Thank you to the people who helped me with this problem. I now know what to do
when I visit the library this afternoon.
Patricia in Wales
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This has nothing to do with lace but I've seen this question answered before -
when I didn't need the info. I have a magazine with patterns printed at 50%
and 75% of full size. What size do I need to set a photocopier to get 100% of
pattern size?
Thank you.
Patricia in Wales
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Thank you Lynne
That makes sense to me. An answer many years ago used a formula which I didn't
understand. I'm going to save your answer for future reference.
Patricia
The 50% has to be doubled (200%) The 75% has to be at 133% (I think) There
should be a formula for it, but I don't
Thanks Joy,
The last part, which I would call arithmetic, I can understand. I'm not going
to say how long it is since I studied maths but suffice it to say that it is so
long ago I've forgotten what it was about. I managed O grade maths, (algebra,
geometry, trigonometry) sat at 16, and that
How very, very true!
Patricia in Wales
On 2014/11/08 05:22 AM,
Noelene Lafferty wrote:
Retirement.
They all promised me
when
retirement was due,
I'd be doing so much with my lace.
I'd have oodles of
time
To plan and create,
And have projects all over the place.
But
then
Bev emailed with much the same advice but it didn't work. This time, on
aol, it did!! Thank you very much to all who replied. I appreciated it very
much. I have a sinus and chest infection and the weather is absolutely fowl
and so I didn't want to take my pc to the shop.
Patricia in Wales
This question may apply only to UK people. I have just been catching up on a
'half hour' programme on ITV Player and have been bothered all the way through
it by the persistent reappearance of an action box on the screen. It is
headed Adobe Flash Player Settings and says www.itv.com wants
Thanks for this, David. this morning's paper had a page of tips, including
this one but using tupperware lids rather than plates. it was good to see it
demonstrated.
Patricia in Wales
Dear Friends,
this little clip will save you heaps of time and effort - so simple
yet so effective
Thanks, Janice. I omitted the final / and that was enough to prevent access.
Patricia in Wales
Try this link:
http://pusher.com.au/clients/pusher-christmas-2012/
You may
have to copy and paste. �I put in my address including commas and country
and
that worked.
�
Janice Blair
Crystal
I couldn't access this at all. I tried retyping the basic address and got a
blank screen. Looked at the pusher site and it seems you need to be signed up
to get the Christmas stuff. A general search did produce a link to the 2012
card but again a blank screen. i'll just have to wonder
As I am useless at posting direct links I will simply say if you want to see,
and hear, 'O Holy Night' search on youtube for:
Berklee-flash-mob-at-the-Museum-of fine-Arts
This is the MFA in Boston
I think it is worth seeing.
Patricia in Wales
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As I seem to have no success in giving functioning links I will advise all who
love music to search on You Tube under
Icelandic folk singers in German station!. You will find several links. The
group's name is Arstidir. It is a very peaceful piece of music, a hymn dating
from 1208.
Patricia
We've seen this on the list in print form sent in by a couple of people at
different times. This is the dramatised version.
Patricia in Wales
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9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
This doesn't work in British English as we say 'dived into the bushes'
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?
Ah, but Loch 'Muick' (near Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) does rhyme with
'quick'. But it isn't properly an
I've never said 'shined' (or heard it, for that matter), I always say 'shone'
Patricia in Wales
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
I couldn't get this link to work even cutting the address as given in half.
However, using Google I found either it or something very similar at:
www.youtube.co./watch?v=_60mzvkg_kg
That is the address as the video is playing and not what was listed on the
general search. The general search
The link is:
www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D_60mzvkg_kg
I hope.
Patricia
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Thanks. I discovered the second link doesn't work either.
Patricia
The cut-down address worked for me to see what David had sent:
https://vimeo.com/58385453
I couldn't get the YouTube link to work though!
Sue
Please note I am stopping using sueba...@comcast.net, and switching my email
thank you for this, Jeanette. It made me chuckle out loud.
Patricia in Wales
For all the iPad lovers!!
Jeanette Fischer, South Africa.
http://vimeo.com/61275290
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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.
Patricia in Wales
Elizabeth Ligetti said:
Happy Birthdays to both Jean and Agnes.
I hope you both have a Happy Day
Actually all old churches and cathedrals in the UK were Catholic in pre
Reformation days - and there are hundreds of them around. Basically (I
think) Anglican and the majority of Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)churches
were originally Catholic. The only ones you can assume weren't are
A. I really don't see why the reburial of ancient bones should be determined
by convenience to tourists and, as others have said, there are considerations
which are really important.
B. Actually, it would be good for tourists not to limit their visits to London
(or Edinburgh or Cardiff, the
I seem to remember reading, or hearing, that almost contemporary historians
(to Richard III) began a hatchet job on him very soon after he died and
Shakespeare followed that line of thought/propaganda.
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No there certainly isn't! I have never seen such composure in such a young
child. Thanks for sharing.
Patricia in Wales
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Sorry folks I should have added extra, to this link. It is a lovely video
of a small child dancing, so I think you will enjoy watching.
There is nothing
I sometimes think about asking if I will get a discount if I go through the
self service checkout! Bet I know what the answer would be. I wouldn't mind
so much if these do it yourself tills were actually quicker. In Wales we have
to pay for plastic bags if we don't bring out own. So, at the
Janice In this country we can no longer pay by cheque as our bank cards no
longer serve as cheque guarantee cards. At one point the banks wanted to
phase cheques out altogether but there was so much opposition they had to
abandon the idea v- for the present, at least. When I use mail order I
All I get is 'page not found'.
Patricia in Wales
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From: David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au
To: lace-chat lace-c...@dont.panix.com
Sent: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:03
Subject: [lace-chat] Listen to this
The phrase 'redding up' has been mentioned in an email from an American friend
and I am trying hard to remember in which part of the UK this is common
parlance. Is it possibly northern England somewhere?
Patricia in Wales
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I've just read a report about a Christmas tree thief in Yorkshire where the
police caught him by following the trail of pine needles (from 5 trees) to a
garden half a mile away! To add icing to the cake they found a cannabis farm
in his house. That's one man who isn't going to have a happy time
There were a total of three programmes about this choir and each one was very
emotional - but the third had me sniffing loudly! Glad to see it is getting
an airing outside Britain.
Patricia in Wales
-Original Message-
From: David C COLLYER dccoll...@ncable.net.au
To: lace-chat
I agree! it is not now possible to send parcels surface mail from the USA,
only by airmail which is massively expensive. That ends my massive book
buying when over there.
Patricia in Wales
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-Original Message-
From: Karen Zammit Manduca kaza...@melita.com
To:
No lace in sight in Edinburgh and despite the difficulties there are good
photographs of the bride, groom and guests on:
mailonline.co.uk
There is nothing yet in The Scotsman but it does have three photographs of
the celebrations on Britannia yesterday evening.
Patricia in Wales
Simply good commercial practice to allow visitors to London to take home with
them Christmas souvenirs for their trees. I do it, just as I buy the
following year's calendars on my annual June visit to Scotland to give as
presents at Christmas.
Patricia in Wales
-Original Message-
OK. This is not uplifting as The Messiah was but it is fun. I searched for
;
videos flash dance Bucking Palace and found the entire thing on
Youtube - but no specific address.
Seemingly it was done at the request of Her Majesty. Wonder if Harry had a
hand in it?!
Patricia in Wales
I don't think this has been on the list before - but I maybe wrong!
Patricia in Wales
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ONE
Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you
could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half
One gill is also equivalent to one quarter pint or approximately 145
millilitres.
We've had at least 3 of snow this morning between 8.15/.30 and 11.45. I
couldn't see where I had cleared snow from our falls of Thursday and
Friday. I've cleared it again and put out more food for the
I'm afraid the BBc.com will never 'get its act together' for as long as we
have to pay a license fee (for owning a television or watching on a PC) to
fund the BBC. Only if that changes may BBC programmes be available on line
internationally.
If I log on to BBC iplayer via the aol website
The Milky Bar Kid is a long running advertisement in Britain for a
chocolate bar - Milky bar by name! While the child playing the part changes
every
few years he is usually fair haired with specs and is wearing a cowboy
outfit. That last probably best demonstrates how long the basic idea
Jaquie
You should have persevered. While I agreed with your general comments
even a non Beatles fan like me could identify the Christian names of the four
Beatles ;-) I managed 10 right and one or two of those were complete
guesses.
Glad to see you are safely home from Newport. hope
If you go to Amazon UK you can read the first few pages. It is clearly
written for fairly young children - 8 ish - and presumably has been written
more to explain Asperger's than bobbin lace. Listed on Amazon are other tales
concerning the condition written by the same author. There is no
In addition to what Brenda said, in the UK, educational establishments are
allowed to make more than one copy for educational purposes. For example,
in the university library we made up to 5 copies of a magazine article/book
chapter to be read in the library by any number of students up to
I'm hoping someone may be able to help me. I found details of a book
about the house 'Green Gables' and was able to look at some of the pages on
Google full text books. It is a detailed description, with photographs, of
the inside of 'Green Gables' Unfortunately, I have lost the
My computer is up and running again having spent a little over 24 hours in
the computer shop. They are always very busy. They found nothing wrong
but have put stronger virus protection on it and have charged exactly
nothing. Needless to say they have very loyal customers.
I am driven to
You may ermember a few weeks ago I requested confirmation that a message I had
received was a phishing exercise. This morning I wsa unable to access the
internet via my computer. I asked advice from the computer shop and was told
the message had been a worm which has infested my computer and my
I've had another 'phishing' message which I haven't opened as I don't do on
line banking. Since i last enquired I have discovered why I have been
unable to forward messages. So now I can wuold whover sent a couple of
addresses for such things please send them again.
Patricia in Wales
Thanks, Joy, for that advice. I have sent it to spam@ but someone in the
UK sent me a general UK address, I think to do with the abuse of the
internet in general.
Patricia in Wales
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Advice is needed - or confirmation. I have received a message from aol
which I think is spam.
I have been told that my aol account needs to be updated if I want to
continue with my aol account.
The details requested - full name and address, date of birth, mother's
maiden name, card
I've investigated further and found I can access my email etc via this
link. Is this possible for someone else to set up?
also, there is a box asking for my Screen name and password but alongside
this there is a message saying that aol will never ask for screen name and
password online.
I should also say that if you go to Simon's cats official web site you will
find a videoed interview with him.
As for the book.. if you look it up on Amazon you can view the first
few pages.
Patricia in Wales
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Thanks, Agnes. I was laughing out loud at this one. When you told us
about Simon's cat for the first time I Googled to find all he has done. I had
intended checking fairly regularly but haven't since well before Christmas.
I did see, though, that he has published a book of cat cartoons.
I have just revisited Simon's cat web site and found an interview with
Simon on it.
Patricia
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Thanks, Jean. I enjoyed that :-)
Patricia in Wales
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There was another brilliant 'photo' on BBC news yesterday. This was an
aerial shot of a scout camp in Essex this weekend. Many, many tents pitched
on a snow covered site. The scouts interviewed, both male and female, were
having a brilliant time, would have been very disappointed if it
I've just been asked by a teacher friend from the school I volunteer with
to support a petition to allow certain drugs to be prescribed. She has
Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia which is controlled by imatnib and allows her to lead
a normal life. However around 40% of its users can become
I've had a message from someone having difficulty finding the petition.
When the googled list of choices appears go for:
First - Introduction to e-petitions/Number10.gov.uk
..the official site of the PM's office.
Patricia in Wales
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I have tried twice today to view it but it is still unavailable. Could
there be a geographic reason for this?
Jeanette, Can you give me a little more information about the content so I
can see if it is possible to locate it via the index?
Patricia
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Malvary told me what to look for on the index and I found it - at the
address I had been using all along! Avital - I don't expect you to sort out
this little mystery for me.
Patricia in Wales
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It is not available at present. there is no indication if it will be so
soon.
Patricia in Wales
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Thank you for the replies. The only people in Michigan I 'know' are names
on Arachne and I'm not on telephone calling terms with any of them.
Patricia in Wales
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I have managed to find the location of that number; it is a place called
Tekonsha, Michigan. Anyone know it? I have to admit I am curious about
this.
Patricia in Wales
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My ISP is doing odd things today and I want to check that my mail is
getting out.
Patricia in Wales
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I have coped with gaping cuffs by sewing shirring elastic inside them. I
find it keeps them neat.
Patricia in Wales
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Brenda
Your book arrived yesterday, though it wasn't delivered in time for me to
take it to my all day class an hour's drive from my home. I had hope to be
able to take it with me and give you some publicity for it as a kind of
'thank you'. It is very much bigger than the first edition
Brenda
My original reply to you has bounce back to me for some reason. I have
just tried again.
Patricia in Wales
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Sorry to keep posting to the list. Brenda, I have sent my address yet
again - that is twice this afternoon.
Patricia
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Brenda
My first afternoon message has been returned with 'permanent fatal error'
as the reason. As I am simply hitting reply it is not an error of copying
on my part. Another member has offered to send it to you. If that doesn't
arrive can you send me your address direct and I shall
Brenda
My final message to you has just been returned with the same error
message. I hope you have received the info from a third party by now.
Patricia in Wales
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I have sent the two test messages as requested.
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Brenda
The Kent message got through as I have received an automated reply.
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Thank you Agnes. I hadn't seen it and I agree, it is lovely. It also led
me to the Christian the lion video which I'd heard about but hadn't seen. So,
a second thank you.
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The film is definitely taking the mick out of Morris dancing - and Hollywood
(to a lesser extent). Did anyone look at the cast list?!
Patricia in Wales - still trying to recover from the virus which first
attacked before Christmas and who is grateful to be cheered up!
Scotlace
They were on sale in my Tesco on Friday 2 nd. I wasn't in it on the first
to check. Earlier in the week, though, I heard one employee saying to another
Where are the Easter eggs, then?2 and his colleague replying, rather sourly
I thought, Don't go there! I thought he was attempting to be
I have to agree with you, Jean, and I do celebrate Christmas. I had to go
to Tesco this morning as I realised I'd omitted a couple of things from my
shopping list yesterday morning. I hadn't intended going again before
Christmas
Day and found the place absolutely manic. At least I was
I am so pleased to hear about Dorothee. It must be an enormous relief to
you after all this time of worrying. Have a wonderful Christmas in double
celebration.
Patricia in Wales
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Many thanks to the people who responded both on the list and privately to
me. AVG seems to top the bill and that is the one I shall install.
Patricia in Wales
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Thank you to those who replied to my query. I had thought possibly pearl
but wasn't sure. Now I am :-)
Patricia in Wales
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My first message on this subject doesn't seem to have got through and so I
am trying again. I sent the first with my thanks for help with wedding
anniversaries.
I will soon have to install protection on my new computer when the trial
installation package runs out. I know there have been
I know the subject of protection programmes and firewalls has been discussed
before but as I didn't need the information then I didn't keep any of it -
and probably would have lost it when I changed PCs anyway.
I need to install protection when the trial which came with my new PC
expires.
I'm sure someone out there knows the answer to this question. What is the
symbol of a thirtieth wedding anniversary? I know the 25th is silver and the
40th is ruby but the 30th escapes me.
Patricia in Wales
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My 'pattern' arrived today. Many, many thanks, Dora. I was stunned to see
more than one pattern - which is what I though the prize was. There are, in
fact, many designs included and an account of Dora's trek to find Idrija lace
and patterns. I think you are very brave, Dora, as your
Pre broadband I looked occasionally in the spam file but never found
anything there and neither did I ever receive such things in my main files.
This
morning I found 2 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) etc with
innocuous headers in the spam file. Is it something to do
David's message came through with all the other Arachne mail. So, using the
'This is not spam' button would seem to make a permanent change.
Patricia in Wales
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I keep seeing responses to messages from David Collyer but I don't see the
originals ever. I don't understand how this can be as I don't seem to be
missing anyone else's. Can anyone with more computer know how than I (not
difficult that!) offer any kind of explanation?
Patricia in Wales
Devon has hit the nail on the head :-) I investigated the Spam file and
found David's messages there - plus others that, being a woman, I definitely
don't need :-)
When I changed from dialup to broadband I must also have updated aol.
Previously, I never saw spam messages at all. In
It was Anthony Newly who recorded a jazzed up version - which did quite
well, I think.
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This is a test to see if I can post with my new equipment and programmes.
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It lookes as if I shall have to replace my pc in the near future.? Can people
advise me on two points. please?
I'm in the UK.
1? I have a traditional pc.? Is there any advantage to switching to a laptop
for someone who only uses it at home and only wants to use it at home?
2 Is it better to
Thanks for the exact mileage between John o' Groats and Land's End. I
assumed, from the assertion made by someone on the list, that the distance of
370
miles quoted had to mean only from a point on the central south coast of
England
to the nearest point on the north coast - the equivalent of
No, Jen in Melbourne, I was not referring to a 750ml bottle but to a 250 ml
(or 2 glass bottle) similar to those served on planes and designed for
consumption by one (or individual) person. These are readily available in
supermarkets in the UK with a small selection of white, red or sparkling
I am sorry to hear that Dora is lonely. Like her I am spending Christmas Day
in my own home and I live alone but I have been out to a lovely, cheerful
service and had an invigorating walk in some weak sunshine but it was sunshine
as
the rain passed over us far faster than forecast). I have
Thanks for the information about SKOR bits. I didn't even think of toffee.
I think this recipe is death by cholesterol :-) and so is probably very good.
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I have found a recipe for chocolate, butterscotch shortbread which also calls
for SKOR bits. Can anyone in North america tell me what SKOR bits are,
please? The capitalisation comes from the recipe; I am not screaming at anyone
:-)
Patricia in Wales
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David
it is probably:
The Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes Edited by Iona and Peter OP=pie
Oxfurd U.P. 0198691114
First published in 1951 and my copy is the 10th reprint (with corrections)
1977
I imagine it is still being reprinted but if not second hand copies should be
available
When I read Jean's reference to stottie cakes, I wondered, 'Do they bounce?'
because stott is also the NE Scotland (all Scotland?) word meaning bounce. We
also refer to stottin' rain and stottin' china. Think about them :-)
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Thank you, everyone, for responding so quickly with the information I wanted.
This serves to confirm that I am totally incompetent with a computer search
:-) and reinforce my belief in the abilities and willingness of the rest of
you.
Many thanks,
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Does anyone on the list have access to lists of publisher's addresses? I
want to contact Cremer Press by snail mail. I have tried an internet search
but
came up only with details of one of their titles. My local bookshop has come
up blank, too.
Thanks
Patricia in Wales
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Jean Soccer is certainly played at least in parts of the US. A friend's
daughter was very keen when she was 14 or so. It may not have the popularity
of
American football or baseball but it does have some support which I think is
growing.
Coincidently, while I was at the garage collecting
Since Jean has raised the topic of rationing peole might be interested in
what was allowed. This info was in a paper recently.
Each person was allowed 16 points per month to use on from whichever food
items were available wanted at the shop they had registered with (and no
other.)
Shops
I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and ask the moderator to rule on
patriotic outbursts on an international forum. I imagine we all love our
respective countries but don't feel it neccessary to voice it in the context of
this list. It is, after all, a form of political statement.
Thank you Carol for reinforcing my plea to the moderator, who I'd forgotten
wouldn't be available immediately.
We are an international community all with a totally different slant on the
same thing. Therefore this list isn't the right place to be displaying
individual patrotism. I had no
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