[lace-chat] Eccles cakes?

2004-05-01 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All and happy May Day to everyone! I picked a bouquet of dark purple violets today. Liz wrote about Eccles Cakes and I want to know what they are. I know I could Google for an answer but it's more fun to ask G. Jane in Vermont, USA where it feels more like summer than spring. [EMAIL

[lace-chat] Re: St George's Day

2004-05-01 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On May 1, 2004, at 3:39, nicky.h-townsend wrote: A pub in my area wanted a licence extension for St George's Day celebrations but it was refused by the authorities, he could have and does get them for St Patrick's Day etc etc but for St George - question is who are the ones being racist? [...]

[lace-chat] Bucket Loader in the yard (driveway)

2004-05-01 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi All, Since it's so quiet I'll tell you about the Bucket Loader we have in the driveway. DH is the Facilities Manager at a local mental/substance abuse hospital and they got the new Loader yesterday so he drove it home this morning! The manual is bolted to the seat so if he was going to read

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: The last one

2004-05-01 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
My source reads lace-chat, so apologies to her for seeing it twice (not my fault if she's more proper than I am g) Also to everyone else who'd *just* seen it (the list of recipients was BCc-d). I'd seen it before myself, but it was *ages* ago, so I hope people will have forgotten :) Begin