[lace-chat] RE: lTesco
Haven't heard of Tesco cancelling like that before although a friend's husband did go for a job as a driver of the home delivery vans. He resigned after the first day. The orders weren't ready when he was supposed to have delivered them. He was supplied with no maps or directions and couldn't find many of the addresses. This is someone with excellent local knowledge too! Luckily we live 10 mins walk away from our nearest Tesco so only the major shop has to be done by car and they are open 24 hours so we are rarely caught without anything. On a positive note - on Tuesday while in the store I went through a doorway and hit my foot very hard on a protruding barrier (We have just been refurbished). It was sticking 6" into the doorway. I went to the desk and informed them that it needed to be removed before someone had a more serious accident. I took the girl down to the doorway and showed it to her. She said she'd get maintainance onto it. Well, I was fine till 3 hours later when my foot went (we think) into spasms and I couldn't walk or even put weight on my foot at all so a trip to the next town to A&E was called for. There was no fracture but painkillers and rest prescribed. On the way home (10.35pm) we called in at Tesco to let them know what had happened as it needed to be put in their accident book and I wanted to be sure they would remove the barrier. When we took the duty managed to show him the barrier it had gone! So full marks to Tesco for removing it so promptly. The next day they sent flowers, chocolates (Thorntons!) and a gift voucher as a good will gesture. My foot has improved rapidly and I'm back at work but an elderly person could have had a nasty fall on top of the bruising. Off to work now - then to Tesco for milk as DD" has drunk it all leaving just enough for morning coffee!! Lynne. Lynne Cumming Baldock, North Herts, UK email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Disappearing words
While I recognise a lot of the words Lorri mentions, some of them are very "American" - fender (bumper), emergency brake or parking brake (handbrake), picture show/movie (cinema/film). Got no idea what a "fender skirt" or a "curb feeler" might be. No. Where I was brough up in the east end of London, it was a real luxury for a family to own a car even in the 1950s, and no-one I knew did. A family was considered to be "very rich" if they had a car. I remember being walked to school in the 40s by my mother with my friends and their mothers too. The headmaster and rest of the teachers arrived on their bicycles. Through the 50s pupils and teachers travelled by bus. I remember only two teachers in my school up to 1959 havng a car. My parents didn't own a car for any part of their lives. DH cycled 15 miles each way to work and back from age 16 to 19, then he bought a motorcycle. We could fiunally afford a second-hand car when I was 23 and DH was 27. That was when we both took driving lessons and our driving tests. 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] Tesco
I don't like Tesco, although I get my top-up shopping there in the middle of the week because it's only just round the corner. I slipped on a grape (OK, you can laugh), resulted in a painful knee and bruising. MY doctor said not to push it too far because he couldn't really say what was the result of the fall and what was my arthritis, so I settled for Tesco paying me GBP100 as a gesture of good will. My dislike of them goes back to the late 1960s when they were just starting out and supermarkets weren't that common. A brand new store was built in the town we lived in, and I bought two quarter frozen chicken portions and half a pound of lamb's liver (can't stand any other kind). I thawed the chicken, quickly rinsed them without really looking at them and cooked them in the oven. When I got them out to serve I found I'd got two quarters of chick, two quarters of giblets and two quarters of the plastic back the giblets have been in - someone had quartered a frozen chicken (complete with giblets) and repackaged them. The liver turned out to be pig's liver and not lambs. So I contacted Tesco head office and took the evidence to Trading Standards. It turned out that manufacturers of products offers prizes to anyonewho sells the most of their product. The manager of the store wanted to win a yacht (yes a yatch) by selling the most of something (I don't know what). He'd ordered and had delivered large quantities of the product and had walled them up behind a false wall in the storeroom at the back of the shop. Why no-one noticed, I don't know. He'd them had to cover his tracks by recouping the money spent on the product and had repackaged anything he could (like cheap pig's liver as expensive lamb's) to get the money back. He was prosecuted and jailed, and I got a whole vanload of freebies from Tesco to keep me quiet. Didn't shop with them again until we moved here, but them I was put off by the smell of stale milk and filth under the fixed cooling ducts under the trolleys of milk in the milk isle. If it's like that where the public go, what's it like where they don't. I wasn't exactly thrilled to see a rat run out from their delivery area either. Yes, I know that we're all only six feet away from a rat in the sewers, but I don't want to be reminded. And Brenda I found out the name of the Chief exec and head office address by phoning the store - they were only too hap[y to give it - but I'm sure the address is probably on the Clubcard statement (who keeps those?). Best one to complain to is Sainsburys - I just got 1,000 Nectar points (£5.00) for complaining that the handles of the corrugated card 6-litre longlife milk carriers break too easily - not that they'll do anything about them. 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]
Re: [lace-chat] Disappearing words
>While I recognise a lot of the words Lorri mentions, some of them >are very "American" - fender (bumper), emergency brake or parking >brake (handbrake), picture show/movie (cinema/film). Got no idea >what a "fender skirt" or a "curb feeler" might be. What do you call a bumper then? To me, a bumper is the long strip of metal or plastic at the front and rear ends of the car that protects the rest of the car from small collisions. The fender is the curved piece of metal that goes over the side of the car where the wheels are. I don't know what a fender skirt is, unless it's an extension of the fender that comes down over the wheel, but a curb feeler was a stiff metal rod attached to the car with a stiff spring at the point it attached. You put one near the front wheel and one near the back wheel on the side that would be near the curb when parallel parking. They were just long enough to contact the curb at the ideal distance. If they brushed the curb, you could hear them, so they both provided warning when you were getting too near and reassurance that you weren't parking too far away from the curb. -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan -- -- 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]
Re: [lace-chat] Disappearing words
Jean and All A 'fender skirt' was a specially fitted piece that fit into the opening of the metal covering the wheel of the car. It was there to make the lower edge of the car's skin/metal covering have a straight line from the front of the car to the back. They had to be removed to change a tire. I think the idea was to make the care look 'sleek and long', and possibly more aerodynamic. And 'curb feelers' were a spring wire fixed to the lower edge of the car's metal covering. They were there to rub on the curb of the street when parking, to let the driver know how close to the curb the car was. Usually only installed on the right or passenger's side of the car as that was the side that might rub against the curb when parking. Neither item was used many years, more like a passing fad. Jean N says While I recognise a lot of the words Lorri mentions, some of them are very "American" - fender (bumper), emergency brake or parking brake (handbrake), picture show/movie (cinema/film). Got no idea what a "fender skirt" or a "curb feeler" might be. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Clocks??
Clocks A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move." "Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?" "That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie." "Incredible," said the man. "And whose clock is that one?" St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life." "Where's Bush's clock?" asked the man. "Bush's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan." David in Ballarat No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.19/92 - Release Date: 7/09/05 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Disappearing words
Lorri mentioned: > more like a passing fad. Do you remember those Insect Deflectors? Another passing fad, I think. You fixed it at the front of your car's bonnet (UK; hood? US). It was like two smallish sheets of rigid plastic joined together down their front edges, and if a fly came at you as you drove (or vice versa ) it would be deflected away from your windscreen. Haven't seen one for many years - didn't have a car back then. BFN, Margery. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in North Herts, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] US info - Backing for coasters etc
I have just been to Container Store, and while wandering round trying to find what I went for(!) discovered some Faux Suede for lining shelves etc. It is sticky-backed, self-adhesive. I bought a couple of rolls (one light brown, one dark brown) as they look to me as if they would be wonderful for sticking on the underside of coasters, ornaments etc to protect furniture, instead of the self-adhesive felt I have used in the past. Sue [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] Executors account
Anyone in the UK having to set up an executor's account after a death, might like to know that the Alliance and Leicester Bank wanted to make a charge of GBP50.00 to open one, while the Portman Building Society opened one without charge, but wanted a minimum deposit of GBP250.00. Guess who we opened the account with? We had 120 pounds to pay in immediately, and "lent" it the rest to get the account opened. 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] Re: Tesco
On Sep 9, 2005, at 3:27, Lynne Cumming wrote: Luckily we live 10 mins walk away from our nearest Tesco so only the major shop has to be done by car Oooh, how I laughed at that one... :) I do recognise the attitude from Europe but, in US, a 10 minute walk (one way, I presume) is 7 minutes too long Why, do you think, we're locked into the vicious circle of "whale watching"? When I first came here, the 2.5 mile walk to town (to attend a lecture at the U, to the publi library, whatever) seemed entirely reasonable, though I did let DH drive me, if it was late in the evening (our part of town is poorly lit and does't allow for pedestrians - no sidewalks, only the road). Once I learnt to drive (and got a car of my own *to* drive), however... :) Even health-conscious people, who exercise regularly in the gym or run/power-walk around the neighbourhood will circle the parking lot 4 times to make sure they can't fing a spot closer to the door. By 3 yards, sometimes... The next day they sent flowers, chocolates (Thorntons!) and a gift voucher as a good will gesture. My foot has improved rapidly So, OK... So, I've never before heard that chocolates were beneficial not only for one's spirit but also for one's physical being :) But I'm glad your foot is better; can't make that 20 minute walk with it spasming, can you? -- 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]
[lace-chat] Re: Tesco
Oh come on, Tamara! I regularly park at the FAR end of the parking lot, and was really upset when JoAnn Fabrics moved so that instead of walking 10 minutes, I had to drive to it. We used to ride our bicycles 5 or 7 miles to work Spring, Summer, and Fall - and used a bike buggy to pull the children, until they got too tall to ride in it safely. After the third one, though, there was no way to do that. -- -- 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] Tesco
Cruising for a park closer to the shops is endemic in Australia too, Tamara. But I take the cake.I called in at the Post Office the other day to check my mail (15 min parking) so, having picked up the mail, moved one block to the front of the Chemist where I wanted to shop. One piece of mail was a lacemaking book. A friend was walking past, I called to her in excitement, she got in the car, we agreed to have a cup of coffee together and look at the book, so I backed out and drove HALF A BLOCK to the coffee shop, whereupon we fell about laughing at how idiotic that was. My excuse was my excitement with the book. This, of course,is only possible in a country town like Cooma. Trying doing that in the suburbs of Sydney! Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Jacquard's computer
Hi everyone and T. who wrote: > including Jacquard's loom which, so far as I know, was the very first > precursor of the older versions of the 'puter, with its punch cards... I hadn't thought of this in years - when I used to do key-punch (there's a word that appeared and disappeared!) I remember learning about Jacquard - on/off, slot/not slot, one/zero - all 'binary' just as computers are *even now* until somebody comes up with a better way. Just like the transistor, sister :^) -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Tesco
On Sep 9, 2005, at 20:47, Martha Krieg wrote: Oh come on, Tamara! I regularly park at the FAR end of the parking lot, and was really upset when JoAnn Fabrics moved so that instead of walking 10 minutes, I had to drive to it. Could that be - do you think - why you and I find so many things in common and like one another despite ocassional differences? We used to ride our bicycles 5 or 7 miles to work Now that one... I approve of, *theoretically*, and am very happy that my son parks his car and bikes to work as well as doing the "bike for breath" fundriser rides for the American Lung Association (for all they want to deprive me of my smoking priviledges). But... In practice? My blunt and unvarnished opinion? It's like horse riding (and I never tried it side-saddle, so that's not what I'm talking about)... "Frankly, my dear" I can think of better ways of getting my thighs and other - unmentionable in public - parts sore. I'd as soon walk. Or drive, if there's no bus to be "took", as there isn't in the piddly-de-doo Lex Vegas/Lextropolis... It may only be 5 miles to the nearest grocery store, but I ain't riding a bike to do the shopping (I was gonna say "I'll be d...d if I ride a bike to shop" but then realised that I'll be d...d anyway, for other reasons ) -- 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]
[lace-chat] Re: Jacquard's computer
On Sep 9, 2005, at 22:14, Bev Walker wrote: I hadn't thought of this in years - when I used to do key-punch (there's a word that appeared and disappeared!) I remember learning about Jacquard - on/off, slot/not slot, one/zero - all 'binary' just as computers are *even now* until somebody comes up with a better way. Just like the transistor, sister :^) Nobody told me nothin' 'bout *transistors*, so I can't say :) But I loved jacquard (way of weaving) since I was about 5, saw it for the first time, and was told what the weave was called. So, when by happestance, I read about his loom and how it operated... and then visited the museum in Boston which had a very early 'puter on display with the description of how *it* worked... and then went to Manchester (UK) and saw how the "modernised" (in 19th century, so add steam power. 'lectric, now) jacquard loom actually worked... All within a 3-yr span... It kinda stuck in my mind Especially since it allowed me to sneer some at my puter-geek offspring -- 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]
[lace-chat] Re: chocolate is beneficial
At 04:56 PM 9/9/2005, you wrote: >So, OK... So, I've never before heard that chocolates were beneficial not only >for one's spirit but also for one's physical being ... Tamara, you hear it now!! Hot chocolate drink is better than green tea or red wine. Following is the report from the web, but I'm sorry to note that solid chocolate does not quite rate up with the drink because of the extra fats in it, but the original benefits are still there. If anyone wants to read more, just search Chocolate Health and you'll get lots of hits. Hmmm.I haven't had my cup today. Maybe I should...?? Alice in Oregon ITHACA, N.Y. -- There is a new reason to enjoy hot cocoa on a cold winter's night in front of a cozy fire. Consider it a health drink. Beyond the froth, cocoa teems with antioxidants that prevent cancer, Cornell University food scientists say. Comparing the chemical anti-cancer activity in beverages known to contain antioxidants, they have found that cocoa has nearly twice the antioxidants of red wine and up to three times those found in green tea. Their finding [was] published Dec. 3 in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry , a peer-reviewed publication. Scientists have long known that cocoa contains antioxidants, but no one knew just how plentiful they were compared with those in red wine and green tea. The Cornell researchers, led by Chang Y. (Cy) Lee, chairman of the Department of Food Science and Technology at the university's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., say the reason that cocoa leads the other drinks is its high content of compounds called phenolic phytochemicals, or flavonoids, indicating the presence of known antioxidants that can stave off cancer, heart disease and other ailments. They discovered 611 milligrams of the phenolic compound gallic acid equivalents (GAE) and 564 milligrams of the flavonoid epicatechin equivalents (ECE) in a single serving of cocoa. Examining a glass of red wine, the researchers found 340 milligrams of GAE and 163 milligrams of ECE. In a cup of green tea, they found 165 milligrams of GAE and 47 milligrams of ECE. "If I had made a prediction before conducting the tests, I would have picked green tea as having the most antioxidant activity," said Lee. "When we compared one serving of each beverage, the cocoa turned out to be the highest in antioxidant activity, and that was surprising to me."Phenolic compounds protect plants against insects and pathogens, and they remain active even after food processing. A decade ago "food scientists did not know that phenolics had an important role in human health," says Lee. Lee and his colleagues used two chemical tests that measured how well the cocoa compounds scavenge for free radicals -- agents that cause cancer, heart disease and other diseases. In the paper, the researchers discuss eating chocolate bars instead of drinking cocoa. "Although a bar of chocolate exhibits strong antioxidant activity, the health benefits are still controversial because of the saturated fats present," the researchers write. They explain that cocoa has about one-third of a gram of fat per one-cup serving, compared with eight grams of fat in a standard-size 40-gram chocolate bar. Faced with the confusing prospect of drinking red wine or green tea or cocoa, Lee suggests enjoying all three in different parts of the day. "Personally, I would drink hot cocoa in the morning, green tea in the afternoon and a glass of red wine in the evening. That's a good combination," he says. The research paper is titled "Cocoa Has More Phenolic Phytochemicals and a Higher Antioxidant Capacity than Teas and Red Wine." Lee's collaborators are his former graduate student, Ki Won Lee; Hyong Joo Lee, a professor at Seoul National University, South Korea; and Young Jun Kim, a post-doctoral researcher at Cornell. The research was funded in part by the BioGreen 21 Program, Rural Development Administration, Republic of South Korea To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
