Oh T, you're so right - box irons are wonderful. We have some reproduction
ones here at CW and the first time I used one I was hooked.
What did you iron on? We used a heavy woolen blanket with a heavy linen
sheet on top. That was another lesson for me - I promptly recovered my
ironing board with
Heather
Abbotsford, with the type of rain that you can't really see but it gets
you
very wet.
Here in Oregon (being the Beaver state) we call that kind of rain Beaver
Spit!
Linda, the string-a-holic in Oregon where we've had .63 of Beaver Spit in
the last 3 days.
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Helen Bell challenged me to write a poem for her
newsletter on Thanksgiving - she supplied the
thoughts, I shuffled them together.
As everyone seems to be suffering from post-
Thanksgiving langour, I thought I'd share it with
all -
Summer days are over,
Autumn's almost gone.
It's time to put
Liz
I haven't used 'Bunches' but a few months ago whilst on holiday on the
Isles of Scilly I sent birthday bouquets to two different people from
Scent from the Islands at Churchtown Farm, St Martins.
I believe both were pleased with the flowers, and the journey from
Scilly to Devon would be
Hi,
I received my final parcel yesterday from my secret pal (Dominique). The
parcel took a little longer than normal as Dominique had enclosed some
beautiful Christmas sugar cubes and on the way from France some of the fine
sugar escaped the box and was in the bottom of the plastic bag in the
Many thanks to you all for your replies. I will answer them all personally,
off-list this evening, when I get home from a Lace Day - Xmas party Lace
Day!
I appreciate you taking the time to advise me.
Gratefully, from Liz in Melbourne, Oz, - where it is another hot day - 35
Celcius today.
I have not heard of Bunches but have used
http://www.sovereignflyingflorist.com/ in Guernsey for many years to send
flowers to my relatives in Britain. I have always had good reports back from
the recipients. Although one time my MIL sent the card enclosed with the
flowers back to them to
When someone who lived in Australia wanted to send me flowers, they sent
orchids from a supplier who could post internationally from Darwin.
Absolutely wonderful, and they seemed to last forever. Each stem had a glass
vial of water sealed around it, and they only took a couple of days to get
from
On Nov 26, 2004, at 7:07, Su Carter wrote:
Oh T, you're so right - box irons are wonderful. We have some
reproduction
ones here at CW and the first time I used one I was hooked.
They also had a nice heft to them; you didn't have to press too hard;
you just slid the iron around, so even a child
Thanks, Devon. That's exactly what I wanted (though it contradicts your
Lancastrian tree being the first, in 1821). Since all of this
conversation had been going on on chat, and since I think others
might be interested, I'm assuming your sending it to me only was an
oversight, and am
Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
A folded (sometimes twice-folded) woolen blanket, which was used for
only that purpose, so it was very slick, with all the fuzz beaten down.
Yup, my ironing blanket is an old one I inherited from my great aunt.
PS When you use the box irons at Williamsburg, how do
Another older but good one. Lorri
WHY PARENTS GET GRAY HAIR
The boss of a big company needed to call one of his employees about an
urgent problem with one of the main computers, dialed the employee's home
phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper,
Hello.
Is your
On Nov 26, 2004, at 22:19, Su Carter wrote:
Oh ho, that makes me laugh! I'd forgotten all about it. My grandmother
did
the mouth trick, but only on really fine things like hankies.
Otherwise she
used the sprinkler bottle and rolled things up for the moisture to
even out.
We had no sprinkler
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