[lace-chat] eBay user group for Lace
hello spiders, been a couple months since i last read the digests, so i don't know if this has been mentioned. eBay recently started user groups on their site. i signed up one for lace, in the hopes that it would promote proper identification of lace items for sale on ebay, and also to provide an eBay-centric place for lace afficionados to gather. if you're interested in joining, to answer questions or to post your own, the location is http://groups.ebay.com/index.jspa?categoryID=1 look for "Collectors Clubs" at the top-left of the Group Center page, then "Buttons, Textiles & Vintage Sewing"and the name of the group is Lace OnLine. it's free, all you have to do is be an eBay member. please be sure to look over the eBay User Groups policy http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/everyone-groups.html Looking forward to seeing some of you there! kathryn __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] A profound thought for the day
The past is history The future is a mystery Every day is a gift Which is why it's called The Present Sent by Malvary on behalf of sister Jacquie To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Skippy
Hi all, The news interview I saw reported the people who cared for the kangaroo said that the kangaroo sat beside the man and called for help, not banged on the door. They looked out to see why he was calling out and saw the tree down and the guy pinned down. Cheers, Yvonne - Original Message - From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:42 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Skippy There was a wonderful (apparently true) story on our local radio station this morning. An Australian farmer was hit on the head by a falling branch during a storm. He received severe head injuries. The alarm was raised at his farmhouse by a kangaroo that the family had adopted. It was blind in one eye, was competely tame and thought it was a dog! It hammered on the farmhouse door with its front feet until someone came out, and then led them to the injured farmer. He received medical treatment and recovered. So Skippy lives! Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] The Road to ..........
Carol, I suggest you take a leaf out of my daughter's book. She was about 18, and I was nagging her about the state her room, and telling her to put some things away. Her reply: But Mum, if I put things away, I can't find them!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Carol Adkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi All, And the Lace Place floor isn't a lot better than when I started - where there were threads, are now small deposits of beads, so I don't think being helpful, tidy or useful is a good thing as far as I am concerned! Carol - in East Anglia, UK - where we have had some rain and high winds today, but probably not enough to quench the thirst of the gardens! http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Skippy
Yes, it's true!! Of course, the family concerned thinks it was a deliberate act of kindness and concern on the part of the kangaroo. A wild-life expert has a more mundane explanation: that the kangaroo was used to following whoever left the back door of the house for food...and probably had even learnt that knocking on the door produced food. The expert thinks that, being hungry, the kangaroo just followed whoever was the next to come out of the house. *That* brought a flood of callers to the radio station, all determined to "prove" that the kangaroo really did know it was getting help by telling their own stories of tamed kangaroos. I didn't know there were so many tame kangaroos out there...and before you all ask, no, we don't see kangaroos in the streets of the cities in Australia Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Jean Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:There was a wonderful (apparently true) story on our local radio station this morning. An Australian farmer was hit on the head by a falling branch during a storm. He received severe head injuries. The alarm was raised at his farmhouse by a kangaroo that the family had adopted. It was blind in one eye, was competely tame and thought it was a dog! It hammered on the farmhouse door with its front feet until someone came out, and then led them to the injured farmer. He received medical treatment and recovered. So Skippy lives! Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] secret pal down under thank you
I received a wonderful package from Australia. I had a great Australian Mag for Cross Stitch and some fabulous floss. I also got a relaxation CD with Loons. A pretty purple bag, and a candy bar that my experts loved. There was also a little blown glass insect. I think it is a dragonfly but will know better when I get it all glued together. The package is wonderful and I cant wait till next month to find out who you are. Thanks so much. Hannah Moad To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Skippy
Hi all, Well, I think Skippy made it to my news program too. There was a promo on with a kangaroo and a fallen tree in the background. I can't imagine there are two stories like that out there! How ironic that Skippy the life saving kangaroo makes news all over the globe and Lise-Aurore loses power for 44 hours and doesn't even make the local news! Jane in Vermont, USA where Hurricane Isabel dropped rain on us but not too much. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] The Road to ..........
Hi All, Well - the almost 2000 eMail messages have been read through very quickly, and as we came home last week just in time for the Lace Day on Saturday, it has been quite an eventful couple of days! The Lace Day was enjoyable - caught up with lots of friends, and caught up with the news and gossip. *Didn't* spend a lot of money - a couple of books by Ulrike Lohr, but no bobbins as although the bobbin supplier was one who makes glass bobbins, I don't like his as much as Malcolm Fowler's, so it was a relatively inexpensive day for me! (My husband was quite impressed with my thriftiness too - I just didn't tell him *why* I hadn't spent too much of his hard-earned cash!) But, as I had no intention of starting at work again before today (Monday 22nd Sept) I decided to start on attempting to clear up the Lace Place, so that I could walk in, and see the carpet uncluttered by pins, tiny threads, and other impedimenta. Things were going well, until I picked up a brand-new, *huge* bag of tiny polystyrene beads. The only way to describe what happened is to say that it seemed as if the bag exploded - and tiny little polystyrene beads were all over the place! I have never seen anything like it - and every time I moved to try to pick some up, they seemed to be imbued with a life of their own, and I felt as if I was trapped in one of those little snow-storm paperweights!I tried to get up as many as I could using bits of card to pick them up but, after a great deal of hard work, and managing to get about 25% of what was released, I gave up the unequal struggle and used the vacuum cleaner on the rest. I had been using the beads to make the pillow-rests for my students but, as from now, I never want to see another polystyrene bead as long as I live. And the Lace Place floor isn't a lot better than when I started - where there were threads, are now small deposits of beads, so I don't think being helpful, tidy or useful is a good thing as far as I am concerned! Carol - in East Anglia, UK - where we have had some rain and high winds today, but probably not enough to quench the thirst of the gardens! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Canadian news
I have to be honest, I've never heard of the Gatineaus, but then I don't suppose a lot of people had heard of Poole or Dorset until four of us joined Arachne. I've heard of Ottawa. The one time I cried was when I'd struggled in to work through knee high snow - it had taken me two hours instead of half an hour. When I got there they decided we'd all have to be sent home. We set out for home at 11 am, and I got home at 2 pm. The phone lines were down. DH was supposed to be bringing fish and chips in for dinner that night because I said I wasn't going to cook. He finally arrived with them cold at 10 pm - it was my birthday, and I'd spent virtually the whole day alone. But I can sympathise, having lived through a power cut that lasted three days. We were just lumped together as the south west of England, and when 'most people' had had their power restored, we hadn't. It was like nobody cared. I don't think I'd have emptied the freezer and refrigerator into a garbage bag. I kept the freezer covered with a blanket, and didn't open it for 24 hours, in case the power came on. Stuff in the refrigerator that wouldn't keep, I cooked if it could be cooked (we had a calor gas cooker as our main cooking method anyway) to keep it a bit longer, and then after the 24 hours was up, I cooked quite a lot of what had thawed from the freezer. Some we ate, and some was OK to put back in the freezer cooked when the power came back on. I reckon I lost about half the freezer contents. Last Friday morning, the power in my area of Poole was cut at 7.45 am. About 1,000 households were without power and some of us lost our phone lines too. I phoned the electricity company on my mobile, and was told the power should be back on by 11 am. I then phoned the local radio station, but they didn't announce it. They finally mentioned it in a local news bulletin at 11 am, when we'd all had power restored telling us that we'd been without power for three hours - we already knew that. I had to go to my doctor's surgery, and they were resorting to paper records. Instead of looking up on the computer what drugs I already take, it was quicker for me to tell the doctor what drugs I have. Normally when he entered the prescription for the drug I needed this time, it would have flagged it if it would react with anything I was already on. Instead he had to get out a thicker book and look it up in there. There are three shops near the surgery - a pharmacy, a supermarket and a pet superstore. The pharmacy was open, but the other two weren't because their tills weren't working, although they could crank the doors open by hand. The pharmacy was writing down what money they took and what it was for as they have a much smaller throughput of stock and money than the other two shops. The pharmacist was finding drugs by feel and memory because the dispensary is in a bit at the back with no windows (they hadn't got a torch until a customer lent them one from his car). She said the prescription I needed was available in capsule or tablet, and as she'd found the tablets first, that was what I was going to get. She was glad the doctor had already checked on compatibility with other drugs, because she hadn't been able to find her book as she hadn't used it for a few years. Fortunately we haven'yt yet got to the point where we've thrown all the paper away and rely on technology totally. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Skippy
There was a wonderful (apparently true) story on our local radio station this morning. An Australian farmer was hit on the head by a falling branch during a storm. He received severe head injuries. The alarm was raised at his farmhouse by a kangaroo that the family had adopted. It was blind in one eye, was competely tame and thought it was a dog! It hammered on the farmhouse door with its front feet until someone came out, and then led them to the injured farmer. He received medical treatment and recovered. So Skippy lives! Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Canadian news
Hi, Before you read the following, a warning. I'm still pretty upset, so this will sound like an upset person speaking. A little while ago, someone from BC complained that Canadian news focuses on the east. This had to do with the reporting of the power outage and the BC fires. Well, have I got news for you. News has to do with numbers, forget east and west. Here's what happened. The leftovers of Isabelle (the storm) came through the Ottawa area on Friday. There were high winds. Trees fell. On power lines. All over the Gatineaus.. Over 4,500 households lost power on Friday afternoon. Over 4,000 still did not have power Friday night. By Saturday afternoon, the total was done to 2,000, and then by Saturday night, it was down to "a few hundred" (whatever that really means) who got to spend a second evening and night without power. I am told that power was finally restored to everyone late Sunday afternoon. Personnally, I lost power shortly after noon on Friday. It came back Sunday morning at 8h17. Yep, that's 44 hours. First thing I did, emptied the refrigerator and the freezer into a garbage bag. Second thing I did, sat down and cried. Also to be noted, I had to send my brother, who had driven over 500 km, to a hotel on Saturday night, because I had no power. So, let's have a show of hands. How many people knew that Isabelle really slammed into the Gatineaus? Oh, no one. No surprise. We didn't make the news. According to Hydro-Quebec there were just not enough people involved to warrant the news, not even the local news, NO MATTER HOW LONG IT LASTED. We could have been out of power for weeks, it doesn't matter unless you have big numbers. So, the news doesn't focus on the east, this is the east!!! it focuses on numbers, and numbers only. I mean, we were out of power longer than the Ottawa region during the power outage, I mean I had no power for 44 hours. REALLY, and we didn't even make the LOCAL NEWS. I'll stop now. Lise-Aurore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
