Tamara writes
In general, people don't like to be corrected, but don't mind so much
being asked to clarify/expound
Reminds me of a little card I had propped up on my desk at work once,
when I was a persnippity teenager.
It said I love criticism just so long as it is unquestioned praise.
Has a
Annette:
well. not to get a flaming, bickering thread going but Equal time for the
opposing view:
there are plenty of us in the world who don't have a high opinon of MT.
Sue Ellen
That's so ironic! I'm with you and Christopher Hitchens on MT, but was
scared of saying anything in my message
Hi, list!
I just discovered, by going into google search and typing my family name in,
for genealogy purposes, that some of my emails to this list came up in the
search!! (fortunately wihout my email address, it says Email protected) Not
everything I've written, just one email I sent to Ruth
I have moved my comments to chat as they are no longer at all lace related.
My partner is colour blind, and is the first person I had ever met who is.
His affliction doesn't work at all as I had always thought of colour
blindness - if I'd thought of it much at all.
I suppose if I had
DH isn't colour blind, but to him there's no such colour as turquoise - it's
either blue or green. He won't necessarily agree with me that a particular
shade/hue of turquoise is leaning towards blue or towards green. I'll say a
colour is a greeny turquoise, he'll say it's blue. Then another shade
As well as traffic lights on roundabouts in the UK, there is also the magic
roundabout in Swindon. This is a lage roundabout surrounded by 5 smaller
ones, making it possible to travel around the roundabout in both a clockwise
and anticlockwise direction.
And just in case you don't believe me or
Liz said:
Avital, 5'0 is only scary if it is your waist measurement
and Avital said:
Or my shoe size
Sasquatch-ital
But Avital, if you have five feet, who cares what size they are? That's
scary! LOL!
Margery.
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Gidday Helen Noelene and all,
But by getting lost there, one can discover some wonderful little 'gems'
we ended up on the grounds of ANU (Australia National Uni), and
discovered a little museum in a very early pioneer's house.
Except that when you ARE trying to find that gorgeous little house,
Reading all your messages about Canberra, I lived there till 1973,
had no problems getting around. Then in 1999 I went back, I tried to get
to the new Parliament, never got there could see the New Parliament
Building but just did not have a clue how to find the road to it.
I would have loved to
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Karen Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
roundabout in Swindon. This is a lage roundabout surrounded by 5 smaller
ones, making it possible to travel around the roundabout in both a clockwise
and anticlockwise direction.
We've got one in Tamworth, too - they've tried all
To my Secret Pal,
Well what a lovely surprise. We had a note thro' the door that there was a
package to be picked up at the Post Office, so off I toddled, and I was
thrilled when I opened it.
The sweets were a treat - they didn't do the diabetes any harm, as we had our
three grandchildren with
Margery, Dominique et al,
There have been sightings in the Peak District in the UK too - up around the
Snake Pass and the Kinder Scout areas. They give one quite a shock, and
no-one really sems to know where they originally came from - they have been
there for upwards of fifty years, but the
Now Adelaide...that's another matter A planned city, with nice
straight
roads planned on a grid - impossible to get lost there!!
The town where I went to university is also on a grid system and I thought
it was the easiest place in the world to navigate, until I dated a young
man who
Oh! I know it well!!! It was the first time I'd heard of magic roundabouts,
and I didn't believe it could work at all!!!I vowed to avoid the magic at
all costs, but the day came when I found myself entering the dratted thing and
the only way to go was onwards!
The next day, I was
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 19:56 US/Eastern, sharon wrote:
When I was in art college (gods, was it really 40 yrs ago?) [...]
We were told that with interior decorating one must *never, ever*, use
purple. Purple was considered a colour that encouraged depression and
suicide. Interesting eh?
Well the Wallabies in the forest of France has hit the local news. It was
just shown as a highlighted story for tonight's edition. Perhaps they
include a few of the now almost extinct species missing from the bush. I
wonder if the Australian government would allow them to emigrate back to
their
That small cottage in Canberra is called Blundell's Cottage, I believe, and
is from the very early settlement days. It is on the banks, now, of Lake
Burley Griffin.
When Helen I went there, many, many years ago, there was a little old man
looking after it, and he showed us some old needleworking
Thanks for the link to the picture, Karen.
I am just glad they don't have something like that here in Melbourne!
What a nightmare to navigate!!
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz,
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