MEMORANDUM
FROM : Patty Lewis, HR Director
TO : All Employees
4th December
RE : HOLIDAY PARTY
What a diverse group we are ! I had no idea that 20th December begins the
Muslim month of Ramadan, which forbids eating and drinking during daylight
hours. There goes the party! Seriously, we can
Can anyone explain why children always have to wear mittens and not real
gloves??
mittens keep your hands warmer than gloves - also they are easier and quicker
to knit - in my experienceg
jenny barron
NE Scotland where it is snowing and I am hoping for a white Christmas
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But I loved mittens!!! - they kept your hands much warmer than gloves did.
Probably because your fingers were all together not separate.
Sue
That makes sense... But what age are we talking about here? I was still
wearing
mittens in 1st-3rd grades, and I find it hard to imagine that children
Dot Com
And lo it came to pass that the trader by the name of Abraham Com did take
unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely
woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she had been called Amazon
Dot Com. And she said unto Abraham, her husband, Why doth thou
So is this of the same genus as the Holy Moly g
Joy wrote:
No wonder it wasn't in your dictionaries! Mine says that moly is
a mythical
herb with a black root and milk-white flowers that Hermes gave to
Odysseus.
It also says that a European wild garlic that is cultivated for its yellow
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at
the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very
important person which almost went unnoticed last week.
Larry La Prise, the man who wrote The Hokey Kokey, died
peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his
Weronika wrote:
Can anyone explain why children always have to wear mittens and not real
gloves??
Maybe it starts when a child is a baby - can you imagine a mother dressing a
wriggly baby in tiny gloves with separate tiny fingers? Mittens do simplify
the process. And the mother keeps on giving
OK, I thought I had Line's translation of the recipe, and I can't
find it. I need to bake these cookies this weekend! I've got the
Brunkagekrydderi packet and the Potaske packet --- but there's one
ingredient I can't figure out:
What is Pomeranstern/pomeransskal?
--
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:18:28PM -, Margery Allcock wrote:
Weronika wrote:
Can anyone explain why children always have to wear mittens and not real
gloves??
Maybe it starts when a child is a baby - can you imagine a mother dressing a
wriggly baby in tiny gloves with separate tiny
Hi All, When I was in my late 20s my sister gave me some beautiful bright
green knitted mittens with bright embroidery on them. They had a wide cuff
and were so big I couldn't stick them in the pocket of my coat. I didn't
want to lose them so I put them on a string! Besides not losing them
In my lexicon, those are mitts, not mittens! But different from
oven-mitts
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Ah! but those are oven-gloves (even though they don't have fingers)!!
Sue
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But different from
oven-mitts
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Ah! but those are oven-gloves (even though they don't have fingers)!!
I've always thought of oven mitts being singular, and oven gloves being
the ones which are basically a strip of fabric
Faye Owers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some years back a Christmas story was posted regarding Louise would anyone
still have a copy on hand???
Oh, Faye! This was one of the few stories that actually made me laugh my
tea through my nose! Ouch! So here, for your enjoyment, is
CHRISTMAS WITH
Obviously, this one was meant for all of us, not just for me...
Begin forwarded message:
From: dominique [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: December 18, 2004 12:28:45 EST
To: Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mittens (was measuring a child's coat ..)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
golly , i've only
Due to double laundering (the message was sent to Clay, who also can't
post to chat), this contribution is later than it ought to have been...
Sue is having trouble sending this to Chat (she has not
subscribed under her new email address), and forgot that I
an no longer subscribed either! So
At 08:36 AM 12/18/04 -0400, Margot Walker wrote:
As someone who grew up in northern Canada, the reasons we wore mittens
as children, and still wear mittens occasionally as adults are: 1 -
they're much warmer than gloves and 2- if it is really cold (minus 20 or
colder), you can wear two pairs
To respond to the comment:
I find it hard to imagine that children
who can
write and do math can't put on gloves...
Manual dexterity and computation skills aren't necessarily equal at a
given age, or even at any age (one could say they don't always go hand in
glove - ack!). Some children who
On Dec 18, 2004, at 3:49, Jean Nathan wrote:
Madame Tussauds - a famous waxworks tourist attraction in London - set
up a
nativity scene with waxworks of famous people. Joseph and Mary were
David
and Victoria Beckham (a well-known English footballer and his ex-Spice
Girls
wife); Kylie minogue
Tamara writes:
But, in that case, why not just a ball-like thing, which houses all 5
(4 fingers and thumb)?
Because it's hard enough to function with mittens or gloves. You need your
thumb free to do anything. Of course, if you don't *have* to function...
Margaret in PA
To
At 9:42 PM -0500 12/18/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because it's hard enough to function with mittens or gloves. You need your
thumb free to do anything. Of course, if you don't *have* to function...
Mittens without thumbs ARE made (commercially, even) for tiny babies
who neither want nor
On Dec 18, 2004, at 16:51, Martha Krieg wrote:
OK, I thought I had Line's translation of the recipe, and I can't find
it. I need to bake these cookies this weekend! I've got the
Brunkagekrydderi packet and the Potaske packet --- but there's one
ingredient I can't figure out:
What is
My best guess would be orange zest.
Pam Dotson
Everett, WA
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