Thurlow - its a dessertspoon, which in turn is half a tablespoon. In
Australia, in order to avoid confusion between the various countries, and in
particular to help accurately measure childrens' medicines, a measuring
teaspoon was standardised at 5mls. Thus, a dessertspoon is 10mls, and a
Hi Peter, dare I ask how the car is??
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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Underground launched poems on the underground. The
feedback
was so good that they continued for at least 5 years. I've got the
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I have read, and I'm fairly sure that this is correct, that only the female
mosquitoes bite because they must have a meal of blood in order to
reproduce.
On the other hand, only the male mosquitoes sing, to attract the females.
So... if you here a mosquito singing, it is a male and will not
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[2004/06/05 10:12]
Yvonne writes:
I heard that if you hold your breath when a mozzie lands on you it
can't fly
away and then it is really easy to swat it. Apparently something to do
with
your pores closing when
OTOH, that mosquito whining around my head, may be a male yelling to his
lady friend, This way, tjis way! Here's a live one. Come qwick and eat,
so we can get on with it ! ;-)
Louise in Central Virginia, where we have had so much rain in the past
month that the mozzies rise up in clouds when
I think I'll keep this information, Louise, and show next summer's crop of
mosquitoes, so that they know what they're supposed to be doing
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Louise Hume [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I have read, and I'm fairly sure
that this is correct, that only the female
Noelene, it's nothing to do with the wonderful building of your house - its
your climatetoo darn cold for anything to live down there
For the rest of the world - I've just seen on the evening news that the
overnight temperature in Cooma last night was minus 9 degrees celsius
Ruth
Spiders,
Thanks to the many of you who responded to my mystification with regard to
dsps. I now know that this is a dessert spoon and that it is roughly two
teaspoons, half a tablespoon. This sounds like a vintage measure, yet none
of my 100-year-old cookbooks have it.
Now I can make the sweet
I visited the website of the place in Estonia that Pene directed us to. It is
a house originally belonging to the Piip family, returned to them after the
last half century of communist rule during which time it was state owned. What
an interesting story.
Pene, do you and your husband speak
I would like to obtain the June/July issue of Workbox.
Is there anyone in the UK that would get it for me?
I am going to Prague in July and that could be a delivery point or might it
be available there?
I would of course gladly reimburse the buy in what ever manner ($ £ or
trade).
Lorri
The
When I discovered lace books from the Continent in 1980 I had to invest in at
least one. To me that was a special one. The lace of Elena Holeczyova. What a
treat for the eyes. Of course I was now after postcards and catalogues and
wrote to every museum mentioned in the book. Some answered, one
On Jun 6, 2004, at 7:50, Thurlow Weed wrote:
Thanks to the many of you who responded to my mystification with
regard to
dsps. I now know that this is a dessert spoon and that it is
roughly two
teaspoons, half a tablespoon.
Two thirds of a tablespoon, as it's 3 tsps to a TBS. If it were as
Please, Arachnes, let's not have a discussion on the merits and faults of
the American tax structure and health services. It's not a simple issue and
it gets people worked up for no good purpose. Helene, I'd appreciate it if
you tone down your language a little.
Thanks,
Avital
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Sorry this is a few days late, but I am a bit behind with answering mail!
Someone asked about plants to grow alongside, or on, a patio to repel flies
etc. Lavender is a great plant for this - pretty, perfumed (pleasant for
humans!) and the flies and bugs hate it!!
Another good one would be
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