Dear Friends,
Actually it was far easier than any of you have suggested. When I
opened Chrome it TOLD me it wasn't my default browser and asked if I
wanted it to be.
I simply had to choose it from a list produced.
many thanks for all your replies.
David in Ballarat, AUS
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Dear Vivienne.
David has told me he is still around, I am delighted. I could do
with a bit of cheer. David do you remember years ago you bought one
of our remembrance bobbins? Ebony with a crucifix carved in it. I
think it might have been for Princess Diana but not sure.
Yes, I bought a pair
At 03:49 PM 24/04/2015, Tregellas Family wrote:
Dear Liz,
Think I might miss the dawn service as I've never been very good at
dawn times :) and it promises to be rather cold here in Ballarat.
I will, however, be marching at 1030hrs. Will have to polish up the
medals shortly.
David in
Dear Jane,
I'm glad this was brought up. I've been wondering what happened to dove
into the bushes and the glass vessel shone in the light. They seem to
have disappeared in what I read in the US and are replaced with dived
and shined. Now I understand better what is going on!
Australia is
At 05:09 PM 29/07/2013, Jean Nathan wrote:
There are phrases/sentences becoming common which really make my teeth itch.
Probably the worst one is I misspoke. In other words, I got it wrong. So
why not say so? Saying I misspoke doesn't make it right.
Jean,
the latest invasion of Americanisms in
Dear T,
I wonder what did become of Susan, I had forgotten all about her,
is it that long ago David?
Wasn't, really; David misremembers :)it had to have been *at
least* 2003...
Thanks for that correction. I knew it was a long time ago - fancy -
only 10 years!
David in Ballarat, AUS
G'day Girls,
Happy Birthdays to both Jean and Agnes.
I hope you both have a Happy Day - even, if it a big number with an 0 at the
end.!!
Mine, this year (May) will have a horrid double number (the one you are
avoiding mentioning, Jean!!)
Seems to me you're all as old as my big sister Raie in
At 10:34 PM 1/03/2013, scotl...@aol.com wrote:
Celebrate the fact you are still alive and enjoying life. I have had so many
relatives die young that if/when I reach my seventieth I think I shall be
having a big celebration.
And I've got 14 months to go to be the longest living COLLYER male
Dear Ian,
I was really saddened to learn of Erica's death as I had not heard she was ill.
I shall always treasure the memory of the day you
both visited me here in Ballarat, Australia, as
well as the bobbins you gave me.
Thinking of you
David Collyer
I have been asked by Ericaâs husband
Dear Devon,
I am inclined to think that the Queen should step in and make a decision.
It is totally unreasonable for tourists to have to travel all over England
looking for Royal tombs.
I loved that :)
Let's just pop 'em all in together: it would save an awful lot in
train tickets or hire
At 04:39 AM 5/02/2013, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
OK, so am I the only person who wants to see an analysis of the DNA of the
bodies found in the Tower a few years ago, thought to be the Little
Princes?
No you are definitely NOT alone in that desire. I've read a number of
fiction based on fact
Jane,
Hi All, I see no one mentioned Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. It's
a mystery story about Richard III and it says he did not kill the little
princes. I'll have to get it out, it's been a while since I read it.
Do you recall who she did blame?
Penman was very convincing with her
At 10:07 AM 5/07/2012, Martha Krieg wrote:
We did not have a TV until I was 6. I remember going with my mother
and brother to a neighbor's to watch the coronation of Elizabeth II.
TV wasn't even here in Australia then. It came here in time for the
Melbourne Olympics in 1956. But we crowded
Sue,
Well firstly I
would like you to wash your hands, I got a funny look and she turned and
grudgingly washed her hands but was very surly when she served me. I had a
word with one of the managers strolling about and he seemed as if I was
being finicky about the matter, but what do others
At 07:18 AM 28/01/2012, The Lace Bee wrote:
Please be aware that raw garlic can harbour Clostridium botulinum.
Yes, and raw cheese can harbour Listeria. I've been using the oil
method for cheese, garlic and pepper for over 12 years now with no
problems. Of course it's always kept in the
At 04:27 AM 25/01/2012, Margery Allcock wrote:
Dear Joy, thanks for the explanation - there are so many words that we
each take for granted, which are totally unfamiliar on the other side
of the Atlantic!
Let alone the Pacific!!!
David in Ballarat, AUSTRALIA
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Dear Friends,
Until recently I would usually throw out the vinegar mix leftover
from the jar of pickled cucumbers.
I'm not sure how many realize that whatever you put under oil cannot
go off. I've done this with such things as fresh hot chillies. But
my favourite is cubes of fetta (a soft
Dear Jean,
I think anyone, whatever the age, who throws missiles at vehicles,
when caught, should be taken to the morgue and shown the body of
someone injured in a car crash. I don't care how much trauma is
causes them - it might just stop them doing it again.
I've thought about that over
Gosh Liz,
when we were kids I got a hiding for merely pointing the hose on to
the cars from the top of a nearby cutting. I never did that again!!
David in Ballarat, AUS
It amazes me how many stupid ways these kids dream up to cause injury or
death ot others.
What is the world coming to?
At 12:43 AM 1/12/2011, Thurlow Weed wrote:
For several weeks now I've been receiving list messages from Sabine
via lace-chat. All have been associated with offering pleasure. So
I'm wondering if someone's been hacked. Has anyone else been receiving
these messages?
Yes Thurlow - I have and
Jean,
Is there an Amazon Australia, so he can do the same for his
Australian friend? Can't see it listed as a country site at the
bottom Amazon's web pages. Japan seems to be nearest.
The best online bookshop to search in Australia is
Fishpond.com au
I've always found everything I want
At 10:21 PM 12/07/2011, Malvary Cole wrote:
Now I'm singing Chattanooga Choo Choo!! Apart from me, Calvin
Klein, Muhammed Ali and Stephen Hawking were born in 'my' year.
Not fare. I'd much rather be humming Chattanoga than I'm Looking
Over a 4 Leafed Clover!!
David in Ballarat
To
Guess what Sue???
Re note 12 on his list I remember saying to someone I
couldn't understand anyone wanting to be gay!
No-one wants to be gay. It's not a matter of choice. In fact I'd
not wish the prejudice and suffering on my worst enemy
David in Ballarat - out and proud!
To
At 05:35 AM 29/11/2010, Jean Nathan wrote:
Thought some of you might like this, especially David:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU
Thanks Jean - yes, that's the link I sent to the List a couple of
weeks ago when we were doing The Messiah here in Ballarat. Lovely to
see it again
Dear Janice,
Does anyone have a recipe for a cake that will keep for over a week.
This recipe came originally from arachne and I just love it. It
becomes more moist as the days go by.
Enjoy
David in Ballarat
Mystery Tomato Soup Cake
Ingredients:
4oz butter
10oz flour
At 01:18 PM 14/04/2010, Sue Babbs wrote:
Oh! I had forgotten filling fountain pens from the ink bottle. That
was so much fun, and you could make such good noises.
Yes - and you could then squirt it across the room or even up at the
ceiling too!!! Granny's fountain pen had a solid gold lever!
Throughout grades 2 and 3 there was a raging battle between the
parents and the teachers to let us use the fountain pens (the kind
where the ink supply was sucked from the inkwell into a rubber bulb;
no cartridges).
I seem to recall that in about 1958 when the Bic Biro made it's first
The first newsletters were typewritten on a special matrix and
then run off on a machine where the ink oozed through the little
holes made by the typepwriter! If I remember correctly, it was
called a Mimeograph machine. Not pretty, but effective!
In Australia they were called by their
Clay
But the machine we printed our newsletters on was something more
modern. It actually had black ink. The drum of the machine had a
pad that was saturated (from within) with a thick ink. The
stencil was clipped onto the machine and then the drum was rotated
several times to prime it.
At 04:10 AM 13/04/2010, Jean Nathan wrote:
Boiling up the copper isn't an Aussie phrase - my mum and my gran
both did that. In my case, a large copper tub with a gas ring
underneath. Filled with water by bucket from the top, but emptied
through a small tap at the base a bucket-full at a time.
The people who make many of the pins in the world have been looking for a
long time at the problem of brass pins tarnishing.
Vivienne,
it's a luxurious idea, but I find my brass pins, many of which are
about 15 years old and used over and over, have not tarnished at all.
Perhaps it is the
At 05:26 AM 7/04/2010, Linda Walton wrote:
A friend on another list sent a request about a mysterious object,
http://picasaweb.google.com/Charlene281/20100404?feat=directlink
Whilst I haven't actually seen this item before, I reckon it could
possibly be a really good aid for darning a large
Dear Susan,
I believe some of the interpretation between the two words Flash or Flush is
about degree, as mentioned before. Someone who flushes, does not have night
sweats, and only gets barely warm,
I can tell you that here in Australia, the word flash is never
used. They are only referred
Wouldn't you have to bite of two corners to get the Port through? :-)
Sorry Janice - you're quite correct of course - diagonally opposed
ones are best
David
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At 03:45 AM 11/01/2010, AtticAnne wrote:
I had a delightful surprise while shopping at Target last night. DD spied
Tim Tams.
Fantastic There goes the last of the skinny lace makers
LOL
David
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Thanks Janice - loved the joke and it's been duly forwarded (in CAPS :)
Anyway, it gives me the opportunity of wishing everyone **Happy
New Year and all the best for 2010**
We've only got just over an hour to go till New Year - can't wait to
see Sydney's fireworks. Always love to see
Ketchup is a tomato based condiment
with vinegar in it, often kept on the table to be put on hamburgers,
hot dogs, French fries along with mustard.
Hm - I wonder then if it might be the same as what we call Tomato
Relish - much nicer than Tomato Sauce - perhaps a cross between that
and
At 09:02 AM 18/11/2009, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
But do they sing Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow? Perhaps they favor Auld Lang
Syne, or The Parting Song?
Nah - I reckon it would be Good Old Collingwood Forever - or the
theme song for whatever their football team is down there.
David
I guess
At 01:34 AM 16/11/2009, Sue wrote:
3 very useful emails, thank you.
All so complicated when it's oh so easy.
If you live in the tropics - or where the temperature is about 30C.
Simply add a couple of tablespoons of plain yoghurt to a litre of
milk which is at room temperature..
For
At 02:46 PM 14/11/2009, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
What/where is Bunnings? I haven't seen any windshield wipers
*outside* any of our stores...
Bunnings is a huge hardware chain store here in Australia. Perhaps I
wrongly assumed it would also be in the USA. NO?
David
--
Tamara P Duvall
using a beef soup made from a bouillon cube works just fine, in
fact, I doubt
it could be much better if you used the homemade stock.
As tolerant as I am... and as much as I love you, Devon... This kind
of heresy is more than even I can tolerate; consider yourself
disinherited and thrown
: Fw: Mind your own business
How I learned to mind my own business
I was walking past the mental hospital the other day,
And all the patients were shouting, '131313.'
The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a
Little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see
What was
At 03:39 AM 29/07/2009, Jean Nathan wrote:
I don't have a thyroid problem, but I have suffered from insomnia
all my life. As a child my mother used ply me with warm milk,
Whenever we were ill as children, our mother gave us a real treat
which always put us off to sleep. It was Granny's famous
Doubtless, after this bit of brilliant wit (not!), he spent the next
two weeks on crutches, to learn the difference between crutch and crotch.
That's debatable. Nowadays the word crotch seems to have virtually
disappeared from Australian English.
David in Ballarat
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