Re: [lace-chat] london

2005-06-20 Thread Jean Nathan
Janice wrote: I guess DH and I qualify for the discounts for seniors. Do we need to have proof of any kind to get the discounts at museums, etc? Usually, pensioners just flash their pension book (now a pink card which says you're entitled to pension since pensions started being paid

Re: [lace-chat] london

2005-06-20 Thread Jenny Barron
Janice Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just filled out my application for my British pension, have been dragging my feet for over a year on this, :-), I guess DH and I qualify for the discounts for seniors. Do we need to have proof of any kind to get the discounts at museums, etc? Janice

[lace-chat] bobbins for beginner

2005-06-20 Thread Helene Gannac
Dear Ronna, Without wanting to dampen your enthusiam, I would say that your main problem is that you want to do too many things at once as a beginner! Goodness me, I'd never heard of a beginner wanting to try 6 different types of lace when they had only just started learaning !! No wonder it's

[lace-chat] Denmark

2005-06-20 Thread Helene Gannac
Dear spiders, thank you very much to those who sent me info about where to stay in Copenhagen and around. I haven't done anything about it yet as I had to go into hospital for a nose operation(no, no, not a cosmetic one, just to widen my airways!), and missed one week at work, what bad luck :-(

[lace-chat] :-) I pledge allegiance to the flag...

2005-06-20 Thread Margery Allcock
Jimmy was at his first day of school. The teacher advised the class to start the day with the Pledge of Allegiance, and instructed them to put their right hands over their hearts and repeat it after him. He looked around the room as he started the recitation, I pledge allegiance to the flag...

[lace-chat] Visiting the UK

2005-06-20 Thread Shell
Hi all, I've been informed by my boss that I'm having a month of holidays whether I want them or not. So I have decided to visit the UK to see some family who are based in North Wales. I leave in the beginning of August and come back at the beginning of September. Does anyone have some

[lace-chat] Translation assistance

2005-06-20 Thread Pene Piip
The school teacher who has been giving our eldest son Estonian language classes asked me about a sentence in one of Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby books which she is translating into Estonian. She asked me if I knew what a finger dainty was. We presumed it was some sort of food,

[lace-chat] Bedfordshire area pictures

2005-06-20 Thread Alice Howell
There's a history book of pictures of Bedfordshire area on eBay with just a few hours to go. If anyone is a history buff of that region, you might want to take a look. Item 8311815348. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=98558item=8311815348rd=1 Alice in Oregon -- where

Re: [lace-chat] Re: Continuing problems with AOL and others!

2005-06-20 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Well, the good news is that I can now post to AOL etc again. On 20 Jun 2005, at 01:58, Tamara P Duvall wrote: Yesterday (or maybe the day before?) your message (to lace) - about Edition 3 of Threads for Lace - got stopped by my ISP, and I had to go to their website to retrieve it. It's the