[lace] Seasons Greetings
Seasons Greetings to everyone, from Sunny Mallacoota (a little tourist and fishing town at the bottom right hand corner of the continent!) It is a nice day here, and a lunch with the park owners and some other friends from town will start soon! There is a covered BBQ area in the middle of the caravan and cabin park where we will sit and enjoy a feast! I would like to thank you all for the friendship, and information on this list over the last 12 months. It is a pleasure to count myself a member of Arachne. Brian, - keep on with your emails. They are informative, and interesting, and never mind the mistakes in spelling. I am learning a lot from them, as the history of lace is very interesting, and now you have expanded that into the history of lacemaking tools! Noelene, - another beaut poem, Thank you. They always brighten the day a lot! Lace content - well, I have been doing some bobbin lace, put down the holding stitches for my first piece of Amelia Ars lace, and got started on a Knotted lace mat! So I have not been idle, - and I am doing some patchwork while sitting in the boat while DH fishes. Bream fishing is like watching grass grow, or paint dry!! I am a lot more productive than he is, most days, although we have had some nice evening meals of freshly caught fish! Liz in Mallacoota on holiday, playing on her new toy (Laptop!) lizl...@bigpond.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] many thanks to Brian
The very best postings to the Arizona Archives have come from generous people who have posted their own material, like Brian, or from all those who lent me their precious books to scan. This is still an ongoing project and thanks to John Cropper it will continue to grow as people send us things. Brian, please don't worry about typos. We all make them. If you have read your Arachne carefully, you have seen plenty of them yourself. It is the spirit behind the words that counts, and your generosity in sharing so much with all of us is the best Christmas present we could get! Thanks so much. Tess (tess1...@aol.com) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
RE: [lace] A public shaming! :(
Even though I am native Maltese and we have our own language, I love English and read and write it as well as any Englishman (or woman) as I was brought up to speak it and read mostly English for pleasure as well as for study. It followed naturally that with what many consider to be the deterioration of English standards in Malta (even among those students who have taken A-level English) one of my jobs is freelance proofreading and editing. In fact I proof and edit several theses a year for university students. One of the things I have learned is that you cannot proof your own work because you will miss the errors as you did the first time round; so please don't berate yourself! Have a wonderful Christmas everybody. Karen in Malta. -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Brian Lemin Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 12:54 AM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] A public shaming! :( I have just read those articles I put up on Weaver in hard copy!!! Now I know I am very slack writer (I tend to write as I speak... BUT I discovered I have used TAIL instead of TALE. I am truly ashamed of that! In my professional life I had some 40 articles published and I like writing. I did my Masters by Research and after that I said I would never go back to "Academic writing" again. So I admit I am slack, I do minimal editing, and just put stuff out there to inform or to start discussion... But tail and tale... I am ashamed of myself! I have the "Old Lace" but cant find the "arsenic" Enjoy Christmas, after this assuaging of my conscience, I certainly will! :) >From Brian and Jean Cooranbong. Australia - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] Lace Guild Advent Calendar Competition
Just a reminder about the Lace Guild Advent Calendar competition - you have until January 4th to send in your entry. Good luck! With wishes for an enjoyable Christmas, Jean and David in cold and snowy Glasgow --- Jean and David Leader Lace Guild website: http://www.laceguild.org - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
[lace] A public shaming! :(
In message <582c2dd890be4590b7ea5824dc1b7...@internetpc>, Brian Lemin writes I have just read those articles I put up on Weaver in hard copy!!! Now I know I am very slack writer (I tend to write as I speak... BUT I discovered I have used TAIL instead of TALE. I am truly ashamed of that! Don't worry, Brian, it's just your equivalent of us making a mistake in our lace! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
