Re: [lace-chat] Left/right/north/south

2003-11-13 Thread Judy
Now Adelaide...that's another matter A planned city, with nice straight roads planned on a grid - impossible to get lost there!! The town where I went to university is also on a grid system and I thought it was the easiest place in the world to navigate, until I dated a young man who

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2003-11-12 Thread W N Lafferty
Joy Beeson writes Having grown up on graph paper, I'm rather surprised that I didn't have any trouble navigating You should try Canberra, which is built on circular roads.I was visiting a doctor there recently, and wanted to visit a friend about a mile away to the north of the surgery.

[lace-chat] Left/right/north/south

2003-11-11 Thread Jean Nathan
There was a programme on TV the other night about the effect the moon has on the earth. It had never occured to me until it was mentioned in that programme that in the southern hemisphere the sun and moon travel across the sky from right to left instead of from left to right as it does in the

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2003-11-11 Thread Ruth Budge
I just replied privately to Jean saying that it is exactly this phenomena which makes it hard for my DH to navigate in Britain. I knew he complains that the sun isn't in the right place as far as he's concerned, but had forgotten exactly what the details of the displacement are! Now I know that

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2003-11-11 Thread Clay Blackwell
] Left/right/north/south There was a programme on TV the other night about the effect the moon has on the earth. It had never occured to me until it was mentioned in that programme that in the southern hemisphere the sun and moon travel across the sky from right to left instead of from left

Re: [lace-chat] Left/right/north/south

2003-11-11 Thread Clay Blackwell
] To: Lace Chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:59 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Left/right/north/south Dear Jean, and Lacemakers, There was a programme on TV the other night about the effect the moon has on the earth. It had never occured to me until it was mentioned

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2003-11-11 Thread cearbhael
. Cearbhael - Original Message - From: Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Left/right/north/south It had never occured to me until it was mentioned