Hello all,
I should have used the heading "heart failure". Yes my HD went bung and I lost a lot of stuff, but, more by luck that judgement, pretty well all of the collectors guide that Diana and I are working on, I had luckily saved I think the day before, on my second disk. It has caused a bit of confusion between us, but I think it is on track now. The Dictionary is away being edited. phew!!!!!! What I have lost are all my old emails (and email addresses) Amongst them was a member who had volunteered to help organize my digital collection of Continental Lace Bobbins. Being a mere male, I am totally unable to do two things at once and left the matter of the Continentals until after the Dictionary and Collectors guide were done (well sort-of, at least) Would the kind volunteer who offered her help to me, and to whom I would have said "yes" (moons ago) kindly contact me again, IF she forgives me; because I am pretty close to be able to get that project started. Sorry good friend L. Just one bit of news, we have managed to find a "Transported to Botany Bay" bobbin. It is on Display at the Higgins, Bedford museum. There is a B and W pic of it in a book, but this is the real bobbin. I am currently negotiating with the Higgins, to use it in the dictionary. I found it after I had the HD failure and was trawling through the cd backups I made over the years to collect as much of the stuff I lost as I could. To my surprise I saw that I had taken a video of my visit to the Higgins (long Long ago) so I thought I would watch it. and. there it was. I think the word is "Serendipity" . Now I need to find the "Suicide" bobbin that seems to have disappeared from our collectors community. No doubt there are others too that are lost over the years. BTW I am bit short of Cryptic or Puzzle bobbins, if anyone would like to offer one for my archives. please. I have a couple, but would like examples of more. Do you remember the fun we had de-crypting the puzzle bobbins within Arachne all those years ago. I did write it up and it is on webdocs (Arizona uni). We did a few projects together, then I started to get too big for my boots and thought that I knew everything (write dictionary and discover how much you DO NOT know!!!) OK, that is about it for the time being, Apologies to my Continental volunteer friend! Brian - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
