[lace] St. Martins Day Fair
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pene Piip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes They were from Gloucester said that they hadn't seen lacemaking before, but he knew of the lace machines in Nottingham. Sounds as if the Gloucester Lace Group (which has been in existence for years!) need to get out and demonstrate more :-) -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Cockfosters Lace Day
Dear Bridget and all in SE England Here are details of next year's Cockfosters Lace Day. It will be held as usual at: Oakwood Methodist Church Westpole Avenue Cockfosters Barnet EN4 On Saturday 11th February from 10am-4pm. Speaker...Jacqui Barber. Suppliers, Raffle, Refreshments (including cake made by me - Dundee with added vitamins, from the rum bottle!) Tickets £5 from (SAE please) Jo Siney 115 Whitley Road Hoddesdon Herts EN11 0PS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] cakes for lace days
Hi everyone, Leonard's Dundee cake with added vitamins (teehee) sent me to find a recipe. Is it like this one? http://www.scotlandforvisitors.com/dundeecake.php I'm thinking this might be fun to take to the Christmas meeting of my group - if I could find a source for 2 tblsp. of whisky. If I bought a bottle, I'd have to take that to lace day, too (heetee) . The subject of cakes reminds me that we're coming up to Cattern's Day, Nov. 25, in tradition, the lacemakers' annual holiday I haven't yet hit upon the right formula for converting the UK measurements and types of ingredients to NA - that is to say the Cattern Cakes always come out different. But maybe they're better that way: 9 oz/ 275 g. self-raising flour (I use NA white flour and add 1 or 2 tsp. baking powder) 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 oz./25 g. currants 2 0z./50 g. ground almonds 2 tsp. caraway seeds 7 oz/200 g. caster sugar (I use NA granulated white sugar) 4 oz./100 g. melted butter 1 egg beaten Mix dry; mix wet; add wet to dry. Flatten to a rectangle 12 x 10 inches, sprinkle with extra cinnamon and sugar, roll up and cut into slices. Place slices well apart on a greased cookie sheet, bake 10 min. at 400 deg. F. -- bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] pins!
le 13/11/05 23:09, Jo Falkink à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : We just have to be sure we don't leave any pins in the carpet. Alice in Oregon (previously [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Seems impossible to me. We've been guests in the town hall for quite some time and they collected a box full of dropped pins. Jo Falkink there 's a whole study to be made about the ability of pins to drop unnoticed . dominique aka romdom -- Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. Bulgarian proverb - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] cakes for lace days
bevw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking this might be fun to take to the Christmas meeting of my group - if I could find a source for 2 tblsp. of whisky. If I bought a bottle, I'd have to take that to lace day, too (heetee) . could you not buy a miniature bottle of whisky Bev? I f you can't find one locally I'll send you one as I live in the whisky capital of the world - I'm ducking now! jenny barron Speyside Scotland - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Cleaning the rack of a grill pan
I got a gardget from Kleenese or Betterware or one other of those nnoying people who are agents for useless household appliances and gardgets and drop their catalogues through your door. It's got a handle and a shaft, and, at the end is a sort of disc. There are semi-circular nibbles of different sizes cut out around the rim of the disc. You find the right nibble for the diameter of the bars on the rack, and then push it along the bar. It scrapes off most of the burnt stuff, and leaves just a small amount to be removed with a brillo pad, wire wool or a green scourer. DH finds it easy to clean the rack this way :-D Jea in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] cleaning the rack from a grill pan?
I always part fill the sink with very hot water and lots of strong thick bleach. Leave the grill in there for about 10 minutes and most of the gunge will just wipe away. The rest you can get off with wire wool. Hope it helps! Dee Palin Gloucestershire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Maya Angelou's Philsophies
David wrote: In April, Oprah interviewed Maya Angelou on her 70+ birthday. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older. And, there on television, she said it was exciting. Regarding body changes, she said there were many, occurring every day... like her breasts. They seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist, first. The audience laughed so hard they cried. That made me laugh, too; and I realised I'm wondering the same thing (at 63) ... maybe now's a reasonable time to tell you why. My left breast is winning at the moment, as that's the one with the cancer in it and it now rides an inch or two lower than the right; but then once I have had the surgery that should put a stop to its ambitions and the right will win G. We'll just have to wait and see. BFN, Margery. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] SP thank you
The secret pal exchange is almost over and I want to say thank you to Brenda for organising it and a big thank to my Secret Pal, for your thoughtful and delightful choices for me. Each and every parcel have been such a pleasure to open. Thank you very much Micki Scotland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: [lace] new address -- Alice in Oregon
Hi Jo and Alice, I would agree. Do I have the only spouse in the world whose feet act as magnets to brass pins?I *don't* make lace in upstairs in the bedroom, except in my 'Lace Place' but, every time Dearly Beloved takes his shoes/slippers off and crosses the bedroom to get into bed, his feel magically find pins upon which to impale himself, and he howls in agony. And I wander about all the time with bare feet, and pick up nary a one. Should I hire him out to find stray pins . Carol - in Suffolk UK - Original Message - From: Jo Falkink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alice Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]; arachne lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [lace] new address -- Alice in Oregon We just have to be sure we don't leave any pins in the carpet. Alice in Oregon (previously [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Seems impossible to me. We've been guests in the town hall for quite some time and they collected a box full of dropped pins. Jo Falkink To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] For the aluminum-coifed among us
le 13/11/05 21:55, Lynn Carpenter à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ the conclusion is most interesting (very tongue in cheek ) . it will do no good to the paranoid among us though ... VBG.. dominique from Paris To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal Thank You
Hi Secret Pal, I knew something special was in the mail when DH made of point of asking if I had found the mail by my computer. It was your package! (He usually doesn't say anything about the mail.) My little cat does not like the lavender sachet, so I have no fear that he will steal it. Whatever I put it with will also be safe from him. G The sachet will remind me not only of summer, but of my English Secret Pal and my visit to England a few years ago. The castle pictures will do the same. I saw several castles on my tour that I would have loved to visit, but we only saw the outside. (sigh) The bookplates will be used for special lace books. The bobbin and cover cloth are most welcome, and will be put to work soon. The overlocked edging on the cover cloth is a fancy stitch I've not seen on anything around here. Very pretty. I'm looking forward to next month when I can put a name with the bobbin, and other things you've sent. The package looked like it had been opened, and the second sachet you mentioned was missing. Thanks for the thought, anyway. I'm in the middle of Christmas ornaments and tend to start more than one project at a time so have several pillows in use. I think I'm ahead of deadline for most of my Christmas lace commitments, so the lacemaking is going well. I do need to keep at it, though, as the holiday season is creeping up quite fast and I'd like a few extra ornaments or bookmarks on hand for those unexpected occasions when a little something gift is needed. Thank you for all the treats in your package. It will be fun next month to find out who's been sending them to me this round. Have a great holiday in Wales. Alice in Oregon (Used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] but now [EMAIL PROTECTED]) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] getting old
MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to sprinkle clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. How many do you remember? Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. Ignition switches on the dashboard. Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. Real ice boxes. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3 Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5 Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. SH Green Stamps 16 Hi-fi's 17 Metal ice trays with lever 18 Mimeograph paper 19 Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25 Wash tub wringers If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt! I might be older than dirt but those memories are the best part of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends = Senility Prayer...God grant me... The senility to forget the people I never liked The good fortune to run into the ones that I do And the eyesight to tell the difference. Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] 20 Uses for Useless CDs
here is a legitamate thing to use your old cds for ( not that #6 wasn't a good idea ) : http://danielson.laurentian.ca/qualityoflife/Fulltext/Textiles/Making_a_cd_drop_spindle.htm --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Arachnes -- Possibly some Christmas present ideas from the Web here, easier than making lace! :) Ricci Utah Twenty uses for useless CDs. 1) Buy clock guts from a craft shop and make CD-clocks. 2) shuk shuk PULL!!! BOOM! (plastic pigeons) 3) Deadly missiles, especially when sharpened first with a knife blade and honed with the diamond-file thingy from your Leatherman. 4) Put fake new labels on them and give them away as cool games to make the losers leave you alone. 5) Put fake new labels on them to make them seem really important. Leave them around as decoys to prevent damage to your REALLY important CDs. 6) Cut in half and sharpened as in item #3, they make curiously-shaped knives. 7) Enlarge the holes and mount them on your glasses. Use as confusion devices or as prizes to bribe people to leave you alone. 8) Using scotch tape, you can make a Jacob's Ladder thingy that flips and flops all the way down. 9) Cut in half and connect to a neon-sign transformer to make a Jacob's Ladder. 10) Place them in strategic locations to bounce a laser beam from your desk to desks of various people who need to be tortured with lasers being played all over them. 11) Use one or several to wedge a door shut. 12) When nobody's looking, thread them on various cables and replace the cables. 13) Cut into bow-ties. Then with your pocket blowtorch, soften them and twist. Caltrops! 14) Place them in light fixtures to cause irritating glares in strategic locations. 15) Photocopy them. 16) Sharpen as in item #3 (serrate if desired) and mount on a Dremel for use as a saw. 17) Cut four notches from outer edge to almost the inner circle. Heat with pocket blowtorch until soft and mold into a rough cone of about 30 degrees. Keep the notches clear and hole intact. Stick this gadget into something where a lot of air comes out really fast (like a car exhause). Listen to the whistling noise. 18) There is no use #18. 19) Use your pocket blowtorch again to soften a CD and wrap it around a doorknob, mouse, drawer handle, or other small object. 20) Use your pocket blowtorch yet again to form one into a saddle or taco shape. Fasten to ceiling and pretend it's a spy camera. from suzy in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] A question of articles
Gentle Spiders, I may have asked this one before, you may have replied and I'd forgotten... Such is life with memory running on almost empty g When I was learning English as a kid (all those many years ago), we were given rules about when/where/how to use which article, because Polish doesn't have any. We were told that, in singular, for an indefinite noun, one used either a or an before the said noun. Ditto for an adjective preceding the noun. The decision as to *which* of the two to use where, hinged - or so we were told - on whether the said noun (or adjective) started with a consonant or a vowel. The noun (or its introductory adjective) starts with a consonant, it's preceded by a; it starts with a vowel, it's preceded by an. So far, so good. There were some exceptions, we were also told, and had to memorise a few. It wasn't until I was at the U, that I was told that the so-called exceptions weren't really; the a/an rule operated on *sounds*, not spelling. H may be a consonant, but, sometimes, it's silent - not pronounced. When it's silent (memorize the instances, or sound like an uneducated person g) *AND* in front of a vowel, then, *and only then* it takes on an as an article. Thus a harridan, but an honourable deed, since, in the second instance, the word is pronounced onorable, with the h silent (arridan being no more acceptable than enry g). Good, a rule I can understand... But, more and more, the rule seems to be fraying at the edges, till I'm worried - more than usual - about opening my mouth in real life rather than in writing... Take history; it's almost always preceded by an when written. Should I, then, say an istorical fact? Same for hotel. I know the h is silent *in French*, but, should I say an otel reservation in English? And, yesterday - in an otherwise great book - I got another one: an Hispanic maid. Have I been adding, for all those years an H where it ad no place, like a mad Cockney who drops and insterts is aitches indiscriminately? I ave been saying hispanic but obviously, I should have been saying ispanic... Yours, a foreigner puzzled... -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Pins in feet
Do I have the only spouse in the world whose feet act as magnets to brass pins? No, I have one of those types of DH's too!!! Like you, I never get my feet stuck with a pin, but he Always does - and I try hard to make sure none are lying around!! Most of my Lacemaking is done in :my room not in the rest of the house, anyway, so how come he finds them elsewhere? Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] A question of articles
I've always had great sympathy for anyone trying to learn English as a second language. It's such a conglomeration of everything and there seem to be more exceptions that rules. There are not too many words that begin with h for US English speakers (it may well be different for UK English) in which the h is actually not heard. Examples would be an hour or an honor in which case I would use an rather than a. But if I hear the h, I would say/write a historical fact, a hotel and a Hispanic maid, etc. Frankly, at the rate native speakers butcher the language I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. Especially coming from a different culture and language. If you should happen to make a slight faux-pas, just smile and blame it on that and let it go. That's my .02 worth and remember - opinions and advice are worth what you pay for them wink Tamara P Duvall wrote: Gentle Spiders, I may have asked this one before, you may have replied and I'd forgotten... Such is life with memory running on almost empty g When I was learning English as a kid (all those many years ago), we were given rules about when/where/how to use which article, because Polish doesn't have any. We were told that, in singular, for an indefinite noun, one used either a or an before the said noun. Ditto for an adjective preceding the noun. The decision as to *which* of the two to use where, hinged - or so we were told - on whether the said noun (or adjective) started with a consonant or a vowel. The noun (or its introductory adjective) starts with a consonant, it's preceded by a; it starts with a vowel, it's preceded by an. So far, so good. There were some exceptions, we were also told, and had to memorise a few. It wasn't until I was at the U, that I was told that the so-called exceptions weren't really; the a/an rule operated on *sounds*, not spelling. H may be a consonant, but, sometimes, it's silent - not pronounced. When it's silent (memorize the instances, or sound like an uneducated person g) *AND* in front of a vowel, then, *and only then* it takes on an as an article. Thus a harridan, but an honourable deed, since, in the second instance, the word is pronounced onorable, with the h silent (arridan being no more acceptable than enry g). Good, a rule I can understand... But, more and more, the rule seems to be fraying at the edges, till I'm worried - more than usual - about opening my mouth in real life rather than in writing... Take history; it's almost always preceded by an when written. Should I, then, say an istorical fact? Same for hotel. I know the h is silent *in French*, but, should I say an otel reservation in English? And, yesterday - in an otherwise great book - I got another one: an Hispanic maid. Have I been adding, for all those years an H where it ad no place, like a mad Cockney who drops and insterts is aitches indiscriminately? I ave been saying hispanic but obviously, I should have been saying ispanic... Yours, a foreigner puzzled... To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] A question of articles
I don't know about the rest of the country, but I would use 'a' in front of history, hispanic and hotel, and I DO pronouce the H. However, I can imagine people using 'an' if they tend to drop or aspirate the H. I would say that this rule, as with others in USA grammar, is being slurred. I also have a guess that half the people in the country never heard of the rule and just use which ever article they feel like, without knowing why Alice in Oregon. (who used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now is [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take history; it's almost always preceded by an when written. Should I, then, say an istorical fact? Same for hotel. I know the h is silent *in French*, but, should I say an otel reservation in English? And, yesterday - in an otherwise great book - I got another one: an Hispanic maid. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
