Hello, Spiders of all kinds,
Sorry to double up, but I'm just unsubscribing for 3 months while I go to
Europe, and wanted to get everyone in one swoop.
I'll think of you all while looking at lace in Europe (hopefully!!), and also
lace books, which I will post back as usual, since our suitcases
Sorry, Sylvie, took me a while to read my mail!!
I was a bit tongue in cheek asking the question, of course, you realise? I know
that not all Americans eat only fried food, but it struck me at the time how
many fried recipes there were in those books!!
In Australia, unfortunately, lots of people
Susan wrote:
cluny towels
i thought it was strange the towels were not made with the fuzzy terry
cloth you normally see, but they are beautiful. you probably wouldn't
put lace on fuzzy terry cloth anyways.
http://www212.pair.com/sojkawj/towel1.html
Susan, it's only recently that fuzzy terry
Susan wrote:
just out of curiosity, has anyone in the uk or anyone overseas ever
cooked or ate fried green tomatoes? it seems to be more of an american
southern type of food, so probably not even some of the northern
americans have tried it. all you do is slice a green tomatoe, roll it
in corn
Susan wrote:
i would especially be scared after the bombings both in the u.s.a. and
london to put a name anywhere. the way things are going we are going
to all be walking around with gas masks in our pocket books next to
pills that clean dirty water, foldable axes to cut out debree of fallen
Dear Pene,
finger dainties would be food on trays that you can pick up with your fingers.
like the things you get at a cocktail party: tiny canapes, small quiches, small
sausage rolls...anything that's small enough to be eaten in one or two bites.
bloater is a kind of fish that is made into
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
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 :-(
Hello, all fellow spiders,
DH and I are going to Europe in August, and we will sart with 10 days in
England (no problems, we're going to friends, and I know the country well
enough!!), and then, we are flying to Copenhagen to spend a week there or
around. I joked that DH wants to have tea with
Just saw on Amazon that the newest title by Monica Ferris is Embroidered
truths, to be published in June this year by Berkeley hardcovers (she's coming
up in the world!!). Get your orders in now!!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, where it's cold, feels like snow is on its
way (I wish!!) but
Dear Janice,
I am sorry you had such a bad time in my native town! I hope the breakfast at
least was nice and you didn't get that dreadful bread we ate last time we were
ther4e!!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, originally from Toulouse, France.
Janice wrote:
We stayed in Tolouse overnight on
Jean wrote:
There's been a recent (over about the last 30-40 years) for the broadcasters
and newspapers to each carry one April fool story on 1st April and wait to
see if it was spotted. I understand that this year the BBC banned any such
broadcast, which is a shame because some were so
Jane wrote:
The taxes are *there*, just calculated differently hidden
I consider this in the tax category altho perhaps I have been lucky so
far. Received notices from credit card company and the banks that they
are now charging a 'fee' of 3% of total amount of any foreign currency
charge or
Jane wrote:
Yippee! It's arrived! Thanks ever so much Tamara. I have wanted this
stamp ever since I have known of its existence. The decision now is whether
to put it in my stamp album or with all my lace memorabilia. I'll decide
once I have shown it to everyone. :-)
I keep all my lace
...Interesting use of the word 'quilt' with 'knitting' however..
I wonder if the English word quilt comes from teh French couette (pr. like
kwet), which means a type of eiderdown, but flatter and often not filled with
feathers. That might explain it's use with the word knitting, since couette
Looks like a definite link between those, doesn't it?
Helene
--- Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Helene Gannac wrote:
...Interesting use of the word 'quilt' with 'knitting' however..
I wonder if the English word quilt comes from teh French couette (pr.
like
Sharon said
Another example which is spread worldwide and more sinister. How many British
movies have you been to where the bad guys always have a lower class
accent?
I think what I notice most when seeing films is how often the bad guy has a
British accent - Bond films, at least one of the
Personally, I think their time has come to quit altogether. There will
always be an oppressive class sytem in Britain while the royals still exist
Who says you need to have a monarch at the head to have an oppressive class
system??? The French pride themselves on their republicanism, and yet
Dating After Sixty
I love that one, Tamara! Must try to remember it in a few years time...if I can
:-)
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who's sick of the heat. Why can't we exchange
with some of that lovely snow you're having in Europe and the US, I don't know!!
Find local movie times and
Tamara wrote:
...Since I was engrossed in Colette's Claudine series borrowed from the
same source, I was not about to tell her; suspecting that both I and my
little lender-friend might get nailed, I prevaricated. But I never
forgot the reaction. Or the phrase. Or the association of French =
Dear Heather,
Glad to see it arrived safely! One just wonders these days...that's all I was
worried about, not the fact that I hadn't had any message from you!
I'm glad you liked the tree. I was a bit worried, because I'd just made a
bookmark
with DMC cotton and a silver metallic thread before,
Dear Lorri,
Received your gorgeous Christmas card with surprise in perfect nick 2 days ago!
Thank you so much for the 2 bobbins, they are great. Did you really turn them?
Wow!
They will be perfect for my collection! I usually use spangled bobbins, but I've
also got quite a collection of
Edith wrote:
The thing that strikes me most about this whole 'letter' is the old, old
trick politicians have of dehumanising people who oppose them. It's far
easier to belittle, mistreat, ignore, torture and kill someone who I believe
is a lesser being than me.
If we believe that all people
Helen wrote:
Heard from Mum and Dad who are at Mallacoota, (far eastern Victoria, on
the coast), and they said it was pretty cold there today (28th Oz time),
and they weren't going out fishing. Next thing, Noelene'll be reporting
that it's snowing :-)
Maybe not snowing, Helen, but hail and
Jean from Poole quoted:
In a chilling act more reminiscent of the now defunct Soviet Union or the
Nazi regime of Adolph Hitler, the United States Congress passed legislation
yesterday that requires the States to surrender their regulatory rights over
driver's licenses and birth certificates to The
Aurelia wrote:
Dear Devon -- I think that long before we can find buyers for
recently-made (contemporary?) lace, we have got to educate our public
about the artistic value of lace; and that thread is just as
interesting and beautiful as paint or marble. When the public has got
that idea into
I wonder whether they keep samples of our DNA somewhere, now? It must be easy
to
gather from hospitals or when you donate blood, they don't need much...
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who is just as cynical as Tamara when it
comes
to
privacy in our modern world.
Tamara wrote:
Nice site, Dominique!
And I quite agree with you about the toilets! My Aussie husband always has a
terrible time finding one, too!!!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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Jean Peach wrote:
We are told that we will be having identity cards in the
near future, now I wonder what happens then.
I did phone the HMSO office, it was suggested that when
I hand over my documents that I put in writing only for
the companies use and in black and white and go with
the person
Dear Alessandra!!
So sorry it took me a while to write. I had last week off work, and your
parcel arrived on the Wednesday, but I had to wait until I got back to
work to use the Internet.
Well, I can't pretend it was a surprise finding out who you were, since I
saw you in Adelaide in October, but
Tamara wrote:
My step-daughter-in-law, who's Chinese, took me (and my DH, and my DS,
and her own DH) to a China-town restaurant in Boston (MA, US) for a
Sunday dim-sum brunch one time. We all hugely enjoyed it, but I was the
only one who liked the desert... :) It must have been the Asian answer
Lynn wrote:
Take 600 ml of pure cream (please don't ask conversions I don't know,
probably a pint)whip it up, then add one can sweetened condensed milk (you
can use the skim), just make sure you don't beat it into butter
then flavourings, then chuck it in a suitable size container and freeze.
Carol wrote:
All this talk of trifles - I may well not be able to continue as the
drool is gumming up the keyboard. (I'm sorry - that may well be a bit
more detail than you want or need, but to talk of such lovely trifles to a
diabetic
But - after all that, does anyone out there still make
Steph wrote:
...So you have spent at least 10 lots of $59.95 on having films
transferred on to CD
Hey, easy, Steph!! I only spent 10 lots of five dollar ninety five, *not8
fifty-five dollarsMy goodness, do you think we Aussies are all
millionaires???:-))
No good buying a scanner...I do't
I haven't seen this one on chat, and it's rare to get nice ones from my
work, so I want to pass it on!
The medal winning Olympic runner, Picabo (pronounced Peek-A-Boo), is not
just an athlete, she is a nurse.
She currently works in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of large South
African
Got it in one, Peter!! But try to explain to them that that's how it
*really* works
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who lost her shirt (well,a $15.00 shirt
anyway :-))at the Melbourne Cup yeaterday by backing 2 horses with a
French name...
From: Peter Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
--- Jane Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Helene
Gannac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
What you have to do is increase the postage by 10% to cover the GST.
So,
instead of putting $1,65 on a letter, for instance, you have to put
$1,65
plus 16 cents (10% extra
Dominique wrote:
wow.. I'd love to have kangaroos around though not grazing on my plants
. maybe i should go looking for wallabies in fontainebleau forest ...
i've always loved kangaroos . one of my aunts remember taking me to the
zoo when i was about 7 and having to go the kangaroos first
Ooops!! Apologies to everyone, I forgot to sign my last posting...
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne (easier to pick up and pat!Well, not me,
actually, froggies, I mean)
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Devon wrote:
As some people know, I recently did a slide show at Ithaca. When I began
to prepare for the show, my initial thought was that I should go
digital...
Hello, Devon, this was another of my grouches about digital photography
(see posting in Lace about digital cameras)
I used to give
Liz wrote:
Helene, how do you get your Overseas mail posted with a variety of stamps
on it? Since the GST came in, there are special stamps (GST free) for
Overseas mail, and local, stamps are illegal on overseas mail. Our P.O.
won't let you post overseas with anything but the 'Proper
Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News]:
An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former
girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun
discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
Well, she was quite right to ditch him, wasn't she? I hope she wasn't
--- Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5 bobbins; um
use three of them to make a hair type braid and pass the other pair in
and out of that and make some picots on either side. Something for
tamara to think about!
Brenda
Mmmm, it doesn't sound much like Idrija
Brenda wrote:
I picked this up from someone in Canada on a family history discussion
group, but would apply to lacemakers too.
Unfortunately a couple of Secret pal packages have gone astray this
round. I believe they all had some sort of return address on, but
without one it is even less
Heather wrote:
Hello all,
Here's more art bras. These ones all from Australia (I think).I'm
tempted to make one myself to hang in my craft room
I had a new customer join the library this morning. His family name is :
Brabender. :-) Poor bloke must have had a nasty time in secondary
I haven't bothered thanking my Secret Pal online this month, since...she
actually gave me my parcel while we were face to face at the Adelaide Lace
AGM early in the month!
I know we are not supposed to know each other until the end of next month,
but really, we couldn't possibly go to the same
david wrote:
You may recall some months back we had a discussion about what's been
happening on The Bill. Well obviously the UK were far ahead of us when I
went to their Homepage.
DH used to watch every episode of The Bill, and he thought it was one of
the best ever police drama on TV, and even
What bad news, David, but so good that it was detected in time and didn't
cause you enormous problems!!
No wonder we don't see you at the meetings anymore, but I hopw you will
drop in som times now you have a brand new artery...
All the best with everything, specially your Valenciennes :-)
I just got these from work, and can't remember seeing them on the list, so
enjoy! Im sure Tamara particularly will appreciate, being an avid computer
fan..
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
HOW TO CLEAN YOUR MOUSE
This memo is from an unnamed computer company. It went to all field
engineers
We have some exciting news. DD1 became engaged to her boyfriend last
night.
Congratulations, Yvonne! And best wishes to the happy couple! You're lucky
they're not getting engaged after having had 2 daughters, like my stepDD!!
At least she's now engaged to the father of the first daughter (14
Lynne wrote:
We have had to block our house phone from phoning mobiles since our last
bill. DD2 was calling her friends - only for a few seconds each time
(when
she was out of credit on her mobile) but the accrued total of minimum
call
charges was frightening.
I sympathize with you, Lynne! I have
Dear secret pal,
I think you might have unsubscribed, since you are coming to Australia on
holidays, but just in case, I'm sending this to say I've just received
your lovely parcel for September! Thank you so much for the Italian lace
book, I've always wanted to try that kind of lace, so now I
Thanks, Lorri,
that sounds interesting. I must make sure I supervise the event :-)
Still doesn't explain why the wire has to be French, but...
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, starting to prepare for the ALG
conference in Adelaide. Hope the weather will be nicer than 2 years ago!
--- Lorri
Hello, all you know-all spiders, can you help me?
My library is having a demonstration on jewellery with French wire next
month. Ever heard of French wire, because I haven't!!!
Another case of : If it's rude or unusual, call it French, and everyone
will think it's OK? ...;-)
Helene, the puzzled
A nice clean joke for the list, for once!! I hope you haven't all read it
already...
The medal winning Olympic runner, Picabo (pronounced Peek-A-Boo), is not
just an athlete, she is a nurse.
She currently works in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a large South
African metropolitan hospital.
Hi, Liz,
I'm a Yahoo person! I have 2 accounts, one for the lace lists and general,
and one for family and some friends. I use 2 different names and
passwords.
The thing to avoid, though, is joining yahoo.com. You get inundated by
trash mail. I used to be in that, and it was terrible!!
3 years
Dear Secret Pal,
thank you for your email. I hopw you have a lovely trip! Your itinary
sounds really nice. I haven't been to Ulura, yet, I've only lived in
Australia for 35 years..:-)
I'm looking forward to meeting you at the Conference, but you will have to
find me, since I don't know who you
Dear Secret Pal in Italy,
I received your parcel this week. You sent it registered post (thank you,
but you don't really need to, the Australian Post Office is very reliable,
they just like to know what's in the parcel at the moment because of
terrorism measures), so I had to wait 3 days before I
From: J. Falkink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [lace] Re: lace-digest V2004 #256
... As I say, if you can't speak it, don't write it!!
... Why bother, unless you get it right?
Hi, Jo,
I'm sending this to chat, as it's getting off subject, I think!!
Jo wrote;
I knew a French speaking Swiss,
Hello, Margret!!
I'm also from Victoria, Australia, and don't know your name. Are you a
member of the Australian Lace Guild? If not, come and join us, there are
local groups in various parts of Victoria, and in Melbourne, we have
meetings in Ashburton every month and lots of other things like
Tamara wrote:
I thought St Regis was a male? Not to discount/disparage our male
lacemakers in any way but, aren't male lacemakers few and far between?
he is indeed ...VBG.. but he is also the local saint and the people
there were very religious . the pillows were often adorned with
religious
If you let a zucchini grow big, it skin becomes lighter, hence the light
coloured skin of marrows
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, where we're having more rain, but not
too brutal, thank heavens.
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This one came from one of our managers :-))I haven't seen it here,so i
hope it is new for you too.
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
The Monkey Paradox
Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder,
leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling.
Alice wrote:
Just thought you might like to know that you can get the gelatin in
capsules so all you have to do is swallow. Much neater than the powdered
stuff. The ones I took for a while were fuchsia pink in color.
Oh, Alice, I don't know whether I could cope with fuschia gelatin:-)
Jean said:
...When I said I can't eat anything with four legs, someone said What
about kangaroo meat? They've got two legs and two hands so you should be
OK with that. This person said I should say that I can only eat fish
and fin.
I know that biologically kangaroos are four-legged creatures, but
Hi, Martha,
I think she is a real judge, but those Court cases are not real Court
cases. They are just put on for the show, and people who go through sign a
form saying that they will abide by her decision and not take the case up
to the rezal Court afterwards. In short, they just want to be
I'm getting this on lace-chat in case of flames :-)
Janice Blair wrote:
There is a court tv program over here for small claims and Judge Judy
wears lace collars on her black gowns. I don't think there is any
tradition with this, maybe her attempt at staying feminine. BTW, she
stands no messing
Bev Walker wrote:
Without editors, writers are nothing but makers of lace
Having got over my surprise, I pondered on it for a while then decided
that maybe to a non-lacemaker this remark couly insulting to lacemakers.
Insulting as we think of it but perhaps not so in the class sense - makers
of
dear Secret Pal from Italy,
I started work at 12.30 noon today, so was stuill at home when the postman
brought your parcel. What luck!! I was able to open it immediately and
have one of thopse delicious almond biscuit for lunch. Thank you!
I love the box and its green tartan, quite an unusual
Brenda paternoster wrote:
but best of all from the family history point of view was receiving the
copy of the Bastardy Order relating to my gt gt grandfather (and his
parents) on what would have been his 180th...
Ooh, Brenda, that sounds interesting!! What on earth is the Bastardy
Order???
...Still grinning madly at such a wonderful gift.
Nicky in Suffolk
And so you should, Nicki!! What luck!! Maybe I should be dropping leaflets
in all the letterboxes around my place letting people know I would give
their old lace a good home...:-))
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
Find local
Patricia in Wales wrote:
Jenny Barron wrote once I had invested in a pair of reading glasses...
At my last eye test a lovely optician told me simply to remove my
(distance) glasses for close work as I would see it much better. She is
quite right. This does not further damage already poor
Dear Italian secret pal,
Just received your parcel. Thank you for the candles and the thread,
they'll come in handy some time!I like the Idrija lace pattern. have you
done a course? I haven't learnt how to make it yet, but I'm sure I can do
it with the help of a book. What kind of lace do you
I got it too, Yvonne. Looks like we've given someone our email adresses
with a threads slant and they sold the list. Maybe somewhere at one of
the Stitches and craft shows?
I didn't mind very much as it's textiles related, but I hope it's not the
first one of a series!! Nicer than the usual kind,
Sue Babbs wrote:
A revolutionary kind of glass that needs little cleaning could mean soap
and chamois are binned for good.
The Pilkington Activ glass has a special nano-scale - extremely thin -
coating of microcrystalline titanium oxide which reacts to daylight.
This reaction breaks down filth on
Sorry, forgot to sign my last email!!!
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
Sue Babbs wrote:
A revolutionary kind of glass that needs little cleaning could mean soap
and chamois are binned for good.
The Pilkington Activ glass has a special nano-scale - extremely thin -
coating of microcrystalline
There are Youth Hostels everywhere in Europe, Jane, and in most countries
(except Britain), they don't mind if you arrive by car either. I used them
extensively when I was young. The only problenm is you have to join before
you can use them, but it's worth it!!
You usually need to bring a sleeping
Tamara wrote:
Yeah, and how are you gonna wash 'em? Do your Spiderwoman act?
It's true that, with casement windows opening inwards, you either can't
keep anything in front of them, or else have to move everything every
time (which is where the idea of lufcik - a small part of the window
Weronika wrote:
I'm not sure how Tamara's swivel windows work, but the ones we have at
home in Poland can open normally (i.e. like doors), and if you twist the
handle up they'll open at the top and stay attached at the bottom, but
only open a little, so you can leave them like that to get some air
Weronika wrote:
So what cities do you think she should see, what sort of cheap
transportation is there, is it safe to sleep in parks, how hard is it to
find people who speak English?
Also, she's on a wheelchair - what's the situation with curbcuts (I
think that's the word - the way sidewalks ramp
Noelene wrote:
..At the time of Federation (1900), taxation absorbed 6 per cent of the
nation's GDP and Tax Freedom Day was January 23. In 2002, Tax Freedom
Day was April 22, so Australians spent an additional three months
working purely to service government expenditure.
I think you should point
Weronika werote:
...Similar problem with tips - if you're *supposed* to give a 15% tip to
all sorts of people (and I just keep learning additions to the list of
tipped workers - I never tipped pizza delivery guys until someone told
me I should a couple of months ago), then why can't they just put
Shirley wrote:
Thank you Jane for acknowledging the Australian Lace Guild won the
Group Prize in the 'Myth and Mystery' Competition - our competition
piece was titled Medusa's Ghost.
Super dooper, Shirley! What a feather to your caps (since this is a group
entry:-)!! I'm looking forward to
3. Rub knives from side to side on a knife-board sprinkled with
bathbrick.
Then rub back of knife and clean shoulders of knife with a cork dipped in
bathbrick.
All you have to do is find a bathbrick...:-) What is it???
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne. Just seen Tais-toi at the cinema and
I've just received a letter from the Lace Guild telling me
that one of my entries for Myth or Mystery - a miniature sampler
roseground book based on the nursery rhyme Ring a Ring o' Roses - has
won a Medal of Excellence and the Ann Collier trophy for miniature lace.
Well done, Sue!! It must
M, not sure about its veracity, but I thought it was a good story. And
it definitely *could* happen in Australia...
The Hitchhiker :
This story happened about a month ago, in a little town in Victoria
(Australia), and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's
real.
Elizabeth Ligeti said:
I, too, watched that programme, Helene. It was, as you said, Fascinating!
though I think they said that it was Henry VII's father - Edward ?IV? who
was illegitimate. He would have been an 11 month baby if he was
legal!
Sorry, David and Liz, you're right. What I meant to
From: Bev Walker
Subject: [lace-chat] Happy Victoria Day
To all my Canadian buddies, I hope you're all enjoying the May long
weekend. ...There will be a parade in Victoria, BC - marching bands, pipe
and drum corps, clowns, floats, and probably a facsimile Queen -
sometimes we have a Victoria
Gee, Carol, you've got me stumped there!!:-) What does the X stand for?
I've heard about 4X beer, but??
I'm taking a copy home for DH to explain tonight
Helene, the puzzled froggy from Melbourne
Carol Adkinson wrote:
That partners the
2XUR
2XUB
ICUR
2X 4ME
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Oooh, Noelene, you reminded me of the good old days when I was spending my
holidays in England, and getting all the girls at my friend's school to
give me autographs!! (unheard of activity in French schools).
The one I liked, which seems to apply well here wis:
2Y's UR,
2Y's UB
ICYR
2Y's4me
Can
This is great for older lacemakers. Younger people try it at their own
risk. This is working well for me.
For those of us getting along in years, here is a little secret for
building your arm and shoulder muscles. You might want to adopt this and
do it three days a week.
Begin by standing
I WON THE BIG PRIZE !!!
Drum roll.
A ROLLER PILLOW!
Well done, Alice!!! Aren't you lucky! I never win at things like that, but
I always hoope that...one day
Let us know what you've decided on as a Maiden piece to go on it. Maybe
something with roseground in it (
Hello, Yvonne,
ajoutant means adding, that's all. If you print the whole sentence, I
can tell you what you have to add...
See you!
Helene, the Froggy from Melbourne, back from a lovely holiday on the
Mornington Peninsula, not far from Melbourne, but where they have lots of
delicious wines and
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, by the name of
Common Sense, who has been with us for many years
Thanks for posting that, Jacqueline, I entirely agree with it, and I am
very glad I don't have any descendants who would have to survive in a
crazier and crazier world!!
Hi, everyone, just letting you know that I'm unsubscribing from lace and
lace-chat for a month. I'm going on leave, then Easter..., and won't get
many chances to read the digests for a long time.
Have a wonderful time during the coming holidays. I'll be at the beach, or
at least within 5kms, and
Thank you, Tamara, that was a great joke at the end of a tiring day!
DH, who is a real Aussie, always complain when we go to Europe about the
difficulties in finding public loos. He says that in France, they do it on
purpose so people have to go to cafes and pay for a drink so they can
unload the
Some of these have already been on the list, but they came as a package,
and they're not bad.
Helene, the frogozzie from Melbourne
An elderly Floridian called 911 on her cell phone to report that her car
has been broken into.
She is hysterical as she explains her situation to the dispatcher:
Why wattle? It should be Flanders poppies for ANZAC Day!
It's the wrong season in Australia for wattle, but you might be able to
get some from the south of France, it's called mimosa there...
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne.
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I beg to differ too, David,
Mimosa IS wattle. It was imported from Australia in the 18th century and
colonised in the south of France which is warm enough for it. There are
very few species of it in France, not the 500 and some which we have in
Australia. There is also another tree called acacia
Thanks, Liz,
I'll see if I can get it. We don't have it at my library, so I'll have to
put in a request.
Helene, the froggy from Melbourne
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