Our local radio station is having a discussion on cosmetic plastic surgery
this morning as there's been a 35% increase in it in the past year over the
whole country. The surgeon they have on the programme said that if you have
your photograph taken while standing on your head, then turn the photo
Hello Noelene and all,
Having grown up without electricity til I commenced nursing at 17years,
my recollections of kero lamps etc are not at all romantic.
One school project that I thought was beautifully drawn, in the light of
day was a disaster! Not to mention the kero and soot engrained hands
Brenda, the postal problem is more likely for overseas travel. I sent a
small package containing a Scottish tartan scarf and pin for my nephew's
wedding in Canada and allowed 3 weeks for posting as it rarely takes more
than 6 days. Of course it arrived there 3 days after the wedding. Noelene
Hi Everyone,
I can recommend a very good book on the history, folklore and origins of the
Christmas tree:
The Solstice Evergreen by Sheryl Ann Karas
ISBN 0-944031-26-9 published 1991 by Aslan Publishing, CA
It leads you through various patterns of behaviour which been handed down
over the years
In a message dated 11/24/2004 11:05:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But they didn't do their own plowing and dung-clearing, did they?
Younger sons they might have been, but they still had some standards of
what was fitting for their station in life and what wasn't,
And there weren't - proportionally - all that many of them, I don't
think; if there had been, we'd be speaking German, not English. Or
both, the way Canadians speak both French and English.
I have heard that there was a vote in the Congress, of the very early USA, to
'set' the national language.
From the Library of Congress website
1790 - By this date as many as 100,000 Germans may have immigrated to
America; they and their descendants made up an estimated 8.6 percent of the
population of the United States; in Pennsylvania they accounted for 33 percent
of
the population; in
From Amish Country News, which is not necessarily a scholarly site:
It is claimed that the first known written mention of a Christmas tree in
America is found in the 1821 diary of Matthew Zahn, a Lancastrian!
Undoubtedly,
the Christmas tree tradition was brought to America by the German
Passed the full version onto Kerry, my recently widowed sister-in-law -
YEP she said, that was Tim; it will also be her when the time comes.
And ours, DH I agree -but we'd be holding a jbg of Cabernet or similar :)
Thanks, David for a bit of light relief at a very sad time.
- Original
Angela coming briefly out of lurkdom - being very busy at present writing two
books, not my choice but could not refuse. At this time of year I give my
Victorian Christmas talk, illustrated with tales of Christmas customs, reading
from my Grandmother's Diary, and my dressing up in her clothes.
When I was in England last year, I posted back some things to my home
address by surface mail. They took 12 weeks to arrive!! Each parcel is
individually scanned by machine, and then if any questions arise in the mind
of the person standing at the scanning machine, the parcel is given to
Tamara, by the 1740s, tons of German immigrants were making their way from
the port in Philadelphia, west to the head of the Shenandoah Valley, and
then south as far as Salisbury, NC. That is how those pre-Revolutionary War
towns in the Shenandoah were settled. You live in one of them! Look
Yes, but Lynn, don't forget you have ... how many metres is it?? ... of lace
for a Christening dress to finish first (grin!)
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
DonLynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wire tallies I can
manage, I can just imagine those snowflakes in silver thread hanging from my
On Nov 25, 2004, at 8:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
I guess this information is too late for you to use to redeem your
husband
with your mother. But I think that there is room to hope that he might
be
descended from English aristocracy
Actually...
My Mother was still alive when I
Has anyone purchased flowers from Bunches (www.bunches.co.uk ) - an online
florist?
I want to buy some flowers for my 98 year old aunt in Devon, and wonder if
anyone can advise me if Bunches are OK or not.
They have a nice, fancy website, but this does not mean anything, does it?!
from Liz in
Amish keep to themselves for religious reasons, but a lot of the
Germans weren't Amish.
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Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan
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On Nov 25, 2004, at 6:24, DonLynn wrote:
Noelene sent me my copy of Tamara's lace book and I received it less
than 24 hours later in another city. Great book by the way Tamara, I
hate tallies, but it will be good to practice them with the wire lace.
On the *centres*, it's not even too much pain
On Nov 25, 2004, at 4:07, Barbara Stokes wrote:
if the flat irons weren't cleaned properly when heated on the stove
then black marks on the clothes!
VBG We did have electricity in Warsaw for all the time I can remember
(and my parents told me it was there before I could remember g)...
But I
Old (hope you no longer remember it), but good (hope you'll enjoy it)...
From: J.F.
One hot July day we found an old straggly cat at our door. She was
a sorry sight. Starving, dirty, smelled terrible, skinny and hair all
matted down.
We felt sorry for her and put her in a carrier and took her to
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