Re: [lace-chat] coffee and tea preference
Jenny is right, the water makes a difference. absolutely right . i use mineral water for both coffee and tea and it does make a difference . i love coffee and drink too much of it but definitely not instant . i must say instant coffee to me is not coffee; it's nescafé , drinkable but definitely not tasting like coffee. ... lol .. just like Mousline (a brand of instant mashed potatoes) which is ok but doesn't taste like proper mashed potatoes and is now a dish in its own right over here . the worst of all is when you've made your own puree with the wrong brand of potatoes and get told your mousline is delicious . arghhh! ... i usually buy ground coffee either from Kenya or New guinea but the choice of coffee depends on what coffee maker i use . Colombia suits my french press. With my italian moka coffee maker (the one you put on the stove with the water going up through the coffee) i use Segafredo Moka . with the electric coffe maker i have at the office I use L'OR absolu (absolute gold and it comes with a golden pack ... luxury ...) . i was told Nescafe doesn't taste the same in different countries . they adapt it to local tastes. and of course i like strong coffee , french or italian . drinking english or american coffee is torture (though i know you can find italian style coffee now in both countries) . .. lol .. that's why i stick to tea when i go to Britain ... i also drink tea (and have a cat) but not as much as coffee . it's usually my five o'clock drink . either strong english tea with milk or flavoured tea. there's a wonderful shop here called Mariage freres where you can find all kinds of teas from the world over and lots of flavours .784 çiii (oops . that was the cat walking across my table) AND i drink my coffe or tea without sugar (had to since i was told i had diabetes) . i found it was torturear first because i do have a sweet tooth but well i got used to it . the big problem is : you can't drink bad coffee without sugar there's nothing to hide the taste ! . dominique from Paris -- They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. --Clare Booth Luce To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Katrina devastaion
le 23/09/05 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I wonder also whether people will want to return to live somewhere where they have experienced such devastation - I think I would be one who would get to the highest ground, and furthest from the Gulf states, just in case ... i read in a paper that's the old french quarter didn't get flooded because it had been built higher than the flood level . the ancients did have good ideas sometimes.. but then they didn't think they could override nature's laws ... dominique from Paris To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] RE:tea and coffee preferences
Hello Spiders All, I am a coffee person through and through! I will drink tea at Lace Days, and that's the extent of my tea drinking, and that is mainly because I never drink the 'Instant' type of coffee.I love the strong coffees, but whilst on holiday found - in Tesco's!!! - a canned Capuccino drink, which is supposed to be drunk ice-cold. We put that in the picnic boxes, with the ice-packs to keep it cool, and I loved it, so much that I think I must have boosted by a lot the shares of whichever company makes it, over the five weeks!Now we're back, its back to the two-cup cafetiere for breakfast, the filter coffee maker for 'elevenses' and lunch, the two-cup catetiere in the afternoon, and the Italian silver-metal thingy in the evening. That makes a really strong cup of coffee ... And yes - I am sure I would get shakey and flaky if I had to do without my coffee ... Carol - in Suffolk UK - now going to make a cup of coffee, as the willpower is ebbing away. - Original Message - From: Helen Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:01 AM Subject: [lace-chat] RE:tea and coffee preferences Hi All, 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] Tonder book/abebooks
In a message dated 9/25/2005 8:36:14 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've ordered through Abebooks several times. The only problem I've had is that once or twice after I've placed my order, I got an email back saying, Sorry, the book is no longer available. Hi All -- I've had success dealing with ABE before, too -- but the thing I found out is that the honest and successful handling of any book order through AbeBooks or AddAll is totally dependent on the actual ultimate bookseller. These are not book companies, but only web-listing services. I also discovered, after the fact, that ABE does not have any phone numbers listed on its contact page (although a bookseller gave me a phone number) and its headquarters are located in Canada. I don't know what kind of recourse someone would have, if they miss ABE's 30-day cancellation policy, dealing with international law, etc. After talking with a bookseller about this, I found out ABE and AddAll do not require any kind of assurances from the booksellers they list, or conduct any kind of quality checking. As she said, real booksellers are very upset about it, because these web services will post listing for anyone or his dog, if they are willing to pay the listing fee. As I discovered, IF there is a problem, AddAll is NOT a real company at all, and there is NO assistance from them. ABEBooks is a little better, but not much. I went through three cycles of complaints, at all three levels (AddAll, ABEBooks and the third seller in NM). Nothing was really resolved until I was forced to cancel the credit card charge. After that, the bookseller lied, telling ABEBooks that s/he had tried to contact me numerous times, which was totally false, and I could prove it. Midway through my ordeal, which lasted 3 months, I asked my ex-FIL who lives in NM to try calling that third bookseller for me. He found out there is no listing for them in the phone book, and they also did not respond to his voice mail messages, as they had not to mine, also. Apparently, this is not a real bookseller, but someone who orders books from someone else when s/he feels like getting around to filling an order. This is a real risk for people dealing with companies listed on ABE or AddAll -- tge bookseller may or may not be a real bookseller, at all. That's why people are better off contacting the listed bookseller directly, and make sure there is actually someone there, who will respond to your order in an honest fashion. Regards, Ricki Utah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Humour
Subject: Duh!! Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing, and concludes by saying: Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident Oh No, the President exclaims. That's terrible. His staff sit there, stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President slumps, head in hands. Finally the President looks up and asks... How many is a Brazillion? David in Ballarat -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 23/09/05 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] ebay plans for craft projector
here is a craft project to make that enlarges or projects an object onto paper to draw or copy. this would be a great find if i could use it to copy my bobbin lace patterns. i just recently had to print mine on white paper because the printer wouldn't take contact paper. i'm sure there is colored paper the same size as typing paper, but i didn't have any at the time i needed it. this little gadget would come in handy for those non-computer/printer days. ebay item. called Plans Instructions.build an Opaque Projector Item number: 8220443749 from susan in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 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] Re: Katrina devastaion
On Sep 24, 2005, at 22:58, susan wrote: every 2 or 3 months it will cost the government about 800 million dollars to rebuild Not the government, which is a very unclear concept quite often.. You, and me, and he and she will be paying. Same as we're paying for scores of other bright ideas, whether we agree with them or not. So, it would make sense to rebuild *right* - a real city, with real people - than to replicate, including all the previous mistakes. At least... *I* would rather pay $3 towards rebuilding something that *works* (for New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf area), than $2 towards another fiasco which profits only the few cronies up top, or no one at all. And given that I'm already paying (through increased gas prices) to the benefit of the few... I won't respond to the rest of your message... Not because I can't muster an argument but because - obviously - we're so far removed in our perceptions of what is real, that it's pointless to continue arguing. -- 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]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Katrina devastaion
Hi All -- Some people might be interested in this article on rebuilding New Orleans -- at least, I thought it was interestingBut then again, I'm easily amused! (Even if it's really not funny) http://www.realestatejournal.com/regionalnews/20050922-corkery.html?rejcontent=mail Regards, Ricki Utah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Katrina devastaion
On Sep 25, 2005, at 4:18, romdom (Dominique) wrote: i read in a paper that's the old french quarter didn't get flooded because it had been built higher than the flood level . the ancients did have good ideas sometimes.. And more options? If you study the history of the development of the older cities - anywhere - the same pattern emerges *almost* universally (there's a city in Poland, fairly old, which was *not* built on a river. What's really suprising is that it never became part of the national stock of idiot jokes g). People built close to a source of sweet water - preferably *running* water, ie a river - in the first wave of settlement. Paris has Seine, London has Thames, Warsaw has Vistula, etc; sweet water (as opposed to salty, sea water) is a sine qua non, an essential for survival. As a 5yr old, I was taught that, should I ever get lost in a forest (mushroom and berry-hunting trips were oftern organised for city dwellers and my parents always took me with them), I should first find a stream, observe in which direction it moved, and follow. Sooner or later, it would join another, and I was to follow the bigger stream. Sooner or later, there'd be a house, built close to the stream, and the helpful adults in it would get me reconnected with my family. It does sound a bit crude and idealistic 50yrs down the road, but the basic perception - where there's sweet water, there's a settlement - had been true for years. As cities grew, *and as technology improved*, we had fewer options about where we'd settle but, at the same time, we were less dependent on the river (and the river got more polluted, but that's a different chapter of the story g). At the same time, the properties closest to the - sweet - water were the most likely to appreciate in value, excluding the poor from ownership (the hoopla about owning *seaside* property and getting rich overnight is a much younger cousin of the story). So, when cities developed - inevitably, if they were to survive, they had to grow, develop industry and service to the industry - they spread. With the rich closest to the central sweet nut and the poor ones a distance away, of course... What made that possible (though not always easy) is that developing technology kept pace; you lived 20 miles from the original centre, but your drinking water still reached you there, via a pipe. That meant it was possible for *both* the rich and the poor to move away from the centre. Only, by then, the rich could afford living 20miles away but in a higher elevation (expensive), while the poor couldn't, so they lived 20 miles *away from safety*. Hence the Katrina fiasco, when the technology (and money for it) didn't quite catch up with reality. Yon French settlers who'd settled old New Orleans exhibited no more than common sense/old-time wisdom that *I* received, 250 yrs later - look for a safe place with drinking water aplenty. Over the 300yrs since the settlement, the realities have changed - we no longer depend as much on Mama Nature, but we depend more on the government to get us over her bitchy... er... periods? That includes people settling lower than sensible (unless forbidden to) and hoping to survive. That includes people counting on the government (on all levels) to bail them out of a tight corner, when unimaginable knocks on their doors. That includes... Lots and lots of things. Had New Orleans *stayed* within the original settlement area, Katrina disaster would not have happened. Whether New Orleans would have been alive to receive the disaster is another story... 25% of US refineries are located in the Gulf (*not* the Middle East one, despite our fighting there g), and they're not dependent on tourist trade in any way; for all I know, they support it. -- 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] Re: Katrina devastaion
Perhaps the fact that Rita has also caused flooding in New Orleans will wake up even those who feel that a 100-year-event is guaranteed to come only every 100 years... I love you, Jane, but your comment that because the river hasn't flooded your area in 250 years and you're in a 100-year zone means you should cancel your insurance is exactly the sort of thinking that causes problems. That 100-year flood comes *on average* every 100 years, but it may in fact skip a few hundred years, then come twice in the same year, given the right conditions. And the reason the insurance is at the appraised value rather than the remaining value on the mortgage is to enable the insured to rebuild at today's costs. Neither you nor the bank could rebuild your home for the amount remaining on the mortgage. It's not purely to rip you off. -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
