[lace] Retirement.
Very best wishes, Brian, for your 'retirement' I, too, have just turned 80 -- obviously 1936 was a Vintage Year! Good pre-war quality! Your bobbin collection, and all your writings have been wonderful, and I am sure all Lacemakers will join me in saying Thank You for your efforts to help keep our craft, and it's wonderful history, alive, I hope all Lacemakers and their families are safe from the extremes of weather the planet is having at the moment. Here Down Under there have been the most terrible storms and floods - a 2000 km storm along the East coast - yes 2 thousand km long storm! Terrible flash floods etc. We, here in Melbourne missed them so are safe, but Sydney copped a terrible battering., as did Brisbane (Qld), right down to Launceston (in Tasmania) We saw, on TV news the tornados in USA. Just terrible. Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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Hi Nolene This has brought me out of lurkdom, it's definitely for me. I'm hoping to retire at Easter next year and over the last few weeks I've started planning in my mind all the things I want to do, especially lace, as I'm not getting time to do any at the moment due to family circumstances. But I'm just getting hints from my daughter that I shall be expected to do lots of grandson sitting when I retire. Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to dream on... Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's a beautiful, breezy day at the moment, but we're promised rain later Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. I'd have oodles of time To plan and create, And have projects all over the place. But then the day came, And I planned to sit down With all of that thread that I'd bought. With pins and my pillows And bobbins galore And great piles of books just to sort. But where does the time go? I really can't say The days seem to disappear fast. As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! Noelene noel...@lafferty.com.au - - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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Hi Alison, Do not forget that it is your life too when you retire. It is great to see and look after your grandson but do make sure you have time for yourself as well. I was lucky to have about 3 years of retirement before I started helping with my granddaughter. I love her very much and enjoy having her but it is tiring. I always told my daughter I would help but was not always available to help as I have a life of my own. So make sure you give yourself time for your crafts as well as having time for grandson. Enjoy retirement. Corinne in Brighton UK. Where it is damp and getting dark. -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Gray, Alison J Sent: 11 November 2014 12:39 To: Noelene Lafferty Cc: Lace@Arachne.Com Subject: RE: [lace] Retirement Hi Nolene This has brought me out of lurkdom, it's definitely for me. I'm hoping to retire at Easter next year and over the last few weeks I've started planning in my mind all the things I want to do, especially lace, as I'm not getting time to do any at the moment due to family circumstances. But I'm just getting hints from my daughter that I shall be expected to do lots of grandson sitting when I retire. Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to dream on... Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's a beautiful, breezy day at the moment, but we're promised rain later - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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Thank you for those wise words, Corinne, last year I and my other half went on a pre-retirement course where we were told that we needed to make time for ourselves. I thought I had it all sorted out, but life has been turned upside down in the last few weeks and putting the theory into practice is going to be more difficult than I thought. Still by the time I retire my grandson will be nearly 3 so I might be able to teach him to make lace. Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's beginning to get dark and Corinne's dampness is heading our way -Original Message- From: corinne [mailto:csjones...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 November 2014 14:56 To: Gray, Alison J; 'Noelene Lafferty' Cc: 'Lace@Arachne.Com' Subject: RE: [lace] Retirement Hi Alison, Do not forget that it is your life too when you retire. It is great to see and look after your grandson but do make sure you have time for yourself as well. I was lucky to have about 3 years of retirement before I started helping with my granddaughter. I love her very much and enjoy having her but it is tiring. I always told my daughter I would help but was not always available to help as I have a life of my own. So make sure you give yourself time for your crafts as well as having time for grandson. Enjoy retirement. Corinne in Brighton UK. Where it is damp and getting dark. -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Gray, Alison J Sent: 11 November 2014 12:39 To: Noelene Lafferty Cc: Lace@Arachne.Com Subject: RE: [lace] Retirement Hi Nolene This has brought me out of lurkdom, it's definitely for me. I'm hoping to retire at Easter next year and over the last few weeks I've started planning in my mind all the things I want to do, especially lace, as I'm not getting time to do any at the moment due to family circumstances. But I'm just getting hints from my daughter that I shall be expected to do lots of grandson sitting when I retire. Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to dream on... Alison in Colchester, Essex, UK where it's a beautiful, breezy day at the moment, but we're promised rain later - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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Hi Noelene and fellow Arachnids, This lovelypoem is soo true. In retirement one seems to have less time for oneâs craft than ever. What happens I think is all the other people thinking;- âWe can ask her/him to do so and so as they are retired and have plenty of time on their hands.â As we are loath to say no, I want some time to do the things I enjoy we end up working harder than ever :-D. Power to your lace pillow and may it help us to say NO to things that can be done by others??? Happy lace making, Joepie in East Sussex, UK. From: Noelene Lafferty Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦ As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! Noelene noel...@lafferty.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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Dear Noelene, I love your poetry, and have saved this one as well. You put things so very well. But, taking the sense of your poem, Retirement seems to do that. I am a morning person, and so I tend to get up at 5 a.m. Since retired people generally don't have to be breakfasted, dressed and sensible at 7:30 in the morning, I go downstairs, the dog and I go get the paper, I make the coffee and tea, start breakfast if necessary, and then sit down with my coffee and start to make lace. It's set up at the end of the kitchen table, near the sliding glass door, with the mug heater on the table for the coffee, and off I go, until the sun rises, frequently. Simply keeping the lace set up ready to go, without bobbin holders pinned down and only the cover cloth properly over all, entices me to sit and make lace. Might also help to schedule in the lace making as part of your chores, or an award for some chores finished. I consider sorting lace books a chore, as I am not making lace. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where it's 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I've done 2 hours of lace. Big mug of coffee is finished. Noelene wrote: Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. I'd have oodles of time To plan and create, And have projects all over the place. But then the day came, And I planned to sit down With all of that thread that I'd bought. With pins and my pillows And bobbins galore And great piles of books just to sort. But where does the time go? I really can't say The days seem to disappear fast. As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! Noelene noel...@lafferty.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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Just read this motto on a tea shirt - 'The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off!' Diana In a cold, dull, wet Northamptonshire Sent from Diana's iPad On 8 Nov 2014, at 03:22, Noelene Lafferty noel...@lafferty.com.au wrote: Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. I'd have oodles of time To plan and create, And have projects all over the place. But then the day came, And I planned to sit down With all of that thread that I'd bought. With pins and my pillows And bobbins galore And great piles of books just to sort. But where does the time go? I really can't say The days seem to disappear fast. As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! Noelene noel...@lafferty.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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How very, very true! Patricia in Wales On 2014/11/08 05:22 AM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. I'd have oodles of time To plan and create, And have projects all over the place. But then the day came, And I planned to sit down With all of that thread that I'd bought. With pins and my pillows And bobbins galore And great piles of books just to sort. But where does the time go? I really can't say The days seem to disappear fast. As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! -- Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za www.thelaceplace.co.za Tel: 082 807 7858 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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It definitely takes planning, rather than waiting until all else is done! On 11/8/14 4:11 AM, scotl...@aol.com wrote: How very, very true! Patricia in Wales On 2014/11/08 05:22 AM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. I'd have oodles of time To plan and create, And have projects all over the place. But then the day came, And I planned to sit down With all of that thread that I'd bought. With pins and my pillows And bobbins galore And great piles of books just to sort. But where does the time go? I really can't say The days seem to disappear fast. As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! -- Martha Krieg Michigan USA God expects spiritual fruits, not religious nuts. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Retirement
Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. I'd have oodles of time To plan and create, And have projects all over the place. But then the day came, And I planned to sit down With all of that thread that I'd bought. With pins and my pillows And bobbins galore And great piles of books just to sort. But where does the time go? I really can't say The days seem to disappear fast. As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! Noelene noel...@lafferty.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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I agree Noelene 100%. Another great poem. Thanks from Janis Savage in Honeydew, South Africa On 2014/11/08 05:22 AM, Noelene Lafferty wrote: Retirement. They all promised me when retirement was due, I'd be doing so much with my lace. I'd have oodles of time To plan and create, And have projects all over the place. But then the day came, And I planned to sit down With all of that thread that I'd bought. With pins and my pillows And bobbins galore And great piles of books just to sort. But where does the time go? I really can't say The days seem to disappear fast. As the days now fly by I seem to do LESS Just where did I find time in the past! -- Janis Savage t/a The Lace Place thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za www.thelaceplace.co.za Tel: 082 807 7858 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
