This did the rounds a year or so ago, but is still worth another visit if you
have already seen it. M.
Read instruction first !
Wait for the entire screen to load up with all four horses and a fence in
front of them. Then click on each horse. Make sure your sound is on.
Re-click on any horse
For mums, or mums to be. Grandma's are eligible too!!!
I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something
off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from
her and I asked her not to do that.
Why? my daughter asked.
Because it's
THIS IS SO TRUE..
ITALIAN PASTA DIET
* IT REALLY WORKS !!
1) You walka pasta da bakery.
2) You walka pasta da candy store.
3) You walka pasta da Ice Cream shop.
4) You walka pasta da table and fridge.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
To avoid falling asleep in meetings, seminars, focus groups and team
building
discussions try this.
1. Before (or during) your next meeting, seminar, or conference call,
prepare yourself by drawing a square. Divide the card into columns-five
across and
five down.
2. Write one of the
Greetings gentle spiders
Re the warning about the $5 bill criminal
I looked it up on this urban legends site and it comes up as an fiction
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/warnings.asp
thank you f or your concern, Janice
Regards
Maxine
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It's got so bad that some parents, who have paid off what they owed on their
houses, are re-mortgaging them to provide their son/daughter with the down
payment.
... or as in some cases here, letting their paid up homes be used as
co-lateral for the offspring's mortgage. Which is how we got
I got DD out when she was but 18, and she never really came back, apart
from a couple of 4-6 week breaks. Her 'stuff' went with her, and never
really came back long term, but we are currently storing a bed matress for
her, and she's married!!! The place they are renting is s small it won't
My DH is an ex-plumber and a building inspector, and he has a little quote
which just about sums up some of the current debate
If you insulate, you must ventilate
We too have what is know locally as the leaky building syndrome, and some of
the culprits are developers who wanted the fastest
Yes, I agree with Tamara that step-grandchildren are not quite the same as
your own... I am still waiting, and my offspring are 28 and 30 respectively,
and only got married last year, and there are no signs of any family anytime
soon.
Maxine
in wet cold N.Z. spring must be coming soon??
My sincere sympathy to any involved, however indirectly, in the London
incidents. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
What mankind will do in the name of religion, when really it is just seeking
power and as is said, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely!! And we don't
Try deodorizing with baking soda and water :-)
Worked well when the children were small and did not always make it to the
bathroom, or were travel sick.
Maxine
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing as gentle as real strength.
To my wonderful Secret Pal in the U.K.
Thank you soo much for you wonderful package that arrived today. I am off
work today and it was so lovely to be able to collect the package from the
letter box myself. The dolphin is beautiful, as are the bobbins.. such lovely
spangles. The cards are
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Do you have to tell it all?
Where do you get the glaring light
To make my clothes look just too tight?
I think I'm fine but I can see
you won't cooperate with me;
The way you let the shadows play
You'd think my hair was getting gray.
What's that, you say? A double
We in N.Z had a two hour program the other night on (simulated) natural
disasters... a volcanoe erupted in Auckland...( did you know that our
largest city sits over a field of 50 volcanic cones?), a flood in
Christchurch and an earthquake in our capital, Wellington... all very
realistic, and made
To my English Secret Pal
Thank you for your packet which arrived, feeling rather dizzy, yesterday after
a 6 day crossing of the world DH bought it down to me at work again after
his lunch at home yesterday. We live in a small town and he comes home for
lunch most days I can't leave my
I won't bore you with a N.Z. charges saga, but I have been the one of us to
use DH's work phone and learnt to text etc... why? because it is the cheapest
way for DS to contact us, and us him, as we only have to poay the 20c per text
charge, and DS is on a plan.
I have the equivalent to a brick,
To my awesome Secret Pal
My package arrived today, and DH brought it to me at work after he had been
home for lunch, and it really made my day. The bobbin case is so beautifully
sewn, and a lovely blue. Thank you s very much. I gave it a test run
with the enclosed bobbin. The honey spoon
Dear Secret Pal,
It was so exciting to get home after work today and discover a package!!
The mice have yet to be sampled, but I am sure my grandson, who is staying
with us at the moment, will assist me in taste testing them! The toys are
just so cute, and I am looking forward to assembling
Some of this has been on the list before, but I particularly like the final
line. :-)
1973: Long hair
2003: Longing for hair
1973: Acid rock
2003: Acid reflux
1973: Moving to California because it's cool
2003: Moving to California because it's warm
1973: Trying to
To my Secret Pal from England,
Thank you so much for you package which arrived today. I will surely think of
you when I make my cuppa, and as the weather has now warmed up here, at long
last, I will look at planting the butterfly flowers etc, and after all that
effort, I will look forward to a
9 Where are Chinese gooseberries from?New Zealand
Nup, wrong on that one, sorry.
Chinese Gooseberries originally came from China. They were a very small,
hairy and somewhat tart fruit until the New Zealand orchardists developed
them into what they are today, and then marketed them as Kiwi
I don't know about the damage from the green baize, but I would be concerned
that the album appears to be one of those that one stuck the items in with a
plastic page, and those have wrecked havoc on photographs because of the acid
in them.
Just my thoughts
Maxine
in a damp spring N.Z.
I
Hi folks.
Here is a real non-lace request. I do hope somebody may be able to help.
My brother is a model making enthusiast, and wants to make a model of a
particular crane at Bath harbour. He has managed to get a library book with a
photo of the crane in it, but it is not really very
I followed a link and instead of getting the standard 404 message saying this
page
can't be found. I got the following. The site is at
http://www.keith.de/fehler.html
-
These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be
I've got your note about your Gran,
You've put me to the test!
I've spent some time researching this,
And the news is not the best.
It can cause a family deep distress
When their Granny goes off line,
And hasn't fed her pussy cat
And it's nearly supper time.
She hasn't even left a note,
And it
Three old guys are out walking.
First one says, Windy, isn't it?
Second one says, No, its Thursday!
Third one says, So am I. Let's go get a beer.
--
A man was telling his neighbour, I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me
THE COMPUTER'S SWALLOWED GRANDMA
The computer's swallowed grandma
Yes' honestly' its true
She pressed 'control' and 'enter'
And disappeared from view.
Its devoured her completely
The thought just makes me squirm
Maybe she's caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.
I've
A father watched his young daughter playing in the garden. He smiled as he
reflected on how sweet and pure his little girl was. Tears formed in his eyes
as he thought about her seeing the wonders of nature through such innocent
eyes.
Suddenly she just stopped and stared at the ground. He went
This person has found her way into my house and could also go to yours.
A very weird thing has happened. A strange old lady has moved into my house.
I have no idea who she is, where she came from, or how she got
in. I certainly did not invite her. All I know is that one day she wasn't
there, and
Came from a ISP newsletter
Virus List
Politically Correct Virus:
Never calls itself a virus, but instead refers to itself as an
electronic
microorganism.
Oprah Winfrey Virus:
Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands
back to 200MB.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A guy gets shipwrecked. When he wakes up, he's on a beach.
The sand is dark red.
He can't believe it.
The sky is dark red.
He walks around a bit and sees there is dark red grass,
dark red birds
and dark red fruit
on the dark red trees.
He's shocked when he finds that his skin
is
In an hospital department as a trainee. One of the patients had a transistor
radio and everyone but me and my patient were listening. My paitent didn't
really want to know.
As a student there was no TV where I was living, so did not get to see it
for some time.
Maxine
A lopsided Kiwi, as one
Su Wong marries Lee Wong. The next year, the Wongs have a new baby. The
nurse brings over to the parents, a lovely,healthy, bouncy, but definitely
Caucasian, white baby boy. Congratulations, says the nurse to the new
parents. Well Mr. Wong, what will you and Mrs. Wong name the baby? The
And it is not just income tax which has increased. Council tax has
increased
by more than the rate of inflation each year for the last several years.
Seems as though taxes are an universal gripe!
Our rates (Council Taxes) have been stable for the past few years at, for
us, approx $1200 per
Hi spiders.
I am traveling to Australia next Saturday for a week, and will be in the
Nerang/Gold Coast City area. Are there any shops in the vicinity where I would
be able to get a souvenir bobbin or thread??
Maxine, in a lovely autumnal N.Z.
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I know that this is not strictly lace, but I have finished a hardanger
tablecloth that I have been working on for nine months :-) I have seen
hardanger defined as a varient of needlelace.
The cloth is 1.35 metres square, and I adapted a doily pattern that I liked.
I repeated it four
Yes, i have a button jar its contents include buttons from when olur
children were small, and ones from both my mother and MIL, and I think some
from DH's grandmother! And I love scrabbling through them. I have managed to
find some useful ones, and I have used them in a mis\xed media piece
This has been around for a few years, but it bears repeating.
When an elderly lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near
Dundee, Scotland, it was felt that she had,nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through her meager,possessions, they found
this poem. Its
I personally do not believe that any nations benefits
from war,
Oh, I wouldn't say so... :)
O.K., I was thinking more in the line of emotional damage and physical (both
personal and property) destruction, rather than the national wealth
perspective.
I am appalled at times at my
A blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She'd seen many books on the subject, And
finally getting all the necessary tools together, she made for the ice.
After positioning her comfy footstool, she started to make a circular cut in
the ice. Suddenly, from above, a voice boomed: THERE ARE NO FISH
My Dad was in the N.Z. Airforce and spent time fighting in England, before
being invalided home after suffering a duodenal ulcer.. yes, stress was a
very real issue for the forces, and they also suffered for years after the
war. I personally do not believe that any nations benefits from war,
Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it!
David in Ballarat
Sorry David, but there is always the exception to the rule, and you have just
met it! Me. I do wobble a bit, but I do not change directions.
I assume it may have something to do with the way my brain is
A bit of trivia for you!!
True or False
Can you guess which of the following are true or false?
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
Clay said...
I'm confused! Here in good old Virginia, USA, a temperature
of 79 Farenheit is considered fairly comfortable.
unless there's a tremendous amount of humidity to contend
Here in New Zealand, (and we are not attached to Australia!) we have what is
know as an island climate type
I can't resist adding my pennys worth.
I write
terse
verse,
orange,
hinge,
I cringe!
Maxine,
A Kiwi, who has finally made a contribution to the long running debate ;-)
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I would venture to say it is conditioning through the road rules... here in
N.Z we drive on the left, tend to walk to the left on the footpaths etc etc.
Maxine
in tempermental spring weather here in N.Z.
I wonder if it is related to handedness, or the fact that in this country
we drive on the
As artisans, I thought folks may appreciate this quilt that commerates the
victims of 9-11-2001.
http://www.GZQuilt.com/
Maxine
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Hi, Gentle Spiders
We in N.Z. have not heard of the Canadian fires European ones yes, but not
the Canadian. You are in our prayers.
We embroiderers in N.Z. reverse stitch.. something I am quite familiar
with at the moment :-(
Another grammar gripe of mine is the incorrect useage
As to food allergies etc, how many of these people with allergies were not
breast fed?
My son was exclusively breast fed for 5-6 months, and then was not given dairy
products for some months after that, but he soon showed signs of a milk
allergy. It wasn't until some years later that we
Amazingly, as soon as I
started whistling *tunes* (none of the others do), it relocated itself
to my shoulder -- the better to hear you m'dear :) It seems to prefer
Bach and Haydn and Mozart to folk or popular tunes; the latter he
tolerates; the earlier make him tweet for more whenever I stop :)
but I don't remember seeing any information on getting
rid of the itch.
Try
1. slice a raw onion and rub the juice on. (not the most socially
acceptable solution)
2. Rub a violet leaf on until the juices show green on the skin
3. Find a leaf of broad leafed plantain (a common weed) and treat
hi all I hope you are back in the light again :-)
I wondered why I had hardly any emails today, and no lace chat ones apart from
one post from Jean, then the light dawned... you had none.
Guess it may have meant a bit less time at the computer and a bit more at the
lace?
Hope you are
- how about we hear from those who make other forms of lace!?
Tatters? Knitters? Needle-lacers? Crocheters?
I am new to bobbin lace as I mentioned earlier in the week, but have
crocheted since I was 9 or 10... self taught from the good old Arthur Mees
Encyclopedia. I have knitted a 2 ply
It's the oil that works, rather than the scent the oil suffocates the
little blighters! Try diluting the lavender oil with virgin olive oil.
Apply liberally throughout hair, leave for 30 mins, comb with fine toothed
comb and shampoo. Repeat daily for 10 -14 days, depending on the level of
I'm wondering if anyone could help with information about when they might
be ripe. Or should I just take a bite out of one?
We're in Vermont, USA with a short growing season.
As a native kiwi I suggest you leave them on the vine until they drop, if
at all possible. If not, when the weather
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