[lace-chat] mobiles and their charges
Lynne wrote: >We have had to block our house phone from phoning mobiles since our last >bill. DD2 was calling her friends - only for a few seconds each time (when >she was out of credit on her mobile) but the accrued total of minimum call >charges was frightening. I sympathize with you, Lynne! I have always wondered by which logic various Telecoms around the world have decided that people on normal phones ringing a mobile had to pay extra!! After all, it's not my fault if someone I need to talk to prefers to own a mobile rather than a normal phone!! Why should I pay for his/her choice? And you can get really stung by trade people transferring their calls to a mobile without warning you! My parents in France got an enormous phone bill because they had to arrange repairs on a house in a different part of the country from where they live usually. They had to do it by phone, and didn't realize that every time they rang the guy's phone number, they were transferred to his mobile! And 80% of the time he wasn't there even to answer his mobile, but my parents had to pay for the connection!! Why don't we all revolt against that practice? Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.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] secret pal's thanks
Dear secret pal, I think you might have unsubscribed, since you are coming to Australia on holidays, but just in case, I'm sending this to say I've just received your lovely parcel for September! Thank you so much for the Italian lace book, I've always wanted to try that kind of lace, so now I can start from the beginning! I also like the cottons and the crochet hook. Would you believe it! I've got nbr 1,2 and 3 and I've got nbr 5 and 6, but no number 4, so it's perfect!! I'm looking forward to seeing you at the end of the month. Have a wonderful holiday. Helene, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.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] Mobiles and their charges
We have a mobile and a land phone. The mobile I got for free when I changed credit cards a few years ago. It costs 50p a minute (charged by the second) to use the mobile, but then as we only use it when DH and I really need to contact each other when one is out of the house because of his parents being in ill-health (whever's out takes the phone) and for me to call the breakdown services if the car breaks down, the cost of calls doesn't matter. But we do get strange looks because it isn't a slim fold-up one with a fancy ring-tone. But so what - it enables us to make and receive calls. And we pay in advance, ony needing to put GBP 10.00 into it, which can last for as long as we like provided we make one paid-for call every six months. I usually top it up just once a year. We don't see the need for a phone that can take pictures, play games, download music, show football matches, etc - it's a phone for goodness sake! But try and buy one now that doesn't do all that. I can't understand how children can have a GBP300 phone and afford to have it either clamped permanently to their ears (I don't intend microwaving my brain - there's little enough left), or giving themselves a permanent disability in their thumbs through texting. They could be doing something more useful with their time and money. Off my soapbox. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Mobiles and their charges
I recently found a good use for the camera on my phone. When I was out at the fabric shop I work at looking for patterns for DD2's deb(formal) dress I took a photo of a pattern I thought would work and then I took a photo of the number of the pattern so I wouldn't forget it. We were then able to look up the pattern on the net. She loved it so that's the one. An ideal use for the phone. By the way, DD1 recorded a message for me so I could pick my phone ring out amongst all the other noise in our daily life. It says, "Hey Mum your phone's ringing. You better pick up the phone Mum. Hello, Hello you phone's ringing." Everyone who hears it either falls about laughing or wants to throw it against the wall. Cheers, Yvonne. - Original Message - From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 6:11 PM Subject: [lace-chat] Mobiles and their charges > We have a mobile and a land phone. The mobile I got for free when I changed > credit cards a few years ago. It costs 50p a minute (charged by the second) > to use the mobile, but then as we only use it when DH and I really need to > contact each other when one is out of the house because of his parents being > in ill-health (whever's out takes the phone) and for me to call the > breakdown services if the car breaks down, the cost of calls doesn't matter. > But we do get strange looks because it isn't a slim fold-up one with a fancy > ring-tone. But so what - it enables us to make and receive calls. And we pay > in advance, ony needing to put GBP 10.00 into it, which can last for as long > as we like provided we make one paid-for call every six months. I usually > top it up just once a year. > > We don't see the need for a phone that can take pictures, play games, > download music, show football matches, etc - it's a phone for goodness sake! > But try and buy one now that doesn't do all that. > > I can't understand how children can have a GBP300 phone and afford to have > it either clamped permanently to their ears (I don't intend microwaving my > brain - there's little enough left), or giving themselves a permanent > disability in their thumbs through texting. They could be doing something > more useful with their time and money. > > Off my soapbox. > > 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]
[lace-chat] enjoying the "list"
I am so glad to have this lace chat list! It has been a great place to retreat lately. I think everyone needs distractions at one time or another in their lives, and this list is just such a place to get away. I love reading everything people write about. The poem about grandma is cute, and the quote from David about family history was one that I will copy and keep. The distraction is greatly appreciated because we are just under a lot of stress down here in Florida these days. After four major storms in one summer, if there is one thing that I am an expert on... it is how to prepare for a hurricane! The forecasts seem to include everyone at one point or another, so tensions are on hold as we all wait to see where a storm will make landfall, and how it will impact areas around it. You begin to wonder if you will need to evacuate, and what you will take if you do. After a while, it all works together to begin to wear you down. When Ivan showed up on the scene, and the evacuations started again down south, I could already sense the frustration setting in up here. Most of my neighbors have not taken down the wood from Frances...which was only put up on their windows because they went through effects from Charley without any wood on the windows. There was a rumor going around Friday that gasoline was going to be rationed. Just a rumor, but people at first were lining up 3-5 deep at the gas stations. Things calmed down the next day. I think keeping a sense of calm is one of the hardest things facing those of us in Florida right now. It doesnt matter whether you will be in the path of the storm or not. Even when you find out your area will be spared the worst, you hurt for the ones who will not be spared. It has been a tense month and a half. I have never watched the weather channel as often as I have lately, but they have been very helpful in keeping everyone informed, and it amazes me how brave these pilots are who fly right into the storm! I have really enjoyed reading my Bible, especially the Psalms. I read things there that seem to say exactly how I feel, and then take my feelings right on up to God. There is great peace available there to anyone who asks. We have spent more time with our neighbors...even helping each other cut up the trees that have fallen, etc. It is a summer we will not soon forget. Thanks! Debbie ... in Florida (and still loving this place!) ([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] secret pal
Hello to my secret pal. I just received your package today, what a treat you are spoiling me. The two pair of bobbins are wonderful, it's the one thing that I really don't have many of, the divider pin is my first and I love it. The magnets and pads are almost too pretty to use, but I will and the spider, he's so cute. I used to be afraid of spiders until I joined this list, now there not so bad. I will attach him to my pillow to watch over my work. I have been doing some lace, trying to figure out spiders, and the next thing I want to try is the roseground, what is chrysanthemum lace? Thank you again and I am now off to add these bobbins to my pillow. Hugs to you and Thank you for everything. Lynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clarksburg, WV To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Of limited interest (US)
My son sent me a link to a New York Times front-page article today (a propos something we'd been e-talking about). I'd already read the article in the preferred format (hard copy ), but wasted some time checking out the "periferals", so that I could refer him back to another one, in the op-ed section, which I thought was even more important, for everyone in the US. Please check (if you can; the URL looks peculiar to me ): http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13herbert.html? n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fBo b%20Herbert Also, for those who like Alice in Wonderland, here's a take off on Jabberwocky... Part of my 4th year U grammar exam was to parse the original; this one's easier :) nicholaskristof - 4:42 PM ET September 9, 2004 (#586 of 588) Readers know I’m a soft touch for poetry. One reader wrote this satire of Jabberwocky: The Jabberwonks 'Twas bush league, and the slimy droves Of rightwingnuts loved condibabe; While powells, ashcrofts, cheneys, roves, And rumsfelds abu ghraib. "Beware the Jabberwonks, my son! Their clauses mean, their verbs agree -- Beware the tax!" said Forty-one; "... the facts!" heard Forty-three. He took his verbal word in mouth Long time the media he conned: He grinned and quipped "If there's no script Then I need not respond!" He stood there not responding when The Jabberwonks showed photographs Of tortured captives Rummy's men Had tormented for laughs. "Just one or two! At most a few!" The verbal word denied, denied, Denied command of those it canned And, in courts martial, tried. "And hast thou gamed the Jabberwonks, With talk of honor where there's none; Is oil still squirtin' for Halliburton? Oh, what a good job you've done!" 'Twas bush league, and the slimy droves Of rightwingnuts loved condibabe; While powells, ashcrofts, cheneys, roves, And rumsfelds abu ghraib. --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
