I prefer lacemaker rather than two separate words.
I googled both lacemaker and lace maker. Lacemaker - no problem. Lace maker
I got Did you mean to search for: lacemaker
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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I prefer Lacemaking as one word.
When ever you are asked what you are doing, the reply is usually lacemaking
is`nt it???
Daphne Norfolk England
From: j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Lacemaking or Lace making
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:41:58 +
I
The IOLI has encountered this style question as well and has gone with
lacemaker and lacemaking. Another English language style issue which needs
resolution in an official lace style manual is whether the plural of lace is
lace
or laces. Also, at issue, is the word reticello or reticella.
I wrote:
I googled both lacemaker and lace maker. Lacemaker - no problem. Lace maker
I got Did you mean to search for: lacemaker
BUT
conversely when I just googled lacemaking and lace making, there was no
problem with lace making, but for lacemaking I got Did you mean: lace
making
Jean
been lacing today, whereas I say I've been
lacemaking
Ruth (Sydney, Australia)
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Brenda Paternoster
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Subject: [lace] Lacemaking
It is more than personal preference, it is the trade name vbg
I have set my dictionary of spellcheck to recognize 'lacemaker' and
'lacemaking' as correct.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Brenda Paternoster
paternos...@appleshack.com wrote:
I have just received the proofs for Edition 5, and
In message c78.4e95dbda.36f2b...@aol.com, dmt11h...@aol.com writes
You know, I have yet to encounter the computer program or internet provider
which recognizes the word internet as a word. I don't think we can take
their opinion on lace related material too seriously until they repair
this
I think this is one of those questions that eventually gets answered
by determined usage over a prolonged time period. Note that in the
IOLI Bulletin we always use lacemaking.
Aurelia
Baltimore, Maryland USA
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I always use the one word - Lacemaking.
However, about an hour ago, I was googling a site, and they would only accept
lace making!!! G!!
It appears the majority of us like the one word variation, - so go with
that, I say!!!
I make lace so I am a Lacemaker :)) (perfectly
dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
Another English language style issue which needs resolution in an official
lace style manual is whether the plural of lace is lace or laces.
Lace can be like fish (the words, not the objects!). Several of the same
species are fish. Several different
Zelie Martin was the mother of nine children, four of whom died in infancy.
In addition to dealing with the death of her children, she had to cope with
a great deal of financial stress, family illness, and so on.
She entered a lacemaking school in Alencon as a young adult and in 1851 went
into
Try this link:
http://www.sttherese.com/Parents.html
Here's a quote from the piece about Selie Martin:-
she had a tremendous enthusiasm for life and was a highly skilled lace
maker and an astute business woman; yet her sights were firmly set on
Heaven. She was a great letter writer, and her
I haven't yet found out if any of Zelie's lace is still to be seen, but I
was flabbergasted by this site about point d'alencon
http://www.honfleur-magazine.fr/info-villes/actualite-regionale/30-06-2008/orne-la-dentelle-du-grand-art-et-toute-une-maitrise.html,
which says, among other things, that
On 21 Oct 2008, at 8:39, Sister Claire wrote:
among other things, that a square centimeter of lace represented
eight hours of work!
Isn't it amazing? And the Sisters at the convent in Argentan, who
still make needle lace, told me that Argentan takes even longer to
make than Alencon.
I have always thought that St Catherine was the patron saint of
lacemakers?
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Anglicanum of all of these saints
in
a wall hanging for my workroom.
Shere'e
Seattle, WA USA
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Hi All,
As well as those on the list, maybe St Andrew should be added!He is the
patron saint of netters, which could be loosely allied to lacemaking.His
day is November 30th, just after St Catherine's day - Nov 25th. (Although
I was Anglican for the whole of my life, I converted to
for my lacemaking because we have a
couple of things in common besides lacemaking.
sr. Claire
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Dear Lacemakers,
There are so many occupations in so many nations, that probably some have
few (or no) Patron Saints.
Isn't it wonderful that lacemakers have so many clearly defined Patron
Yes, we do make cattern cakes for St Catherine on November 25th and very
tasty they are too.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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I have always thought that St Catherine was the patron saint of
lacemakers?
Sue M Harvey
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Hello all,
In our yesterday's newspaper, was an article as follows.
Lisieux - The parents of a Catholic Saint were beatified in France yesterday
at a ceremoney attended by more than 10,000 believers. Louis and Zelie
Martin, parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, are said to have miraculous
powers
From the Patron Saints Index:
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Also known as
Francoise-Marie Therese Martin
Teresa of the Infant Jesus
the Little Flower of Jesus
the Little Flower
Therese of the Child Jesus
Memorial
1 October
Profile
Born to a pious middle-class French family of tradesmen;
Thanks, but this is about the daughter, the Carmelite from Lisieux.
I'll post something about the mother (the lacemaker) a bit later today. She
is the patron of all my lacemaking.
Sr. Claire
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From the Patron Saints Index:
Thank you all for the nice comments about my threads book, especially
with the recent discussion about mixing threads. For the newcomers to
this group I have to say that it would never have got going without all
the support from Arachnes from around the world.
Like most people I used what I
Hello Dean,
I'll try to translate those terms:
Innennadel
Setting the pin inside of 2 pairs (straight footside).
Aussennadel
Setting the pin outside, i.e. between the outmost 2 pairs. Gives a
ripply footside.
See http://www.teddys-handarbeiten.de/xkloep-gr-ganzschlag.htm; - the
4
I have just bought a copy of Fensterbilder Mal Anders by Sabine Frank-Hart.
It was the colours and the finished 3D appearance of them that I found so
different and attractive. I am translating it as I go, but as I have not
studied German for 40 years, there are a few terms I cannot work out, or
Dear Spiders
This has just came up on a family history discussion group.
It's from an article in 'The London Times' of 22nd.May 1830.
Just a matter of interest. The article is a review of a book entitled
'The History of Parish Registers' by John Southerden Burn.
'Parish registers
Opening sequence in this evening's episode showed Queenie sitting under a
tree, making bobbin lace on a rather flattened bolster pillow. Too quick to
take in just what she was making, or the type of bobbins. There didn't seem
to be many bobbins, but it did look as if she was actually making
Opening sequence in this evening's episode showed Queenie sitting under a
tree, making bobbin lace on a rather flattened bolster pillow. Too quick to
take in just what she was making, or the type of bobbins. There didn't seem
to be many bobbins, but it did look as if she was actually making lace.
Jenny wrote: you can go to the BBC iPlayer and watch the episode online at
your leisure
jenny barron Scotland
But only if you live in the UK. Not available to outsiders.
Malvary in Ottawa (the Nation's Capital), Canada where we have had an
absolutely lovely spring day and some of our
impossible to tell
what lace type, there appears to be sufficient bobbins for the job.
Diana in Northamptonshire
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When working with a pillow on a stand, I use a music stand to hold
instructions and thread diagrams and open books. I can pull it in really
close next to me (being of the over-40 sight impaired that most of us are)
so my reading glasses are in focus on both the lace and the instructions. If
Hi everyone
At the momet my 'useful gadget' is a large plastic mixing bowl... I have
just started a Honiton Sampler and have found that my pillow sits nicely
onto the bowl similar to a honiton pillow stand (which I'm hoping to get
for my birthday in May from DH) This makes balancing everything
Replying to myself. is that another 'nearly 50' thing to contend
with. I noticed that I didn't sign off the previous message so here goes
Celia Mulhearn in a cold, foggy and frosty SE London but where the sun
is trying to peep through
Celia Mulhearn wrote:
Hi everyone
At the momet my
G'day Friends,
I have a couple VERY useful little helpers. One is the electrical
tool hackle plier which was recommended on this list some years ago
(just prior to the swivel plier which comes from the same place).
The other is a bush walker's head lamp. When I first looked at these
about 3
I used one of this little head lamp things recently, quite good:-)
David, how is your big project going. I haven't seen any references to it
or follow up pictures for quite a while now.
Sue T
G'day Friends,
I have a couple VERY useful little helpers. One is the electrical tool
hackle
In a message dated 2/18/2008 7:16:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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I also use the plastic pockets religiously, but mainly with
cross-stitch and petit point when the pattern could be as much as 25
pages large. I keep them all together in one pocket with the thread
Dear Jeri,
Many thanks for such an informative email. Sure sounds like you do
things properly :)
I know that my method would be heresy to many. However, I found years
ago that neither frames nor hoops suit my style. I do indeed use the
Swiss silk gauze, but I simply do the maths first and
WOW! What a wonderful assortment of good ideas and nifty tricks! We all know
that our collective wisdom is amazing - all we have to do is ask!!
Thanks for a welcome shot-in-the-arm of lace-related emails for the past two
days! Let's not let it die down to a dribble again!
Clay
--
Clay
What a great product those docupockets are. I must look and sse if they are
available DownUnder!
A friend uses the Scrapbooking pockets for her lace - they are about 12
inches square, I think, so her lace will lie flat in them (and they are acid
free). Most available clear pockets for
Hello Spiders!
This list has been unusually quiet lately! Is everyone suffering from the
winter blahs, or - for our friends downunder - from the dog days of summer?
I propose a useful thread: Tell us about the handy things you've found in
everyday life that have been applied to your
Hi All,
I, too use a plastic pocket for the working diagram copied from the book. At
present I am working an edging from one of Elwyn Kenn's books. It sometimes
helps to have a piece of cardboard in the pocket too.
Although it does not apply so much to lace patterns, I use a highlighter pen
What will we call this handy device?
Clay's Diagram-Dock maybe ;)
over!! The holder even protects the diagrams when I pack up to go to class
or to a guild meeting. I love this thing!!
To see this, go to...
http://tinyurl.com/2vocwm
I use 4-page transparent folders with a turn-out
- for picking cat hairs
out.
Beth McCasland
in the suburbs of New Orleans
where we're having spring like weather.
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Date: 2/17/2008 4:42:46 PM
Subject: [lace] lacemaking helpers
Hello Spiders!
This list has been unusually quiet lately
A big thank you to everyone who replied, either personally or to the list,
about my question re lacemaking in Northamptonshire in the 1800s. It is
interesting to learn (be reminded of? my memory is lacking these days!) that
there was a Northamptonshire lace though I have yet to discover how it
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Subject: Re: [lace] Lacemaking Ancestors?
While tracing one family (the Braybrooks) on my Dad's side, I found
census records for them in 1841 in Keyston, Huntingdonshire and all the
female members
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With the lace list being so quiet just now, I thought I'd tell you about one of
my latest genealogical finds. While tracing one family (the Braybrooks) on my
Dad's side, I found census records for them in 1841 in Keyston, Huntingdonshire
and all the female members of the
Helen wrote,
With the lace list being so quiet just now, I thought I'd tell you about
one of my latest genealogical finds. While tracing one family (the
Braybrooks) on my Dad's side, I found census records for them in 1841 in
Keyston, Huntingdonshire and all the female members of the families
Jenny wrote:
...1871 census shows very few Braybrooks in Keyston, Ancestry.co.uk
has the place name indexed as Keystone, and of the women I looked at
by that name I only found one 14yr. old girl as a lacemaker called
Braybrook. Other Braybrooks were spread around the area at this
census.
With the lace list being so quiet just now, I thought I'd tell you about one of
my latest genealogical finds. While tracing one family (the Braybrooks) on my
Dad's side, I found census records for them in 1841 in Keyston, Huntingdonshire
and all the female members of the families (there were
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With the lace list being so quiet just now, I thought I'd tell you about one
of my latest genealogical finds. While tracing one family (the Braybrooks)
on my Dad's side
While tracing one family (the Braybrooks) on my Dad's side, I found
census records for them in 1841 in Keyston, Huntingdonshire and all
the female members of the families (there were several groups) were
lacemakers! snipWhat I don't know is the type of lace that would
have been made in
Dear Lacemakers...
Judith has posted the competition rules, etc. and her website is posted
below.
Please take a look I think it has all the excitement lacemaking can
offer...
Judith says:
The competition information went up on the web site today. One is for
torchon lace and another for
It is strange sometimes how coincidences run through our lives.
Because I read a comment on a food blogger's web-site about
a novel concerning 4 generations of women from a Polish-American
family, I was happy to find a copy of Leslie Pietrzyk's Pears on a
Willow Tree in the Tartu University
Well, I tried;)
and I did get in lace content :))
Bev
Nope, flying shuttles are not used in lace machines. That makes single
rows
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Hello Jane and all spiders ,
Calella is a location 50 Km. from Barcelona on Costa Brava coast. It is
not a lace center though a lace day Fair takes place every year, usually
in September, at seaside.
Very near Calella and 40 Km. from Barcelona, is the village of Arenys de
Mar where since
Jenny gave us this link:
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/video/307297028188630
Don't know what it's like for anyone else, but on my computer the pixels are
very large and I can't see what the lacemaker's doing.
I also noticed on the righthand side 48 of 49 album full. Does this mean
I'm getting the same, Jean - it's totally unwatchable.
Helen - in OZ
Jenny gave us this link:
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/video/307297028188630
Don't know what it's like for anyone else, but on my computer the pixels are
very large and I can't see what the lacemaker's doing.
Hi Jean and Everyone
Jean Nathan wrote:
I also noticed on the righthand side 48 of 49 album full. Does
this mean
that no new images can be added to the Arachne webshots
site until some have
been deleted?
I don't think that it is the Arachne web album but belongs to sewdoll
alias I think
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:31 AM
To: Lace
Subject: [lace] Lacemaking video
Jenny gave us this link:
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/video/307297028188630
Don't know what it's like
To: Lace
Subject: [lace] Lacemaking video
Jenny gave us this link:
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/video/307297028188630
Don't know what it's like for anyone else, but on my computer the pixels are
very large and I can't see what the lacemaker's doing.
I also noticed
Jean,
With stitch holders and other slim u-shaped tools you collect and pile rows
of bobbins. With this tool you can pin the rows of bobbins (I guess only
slim ones) upright.
Another purpose: pin two upright on your pillow, and they can hold your
sheet with the working diagram.
Jo Falkink
Dear All,
I absolutely agree with Jane, because I too am a
physiotherapist. Can I just add one warning? Pilates
as taught properly is very good for you, but a lot of
people teaching 'Pilates' are teaching a watered down
version a best and many people are getting injured in
such classes. A Pilates
Hi Jane just tried the web addy and it doesn't take me to your page, is the
address complete?
jenny barron
Scotland
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Sent: Monday, 10 July, 2006 10:39:59 AM
Subject: [lace] lacemaking and RSIs
While I'm
Jenny, you have to add the www to it. The full address is
http://www.lace.nildram.co.uk/
Congratulations on your site, Jane. Stunning stuff.
Noelene in Cooma
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Hi Jane just tried the web addy and it doesn't take me to your page, is
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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:54 PM
Subject: [lace] Lacemaking in Africa
One of the members is focusing on indigo dying in Africa and especially in
Mali. She wanted to know if there is any current, or historical lacemaking
in Africa
No experience myself, but once I heard a story. She somehow attached a rope
where you hang the curtains. A loop at the other end carried the weight of
her cast arm. I suppose the curtains were not very close to the wall/window.
You should find some point allmost over your head. Or two points,
Hi fellow spiders,
Does anyone have experience making lace in a full arm cast? I broke my
forearm on Sunday. Ice skateing.I had splint that covered my whole hand for 3
days, but now I have a cast with my fingers free. I can't bend my elbow.
I am supposed to do my first lace demonstration
it will be a hoot.
My worry...it will be a long day...you take care of you!
Now to write to family way up there in Broken Bow;-)
Fondly
BarbE
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To: Arachne Lace
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:47 AM
Subject: [lace] lacemaking with limitations
Hello Ronna,
Sorry to hear you broke your arm.
As for lacemaking, your arm may get tired easily with the heavy
cast...butwith demoing there is always a lot of talking, so you can
always sit at your pillow and talk. Then you won't miss out totally.
Irene Whitham
Surrey, BC Canada
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To
for the
purpose.
Hope this helps,
BarbE
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To: Arachne Lace
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:47 AM
Subject: [lace] lacemaking with limitations
Hi fellow spiders,
Does anyone have experience making lace in a full arm cast? I broke my
forearm
You could also staff a try it pillow, where you tell others to cross
and twist (and which bobbin moves for each).
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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Hi fellow spiders,
Does anyone have experience making lace in a full arm cast? I broke my
forearm on Sunday. Ice skateing.I had splint that covered my whole hand
4:31:31 PM
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You could also staff a try it pillow, where you tell others to cross
and twist (and which bobbin moves for each).
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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On Nov 22, 2005, at 19:13, Carolyn Hastings wrote:
I do see raised parts (as the wreath on the head) but it doesn't fit my
idea of what princess tape would look like. But then, I've never seen
princess tape that I know of.
I wonder if it might not be princess _cord_ they really mean, rather
Lacemakers,
My son and his fiance have come home from a trip to Los Angeles.
He just informed me that there was a lady making lace at Knotts Berry Farm.
Has anyone else seen this? I am thrilled that he took notice and he even
told the lacemaker that his mom did that.
I am wondering if this
to be able to sit outside - it doesn't happen often enough
for me!
Carol - in Suffolk UK.
Subject: [lace] lacemaking outside???
Hello lacemakers,
Do any of you make lace outside?
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Making lace outdoors was one traditional way of doing it. That was the
best light available -- way before the days of electric lights.
I've made lace outdoors mostly on demos, or when camping. It's just fine,
as long as I'm not in direct sun, or there are insects flying around. Some
areas
Thanks to all for you replies and hints to my question about lacemaking
outside. I have just spent 2 hours out there, it was beautiful and peaceful.
I can't believe how relaxed I feel.
I will be spending many more hours out there making lace.
Irene Whitham,
who can't wait until tomorrow
Hello lacemakers,
Do any of you make lace outside?
Finally, we have weather nice enough for being outside and I am going to give
it a try. My furniture on my sundeck is not suitable for lacemaking, but
since my son sold his truck, the picnic table is no longer used to hold the
canopy, so now
Irene,
I think you will love lacing outside. I regularly
made lace on my porch on the weekends. But this
summer, we got a camper and have it permanently parked
in a campground on a small lake and I leave my travel
pillow there all the time. I can sit at the picnic
table with my pillow and
Hi All in Arachneland!!
Yes, well when the weather is as good as it has been recently here in the UK
I take my pillow out onto the Verandah and rest it half on the table and half
on my lap. It certainly makes getting a suntan more interesting and it's
lovely just sitting in the sun
Dear Ilske and all travelling Lacemakers,
I would like to thank Ilske for the excellent article recently
published in the IOLI Bulletin. I am sorry I have taken so long to
write. For those who have not seen it Ilske has given a general
overview of Lace in Germany with a map and pin pointed the
Dear Christine,
You sound so frustrated over the whole situation.
By the sounds of it, you do have a session plan - it just isn't what Ofsted
expect to see.
You provide your students with a basic framework to develop the skills they
need, as well as the opportunity to make something of their
Many thanks to everyone who emailed me regarding Ofsted inspection of lace
classes. It was good to get so much advice from those who had already been
through it! I'm sorry that I haven't had time to reply to you all
individually (too much paperwork to do!).
I was inspected this week. The
I asked her to explain, as I just could not understand what she
was saying.
She got very red and agitated and said she was not allowed to
give advice, I
must speak to my line manager. I repeated that I was not asking
for advice,
but did not understand, she just said that her time was up and
Hi
OK so I'm a few weeks behind! I have been catching up with lots of things
today.
When I started learning lace I went to night school classes but then the local
authority decided there weren't enough people in the class so we just met in a
room in the school for a year or so. I was a
On 2 Feb 2005, at 23:14, Elizabeth Pass wrote:
Yes, we had an Ofsted inspection last year, and they didn't like what
they
saw, although that was on the admin side of things. As a result of the
inspection, either before or after, lots of tutors in all sorts of
areas,
did not renew their
Hi there,
I dropped out of teaching for the local authority classes about 10 years ago
when they wanted all classes to be independently financially viable. For the
daytime class, which had a lot of concession fee payers, this would have
meant enrolling 24+ students. With the individual tuition
I would be very interested to know if other tutors have been put through
this ordeal.
I did the Stage 1 CG 7407 a couple of years ago - having been teaching
for 8 years, based on Guiding experience, it was interesting to have
confirmed that what I had learned on the hoof was the right way to go
I have been teaching lacemaking at local authority evening classes since
1978. Then, classes were very full (24 at my max, I was younger and fitter
then!). These days the numbers have dropped, but I average about 10 each
term. There has been some pressure on me in recent years to take a
Hi Christine,
Although I work in Adult Education and I also teach bobbin lace, I came out
of that area some five years ago.
Yes, we had an Ofsted inspection last year, and they didn't like what they
saw, although that was on the admin side of things. As a result of the
inspection, either
I was a Biker and hubby still is to a certain extent. What I have noticed
is that computer workers (programmers and technicians) pick up lace a lot
quicker than non-computer workers. (Maybe it is how the brain processess
information).
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It's a form of performance art. Even if I feel slightly ridiculous in
leathers (short, round lacemaker's figure, great low center of gravity).
Do all lace makers also like food?
It looks as though there are a lot of common criteria for lace makers!
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I like math a lot (although biology still wins). I don't have a motorcycle, but
I see how that could be interesting.
Doesn't everyone like food??
Weronika
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:05:51AM +0200, Jacqui wrote:
It's a form of performance art. Even if I feel slightly ridiculous in
leathers
Hello,
I remerber a story :
In Retournac museum
(http://www.ville-retournac.fr/musee/anglais/indexang.htm) near Le Puy
France, there is a motobike in the laces.
It is a old french motobike, a ravat gave by Rose Ouilhon. (like this
one but worn http://moto.photo1.free.fr/031101/DSC02247.JPG)
Hello All
Well I like math, and I don't ride a bike, but would love to, have to do
with a scooter, but my work i hard manual work, witch allso includes
driving big tractors, (with a shovel in front). small machiens like digger,
dumper big lawnmover (a small tractor).
Dorte from a very wet Denmark
Sorry I think I send this privat.
Hello All
Well I like math, and I don't ride a bike, but would love to, have to do
with a scooter, but my work i hard manual work, witch allso includes
driving big tractors, (with a shovel in front). small machiens like
digger,
dumper big lawnmover (a small
Zen, Lace and the Art of Motorcyling
(with apologies to Robert Pirsig)
In Oriental way of thought
Life's balance you maintain.
For every Yin there is a Yang
For every joy some pain
And so for some who love to lace
With thread as light as feather,
The other side's a motor bike
Complete with full
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