Hacked, working on sorting it. Meanwhile having just turned on after
teaching all day I have 90+ emails, at least 3 times what I'd expect, so no
doubt everyone's emailing me to let me know.
Never click on the links in this type of email. If I ever send things
people aren't expecting it
Liz said: Here was the girl on the checkout - not your normal girl on the
checkout, but an Oxford University student paying their way through uni by
slumming it in Sainsburys as she looked down her nose at me and
said; 'Why haven't you got recyclable bags to save the environment'.
My answer
As a member of The Lace Guild Executive Committee I would like to say that
we discussed this problem at the meeting which was taking place this last
weekend. We all immediately agreed that the rate charged in this instance
was not acceptable, or what was intended or normal, and that the excess
Hi David
Try the Unclutterer website, specifically the cable clutter links
http://unclutterer.com/category/cable-clutter/
but also you could look at some of the workspace of the week ideas
http://unclutterer.com/category/workspace-of-the-week
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
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Lynne said I asked my daughter the other day did they cook from fresh and
the reply was that salads and chips were made fresh...
Define fresh, Lynne, or ask your daughter to :-)
Many pubs cook their chips fresh from the bag of frozen chips. And the
majority of frozen chips already have
David said This is NOT a pushover test. It's a Baby Boomer era test!
And probably specifically an AUS or US one at that!
I guessed Remember one Flick and they're gone because it made most sense,
but have no idea where it cames from.
Never heard of Get with the strength bank on â¦â¦.. (the
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold
Mondaymorning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but
amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ways.
After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers.
The woman
Not sure that I fancy the idea of the cooked meat in mincemeat, but probably
only because this one is so good; I have made it several times and it keeps
well in a cool cupboard even with the fresh meat in it - it's the alchohol that
does it! And after steeping in brandy for ages the smell and
I just phoned the hospital (7.45 UK time) to see how Malvary is and she had
been 'bumped' again last night, so still hasn't had surgery. She is top of the
list for today, but if a trauma case comes in then she is lower priority. I
bet she doesn't think so! She is on a drip with painkillers
I have I just had a phone call Malvary's partner David to tell me that she
was thrown off her walking machine on Tuesday, and has broken her left arm high
up to the shoulder, and that the shoulder is dislocated as well. They have
been unable so far to reposition the joint as there is no stable
Answers to two threads.
First bugs: I would also query the parental example theory of terror of bugs
(and other creepy crawlies) as I am fairly immune to most and can quite
happily pick up in my hands (bearing in mind that none of the UK ones are
poisonous) spiders, beetles, worms, frogs and
anyone know an easy way of removing the labels from the back
WD40?!?!?
Seriously though, I think you may need a solvent of some sort to remove the
glue as it's likely to be the sort that can be put on by machine - and not
water soluble if the material is really dry clean only or the wetness of
Can someone in America tell me what Tiger Tape is, please.
I found a web page showing how to use it to hold gathered fabric/lace in
place while sewing it to straight fabric or entredeux for heirloom sewing. It
must peel off again without leaving any sticky residue behind.
Many thanks, Jacquie
I'd seen some of these before, but thought they are a good selection.
Believe it or not, they were sent to us by the biggest Male Chauvanist Pig of
our
aquaintance; I wonder if he actually read them.
One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his sweatshirt.
Seconds after he stepped
Having been an Enid Blyton's Famous Five addict (Julian, Dick, George, Ann
and Timmy the dog) as a child, I offered them to my children in the 1970s.
The only change in the books that I could see was that as England was now using
decimal currency, any time money was mentioned it had been
A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of lager and a ham sandwich. The
landlord looks at him and says, But you're a duck.
I see your eyes are working, replies the duck.
And you talk! exclaims the landlord.
I see your ears are working, says the duck, Now can I have my beer and my
sandwich
My heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of you who have taken the time and
trouble to send me forwards over the past 12 months. Thank you for making
me feel safe, secure, blessed and healthy.
* Extra thanks to whoever sent me the email about rat cr*p used in the glue
on envelopes - cause I
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to find out another route. You should get a
I am so sorry to send a private message to chat!!!
As you may be able to deduce, I got the arachne address from my address book
to copy and paste into the body of the letter, and then forgot to change it at
the top. Good job I didn't say anything rude.
Jacquie, red-faced in Lincolnshire
To
We don't get many telesales calls now, registering for telepreferencing does
cut it down, but as soon as a call sounds suspicious (ie they can't pronounce
the surname)
I ask what are you selling? the answer is almost always that they are not
selling anything, so I let them prattle on until
A friend of mine has sent me an SOS for some computer help. Why she thinks
I'll know the answer I don't know, but I'm sure one of you will.
She is trying to print a page from a web site with no printer-friendly page
option. She has found it is cutting off the last word and a bit from the RH
Many thanks to Candida for suggesting printing on landscape format; my
friend's comment was Not economic with paper but great on my nerves.
She has yet to try print to fit page (thank you Margaret) but now it has
been pointed out, we realise the problem may be that in the UK we are all set
up
From David the commentAnd I never have figured out the whole Venus and
Mars thing.I have never figured out why men think with their head and women
with their heart.
On my dentist's ceiling, amongst other entertaining, amusing and/or thought
provoking things is
Men are from Earth. Women
After his exam the doctor said to the elderly man, You appear to be in good
health. Do you have any medical concerns you would like to ask me about?
In fact, I do, said the old man. After I have sex with my wife, I get hot
and sweaty, and then after I have sex with her the second time, I feel
Does anyone on Arachne have access to the American academic journal 'Textile
History'? The article I am interested in is in the spring 1998 issue (vol 29
#1) and is entitled Domestic Industry in the Factory Age: Anglo-American
Development of the ÅFamily Knitting Machine. I am particularly
They ask at the doctor's office why you are there and you have to say in
front of others what's wrong and sometimes it's embarrassing. There's
nothing
worse than a Doctor's Receptionist who insists you tell her what is wrong with
you in a room full of other patients. I know most of us have
Before you all write and tell me - Malvary already has - I now know this is
actually as English journal; my defence is that in the context in which I was
told about it, I was led to believe (by default) that it was an American
publication. So I didn't do the obvious and Google for it. I will
Suzy is half right here. The queen can sting and sting and sting.
BUT, apart from her one and only mating flight, the queen (honey bee) doesn't
leave the hive by herself. The only other time she leaves is if the hive
gets overcrowded in which case she will take about half of the bees with
If you see a swarm of bees then you are highly unlikely to be stung by them.
When bees swarm, they gorge themselves on honey first to take with them from
old home to new, and this makes them very docile.
It is this habit that is used when a beekeepers smokes their bees when they
open the
I am currently trawling through the TEN arachne chat digests that came in the
week I was away.
Why so many - because several of you and one person in particular (Yes, you
know who you are :-) ) have left all the messages you are answering/
commenting on, copied at the bottom of your post.
A snippet I gleaned from in the middle of all the digests I had left to read
after I dealt with the non-digest lace posts. Sorry, I don't remember who
posted it now, and it's not important. It reads:
Next year the IOLI will be 3000 miles from here. There will not be many
from here traveling
A friend who will be visiting from the States has asked me:
a) are train passes and car hire cheaper to sort out and pay for from the US?
b) if they reserve an automatic, how likely are they to actually get one?
Because of the wisdom of arachne, I was able to confidently say that rail
passes
Alice, did you really mean this (in reference to Harry Potter) or was it a
typo? I drug him to the movies, but he has never read the books.
I have a feeling it should read drag, but your typo may be more accurate.
Jacquie in Stamford
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Like Carol, I also have no qualms about re-spangling antique bobbins because
I don't believe that many 150+ years old bobbins are still with their original
spangles anyway.
If the spangle is still good and a size that I like I will leave it, but if
it is too large for my taste or has
16. Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
There is a record of some archeologists in Egypt who found a large urn filled
with 2000 year old honey, identified by tasting (probably a long time before
the health and safety current climate), the only thing wrong with it was that
As well as Arachne, I also belong to some CSM (circular sock machine) sites.
For those of you who haven't encountered thesemachines, they were mostly made
from the late 1800s through to the 1930s or thereabouts and are knitting
machines with vertical needles around the outside of a cylinder and
In the latest edition of KENT ADULT EDUCATION learners' news (sic, no
wonder children don't know when to use capital letters, a current grouse of
teachers,) there is a wonderful item about their 'Guaranteed Programme' for
Autumn
2005. Because of intensive market research about the demand for
Most classes have a minimum number of students necessary to make the class
break even financially
That has always been the case here - last year I had to convince them that
the students were going to sign up on the first day of term and if they
didn't,
they needn't pay me. I believe
Can one of the US arachnes tell me what Timtex is, please. I think it may be
a thickish stiffening (like pelmet Vilene, here in the UK) as it is possible
to machine stitch through it, but is making a base for something.
Also, the materials call for a silica filled sandbag as a ready
Not wanting to show my ignorance, I was hoping that someone else would ask
first, but perhaps I'm the only one who doesn't know.
What are these log books for demo time, and who is the timekeeper? And
does the demo have to take place in the States? I have a feeling that this
information
From Sharon on sunny Vancouver Island
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.
Umm, while I know there are haves and have-nots in every society, I really
don't think that description
I have a feeling this may have been on chat before, but quite a while ago.
After David's wonderful this is Australia post, this seemed a good time to
send this. Especially for Liz's Aussie in case he's never seen it. Jacquie
The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors.
Does anyone in the UK know where we can send bent pins please?
Bent brass pins were collected by Springetts from all over the UK...and each
year they'd
take the collection to a metal merchant and sell them to be melted down and
recycled. Springetts gave the money they received for the pins to
On BBC Radio 4 there are several ongoing daily or weekly serials of various
sorts, and one that is being played at the moment is Unless, Carol Shields
final novel. It is set in Toronto and the story teller is an author and
translator whose daughter has decided to live on the streets.
In
I would like to thank all of you who kindly offered to send Richard's
impulsive e-bay purchase on to him. We were both amazed at how many of you offered;
well, him more than me because he doesn't understand the power of arachne.
So a big, big thank you from Richard for offering and from me for
A man asked his wife what she'd like for her birthday. I'd really love to be
ten again she replied wistfully.
On the morning of her birthday, he arose early, got up, made her a nice big
bowl of Frosties and then took her off to their local theme park.
What a day! He put her on every ride in
Is there an American arachne who would be kind enough to post on a booklet
that my partner bought on e-bay. It is a vintage tractor manual, not very thick
I believe. When he bought it he knew that the seller wouldn't post to the
UK, but for some reason they won't post to Canada either so we
Jenny spotted some Russian lace books on e-bay
(http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=19158item=81108970
08rd=1)
I bought the same two books (well, not these copies or they wouldn't be for
sale still!) from the same seller several months ago, so they are not as rare
as she
Helene asked What does the X stand for?
Instead of sayin EX, say cross then it works. But like Sue I remember it as
being Y
Jacquie
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Esther asked about a series of books she had read
As a young girl I really enjoyed a series of book about 'the five'
five girls, the ringleader was a girl named Georgina, but know as
George due to the fact that she was a tomboy.
Although the Famous Five has been suggested for this and it seems
As this thread is still around is there anyone out there in arachne-land who
can answer my question.
We don't have a television anymore because a couple of years ago when the
license was due for renewal, we worked out that the previous year's two or
three
programmes we had watched had cost us
Almost as soon as I sent my query re DVD/video to chat I got the next digest.
So I read through all the posts and there was mine at the end.
BUT, when it left me (and I've checked) it read the previous year's two or
three programmes we had watched had cost us about (thirty pounds) each.
The
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger
But these aren't English, they are American. We have aubergines and
beefburgers.
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Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight safety
lecture and their other announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some
real examples that have been heard or reported:
1. From a Southwest Airlines employee: There may be 50 ways to leave your
lover, but
there are
Marilyn Monroe had six toes
Just the 6? Or 6 on each foot! Makes me think of her feet looking like
Mickey Mouse's hands with three fingers, but without the thumbs of course.
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I have moved my comments to chat as they are no longer at all lace related.
My partner is colour blind, and is the first person I had ever met who is.
His affliction doesn't work at all as I had always thought of colour
blindness - if I'd thought of it much at all.
I suppose if I had
For those of you in Britain waiting to order Tess's amazing Lace CD #2, we
have recently had two packages from America.
The first was posted on 27th October (in KS) and arrived on the 30th, the
second was posted on the 30th (NY) and arrived on 3rd November.
It would appear that whatever
This was sent to us by a friend who is very anti-speeding camera, which I
don't quite understand as he is also paranoid about sticking to speed limits! I
don't know it it's true but I thought it was just about believable.
Four youths from Canberra, Australia pulled off a trick of breathtaking
and it became evident that the regions near the beaches would be under water
very quickly if the ice at the poles started to melt!
Don't blame the Arctic for this one. The only ice that can raise sea level
is ice on top of land. I know it doesn't seem logical but if you don't believe
it,
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