I add my thanks to Jean and David for the Advent Calendar. I managed to get
them all right with a lot less hair tearing than last year, when I couldn't
get the answer to one of them. This year, the first one (Spain) was the one
which caused me a problem. But I thought the part of the letter S
My husband has a similar sort of filing system, he calls it gravity filing.
:-)
I have lots in folders and have great fun revisiting them. Keep listing in
my mind all those I really 'want to try when time allows'.
New Year and I have just got all the bobbins prepared and on my pillow to
Hello all Arachneans,
What a marvellous surprise to be one of the winners! I am really excited
about it!I Thank you very much Jean and David not only for the price, but
also for the kindness in making the Advent Calendar for all lacers every
year. I really enjoy taking part in in, although I
According to Wikipedia, the town of Congleton in Cheshire, whose primary
fame was as a Bear Baiting center was also known for making lace and gloves
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congleton_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congleton) .
What kind of lace would they have been making in Congleton?
It would appear that a bear, accompanied by some sort of bear handler
arrives in town, or perhaps in Congleton, there were several resident bears.
Local
people have dogs that they set on the bear and there is some form of wagering
going on. I confess I am not totally conversant with the
Devon,
Tht's clear, they made bear-lace ;-)))
Ilske
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Sadly Bear baiting was a horrible pastime in the middle
ages/Renaissance not sure how long it went but was VERY popular
during the court Henry VIII. It involved tying a bear to a post and
setting dogs against it. They were greatly amused at the antics of the
bears and dogs as they were being
So far I haven't found reference to lace, but on the official Congleton
website history page:
By 1730 a large percentage of the population lived on or below the bread
line. The council decided that the old Lower Chapel should be converted into
a workhouse. It was in the grounds of the
I was afraid that it might be that kind of Lace. That area of England does
not seem to have much of a lacemaking tradition. I am planning a trip to
include Bowes Museum which will probably start and end in Manchester reaching
Glasgow and Edinburgh if all goes well. Also hoping to hit the
To start the new year we did a January update on the Lace Guild
website, and finally got round to mounting some pieces from the
October Lace magazine (too busy before Christmas). Otherwise just an
events update, and a stop press notice about visiting The Hollies
during February (or not).
One tied the bear to a post and let dogs attack it. (Well, you did ask)
Between the bear and the dogs, I can't imagine an involvement with
bear-baiting would be good for the fingers (which are exactly the bits
at risk when trying to get the dogs away from the bear afterwards) or,
by
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:59:20 EST, Devon wrote:
I was afraid that it might be that kind of Lace. That area of England does
not seem to have much of a lacemaking tradition.
It has no tradition of lacemaking whatsoever. Manchester was a big centre
for the cotton industry and Macclesfield for the
Pocket Excel appears to have the same advanced filtering capability as the
desktop version. If anyone has never used the autofilter function, this would
be an excellent time to learn to use it. It is amazing what information can be
retrieved...
Mimi wrote:
The best part about Excel -
Making and maintainig the content of the list is not my work. I just wrote
the javascript, and previously another program that generates the oficial
index page from a spreadsheet.
Jo
As others have said it's an impressive book list, and it must have taken
you ours to type it all in, let
On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:54, Jo Falkink wrote:
May be it is a matter of timing. I learnt about the filters only about
a week before Tamara's question came along.
VBG I may be a total, incurable, 'puter-moron, but I do seem to
manage to stir up interesting conversations at just the right time,
I went down to the hospital for my routine monthly blood test this morning
and was chatting with the phlebotamist about our discussion of things too
early. She said she could beat it all - she stayed with her daughter over
near year (forgot to ask her where) and she said their little corner
Staff at tourism agency VisitBritain were left scratching their heads at
some of the questions posed to them last year.
They included: Are there any lakes in the Lake District? And: Is Wales
closed during the winter?
At the Britain London Visitor Centre on Regent Street in London's West End
Would have loved to see the silk ribbons as I love to work with them but
unfortunately all I get is Page not found
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Hi Sue,
Not sure what happened, but the links don't read as they did in the email I
sent. Try copying and pasting the following into your browser:
http://www.jjcash.co.uk/introduction.htm
http://www.theherbert.org/collections/history.htm
I have tried both, and they work for me.
Hope it works,
Staff at tourism agency VisitBritain were left scratching their heads at
some of the questions posed to them last year.
I work in the local TIC (Tourist Info Centre) and we get some really silly
questions and last year my colleague's husband emailed all the TIC's in the
UK for silly questions
I think Il;ve mentioned before that when we lived on the border between
Devon and Somerset in the south west of Enland, a couple of Americans asked
the way to Kingsbridge because they wanted to go to Harrods and were
travelling there especially to go to the store. For those who don't know,
Having grown up in Key West, Florida I've heard all manner of
interesting questions. My favourite experience was the tourist couple
standing at an intersection (Eaton and Simonton streets) looking at a
local map and the street sign and obviously trying to figure out either
where they were, or
I do like the two Christmas stores in the nearby city though. They are
open year 'round, and even on the hottest day, they are wonderlands of
Yeah, but if you can have Christmas all year r'round, then there's
nothing special about it, is there? That's what I mean by feeling
deprived of the
Glad to hear from Martha that there are some others that celebrate Advent
and Christmas .
We still wait until Xmas Eve to set up our tree. When we were small and
also when our children were small, Daddy set the tree up, but Santa
decorated it, so that the decorated tree was a surprise on
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