[lace-chat] Something slightly different

2008-11-20 Thread Avital
Another paper cutting. I figure that if I lose my job in the current economic situation I can always try selling greeting cards on a street corner. ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/3045629858/ Avital To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe

[lace-chat] Fw: A Telegraph reader thought you would be interested in this article

2008-11-20 Thread Janice Blair
A friend sent me this article below.  I do not have an iPhone but I do experience problems when using systems that require you to answer the questions over the phone.  The worst one is the Financial Times when I try to suspend our service when we are away.  They just do not understand the English

Re: [lace-chat] Something slightly different-recession strategy

2008-11-20 Thread Dmt11home
I figure that if I lose my job in the current economic situation I can always try selling greeting cards on a street corner. ;-) Beautiful, but who are you going to sell them to? I understand that the first thing people cut down on in a recession is handmade greeting cards. An interesting

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2008-11-20 Thread Nancy Nicholson
This may help us with our Christmas bills http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Something slightly different-recession strategy

2008-11-20 Thread Clay Blackwell
Hi Devon - My sister owned a knitting shop for 25 years - just sold it about six months ago. She said that during the last downturn in the economy, her business boomed... People would opt to stay home rather than take an expensive trip, and so the materials for a new knitting project seemed

Re: [lace-chat] Something slightly different-recession strategy

2008-11-20 Thread Avital
Beautiful, but who are you going to sell them to? I understand that the first thing people cut down on in a recession is handmade greeting cards. Just joking. We're about to undergo a wave of firings at my company, so we're all coming up with worst case scenarios. At lunch today one of my

Re: [lace-chat] Fw: A Telegraph reader thought you would be interested in this article

2008-11-20 Thread Brenda Paternoster
I needed to 'phone British Gas a couple of days ago and had to speak my postcode which was recognised and then a question with a 'yes' or 'no' answer which it didn't recognise. I ended up shouting down the phone even though I knew it was only a machine at the other end! That's a