On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter
festival, my Significant Other in a consenting adult monogamous
relationship gave to me:
TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual
drumming,
ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made
up of members in good
From: Avital Pinnick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have not noticed any increase in spam since using mail-archive...
I've noticed a big increase in spam since I joined Arachne. It may be
nothing to do with the archiving, and it may be nothing to do with Arachne
at all, but I do get a lot more spam now
I've never bought red shoes, but my first pair of ballet shoes were red
leather.
When I was a teenager, I bought a pair of yellow plastic platform clogs,
with 5 or 6 heels. I had a matching yellow blouse too, and the first time
I wore the ensemble, I walked into town and thought I was the bee's
Jane wrote:
I think at 3pm they were announcing the draw - we all met up at 2pm,
Jean :-).
Did we really? By the time I got home I was too tired remember what time
things happened. I still haven't really recovered, even with the bucket of
candy floss yesterday. I haven't even looked at
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Annette and I had a fabulous day, yesterday, at the NEC.
I loved it - I had a ball! It was my first visit, and I spent way too much
money, but then my excuse is that I'm new to this and there's lots that I
still need. I daren't
I live *inside* a block!
The area of south-east London where I live was laid out for residential use
between the wars. It wasn't exactly a proper grid, but where I live now was
what could be described as a block. It was a Ministry of Defence site (I've
no idea what it was there for). In the
Some years ago I purchased a pair of square bobbins for my secret pal of
the time. It must have been at chepstow and therefore would have been
from Winslow bobbins, I think...
Patricia in Wales
Yes, Winslow still do square bobbins, I have some - they do a couple of
different types.
Regards,
A story in the Evening Standard yesterday...
A man recently caught a late night train home to Penge, a south London
suburb. During the journey he dozed off, only to be woken by strange
noises. He opened his eyes to see the couple opposite him making like
Bill and Monica. The other passengers,
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:51:20 -0500
From: Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Because being anti (again, anti *anything*) is restricted
It's often used as an accusation here. For example, people who are
anti-Bush are being labelled by some as being anti-American. People who are
anti-Iraq
Well the BBC is generally regarded as heavily influenced by the
British Foreign Office, which has a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bias (for
example, the egregious misquoting of a White House official in which the
word terrorist was replaced by activist). The BBC was recently singled
out for
My sisters and I have a tradition of treating the one celebrating their
fiftieth birthday to a girls weekend. This coming weekend we're doing
another celebration. I need some cute and funny ideas for posters,
banners,
signs, etc. to decorate our hotel room. I'm doing an iron-on transfer for
a
I think it's a joke, but it's been said that Ken Livingstone is insisting
that the congestion charge (for travelling by car in central London) will
have to be paid and will amount to 600 pounds a day for the entourage
Jean, I laughed louder at that than I did at Room 101 this evening - which
was
Ah, the Swindon Magic Roundabout! I lived in Swindon for a few years, when
I worked at Intel. Whenever a colleague visited from our sister site in
Oregon, we would usually tell our visitor about the Magic Roundabout. Given
that they were already disomfitted by driving on the wrong side of the
It doesn't make me *suicidal*(only Gregorian chants have that power
g), but it sure saps all my will to continue living :)
Tamara P Duvall
Me too! I think it's a Pavlovian response to enforced coach trips to
Buckfast Abbey as a child (a 2 hour drive that usually left me feeling
car-sick).
Annette:
well. not to get a flaming, bickering thread going but Equal time for the
opposing view:
there are plenty of us in the world who don't have a high opinon of MT.
Sue Ellen
That's so ironic! I'm with you and Christopher Hitchens on MT, but was
scared of saying anything in my message
I'm argumentative by nature, and I *like* a well-reasoned argument,
whether I agree with the final findings or not; it's the beauty of
looking at something (anything: lace problem, philosophical problem,
language/thought process relationship, a twig) from more than one angle
that appeals to
Wow - so I'm not the only one! I too love well-reasoned argument, and get
very frustrated by the sloppy way many things are discussed these days in
public, in newspapers and so on.
I think I've put my foot in it again... I didn't mean to suggest that
Tamara and I are the only ones who like a
Have you tried Croydon?! g Whenever I go there, (which is not often!) I
memorise where I'm supposed to go on the map, and when I get there, I find
the place bears absolutely no relationship to the map whatsoever. It's as
if the people who drew up the A-Z thought the place was so complicated they
I just had a giggle at work today. I work as librarian in a public (city)
library, and someone rang up this morning to ask whether we had a book
she'd
read about in the weekend newspaper. The book sounds quite OK, but the
title
is... The missionary position it has a subtitle (which I have
...carrying a handbag and keeping track of it doesn't seem to be second
nature to men the way it is to women :)
One of my students a couple of weeks ago (I'm an IT trainer) says he
carries a laptop computer case around with him, and uses it like a woman
uses a handbag, to carry his stuff. Being
I did eventually learn that if north was up on a map, west and east
spelled WE . . .
I learned that too, but I still have to stop and think about it. If I run
down to the Tube in a hurry, and am faced with a westbound and an eastbound
platform and a train on one of them, and have to make a quick
Why would you be driving on the pavement? We drive on the road and walk on
the pavement (sidewalk).
Jean in Poole
And if you're a cyclist, you ride on the pavement - or at least they do in
London. And speed through red lights... And go the wrong way down one-way
streets... Grrr!
London
I returned home last evening, having had my knee replacement operation on
Thursday last week to over a hundred emails in lace and lace-chat
Jean in Poole
I hope you've recovered by now. Were you in Poole General? My mother had a
couple of operations there a few years ago, and it seemed
in base 13 What is 6 x 9? has the answer 42
Was it ever established whether Douglas Adams knew this when he wrote
Hitchiker? I can't remember.
Regards,
Annette
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In my dialect, the a of orange actually sounds more like the o of
women, and the a in mange is like the ay in day... But there's another
problem: the stress on orange is on the first syllable, and mange is a
one-syllable word.
Yes, that's the way we'd say it in England too.
Annette
To
My first trip to London ('68) I fell, *totally*, in love with the tube,
and especially with the little no-nonsense maps of it.
It's hard now to imagine how revolutionary that map of Frank Pick's was when
it was introduced in - what, the 20s? 30s? I forget. Having seen a
pre-Pick map of the
Many years ago, I was much impressed by the London underground when I
became separated from my tour group, and made it back to the hostel all on
my own, without asking anyone, or ever once feeling uncertain longer than it
took to read a sign
It's certainly well signed and the maps are clear.
Are any of you going to the NEC Christmas Lace Suppliers Fair
Birmingham on 29 November - am organising a coach and it would be
lovely to meet some of you there.
Bye for now
Nicky
I'm hoping to go. I was originally going to go on the Sunday but the
trains from London are so bad that
The firewall that comes with XP is fairly basic, so I'd get another one if
you can. I use Zone Alarm ( from www.zonelabs.com )- the version I use is
free, although you can buy Zone Alarm Pro which has more features. The
free version seems to work well.
I don't know about Norton's firewall (I
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