Similarly, I did not hear Ruth Budge say the things that it sounds as though someone has said she said. I think I was paying as close attention as anyone, since I was quite enthusiastic about having the opportunity to meet Liz Barlett, having traveled through England using her Lace Villages as a guide. I did have the opportunity to meet Liz at the Convention and was quite thrilled. I am incredulous and intriqued to hear that Americans are sufficiently interested and aware to be trying to cause trouble between people on other continents. It flies in the face of the principle that Americans are so insular that they are pretty much unaware of what is going on across the oceans. Frankly, I spent a lot of time talking to people at the convention and at no time did I hear anyone wasting their breaths blackening the reputations of people who were so far away :-) But, who knows, perhaps we are becoming more cosmopolitan than I thought. I prefer to think it was a misunderstanding. Devon
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