[lace-chat] The Worm that wasn't!
My computer is up and running again having spent a little over 24 hours in the computer shop. They are always very busy. They found nothing wrong but have put stronger virus protection on it and have charged exactly nothing. Needless to say they have very loyal customers. I am driven to the conclusion my phone line was at fault as I check for a dialling tone but didn't actually try to make a call. so, there may have been a temporary problem with it. I say temporary because I have received, and made, calls since then. Patricia in Wales scotl...@aol.com To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] how to ask for a pay rise
One day an employee sends a letter to his boss asking for an increase in his salary !!! Dear Bo$$ In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing mo$t de$perately. I think you $hould be under$tanding the need$ of u$. We are worker$ who have given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company . I am $ure you will gue$$ what I meant and re$pond $oon. Your$ $incerely, The next day, the employee received this letter of reply: Dear I kNOw you have been working very hard. NOw a days, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NOticably well . NOw the newspapers are saying the world's leading ecoNOmists are NOt sure if the United States may go into aNOther recession. After the NOvember presidential elections things may turn bad. I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean . Your Boss, NOrman Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Snapshot my life - boiling up the copper
Hallo All your note abou the copper has brought some memories back. When I was old enough to help my mother with the washing, which she did for many of the people living in the block of flats in BERLIN, it was my job to clean the copper. It was a hard job to make it shine again and needed a lot of elbow grease as it was very big. Never got anything for it, only being told off when I missed a spot. Oh dear, going back about 75 years.How time flies Greetings Dora the Knotter - Original Message - From: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk To: Chat lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 7:10 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Snapshot my life - boiling up the copper Boiling up the copper isn't an Aussie phrase - my mum and my gran both did that. In my case, a large copper tub with a gas ring underneath. Filled with water by bucket from the top, but emptied through a small tap at the base a bucket-full at a time. Detergent was added and the gas provided the heat to boil the clothes in the water - before the days of washing machines. They had a pair of wooden tongs to lift the washing out of the water. I fact, I had a pair of those tongs to lift the washing out of my first washing machine which had to be filled with hot water and detergent. All the electrical power did was to rotate the impeller backwards and forwards to swish the washing. I lifted the washing out of the tub into the jaws of the rollers of the small mangle that was attached to it, which was also electrically powered. Then into the bath to rinse with cold water before mangling again and hanging out on the washing line. No wonder DH says I don't do the washing nowadays - the washer/dryer does. He's right in saying that all I do is load it and unload it. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
FW: [lace-chat] Re: snapshot of my life.
From: lacenl...@msn.com To: lace-chat@arachne.com Subject: FW: [lace-chat] Re: snapshot of my life. Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:20:53 + Well I am a baby boomer from 55 so, but I love antics, I do believe I was born in the wrong era. I would love to be wearing long dresses with bustles. Lynn W. You baby, you :) I learnt to write with a dip pen -- a steel nib inserted into a wooden pen handle (and count your blessings that you don't have to trim a feather). Throughout grades 2 and 3 there was a raging battle between the parents and the teachers to let us use the fountain pens (the kind where the ink supply was sucked from the inkwell into a rubber bulb; no cartridges). And we were only allowed those (in grade 4) because, by then, all the teachers' energies were directed towards repelling the evil invention of the ball-pen... Good times, good times :) _ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
