Re: [lace-chat] Help please

2004-05-04 Thread Scotlace
Tamara.I was going to send you a message anyway about postage. The Royal Mail is proposing changing its way of charging for post, moving from charging by weight only to charging by size *and* weight. This has horrified mail order firms with at least one, a film

Re: [lace-chat] Help please

2004-05-04 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Tamara I'm sending this to you and cc'd to chat. Hope you get them both. We should be getting broadband here at the end of the mont, and much as want it I'm not looking forward to the changeover! On 3 May 2004, at 23:46, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: Gentle Spiders, Can someone do me a favour,

[lace-chat] Reminder

2004-05-04 Thread Margery Allcock
Just to remind you: Today is Star Wars Day - May The 4th Be With You [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat

[lace-chat] Cross stitch Alphabets

2004-05-04 Thread H. Muth
http://yarntree.com/036alpht.htm http://yarntree.com/035alph.htm http://www.freepatternsonline.com/chart/alphabets.htm The last address has quite a few alphabets on it. There's lots available out there. I love the internet! Heather Rainy Abbotsford, BC At 04:40 PM 03/05/2004 -0700, John

[lace-chat] connection woes

2004-05-04 Thread Bev Walker
Hi all If it helps anyone, yesterday was a poor day for connecting on-line for a lot of servers. Maybe to do with the current virus fright. When I could get on, the downloading was slow, and some sites weren't accessible either. -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral

re: [lace-chat] SW reminder

2004-05-04 Thread Bev Walker
I want my SW 3-disc set right now! LOL - I remembered that Ep. I had been released on this date -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lace-chat] It could only happen in the UK

2004-05-04 Thread Lisa Thompson
Actually I only remember about 2 people being in line and it was just business as usual. When I got to the front of the line, I didn't know to expect anything other than a $10 bill for my $10 withdrawal, so I guess we did have ordinary queueing, but no special rules. Lisa in Dallas Date: Mon,

[lace-chat] Connection woes

2004-05-04 Thread Jean Nathan
Don't know if the ISPs are being extra cautious because of this latest virus. A few weeks ago Freeserve (now Wanadoo) was slow due to extra vigilant filtering in their system. The current Sasser virus isn't spread by email, but through the internet. Here, the Maritime and Coastguard agency

[lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Jean Nathan
Larry, the Wedding dress guy now has his own web site: http://www.weddingdressguy.com/ there's a link from it to his band website as well. A lot of it's still under construction, But there's a picture of him, without his face covered, wearing the dress on the 'About me' page:

Fwd: [lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Vasna Zago
Yes, but did he sell the dress? It was up to $25K last time I looked. Or maybe now that he's all famous and stuff he'll keep it! :- Vasna Larry, the Wedding dress guy now has his own web site: http://www.weddingdressguy.com/ there's a link from it to his band website as well. A lot of it's

Re: Fwd: [lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Alice Howell
At 11:25 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote: Yes, but did he sell the dress? It was up to $25K last time I looked. Or maybe now that he's all famous and stuff he'll keep it! :- Vasna Yes, it sold for a little over $3000. I knew there was a problem with the bidding when I looked at it, and the amount

[lace-chat] alphabet help

2004-05-04 Thread John OConnor
What a wonderful group we have on arachne!! Thank you one and all for all the alphabets. I had no idea there were so many choices of styles. Thanks especially Judy, Jean, Heather and Clay! Jane O'Connor New Lenox, IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul To

Fwd: Re: Fwd: [lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Vasna Zago
I kind of wondered about the bidding, too. But, I saw a tatting shuttle once have a bid on it of $2500, which I thought was an error, but what do I know? :- Vasna, in warm Boulder, Colorado At 11:25 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote: Yes, but did he sell the dress? It was up to $25K last time I

Re: [lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Jane Viking Swanson
Hi Jean and All, Well I was really out of the loop on this one. Thanks for bringing me up to speed. How funny! Jane in Vermont, USA where the bright red male Cardinal came and sat in the hanging plant on the porch! He was a picture next to the lavender flowers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: [lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Scotlace
Who is Larry the wedding dress guy? All previous references to him seem to have passed me by. Why is he wearing a wedding dress? Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to

Re: [lace-chat] The continuing tale of woe

2004-05-04 Thread Steph Peters
On Mon, 3 May 2004 20:40:50 -0400, Tamara wrote: Curioser and curioser... Had a phone call from Alice (thanks again, Alice, for taking the trouble) telling me that a message she tried to send to me *last night* was rejected -- can't connect to @rockbridge.net -- which seemed to suggest trouble

Re: [lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Alice Howell
At 02:32 PM 5/4/2004, you wrote: Who is Larry the wedding dress guy? All previous references to him seem to have passed me by. Why is he wearing a wedding dress? Larry is a recently divorced guy who was left with his ex's wedding dress instead of the ring. Instead of throwing it away, he

[lace-chat] St. George's Day

2004-05-04 Thread Janice Blair
I always wondered why it was not celebrated when I lived in England apart from the odd person wearing a rose in their lapel. My children started their education in Wales where my daughter had to wear Welsh costume, my son could wear any costume and often went as a cowboy, at school on St.

[lace-chat] Re: The continuing tale of woe

2004-05-04 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
On May 4, 2004, at 17:58, Steph Peters wrote: Would you really rather they were handled together so that a problem with mail in one direction impacts the other? No ma'm; that I would not. Had slow outgoing mail the night before though -- about the same the problem started (according to Alice) --

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: All that glitters?

2004-05-04 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
This is not a sparkling new one (though, on second thoughts... Not new, perhaps, but g), but I'm *sooo* relieved to have my toy (e-mail) back in working order, that I'm ready to giggle at anything :) *Many* of you lace-chatters have responded to my please send a message, any message at all,

Re: [lace-chat] Wedding dress guy

2004-05-04 Thread Avital
But you have to take his story with a box of salt. Here's an interview with him: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001915316_brodeur29m.html A - Original Message - It was worth a laugh to read his story -- maybe he should be a writer. Anyway, the whole thing attracted