better than I can. Jacquie Fishbones are 'not in my experience', but thorns ? Yes, indeed, the 'right' ones are long - the one

Re: [lace] Lace fillings

2003-06-28 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Thanks, Margot ! I'll be 'at the library' as soon as I'm done with posting today ! and thanks, too, for the 'tip' about the paperback . . . Toni in Seattle - Original Message - From: Margot Walker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:17 AM Subject: [lace] Lace

Re: [lace-chat] Re: [lace] html on lists

2003-06-28 Thread Toni Hawryluk
(snip) As for the text, I had to keep mousing the little thingie at the bottom, left to right and back again to read the entire line, which made me get the heck outa there before I finished reading the first paragraph... definitely not my cup o'T; not 'puter-idiot-friendly enough :) Tamara Web

[lace-chat] Fw: the bottom line

2003-06-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
The following article tells what is being done - *and* *not* done - by the government about telemarketers : http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/FinancialPrivacy/P49439.asp It's also a scam way to identify individuals and get them into a government database - but I digress - even if you

[lace-chat] like chickens who voted for 'The Colonel' :

2003-06-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
To explain the Subject line : for non-Americans - The U.S. has a fast-food franchising firm called Kentucky Fried Chicken. The creator is portrayed as a Southern-type Colonel, dressed in a white suit, etc. . . . Voters put a type of 'Colonel' in the White House . . .

Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: tshirt

2003-06-26 Thread Toni Hawryluk
From: D.D. Latest fashion: http://www.americanapologyshirt.com/ For the frequent traveller. Tamara P Duvall Those shirts that might change the course of history if the waitresses at Hooter's would wear them ! Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing

[lace-chat] [lace-list] not necessarily *at* the library

2003-06-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Not pleasant : http://www.msnbc.com/news/928869.asp and the 'other' point of view : http://www.msnbc.com/news/930810.asp Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] good news or death rattle ?

2003-06-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Articles/Dispatches/P50839.asp Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] women's health - many links

2003-06-25 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/WOMENSHEALTH_front.asp To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Re: and *your* library

2003-06-24 Thread Toni Hawryluk
And in library school we were **required** to look through a collection of **real** pornography (not Playboy, for sure!) -- so we would know what we talk about. Carolyn So I'll ask somebody who's been trained : both movies and stills ? violence-in-action ? snuff films disguised as pornography

Re: [lace-chat] Re: and *your* library

2003-06-24 Thread Toni Hawryluk
http://www.msnbc.com/news/930166.asp?vts=3D062320031215cp1=3D1 Steph In favour of 100% free speech, including looking at pornography if I want to. And I would 'defend to the death' your right to do so'. The same way I would defend your right not to be distracted by explicit and perhaps

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