[lace-chat] PayPal in Australia
Fellow Spiders, My son is flying out to Australia at the end of February for an extended stay, and I have persuaded him to open a PayPal Personal account as an easy way to transfer funds from the UK [i.e. is me selling his 350-odd CDs on eBay and passing on the proceeds :)] He will be opening an Australian bank account - so my question is - will he be able to transfer funds from a Sterling PayPal account to an Australian bank account? I assume he can, although when I transfer funds to him, I only get the choice of Sterling, $, Yen or Euros! Grateful for any advice, etc, as always. Regards, Ann McClean in Llanmerewig, Mid-Wales, U.K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ My Collection of Lace on Stamps of the World http://www.ann-mcclean.mid-wales.net ~~~ CAWTHORN, SCOTT DeSilva PALMER Family History Pages: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/ ~~~ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Thanks to my secret pal
Dear Secret Pal: I just got your package yesterday and found within a wonderful surprise. I just love the hooded bobbins! They are beautiful and they feel good in the hands. I think I will use them for my gold gimps on the lace piece I am making for my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary. What good timing! I was just getting ready to wind the bobbins for the piece. I'll post my web page when I am finished so that you can see it. I also love the postcards. Your comments made me feel as if I was there. I collect postcards from around the world and these will be a welcome addition. :-) Thank you so much, Rita Lloyd In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. -Flora Edwards To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Snippets from UK newspapers
The Guardian: Irish police are being handicapped in a search for a stolen van, because they cannot issue a description. It's a Special Branch vehicle and they don't want the public to know what it looks like. Sunday Times: A rival newspaper has stated that eight out of every ten people are useless at their jobs. How do we know that this story was written accurateky by one of the two out of ten workers who know what they are doing? Daily Telegraph/Daily Mail: When Doris How, 82, hurt her leg in a Tesco supermarket in Hertford, a bag of frozen peas was used to ease the pain. Afterwards she discovered that the store had charged her 78 pence for the peas. Tesco later apologised and sent her a basket of fruit and a potted plant. Daily Telegraph: Daily food budget per person on a submarine - 2 pounds. Daily food budget for a guard dog at a naval base - 3.5 pounds. Sunday Telegraph: For Bush's stay at Buckingham Palace, the Queen was not willing to countenance 'bomb and airborne assault-proofing' of her London home. Her Majesty's view was that since there are going to be 5,000 British policemen involved in the security operation, it is not unreasonable to expect guests to have some faith in their abilities. The Times: In a survey which asked people to choose which characters best represented loyalty Winston Churchill beat the Queen to the top spot. Tony Blair scored less highly than Lassie, Jess (Postman Pat's cat), Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and Mr Darcy from 'Pride and Prejudice'. The Times: Road safety signs were erected by Sheffield council workmen warning motorists of a school ahead in Bradfield village, South Yorkshire. The school closed down 18 years ago. Independent on Sunday: Plans to stage Britain's first frozen turkey bowling championships at Manchester ice rink were abandoned after objections from animal rights campaigners. Plastic birds were used instead. Daily Telegraph: Four International rally drivers were banned from driving after being caught in speed traps during the British leg of the 2002 World Rally Championships. They were among 17 rally drivers caught by the roadside cameras, apparently set up to trap spectators following the rally cars. Daily Mail: Receiving a Christmas card with a robin on it is a sign of something nasty to come according to the Penguin Guide 'The Superstititions of Britain and Ireland'. But wearing a spider in a bag around your neck until the spider dies will bring good luck. 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] :-) Men strike back!!!!
Men strike back! How many men does it take to open a beer? None. It should be opened by the time she brings it. --- Why is a Laundromat a really bad place to pick up a woman? Because a woman who can't even afford a washing machine will probably never be able to support you. Why do women have smaller feet than men? It's one of those evolutionary things that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink. --- How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart? When she starts her sentence with A man once told me... --- How do you fix a woman's watch? You don't. There is a clock on the oven. --- Why do men break wind more than women? Because women can't shut up long enough to build up the required pressure. --- If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first? The dog, of course. He'll shut up once you let him in. --- What's worse than a Male Chauvinist Pig? A woman who won't do what she's told. --- I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her fi! rst name was Always. --- Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes a woman's sex drive by 90%. It's called a Wedding Cake. --- Why do men die before their wives? They want to. Or they are driven to it.! --- Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy. --- In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God created Man and rested. Then God created Woman. Since then, neither God nor Man has rested. --- Send this to a few good men who need a laugh and to the select few women who can handle the truth... I'd just like to see DH try and strike back :-D 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] :) Fwd: Driving forces
I'm forwarding two-for-the-price-of-one, since both reached me within minutes (serendipity at work again g) and both share the same motor-motif... The joke, even though not the freshest, is still funny; the other is hot off the presses... From: A. N. An elderly Florida lady did her shopping, and upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her voice, I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car! The four men didn't wait for a second invitation. They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and get into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then it dawned on her why. A few minutes later she found her own car parked four or five spaces down. She loaded her bags into her car and then drove to the police station. The sergeant to whom she told the story nearly tore himself in two with laughter. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed. Ah, senior moments! From: T.H. Thursday, January 15, 2004 SPOKANE -- Three men streaking through the warmth of a Denny's restaurant were chilled and chagrined when they spotted a thief driving away in their getaway car, their clothing inside. Naked in the 20-degree weather, the three young men huddled behind cars in an adjacent parking lot until police arrived. I don't think they were hiding. I think they were just concealing themselves, police spokesman Dick Cottam said. The trio, wearing only shoes and hats, entered the restaurant in north Spokane at about 5 a.m. Wednesday. They left their car running outside so they could make a quick exit. But a man eating inside the restaurant saw the running vehicle and stole it, along with the streakers' clothes, Cottam said. The streakers watched through the windows as their car drove away, Cottam said. They ran outside but could not catch it. Cottam did not name the victim of the car theft, but said he was 21. He did not have the names or ages of the other two streakers, who were not arrested. I think it was just three kids who decided to fool around, Cottam said. We always tell people to not leave their car running, he added. Restaurant manager Ryan Swennumson called the incident funny, but declined further comment. Information from: The Spokesman-Review - Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Airline security
When I travel these days, because I haven't tried to take my lace pillow as hand baggage, I usually take my cross-stitch project. I use the smallest, fine gold needle that I can find and the bag also contains my hang-round-the neck magnifier, photocopies of my chart and coloured pens for filling in where I have been, and a dental floss holder to cut the thread in the absence of scissors. I have never had to open this package and have travelled with this for several years, the only recent change being the dental floss holder instead of scissors. Malvary in Ottawa, where the temperature is down to -28C (-20F) and the wind-chill around -40 where both C and F are the same To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Driving forces
Well, I didn't have the young men or the gun, but I had a similar problem recently!Just before Christmas, I bought a new car - and like a lot of cars these days, it has a remote zapper in the keyring to lock or unlock the car. I've really enjoyed playing with my new toy. We went for a run in the country a couple of weeks ago, and stopped in a village for lunch. Returning to the car, I zapped and zapped - and the car wouldn't unlock. DH tried his key ... same result. In desperation, I tried the key in the door lock to see if I could unlock the car manually - and that's when I found I was trying to get into the wrong car!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: A. N. An elderly Florida lady did her shopping, and upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her voice, I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car! The four men didn't wait for a second invitation. They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and get into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then it dawned on her why. A few minutes later she found her own car parked four or five spaces down. She loaded her bags into her car and then drove to the police station. The sergeant to whom she told the story nearly tore himself in two with laughter. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed. Ah, senior moments! http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Commerative time again!
Me again! While I'm so chatty, it's commerative time again! We need a bobbin maker to make us some bobbins! If you do bobbins, and are interested in being the vendor for the 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] commerative bobbins, please give me a buzz at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We usually order about 50-100 midlands, 30 or so contintials, and if you offer any other type of bobbin, like travel, squares, or what have you, please let me know. The Arachne group usually likes the price to be between $5-$10 per bobbin. Thanks! JoAnne Pruitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
