Re: [lace-chat] Tamara's mobile phone
Jean, Your message made me grin! You sound as if you have joined the technological age as reluctantly as my husband and I have! Several years ago, when I was the Chairman of the Lacemakers' Circle, my husband bought me a mobile phone so that, on my jauntings round the country I could contact him if I was in any bother. Realising at the same time that if he was out, I couldn't contact him, he bought himself a phone too. All well and good. But - we now recieve untold grief from our children and grandchildren, as our phones are never switched on to receive other people's messages!We both tend to have them with us at all times, but only ever use them to ring when we have any bother! And on the only time my car broke down and I needed to contact Himself and the breakdown people, there was no juice in the battery, as it had been used so infrequently, and I had to hurl myself into the road in front of another driver to see if he had a phone I could use! I keep saying that I will learn how to use the text messaging and voice mail widgets, but as I have managed so far without all this techno-babble, I keep putting off the evil day ... All best wishes, Carol - in Suffolk, where it is a bit chilly and decidedly grey, although not raining - yet! Subject: [lace-chat] Tamara's mobile phone To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] demo question
Hi Alice, I am sure it does - just so long as you remember to look up and smile every now and again, so that people can ask you what you are doing, and then can tell you that it's not lace, its tatting! Carol - Does the time spent making lace in the public lobby of a hotel count as demo time in our guild log book? To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Sheringham LD - 9th April 2005
Hi All Is there anyone *not* going to the Lacemakers' Circle AGM, in Kings Lynn, but going to Sheringham LD on the same Day. I will be there - I always attend the Sheringham Days, as my parents live in Sheringham, so I go for several days bed, breakfast pampering!But it would be great to see some Arachnes there, and put faces to names! Carol - in Suffolk UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Lacemaking in Malaysia
I'll be heading off to Malaysia soon for a couple of weeks holiday and I'd like to know if there are any lacemakers in either Kuala Lumpur or up in the Cameron Highlands. Suggestions on textile museums to visit would also be great. Thanks Margaret from Melbourne (usually lurking) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Tamara's mobile phone/tariffs
I've just looked at the Vodafone tarifs again. The cost is 30p per minute during the day and 5p evening weekends basically within the UK. It can be used all over the world (didn't check on the tariffs for the brick because I wouldn't take that anyway), and the most expensive is when used in the USA and Canada at a whopping GBP1.49 per minute both within and for calls going out of those countries! The instruction boklet does say to make sure you have plenty of call time on the phone before you go and register your credit card with them to buy more call time when abroad. As for Carol saying I've reluctantly joined the technological age, she's right. I have no problem at all with computers and what they can throw at you, but after 6 months of owning it, I've finally found out how to turn the alarm off on the phone (but don't know how it got set in the first place), and how to switch the silent mode on and off. Did you know the darned thing's alarm goes off even when it's switched off? There was I frantically switching the phone on to switch the alarm off at midnight! Why didn't DH do it? He understands even less about it that I do. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Subject: Military Words of Wisdom
AIM TOWARDS THE ENEMY. - Instruction printed on US Army Rocket Launcher WHEN THE PIN IS PULLED, MR. GRENADE IS NOT OUR FRIEND. - US Marine Corps CLUSTER BOMBING FROM B-52s IS VERY, VERY ACCURATE. THE BOMBS ARE GUARANTEED TO ALWAYS HIT THE GROUND. - USAF Ammo Troop IF THE ENEMY IS IN RANGE, SO ARE YOU. - US Army Infantry Journal A SLIPPING GEAR COULD LET YOUR M203 GRENADE LAUNCHER FIRE WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT. THAT WOULD MAKE YOU QUITE UNPOPULAR IN WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR UNIT. - US Army's Magazine of Preventive Maintenance IT IS GENERALLY INADVISABLE TO EJECT DIRECTLY OVER THE AREA YOU'VE JUST BOMBED. - US Air Force manual TRY TO LOOK UNIMPORTANT; THE ENEMY MAY BE LOW ON AMMO. - US Army Infantry Journal TRACERS WORK BOTH WAYS. - US Army Ordnance FIVE-SECOND FUSES ONLY LAST THREE SECONDS. - US Army Infantry Journal BRAVERY IS BEING THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWSYOU'RE AFRAID. - David HURRY UP AND WAIT.---KILROY IF YOUR ATTACK IS GOING TOO WELL, YOU'RE WALKING INTO AN AMBUSH. - US Army Infantry Journal NO COMBAT-READY UNIT HAS EVER PASSED INSPECTION. - Joe Gay ANY SHIP CAN BE A MINESWEEPER . . ONCE. - Anon NEVER TELL THE PLATOON SERGEANT YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO. - Unknown Marine Recruit DON'T DRAW FIRE; IT IRRITATES THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. - US Army Infantry Journal IF YOU SEE A BOMB TECHNICIAN RUNNING, TRY TO KEEP UP WITH HIM. - USAF Jacqui Butler ([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] Fwd: Fw: History Lesson
I'm not sure how many of these I believe but they sound plausible jenny barron Scotland The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the Water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s: Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were Starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all, the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof. Hence the saying It’s raining cats and dogs. There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a 'thresh hold. Getting quite an education so far? In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old. Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. This was a sign of wealth. A man could bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning deaths. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or upper crust. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake. England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. They would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house and re-use the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. They would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer. Whoever said that History was boring??? To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] March package
I'm sad :-( My secret pal forgot me this month. I guess she or he must have eaten ALL the chocolate easter eggs, the caramel filled crosses, the malt eggs, the stale peeps, the chocolate covered lace bobbins, the Reese peanut butter eggs (oops I ate all those PB eggs too!). Boo Hoo! Hope I have better luck in April! Trish in West Virginia, still on a cholate jag four days after Easter To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Mobile Phones.
I won't bore you with a N.Z. charges saga, but I have been the one of us to use DH's work phone and learnt to text etc... why? because it is the cheapest way for DS to contact us, and us him, as we only have to poay the 20c per text charge, and DS is on a plan. I have the equivalent to a brick, PAYG type phone, on which I do keep a reserve of approx $20 on. This never expires, and means that if I am out-of-town I can communicate such catastrophes as flat tyre, and contact our insurance help line (raodside rescue) to obtain assistance,( which cost is built into our insurance premiums). Very useful. My main problem is to remember to charge the phone before I do any out of town trips on my own. When I travel with DH his phone comes with us, as it is text capable and much smaller!!! Anyway, that's my venture out of lurkdom for the next wee while. Maxine in an increasingly chilly, autumnal N.Z. Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing as gentle as real strength. St Francis de Sales To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
