[lace-chat] Thank You S P
Dear Secret Pal, I am very lucky to have such a thoughtful S P as you. The bright box of goodies have really helped to cheer me up at the end of a very stressful week.I love the frogs they are too nice to shut in my jewellery box, so I think that I will find a way to put them on my lace pillow. I can understand why the Kookaburra is your favourite bird, as his song is very cheery and he has quite a cute look.I think that I will have a long soak in a rose scented bath tomorrow. I look forward to next month when I will find out who you are. Best Wishes Sue >From Southampton U.K. where the sun is shining and there are signs of spring on the way. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] plants
hello Jenny there are lots of sites on plants on the web but here's one i think will be useful to you for a start http://www.gardengatemagazine.com/ and here are a few others i got on google about australian gardens which might be just as important because your plants will grow better if they're adapted to your country (though we do have eucalyptus and wattles in the south of France .. where everybody thinks mimosa aka wattle is native ... i am from the south of France though living in paris and enjoying every minute of it and what i miss most is the yellow cover of wattles on the hill sides in spring .. that's one of the things that make life worth living ...! ..) so back to the australian sites about flowers and plants http://www.au.gardenweb.com/ http://www.global-garden.com.au/ http://www.heyne.com.au/gardencentre/ enjoy your gardening and show us photos from time to time .. dominique from Paris where the temps are freezing and flowers blooming .. go figure! .. Jenny Rees a décidé d' écrire à Ò[lace-chat] plantsÓ. [2004/03/12 22:26] > To all spiders with green thumbs > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] March in the Northern Hemisphere
Dominique's comment about the weather in Paris put me in mind of the saying 'March - in like a lion, out like a lamb'. I always found it was more in like a lamb and out like a lion - the last roar of winter. When I was at Uni in Bradford (West Yorkshire) never had problems getting home or back to Uni at Christmas/New Year but always had problems at Easter. Peter in Shellharbour, NSW To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Query
Janice and all, That is a probably a worm or virus. Do not open it! It was not sent out by Arachne but came from someone who has both Arachne and your address in their address book. Without going into the technical details, I can assure you that the chances of getting a virus from Arachne are almost non-existent (and if one had been sent out, you would not be the only one!). Attachments are never sent out on this list because the server strips them (digests readers see only garbage if attachments are sent). Best wishes, Avital - Original Message - From: "Janice Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have received an email from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and the subject is "re: your document" with an attachment, total 25K. I have not opened either email or attachment. Is this a possible virus or worm? Avital can you let me know if anything like this is being sent out legitimately. thanks, > Janice Blair To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] I'm back!/Query
Tamara wrote: chat (Avital, you're a *gem* to have remembered to resubscribe me before I had a chance to nudge you!), which I read before I crashed. >>> Believe me, downloading a free calendar program was one of the best things I ever did. These days I have a mind like a steel sieve. Avital To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Spain
My analysis is from a purely personal standpoint, but watching this sort of thing evolve over the past decades, I've come to the conclusion that terrorism (when not done by a state to its own citizens, where the resulting control is a real political benefit to those in charge) is a desperate attempt by people who feel powerless to control the wellbeing of themselves or their cause, to gain a sense of power over others. It's probably akin to domestic violence. The problem is how to stop it, since the fear of being undervalued (and in some cases, the experience of not being able to make any headway with normal means of negotiation) is very deeply-rooted. Especially in cultures which are based on the honor of the group or individual, it seems almost insoluble, since backing down on demands entails a loss of honor. And all it takes is a few extremists or even mentally unbalanced people, now that explosives and poisons like sarin exist. It was harder to accomplish in the old days - one person couldn't take out hundreds very easily. If all people felt that all people were just like themselves, and just as valuable, this sort of thing would be hard to do... but most of us (myself included, I hate to admit, even though I fight against it, since I believe it to be wrong!) draw lines around the people who are part of "our group", and consider others as somehow less worthy of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Just for a personal test, do you feel the same sense of outrage when a member of another ethnic or political group dies in a terrorist attack as when one of your own does? At the worst, individuals and groups believe that only members of their own family or group are worthy of protecting. Oh well... end of political rant, and wishing there were some way to wave a magic wand of peace and prosperity for all -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Spain
I also add my condolences to all our lace friends in Spain. Whatever the causes the results are tragedies for innocent people and it often seems too terrible for words. My best wishes to all of you Judy in Niagara Falls To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Fwd: An unusual love story
From: R.P. Penguins accept same-sex commitments. Why do some people have so much trouble with the idea? Feb. 23 - Birds do it. Bees do it. And, it turns out, even the penguins at the Central Park Zoo do it. So let's do it: Let's let gay people make a lifelong commitment to each other marry openly, legally and in public. I reached this Cole Porter-esque conclusion on Valentine's Day when, in my ongoing quest to understand why some heterosexuals believe that gay marriage will destroy their "traditional" marriages, I stopped by the Central Park Zoo to interview the famously gay penguins, Roy and Silo. You may not know about Roy and Silo, but we New Yorkers have been mighty proud since they came out in 1998. Finally, instead of having New York's collective sex life defined by the floozy, commitment-challenged heterosexual women of "Sex and the City" or the pages of personal ads taken out by single losers, we finally had a First Couple of Monogamy that would show the world that love and fidelity could still conquer all (plus, they looked great in their little tuxedos). Roy and Silo's love is a story for the ages. Like so many great lovers, Roy and Silo met in a zoo holding tank in 1998. They were young then, and unsure of themselves sexually, like many adolescents (and when I say "adolescents," of course, I mean me). But their attraction could not be denied, and they have remained inseparable, according to Central Park Zoo penguin keeper Rob Gramzay. Gramzay knew that Roy and Silo had paired off, because at breeding time, they did everything the "straight" penguins did: they built a nest, they defended it from others and engaged in what zookeepers euphemistically call "ecstatic display." It sounds kinky, but it simply means that the penguins stand straight up, stretch out their wings and entwine their necks. It's the penguin equivalent of going to City Hall in San Francisco. (As an aside, isn't S.F. mayor Gavin Newsom a genius? By allowing gays to marry, not only is he sending a powerful civil rights message, but every one of those gay couples had to buy a marriage license. At $82 a pop, Newsom has added almost $400,000 to the strapped civic treasury-money that certainly won't be refunded when President Bush amends the Constitution to do something no reasonable compassionate conservative would ever do: Make it less protective of individual freedom and personal liberty rather than more). Back in the tank, Roy and Silo's behavior indicated that they really wanted a kid. Zookeepers gave them a dummy penguin egg, just to see if they'd actually incubate it. When they did, zookeepers gave them an actual egg, which Roy and Silo again incubated. When the baby chick was born, Roy and Silo cared for it, feeding it yummy regurgitated smelt and keeping it warm until it could survive on its own. Years later, Roy and Silo are still going strong. And so are all their heterosexual penguin pals who share the tank with them. So, that dispels one myth about gay marriage: Roy and Silo's commitment to each other has not destroyed the sanctity of the other penguin marriages. Gramzay said the penguin divorce rate remains the same as it was before Roy and Silo hooked up. Not that you see much "hooking up." I'll admit it, I had gone to Central Park in hopes of seeing some hot gay penguin sex, but it turns out that penguins pretty much ignore each other until mating season, which begins in about six weeks. So when I visited the tank last week, Roy was puttering around with a rock while Silo swam and barely made eye contact. In other words, they looked liked an old married couple. Besides, sex in the penguin world - straight or gay-isn't all that hot (and it's barely sex). Penguins don't have genitals, per se, so gay penguin sex is exactly the same as straight penguin sex (not to be graphic here, but it basically involves the locking of cloacae. Can I say "cloacae" on a family Web site?). The only difference, Gramzay said, is that Roy and Silo unlock before, um, "completion." That sounded strange to me, so I called my thespian friend, Eric Oleson (it's okay to call him that because he's openly thespian). As a gay man, Oleson was impressed by Roy and Silo's commitment to each other, despite a climax-free sex life. "It's actually kind of sweet," Oleson said. "They realize that they don't have the equipment, yet they're still devoted to each other. It shows that gay marriage is not just about sex." (Another gay-marriage myth dispelled! Just because a couple can't breed, doesn't mean it can't love. And, after all, Roy and Silo successfully adopted.) So if Roy and Silo can do it, why can't humans? Indeed, if homosexual marriages exist in the animal kingdom, they must be normal. Then again, many opponents of gay marriage say that anything animals do is, well, animalistic and they want no part of it. But by that logic, we should give up straight sex, too, because animals pretty much invented it
[lace-chat] S. P Thank you
Sorry if this is late, but have just got home again, after visiting our families. Your parcel was waiting on the door step when I arrived home. I lov e the scarfe it is so delicate, and the coupon cutter, very handy to have around. the bobbin, and the lovely dragonfly pin, but the piece of Turkish lace, made in U.K. and now here in Mt.Eliza, I will have to take it with me to our next meeting, this week, a group of us will take off from the meeting to go to Sale for a lace weekend. I hope that things start to improve for you,I know how you feel, we went to visit family which if you drive straight through is about 9 hrs, but because DH has not been the best this past year , it took us a week and a half to get there, and another week to get home, every two or three hours and we pulled in for the night, or some times two nights.But now I have seen the family I can concentrate of my family here. Margaret in Mt. Eliza To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] RE: plants
Jenny, I can only think of US ones, and I like Wayside Gardens - they give the planting zones, shade/sun requirements, etc. You might want to see if any of the botanical gardens down in Oz have a website - I know you have a wonderful one in Canberra, which I only partly explored last time I was there. Don't know if Burke's Backyard has any links to horticultural sites down there. Cheers, Helen, Aussie living in Delightful Denver To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
