Hi All, Well - the almost 2000 eMail messages have been read through very quickly, and as we came home last week just in time for the Lace Day on Saturday, it has been quite an eventful couple of days!
The Lace Day was enjoyable - caught up with lots of friends, and caught up with the news and gossip. *Didn't* spend a lot of money - a couple of books by Ulrike Lohr, but no bobbins as although the bobbin supplier was one who makes glass bobbins, I don't like his as much as Malcolm Fowler's, so it was a relatively inexpensive day for me! (My husband was quite impressed with my thriftiness too - I just didn't tell him *why* I hadn't spent too much of his hard-earned cash!) But, as I had no intention of starting at work again before today (Monday 22nd Sept) I decided to start on attempting to clear up the Lace Place, so that I could walk in, and see the carpet uncluttered by pins, tiny threads, and other impedimenta. Things were going well, until I picked up a brand-new, *huge* bag of tiny polystyrene beads. The only way to describe what happened is to say that it seemed as if the bag exploded - and tiny little polystyrene beads were all over the place! I have never seen anything like it - and every time I moved to try to pick some up, they seemed to be imbued with a life of their own, and I felt as if I was trapped in one of those little snow-storm paperweights! I tried to get up as many as I could using bits of card to pick them up but, after a great deal of hard work, and managing to get about 25% of what was released, I gave up the unequal struggle and used the vacuum cleaner on the rest. I had been using the beads to make the pillow-rests for my students but, as from now, I never want to see another polystyrene bead as long as I live. And the Lace Place floor isn't a lot better than when I started - where there were threads, are now small deposits of beads, so I don't think being helpful, tidy or useful is a good thing as far as I am concerned! Carol - in East Anglia, UK - where we have had some rain and high winds today, but probably not enough to quench the thirst of the gardens! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
