[lace-chat] RE:Disappearing Words
I must be "Of that certain age" as I remember most of these terms. However, I still use and hear some of them here in the South. "store-bought." Sometimes we say "sto' boughten"; used it just the other day talking about making clothes for DD as she was so hard to fit (and Please) " in sto' boughten" ones. everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Am at he moment trying to get DH to consent replacing badly worn 25 year old carpet. The ol' man hates change. "picture show," but I considered "movie" anaffectation. We said, "movin' pi'ture show" "percolator." One can hardly even buy perk ground coffee. It is all drip ground - as for Mr. Coffee. lumbago this is now "spinal stenosis" ; "slipped 4th lumbar disc"; and other more specific conditions. I know, I am having experience with practically all of them !! "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." We still use Dinner for the main meal of the day, and lunch or supper for the other meal. i.e. most days we have lunch at mid-day and dinner in the evening. On Sunday, we have dinner at mid-day and supper in the evening. But you are correct. To avoid confusing as to when dinner is to be served, most people just use lunch and supper, unless it is a big formal dinner. But then, here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, there were in my memory, people still speaking Elizabethian English. In the 1950s, I had a student who had been raised back of the mountain by his grandmother and used phrases such as " holp you tote yo poke" (help you carry your paper sack) Louise in Central Virginia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:Disappearing Words
> "percolator." > One can hardly even buy perk ground coffee. It is all drip ground - as for > Mr. Coffee. Does any one in the US use a coffee plunger or is that just an Australian abberation? > > "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." > We still use Dinner for the main meal of the day, and lunch or supper for > the other meal. DD1 said that the name for the evening meal is one thing that she keeps tripping over in Virginia. In Australia a lot of people use 'tea' as a replacement for 'supper'. I tried to teach my children 'dinner' but I was brought up to call it plain old 'tea'. Cheers, Yvonne. 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 Secret Pal! Thank you so much for my parcel which arrived this morning. As always, it is full of pretty goodies, and I am delighted. When I go to lacemaking class, several of these will be used - the pretty little pot with the millefiori lid will be used to hold the beads I am using in my present project (at the moment they are in an old plastic pin box); the pen and notepad will be used instead of the bits and pieces of scrap paper on which I write instructions from my teacher - and then promptly lose! I think the pen is great, and I don't intend to use it too much, as it is too nice to waste, and the notepad is such a lovely delicate turquoise. The address book is going to be passed around the class for everyone to put in their telephone numbers. Often, as we only have a class once a month, I want to ring one of the girls, only to find that I have lost that bit of paper, too! The napkins will be used during the first weekend of October, when my children are all coming to celebrate my birthday. Such pretty purple and lilac flowers - you are clever at finding things in my favourite colours. And, of course, everything wrapped in pretty lilac paper. Thank you once again. It is a lovely parcel, and I know how lucky I am to have you as my Secret Pal! Dee Palin Gloucestershire 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 Thank You
Dear Secret Pal, Thank you so much for your parcel which arrived yesterday afternoon. The bobbins are lovely, I like the grained wood they are made from. I think I'll try them on a russian lace with the thread you sent me and which will be perfect as a gimp. The little fodable scissors will be very useful in my travel lace kit. The bookmark is beautiful and fits perfect in the book I'm a reading at the moment. Every time I'll open it and see the bookmark I'll think of you and how lucky I am to have such a great Secret Pal. The pictures of your brother are superb. You are very lucky to live in such a beautiful country ! Here we have no mountains, the highest place is about 700m above sea level, in a region called "les Ardennes", well-known because of the battle of the Ardennes during the second world war. My two girls went there for a short holliday this past week. Next week they will go back to the University in Brussels. Our cat is also thanking you for the delicious cat treats, she adores them. You're very busy preparing the next conference of your lace guild. I hope it will be a success, it's a pity it's so far for me... Thank you again. Liduina from a rainy and windy Belgium. 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:Disappearing Words
Yvonne said DD1 said that the name for the evening meal is one thing that she keeps tripping over in Virginia. In Australia a lot of people use 'tea' as a replacement for 'supper'. I tried to teach my children 'dinner' but I was brought up to call it plain old 'tea'. we call it tea in Scotland - sort of 5/6pm meal - I suppose it is a hangover from high tea which is a late afternoon 'snack' of cakes and sandwiches to tide you over till dinner which was 8pmish jenny barron NE Scotland 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 - again
Hello Secret Pal! I have just unwrapped my Bush Pen, and realised that the Koala can be unclipped from the pen and that the pen is real wood! The Koala is so cute - I am going to put him with the Wombat, and they can keep each other company. Thank you again! 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] Re: Red hat no .....
Dear Tamara, Yet another fascinating email - thanks. Auel, in her series of pre-historic (fictional) books may have struck many "off notes", but she *has* done a lot of research and her idea that "sexually available" women painted ther feet red, while not *prove-able* is an emminently *reasonable* premise... Auel is one of my favourite authors and this year I finally finished reading all 5 of her novels. I did feel she was labouring a bit in the last one though - too many flash backs to earlier novels and nearly 700 pages for a pregnancy?? David in Ballarat -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 16/09/05 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Help for grandson
I am wondering if there is anyone on the list that can help my grandson who lives in NSW, Australia. Has only been living in Australia for just over 12 months. He will shortly be taking his exams the equivalent of GCSE's here. He has missed out on learning about the Aboriginal people of Australia. He has been told that there will be questions asked in his history exam. His history teacher said go and search the web. I was hoping there might be some one on the list who could advise the best web site to go to. You help would be much appreciated. If there is a book that might help, please let us know we will send the money to buy the book. Many thanks for listening. jean in Newbury UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] My flood and trip
Life is always an adventure. Yesterday we got 2" of rain in 1/2 hour, putting the water from the street up to the side door. Of course the shop flooded but I was able to stay at the lathe and turn until it got to deep When my feet started to get wet when resting on the chair spokes 9" off the floor, it was time This also required a quick phone call to the airlines to change my flight to Salt Lake City last night. Now I get to fly out tomorrow night (Sunday) arriving at midnight. A 200 mile drive gets me to Idaho to pick up Deborah and my Father-in-law and return to SLC for a 10 am flight to Boston MA and a 100 mile drive to Portland,Maine. Tuesday gets back to Boston and (via Baltimore) Rochester NY again. Then I can finish flood cleanup. Isn't life fun? ** Bobbins by Van-Dieren Kenn Van-Dieren 2304 Clifford Avenue Rochester, NY 14609 Tel: 585.654.5711 Cell: 585.750.8842 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: www.bobbinmaker.com * To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Some more for your finished list
I really have to finish this thread, as it is getting very long. But another I heard on the TV( australian word is telly) tonight is 'Hard Yakka'. Any Australian can tell you that that means hard work, like in manual labour. I think the origins are from the company that makes work wear, overalls and such, that outdoor workers wear. I suppose when you are wearing your Yakka overalls you are doing hard yakka! I remember my father wearing them all his working life. He was a carpet layer by trade. Colin, the bloke that lives across the street, wears them all the time. He's going somewhere really fancy when he is wearing trousers*g*. Cheers for now, forgive my dissembling, Yvonne. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] spider spindle
i don't know how many of you are spinners, but i know all of you are spiders. here is something that combines the both. it is really cute. http://www.woollydesigns.com/1_Spindles/Spiders%20and%20Lizard%20June'00.jpg from susan in tennessee,u.s.a. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 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]
Re: [lace-chat] RE:Disappearing Words
Bodum coffee (and tea) plungers are known here - most often in coffee houses, but one of the people I work with has one in the office. By the time they became readily available around here, I already possessed my hot pot to boil the water for my tea (the "hot" water out of the Bunn coffeemaker just doesn't cut it for tea!) and the ceramic teapots at home and at the office - couldn't justify $30 or more for the plunger. Another new current item is the Bee House teapots from Japan with the clever metal strainer (like a non-plunger Bodum teapot, but metal) inside. Coveted, but went with a separate strainer that almost fits in my current pots - slides in nicely, but then the lid doesn't quite fit, but it cost a LOT less I grew up in Ohio having supper every evening, and still do. If we have a feast for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter, it's called "Thanksgiving dinner", "Christmas dinner", "Easter dinner" - and can occur any time between noon and eight pm, depending on which family is hosting it, and how well the central meat dish cooperates in getting done. For some reason I've never understood, lots of people seem to have it at 2 or 4 pm (when lunch is normally about 12, and supper is normally 6 or 6:30). It's always seemed an awkward time - but 5pm does leave more time for the (usually extensive) cleanup afterwards! If a family has the Sunday large meal at noon, it will often be called Sunday dinner - it can't be a lunch, apparently, because it's got too much food in it. -- -- 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] Re: supper/dinner
On Sep 17, 2005, at 23:26, Martha Krieg wrote: I grew up in Ohio having supper every evening, and still do. If we have a feast for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter, it's called "Thanksgiving dinner", "Christmas dinner", "Easter dinner" - and can occur any time between noon and eight pm, depending on which family is hosting it, and how well the central meat dish cooperates in getting done. For some reason I've never understood, lots of people seem to have it at 2 or 4 pm (when lunch is normally about 12, and supper is normally 6 or 6:30). I grew up with breakfast at 6:30- 7, so-called second-breakfast around 10;30-11, dinner between 2 and 3pm and supper around 7-8pm. These days, I no longer get up at the crack of dawn, so, with breakfast being much later, I get my lunch around 2:30 (once the lacemaking light goes weird), and we have supper around 7:30-8. Unless there's a not-to-be-missed film at the U film club, in which case I have either gulp my supper early, or wait till 10. But, within that kind of schedule, Thanksgiving dinner at 2-3 suits me just fine. On Christmas day all bets are off - no schedule at all. If family comes, then we have special Christmas Eve supper and nibble on leftovers all day long on Christmas Day. -- 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]
re:[lace-chat] red (hat)
> Agreed, but why a "*red* hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me." > There are other colours whic don't go with purple - orange and yellow > are two. Depending on how they're used, yellows and oranges go quite well with purple/violet etc., or at least combine sumptuously (I'm thinking of some fabrics I've seen that worked successfully with those colours). Purple and red in hot tones together are loud, and in keeping with the playfulness of the R/H groups. I'm not much into that sort of thing, I have an art group that could qualify but we prefer to be 'ourselves' (loud enough without wearing red and purple) - and myself, I don't do well in decorative hats, and I don't like wearing purple LOL The other day I couldn't help but notice a stunningly dressed young woman - first, she was largely built so wouldn't escape notice, anyway, second, she was wearing a long purple coat with matching wide-brimmed hat, with a huge purple 'rose' stuck in the hatband. I wondered if there was any connection with the Red Hat group, but supposed not. Nice to see, justthe same, and a change from black with black that seems to be the style in the working set. There is a R/H group in Sooke. Their president refers to herself as Queen J. of Cleavage. bye for now Bev, whose only hat is a blue woollen toque (eh), 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]
Re: re:[lace-chat] red (hat)
J. of Cleavage. > > bye for now Bev, whose only hat is a blue woollen toque (eh), in > Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins > www.woodhavenbobbins.com > WarningWhen I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick the flowers in other people's gardens And learn to spit. You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at a go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes. But now we must have clothes that keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children. We must have friends to dinner and read the papers. But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple. -- Jenny Joseph To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
