Malvary, I can also claim a weird family history - one of my ancestors was
reputedly a witch. The UK arachnes may have heard about the Pendle witches
in Lancashire; my ancestor was Alice Nutter who met an untimely end. I've
read various versions - hanged in Lancaster, burnt at the stake but Dad
Hmm. I don't have a flyswatter, but I use paper or such for flies, or
just open the window and try to get them to leave. I deal with
mosquitoes the same way you do. Especially effective when they're
trying to get at you in bed at night and you don't want to get up and
turn the light on. I'm
All I can remember is that a cat always falls on 4 legs, ie lands
safely. In
extensio, that would mean that a cat never dies at all g
and a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down.
So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back,
and drop the cat from a
Insects aren't really a problem, just the odd fly (most annoying if it's a
bluebottle with all that buzzing) or wasp. If they come indoors, they're
dealt with by a (probably) very evironmentally unfriendly insect spray
(although it doesn't contain cfc's). Drops a wasp in about 15 seconds. Then
I
Hmm. Narwhal? My spelling is probably wrong, but I'm pretty sure it
starts with an N.
Weronika
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:39:06AM +0100, Jean Nathan wrote:
I didn't get any further than thinking of a letter - I just couldn't think
of an animal that began with the letter N.
I could only
Weronika,
The culture confuses ME, and I was born and raised here by very
non-international parents!
I'm not sure whether I should be happy that my problem isn't abnormal,
or unhappy because that means it'll probably never go away... g
Except for The Lord of the Rings and Harry
Potter,
At 12:39 AM 6/5/2004, you wrote:
I didn't get any further than thinking of a letter - I just couldn't think
of an animal that began with the letter N.
You could try the newt, noctule (bat), nautilus, nutria, nighthawk or
nuthatch -- some of them stretching the meaning of 'animal' a bit. Or make
Sof a décidé d' écrire à ÒRe: [lace] sevenÓ.
[2004/06/04 21:52]
Carolina, the English must like cats more than the Spaniards, as they
say that cats have 9 lives, not seven!! I can't remember what we say
in Frnch, now, do you know, Dominique?
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
Hello
What a cool family history! I read about the Lancashire witches when I was a
teenager.
Best wishes,
Avital
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From: Joan Whitfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Malvary, I can also claim a weird family history - one of my ancestors was
reputedly a witch. The UK arachnes may
Help! I've found a lovely recipe for strawberry tarts, but the pastry recipe
contains a measurement with which I'm unfamilar, unless it's a misprint on the
website. The recipe calls for 2 dsps icing sugar. Can anyone tell me what
what or how much a dsps is?
Thurlow
Lancaster OH
where the
Help! I've found a lovely recipe for strawberry tarts, but the pastry
recipe
contains a measurement with which I'm unfamilar, unless it's a misprint on
the
website. The recipe calls for 2 dsps icing sugar. Can anyone tell me
what
what or how much a dsps is?
Thurlow, could you give us
Thurlow,
I long for strawberries reading your message :-)
This is in my book:
Tsp = teaspoon = 5 ml
Dsp = dessertspoon = 10 ml
Tbsp = tablespoon = 15 ml
Sonja Sillay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Help! I've found a lovely recipe for strawberry tarts,
recipe calls for 2
I subscribe to a Polish-language e-newsletter (more to keep up with the
language than with the news) and the following snippet showed up
yesterday (forwarded in original, with a rough English translation -
mine):
From: Donosy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: June 4, 2004 10:08:23 EDT
W warszawskich
Dear all gentle spiders,
I've been catching up with my reading of digests (still have umpteen
lace ones to read) strangely enough I can sympathize with Tamara's
Weronika's observations about the way things are done in the USA.
The house that we have lived in here in Massachusetts for the last
If anyone wants to see the house that we are going to live in for the next
phase of our lives, you can go to : http://oruvilla.ee/eng/index.html
DH is wearing a blue shirt in the 3rd photo on the History page. A few
things
that appeal to us about living in Estonia, are the simpler lifestyle,
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