Liz, you are so lucky. I absolutely love opals. I've got a ring, earrings,
and bar brooch all with small green opals, which I bought for myself, but
very much regret that, when my grandmother died in the 1980s, no-one knew
what the large (about half an inch by three quarters of an inch) iridescent
black/blue/green gems were in a necklace she had and it was put in the "junk
to be thrown away" bag. Thanks to TV programmes like "The Antiques Road
Show", we now know that there's a very valuable (probably antique) opal
necklace in the bottom of a landfill somewhere.
Add to that my MIL law asking what my lace bobbins were and telling me that
her father had thrown out a lot of those along with a "cushion with straw
sticking out" when his wife died - they had belonged to her great aunt - and
I get quite miserable at times.
As for travelling in the UK, last night I had a look at Google Earth after a
story about a bull mastif dog being seen from space. It isn't actually
visible from space - Google confirmed that the lower images are taken from
planes several kilometres above the area being filmed. I entered my home
street and the street of where my lace class is held and asked for
directions. Reckons it's 7.7 miles and should take 20 minutes, but that
doesn't take account of time being held up in traffic queues or being
stopped by red traffic lights. And the extra 0.7 of a mile is because the
start point was halfway along the road and I live near one end. Then I
pressed play and "flew" fairly slowly along the route. Felt quite queasy at
the end because of all the turns, but really interesting.
Now that means I've got the other features of Google Earth to explore in
addition to exploring Lace R-XP (my copy of Ruth's book on Lace R-XP arrived
yesterday - another really good job Ruth). When will the housework get
done?????
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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