Dear Arachnes,
I hope those of you north of the Equator are having a great summer,
and those south of the line, a good winter...
My question is this: I'd love to find either books or magazines with
reconstructed or newer patterns of old Flanders lace.
Could those of you living in Europe and UK recommend any books or
magazines? If any of you living in the States or other countries know
of any, please feel free to chime in.
On the subject of Frances' trip to LA, I agree with the cultural
shock. As a Latin American in Canada, we prefer hard cookies, hate
the coffee you get served in shops (what we consider dirty mop
water...) and miss our bread (close to baguettes and to Italian
farmer's bread) which is hard to find where I live in Toronto. Yes,
if you drive 30 minutes downtown you could find some, but going to
buy it daily would put a bigger hole in the ozone layer...
Another shock was the fact that people don't walk on the right side
of the sidewalk and so, whenever you go to crowded places downtown
you have to engage in "evading and elbowing" wars <sigh>.
The bit about distances is even more evident in Canada. I laugh
whenever a friend asks me if I know the Joneses, living in Calgary,
of if you could drive to Vancouver and back to Toronto in one day....
Then again, I had an American friend ask me (this is way back, when I
was in High Schoool) if every Venezuelan had an oil well in their
front yards, and if we shed our loincloths at the airport and bought
our "civilized" clothes before boarding the plane...
I look forward to your replies regarding Flanders lace and also to
Francis' second installment of her adventures in LA-la Land.
Debora L.
...in a muggy and rainy Toronto
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