Noelene in Cooma wrote:- > "There is no entry fee, no entry form and tea cosies will not be > returned." > > Now doesn't that save on a lot of bother for all concerned!
. . . and Martha Krieg wrote to me:- > Well, I have made several tea cozies - from leftover > white/navy/bright blue FairIsle knitting, to mohair knitting, to > calico print padded.But I'm darned if I can understand why I would > want to enter a competition in which my tea cozy would not be > returned so that I could use it for its proper function! So I went back to the website and studied the 'small print', and eventually found this:- "The tea cosies will be displayed in the Teys Art Gallery at the acclaimed Dogwood Crossing at Miles and will be available for sale with proceeds supporting arts activities in the region." The whole competition seems to be related to the play, "The World Bra Unclipping Championships at Garimba", written by Hugh O'Brien, where a group of people argue about the best way to put their town on the tourist map. Noelene explained:- > "That play sounds a lot like one called "Dimboola" which did the > rounds in Australia some time ago. "Dimboola" was a take-off at a > "deep south" country town wedding, with a pregnant bride, > drunken best man, father with shotgun, that sort of cartoon like > stuff. The audience used to take part in it. Never went to one, but > was told it was very funny. http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ja_picko/AboutP.htm > It looks like the local council in Murilla has a real sense of the > ridiculous!" Maybe the audience at Murilla, (Queensland), join in too ? Maybe selling the tea cosies for a local good cause follows the plot of the play somehow ? (I wonder if the play would go well here . . . ? I fear that High Wycombe doesn't have enough sense of the ridiculous !) Karen In Coventry, England, commented:- > Wonder how many lace decorated tea cosies they will get! Not many here, I'm sure, even in what feels like the British Championship Lacemaking County. (We are so lucky in having lots of really good suppliers on our doorstep, and even the second-hand bookshop always has a shelf of lacemaking books.) However, I've just had a vision of a lace-decorated tea cosy, looking a bit like those lacy panties that baby girls often wear for special occasions, and imagine that it might be a way to display/do something with all those little strips of experiments and samples and try-outs of lace that lurk at the back of my lace box. Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., enjoying a blissful weekend *not* chasing around after in-laws . . . Hope I haven't spoken too soon!). To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
