G'day T,
It's now 1:05 a.m. here in 2004.
So, if my math is correct, it's a 16hr difference between you and the East
Coast of the US, 19 between you and the West Coast. How many time zones
does Oz have?
It varies throughout the year as some States don't go on to Daylight Saving
time. Right now
Dear friends,
May I take this opportunity to recommend the magnifiers I bought myself for
Christmas. Their brand name is Magvu, but I haven't done a search on the
net yet. There are 2 interchangeable lenses: one is 2.5 and the other 4.0
power of magnification. I find the 2.5 perfectly adequate
Dear Friends,
I'm amazed that this computer is still working tonight!!! You see, I spent
all day today pulling down the ceilings in my kitchen and office. You
cannot imagine the mess Martha eat your heart out.
This is a 120 year old miner's cottage and I am not joking when I tell you
that
Dear Friends,
It's now Christmas Day here in Victoria, Australia, and it promises to be a
delightful 30C (86F). Even now at midnight I'm sitting here in shorts and a
T shirt.
I shall be having lunch today with my partner, Lindsay - heaps and heaps of
beautiful cold seafood: oysters, prawns,
Dear Friends,
I have just completed a lovely petit point of one of our family homesteads
on a 40 count silk gauze. That stuff is pretty expensive here in Australia
and I was wondering whether someone could email me (? Privately) the source
for the original overseas supplier.
My Christmas
Dear Roslyn,
Now I don't know famous lacemakers nor if they were men or women, but I had
always thought that the men associated with lace were more like middlemen.
They would buy from a lacemaker and sell to the wealthier lords and ladies in
the communities, towns, and cities.
I can tell you
Dear Friends,
Perhaps someone will gently share with Ulrike how difficult it is for
non-German-speaking lacemakers to use her various very wonderful books. I
have heard
others who have invested in Ulrike's books express a desire for translations.
Even one, who spends much time translating for
Subject: When you are drunk?
Hi, I know you will love this one!! Of course it doesn't apply to
us!!
Things That Are Difficult to Say When You're Drunk
Innovative
Preliminary
Proliferation
Cinnamon
Things That Are VERY Difficult to Say When You're Drunk:
Specificity
Dear Pam,
I have in my closet right
now a pair of red cfm pumps with stiletto heels.
I haven't heard that saying of Joan Crawford's since the early 70s in
London. God, you brought back heaps of memories and laughs in one fowl
swoop. My CFM pumps were navy blue and worked a treat every time :) :)
Lynne,
. Now my query is this, how many are there of
you out there who have NEVER owned a pair of red shoes?
I've still got mine They're lace up ankle high boots
David in Ballarat
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Dear Jean,
I have been listening to our local radio station, the
discussion is about the new law where from 1st December
we are not in the UK allowed to use our mobile phones
unless we have a hands free, the question was asked,
what about other countries around the world. what
laws do they have
Dear Jean,
I admit to never having see either in the flesh, but from what I've seen on
films and TVs, there's just a wee bit of difference in the size of wallabies
and kangaroos, apart from any other differences there might be. Unless, of
course, there are miniature ones (which there might be for
Dear Dominique,
yup! ... as long as they squat because they don't move the same and jump
much higher than rabbits .. so i was told ...
i'll have to go to the zoo to have a look ... lol ...
If you like you can pop over here and check them out. There are some down
by the creek beyond my back
Dear Friends,
I think Age is creeping up on me :-) , I now find that I need to do some
specific exercises for neck and shoulders every so often during lace making.
I have been doing the neck roll and circular shoulder motions, but I wonder
if there are some more effective ones I could do ?
While
Dear Rose,
btw - is it PC to refer to people from Australia as Aussies, or is that
a term they are allowed to use of themselves, but not others? In
sociology, ingroup/outgroup. Just wondering.
It's fine by me - as long as you pronounce the ss as a z so it comes
out Ozzies and not Ossies :)
Dear Friends,
Anyone got any idea what this is and how it's used? The seller doesn't know,
but says he/she's been told it's a lace making needle, and the
instructions are in Greek.
My mother had one of those with English instructions. It's a sort of hand
held sewing machine - note the needle
Dear Friends,
the message below appeared on one of my genealogy lists tonight and I just
thought that someone here might be able to help Kim. Please answer her
direct on:
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I work in a museum and we recently came across a button on a pair of
corduroy trousers that date to the
Dear Sharon,
Has anyone tried this type of lace. I'm thinking of doing some for a
christening gown. The part that scares me, though, is that you put in the
ground after you make the motifs, thus joining them together. It seems to me
that it would be difficult to keep the ground looking even as you
Dear Helen,
While I don't actually have Flo's recipe, I can very easily type Mum's out
here for you. Mum was Jean Emily COLLYER (nee McGARVIE) [1918 - 1991] and
no doubt this recipe was her mother's as well. You'll have to do the
conversion regarding the flour and measures though.
I was
Dear Friends,
Just an interesting piece of trivia to add to your vast store of
knowledge...
Believe it Or Not!
In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried
iron cannons. Those cannons fired round iron cannon balls. It was necessary
to keep a good supply
At 03:36 PM 28/10/03 -0800, Joy Beeson wrote:
Let me sit and eat this orange
I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge.
I'm really trying hard to find a word which rhymes exactly' with orange,
for I feel that the second vowel sound is not as strong as the i in
inge. It's more the one written as
Dear Friends,
Many thanks to all those who replied regarding my Cousin's Visa Card being
charged twice by the UK PRO at Kew.
She has duly followed your instructions, phoned her Bank today and there's
no problem. They will fix everything,
David in Ballarat
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Dear Friends,
For those of you who trash stuff like the list of Strange facts I just
sent, You would not have noticed that one of those facts stated that if
you chew gum while peeling onions you will not cry.
I haven't tested this myself, but I know many folk here were discussing
remedies
32 Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know
1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will
As a draughtsman, we just usually called it the North Point.
David in Ballarat
What's the English term -- *is* there an English term? -- for the
do-dad that used to show up on old maps? It looks like what one sees on
a compass: a convergence of rhombuses (rhombi?), usually 8, sometimes 16,
but
Yvonee,
Hi all, The news interview I saw reported the people who cared for the
kangaroo said that the kangaroo sat beside the man and called for help, not
banged on the door. They looked out to see why he was calling out and saw
the tree down and the guy pinned down. Cheers, Yvonne
You know as
Dear Friends,
This was sent to me by Sue Hanson, who I don't think is subscribed right
now, and I know you'll all appreciate it as much as I did
David Downunder in Ballarat
Be careful my dearest men and women...
It sounds as if a few of you may be under the influence of one of the
infamous
This is quite amazing!
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is
Dear Friends,
I've always used hang, hung, hung myself, but someone mentioned hang
and its vagaries in a (private) message to me, so I checked my OED...
According to it, it's the *hanged* (regular) past tense version that's
arachaic (ie, older)...
When I think about the verb to hang in the
Dear Elaine,
I doubt if most of our Arachne members have any idea how much the reprinting
of Mrs. Channer's mat must have cost, or realize that printing it again, now
will be probably much more expensive than printing it originally.
I fully understand all you are saying in your email about the
At 07:54 PM 1/09/03 -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 17:31 US/Eastern, Jean Nathan wrote:
What five letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced
wrong?
wrongly or incorrectly but never wrong in the above example :)
David in Ballarat
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Dear Adele,
But someone else could do the same thing - get the original and make it
into a pricking and a pattern, I mean. All you would have to do is draw it
out and make the pricking and keep records of the process so that you
could prove you didn't just copy Ruth Bean's version.
I'm
Dear Toni,
Well, ladies, it's been both fun and educational,
but I'm not leaving to stagnate (compost ? g)
- I will be 'growing' in a different direction.
I'm sure some of us blokes are going to miss you too
It was fun
David in Ballarat
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The Eulogy
She married and had 13 children. Her husband died. She married
again and had 7 more children. Again, her husband died. But, she remarried
and
this time had 5 more children. Alas, she finally died.
Standing before her coffin, the preacher prayed for her. He thanked The
Lord
for this very
I get bitten a lot and my blood group's B Rh neg.
David in Ballarat
I don't often get bitten, and my blood groups 'A Rh.neg'.
DH gets bitten a lot and he's 'O Rh.pos'
Jean in Poole
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At 09:27 AM 16/08/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, can I suggest you are not using the right sort of blue film. The one me
and my friends use is not shiny but matt and does not make your pins sticky.
Dear Friends,
Can I also suggest that the shiny transparent plastic we get here is less
1998 16:02:01 -1000 From: David Collyer
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Square tallies. Dear Friends, I figured out my own way of making both
leaf shaped tallies and square ones and it seems to work OK for me.
Here's what I do: First place a sheet of clear cellulite/plastic over the
bulk of the work
Dear Friends,
I have spent about 10 hours today working on the pricking for Miss
Channer's Mat, which will be my next project starting tomorrow.
For some years now I've looked at it and wanted to reduce it to a size
suitable for 2/20 silk. The problem was that the pricking was too large for
Very slang. I think it might come
from What are you doing? because there's also Wotcher doin'? but I'm not
sure.
Or in Australia one might hear something like:
Wotcher gunna gedupda tomorra horra?
Suppose I'd better translate before I'm asked:
What are you going to get up to tomorrow, Horror?
In
Dear Noelene,
Re Friar's Balsam
Highly recommended, but whatever you do, DON'T throw the stuff
out down the kitchen/bathroom sink - when cold, it will block the drains!
It is a healing compound, and was once also used for healing cuts and
wounds.
Quite true. It will heal any small crack or cut
I grew up in the fifties with practical parents -- a Mother, God love her,
who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was
the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it...
A Father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones.
Their marriage was
TEN PUBLIC SERVANTS
(A cautionary poem for our times)
Ten Public Servants standing in a line
One of them was downsized
then there were nine.
Nine Public Servants who must negotiate,
One joined the union
then there were eight.
Eight Public Servants thought they were in heaven,
'til one of them
Dear Annette,
As far as slang is concerned, a tanner was sixpence and a bob was a
shilling.
That's most interesting. Of course the amounts were the same in Australia.
However, for us a threepence (pronounced thruppence) was a tray and a
sixpence was a zack. Like you, our shilling was a bob. The
Dear Friends,
I am currently working on a project for my sister's 60th birthday in Oct -
don't tell her anyone!! She's in Hobart, Tasmania.
First I designed a 4 (10cm) square cross stitch (100 sts each way) of the
faces of her 3 children. I have worked this in 16 shades of grey. Now I am
about
Dear Thurlow,
Anyone in lace-land have any other old-fashioned (or new-fashioned) aids to
getting bronchitisi/sinusitis to hurry up and go away?
If you need to sing or perform on stage, then gargling cider vinegar will
give you instant voice!! If you love it, as I do, then by all means swallow
Dear Friends,
It has been mentioned to me (I think in a private email) that a glue made
of flour and water will suffice in some climates to stick and at the same
time stiffen. This is quite true.
However, I always use Granny's old trick when making up such a glue, and
that is to add a spoonful
Michelle,
If I get them all done and have time I
will thread the ends in, but alternatively I am thinking of cutting them off
very close and dabbing with a spot of a clear-drying glue. I know years ago
there was mention of a product called Fraycheck? that people used for this
purpose, but in
A couple was dressed and ready to go out for the evening. They turned on a
night light, turned the answering machine on the phone line, covered their
pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard.
They phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived
and the couple opened
--Helen Clarke, Prime Minister of New Zulland, is rudely awoken at 4am by
the telephone.
Hillen, its the hilth munister here. Sorry to bother you et thus hour
but there es un emergency! I've just received word thet the Durex
fectory
en Auckland has burned to the ground. It is istimated thet
A modern woman is explaining to her little girl about pictures
in the family photo album:
This is the geneticist with your surrogate mother and here's
your sperm donor and your father's clone. This is me holding
you when you were just a frozen embryo. The lady with the very
troubled look on her
Dear Ruth,
I'll be interested to hear whether anyone else out here has other ideas, but
the only expression I've heard in Australia is that a business goes bust.
No - they can go south here, be said to have gone west, and even be
sold down the river! Our language is becoming so corrupt that the
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