[lace-chat] arachne on a msg board
A couple of years ago, a very kind lady t an ISP set anothr list up for us, but no-one went over to it. I have looked at message boards, and while I don't think it would happen with lacemakers, a lot of what's posted is absolute drivel and not worth the effort of having to go and look at it. Being on dial-up, I don't like web-based email - having to open a new page to view each message takes an age. At the moment I flip down the list of emails and read the first few lines of each. I can immediately see if I want to read the whole lot or not. The second immediacy is the speed of replies. There's always someone reading your message as soon as it arrives in their inbox. I once wanted to order something from the US, but couldn't contact the shop. I posted a request on Arachne to ask if anyone knew if the shop was still open. An Arachnean in the shop's area phoned them and ten minutes after I posted my email, I had an email from the shop's owner to say their shop computer was down, and we conducted business between my computer and the owner's own personal one. Don't think that would happen with a message board. Personally I hate all the bells and whistles attached to html messages. I get 10 messages downloaded in a few seconds, DH might have to wait several minutes to receive two of his. By the time animated smiley faces, music, patterned backgrounds, fancy writing, four photos and an advert have been added to an email, it takes the same time to download a message as it does to make a cup of tea (apart from the risk of viruses, trojans, etc) - can't be bothered. Apart from the photos, none of the rest adds anything useful to the content of the message My brother recently sent me some photos via a link to AOL. He uploaded to AOL, and I looked at them and then downloaded them from a link in his email. Like Arachne webshots, I only looked at them because I wanted to. Give me the immediacy of Arachne every time. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 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
Dear Secret Pal I received my parcel today, and am absolutely delighted with it. Did you know my favourite colours? I can't remember if I put them on my info, but the threads are so pretty, and I will definitely use them soon. The gloves are fascinating - I had never heard of such things before, but will try them in the shower tomorrow - I will be all smooth and shiny! The pencil is too good to use, because I will never have another one, and want to keep it as a souvenir of where you are, and the little duck keyring fob is so sweet. I shall enjoy having him on my keys, and at least I won't lose them as frequently as I usually do - I locked them in the boot of my car only two weeks ago, and had to get my husband to come over to sort me out - he was not pleased!!! (Understatement of the year!) As for the fridge magnet, it is on my fridge right now. I guess you made it, and it is lovely. It is so nice to have something you have made yourself, and I will treasure it. Thank you again so much - don't worry that it was a bit late - it was really worth waiting for! Dee Palin Gloucestershire To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] arachne on a msg board
The other advantage of email, apart from shorter download times (if not using webmail) and the fact that you can access it from your mobile if you so wish is that you can normally get away with checking email at work if you do use something like Yahoo or Hotmail but checking a forum might be frowned on :o) Helen Helen, normally in Somerset, UK but back in Poole, Dorset for the summer Forget the formulae, let's make lace -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.1/51 - Release Date: 18/07/2005 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Rail passes, car hire and automatics.
A friend who will be visiting from the States has asked me: a) are train passes and car hire cheaper to sort out and pay for from the US? b) if they reserve an automatic, how likely are they to actually get one? Because of the wisdom of arachne, I was able to confidently say that rail passes are cheaper bought before they arrive but is there a time clause in there somewhere? Can someone tell me if the car hire is also better (moneywise) to be sorted out before they come? Last time they were here (1987) they had ordered an automatic but when they went to collect it, were told there wasn't one available, which meant he ended up doing all the driving. I think that automatics are getting more normal here but wondered if anyone has any recent experience on this. Many thanks, Jacquie in Lincolnshire. 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: cluny towels
i saw a photo of one used in a hotel in the u.k. and i thought that was the silliest thing anyone would ever need. i lived in detroit michigan and it didn't make sense why you would need a heater to warm or dry your towels. then i moved to tennessee! my towels dry rotted and ripped every chance they got regardless of how long i dried them in the dryer. it is even worse if you live in cinderblock or brick houses. it always feels damp and you have to make sure you wash the walls down regularly or there will be mold in every corner of the room or growing behind the dressers and bedheads. wood homes are not much better! the mold grows all year round regardless of how hot or cold for both types of houses. i'll bet towel holders are not that expensive nowadays unless you want a super deluxe model, and it would feel nice in the winter days to have a warm towel to dry yourself with. i think i saw one in a catalog called carol wright, but i don't remember the price. everything you buy from there is inexpensive. i can still smell the mold from a bedroom i had a few years ago. even if you left the window open and the bedroom door open to let air circulate better, it would still grow. it made me think of all those people in england where it rains all the time. i can just imagine what it would be like having to rewash the laundry all the time. if you have any clothes here in the closets they mildew as well. i have a nice inexpesive portable dryer or clothes hanger i hang my clothes on, and it keeps the clothes better than if they were left in a mildewy closet. that is really embarassing when you go to pull some clothes out after they have been in the closet for about a week, and they smell like wet laundry that mildewed before it dried. i really hate this kind of climate. but it is very pretty and very green here, and there is water and creeks everywhere you drive. i live a block away from a pretty creek i walk by when i am on the walking trail. i think i ordered the clothes dryer or hanger from a company called get organized. it is a giant pole that reaches the ceiling, and you push the top in to scrunch the inner spring to make it stand between the floor and the ceiling without support. then it has 4 arms that you can hang your clothes on. i won't use a dresser because they are as bad as a closet. --- Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 20, 2005, at 22:52, susan wrote: what about bath towels? I think they were made of plain fabric originally too. I think the ability of the machines to make loops on both sides must be *relatively* new (I tried to google, but I'm too hopeless, so couldn't find any dates). Loops on one side/plain on the other are older - that's what velvet and velveteen are (just cut afterwards, as are some towels). Most of the towels we had when I was a small child (1950ties) were of the loops-on-one- side-only kind; the Chinese imports, with loops on both sides, were something special, even though they were almost as thin, and the loops were not all that many (where there was a loop on one side, there was an empty space on the other; a bit like a knit/purl relationship). My mother got 3 towels from America which were true terrycloth (and which we called frote), but we never used them - they were too precious at first and, by the time I was in my teens, we could get something similiar made in Poland the terry cloths ones are so thick sometimes, especially when they are new, they never completely dry Especially in the Southern - always humid -weather :) I'm very envious of Brits and now the richer Poles who have the drying bars in their bathrooms :) -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from susan in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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] cluny towels
Susan wrote: it is even worse if you live in cinderblock or brick houses. it always feels damp and you have to make sure you wash the walls down regularly or there will be mold in every corner of the room or growing behind the dressers and bedheads. wood homes are not much better! Very few houses in England or the whole of he UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) are made of wood. In towns, nearly all are made of stone, brick or block. Country cottages may be made of flint, wattle and daub, or other materials handy locally. Houses with extensive mould would be declared unfit for living. My bungalow is two walls of brick with a gap between, filled with foam so that the heat is kept in in the winter and the heat out (supposedly) in the summer. The roof space has 12 inches of fibreglass, also to keep the heat in in winter, so save wasting fuel on heat going out through the walls and roof and heating the air outside instead of that in the house. it made me think of all those people in england where it rains all the time. It doesn't rain in England all the time. We're in the middle of a drought, with temperature hitting 30 degrees centigrade (the 90s fahrenheit). My washing is currently drying out on my washing line in an hour. We've had very little rain this year, and it seems to be getting less each year. I haven't put on more than a T-shirt for what seems like months, and DH has lived in shorts since April. We've got to the point where we'd welcome a decent amount of rain. Jean in Poole, Dorset, England, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] cluny towels
i have never heard of 90 degree weather in england or 30 degrees celcius. i watched a special on an area in england where it rained half the year. i would love the rain, if it did rain that much, but the dampness would kill me. it is good to know you have some nice sunny days. it is also good that you are insulated so well. you have gale winds there? i am not sure what gale winds are, but here in tennessee we have tornadoes. we now have something called a wind burst which usually and always has been called a tornado that hit the ground. they have classified it differently now and it is called a wind burst, unless it has always a been called that, but not by the news stations who report the damages who usually call it a tornadoe that hit the ground and spread out over the land. what are the low temperatures for a bad winter day in england? and why no trees to build houses with? or is it just more sturdier to build with brick? america has mostly wood houses, but there are plenty of brick ones as well. you will rarely see a home made of stone or flint. it costs too much money. it would be great to have a house that would out live you though, and a stone home would do just that. do you see any homes with arched floors from underneath? if they arch the ceiling in the right way, it would be used as the floor for the room up above it. i would love a home like that. you would never need repair. i am sure there are some here in the u.s., but where i live it is log cabins, wood homes, cinderblock, brick, and tim mobile homes. it is a rural area, so that is normal housing in a rural area. sometimes even the brick homes are first made with a wood frame closed in with chipped board and then brick added to the outside of home. a good brick home with thick brick walls is made with i think 4 widthwise, not lengthwise,thickness, unless it is backed by a wood frame. how many bricks thick is your first initial wall, and then after the insulation, how thick is the outside wall? how would a home be declared unfit to live in for mold? how do you get rid of it? i have heard of a mold so bad that they have to remove the brick it infests, but i never heard of a house being declared unfit. that would scare a home owner i'll bet. --- Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Susan wrote: it is even worse if you live in cinderblock or brick houses. it always feels damp and you have to make sure you wash the walls down regularly or there will be mold in every corner of the room or growing behind the dressers and bedheads. wood homes are not much better! Very few houses in England or the whole of he UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) are made of wood. In towns, nearly all are made of stone, brick or block. Country cottages may be made of flint, wattle and daub, or other materials handy locally. Houses with extensive mould would be declared unfit for living. My bungalow is two walls of brick with a gap between, filled with foam so that the heat is kept in in the winter and the heat out (supposedly) in the summer. The roof space has 12 inches of fibreglass, also to keep the heat in in winter, so save wasting fuel on heat going out through the walls and roof and heating the air outside instead of that in the house. it made me think of all those people in england where it rains all the time. It doesn't rain in England all the time. We're in the middle of a drought, with temperature hitting 30 degrees centigrade (the 90s fahrenheit). My washing is currently drying out on my washing line in an hour. We've had very little rain this year, and it seems to be getting less each year. I haven't put on more than a T-shirt for what seems like months, and DH has lived in shorts since April. We've got to the point where we'd welcome a decent amount of rain. Jean in Poole, Dorset, England, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from susan in tennessee,u.s.a. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] cluny towels
In a message dated 7/21/2005 4:28:08 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how would a home be declared unfit to live in for mold? how do you get rid of it? i have heard of a mold so bad that they have to remove the brick it infests, but i never heard of a house being declared unfit. Hi All - It just so happens that at the job I just lost I did a lot of research on mold (or mould) because it has become a big big problem for the insurance industry. The new insurance policies generally all have a mold exclusion for that very reason. But there have been insurance claims for millions of dollars for damage to homes and health from mold. Ed McMahon, who used to be on Johnny Carson, got a multi-million dollar award ($6 million, I think) for mold contamination in his home. He also claimed that the mold killed his dog. Some types of mold are more toxic than others, but none of them are good for youAnd I'm not even talking about what mold can do to lace! Luckily, we don't have much problem with mold here, in Utah, because it is so exceedingly dry. But, of course, that presents problems of its own -- like maintaining the water supply! We just came off a six-year drought.Finally! Ricki Torrey Utah USA To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] cluny towels
For what it's worth, I grew up in coastal Virginia and we never experienced dry rot or any kind of rot of towels, and our house was brick and we didn't wash down the walls and we didn't grow mold on them either. Or anywhere else, either. My mother would never have stood for that. Norfolk is hot and humid most of the year, too, by anyone's standards. So my opinion is that the houses Susan is talking about have some other problems, such as lack of circulation around the house. Up here in New England which is supposed to be a lot drier than my part of Virginia, we moved into a house (wood) and there was mildew behind doors and other places. But it was also surrounded by huge pine trees. We cut down most of them so my husband could farm the land, and the mold disappeared. We also got air circulation and sunshine. Regards, Carolyn Carolyn W. Hastings Stow, MA USA Susan wrote: it is even worse if you live in cinderblock or brick houses. it always feels damp and you have to make sure you wash the walls down regularly or there will be mold in every corner of the room or growing behind the dressers and bedheads. wood homes are not much better! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Fw: HOW TO MAKE A WOMAN HAPPY
HOW TO MAKE A WOMAN HAPPY It's not difficult to make a woman happy. A man only needs to be: 1. a friend 2. a companion 3. a lover 4. a brother 5. a father 6. a master 7. a chef 8. an electrician 9. a carpenter 10. a plumber 11. a mechanic 12. a decorator 13. a stylist 14. a sexologist 15. a gynecologist 16. a psychologist 17. a pest exterminator 18. a psychiatrist 19. a healer 20. a good listener 21. an organizer 22. a good father 23. very clean 24. sympathetic 25. athletic 26. warm 27. attentive 28. gallant 29. intelligent 30. funny 31. creative 32. tender 33. strong 34. understanding 35. tolerant 36. prudent 37. ambitious 38. capable 39. courageous 40. determined 41. true 42. dependable 43. passionate 44. compassionate WITHOUT FORGETTING TO: 45. give her compliments regularly 46. love shopping 47. be honest 48. be very richThat's all they care about 49. not stress her out 50. not look at other girls AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOU MUST ALSO: 51. give her lots of attention, but expect little for himself 52. give her lots of time, especially time for herself 53. give her lots of space, never worrying about where she goes 54. give the authority but never expect her to be responsible 55. give her the last word no matter what the cost to your life and limb IT IS VERY IMPORTANT: 54. Never to forget: birthdays, anniversaries and arrangements she makes. HOW TO MAKE A MAN HAPPY 1. Show up naked 2. Fix him something to eat. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
