Re: [lace-chat] Fwd: gas saving tips
Okay, I couldn't resist getting replying to this! I now live on the west coast of Canada but before that I lived in Portsmouth on the south coast of England. When I used to work just outside Portsmouth, I cycled there but suffered several accidents of one sort or another and was happy not to have to do that any more once I could afford a car. My last job was mostly in New Malden in Surrey (near Wimbledon) which was a 65 mile drive. If I was on the road by 5:30 in the morning, I could do the trip in 45 minutes door-to-door as it was mostly motorway or dual carriageway (and no, I may not have stuck to the speed limit!) If I left much later, it could take up to 4 hours. Driving home on a Friday afternoon in the summer was a nightmare with all the traffic heading for the coast, even using 'rat runs' around Hindhead (the main slow area by the time I left). Until my job required me to work a lot of extra hours, there used to be a group of 4 of us who would commute - someone to talk to when you are stationary in a queue of tr affic! A lot of people use public transport in the big cities but outside it just isn't available a lot of the time. Growing up on the border of Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire, we had no bus service to our county town (Bedford - where I used to play hockey) or my school town (we had a special school bus) or most other places. There were a couple of buses to Cambridge if you were willing to walk to the main road to get to it. Now, my recently widowed mother, living in the same village, doesn't even have that level of service with public transport. There are no buses to the nearest railway station and the nearest taxi (and I would dread to think how much they would charge) is 5 miles away. I can't comment on all areas but the ones I am familiar with (and nearly all my family members live in rural areas scattered around the UK) have very poor or non-existent public transport available. My first summer job was in Cambridge and I went in each day by bus. Though it was o nly 15 miles usually, the trip would take over an hour as the bus wended its way around all the intermediate villages. Still, it was my only option at that time. People here in the Vancouver area talk about heavy traffic but I have never seen anything close to the traffic jams in England. Looking at a map and measuring distances is one thing, looking at what the roads are like and where the route takes you is another. Then you have to add how many people are trying to use the same route and the differences between England and North America become apparent. Here in North America I have had occasion to work (and commute) in Massachusetts, California, British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec and I have yet to witness anything like the traffic conditions in the UK (I worked in Edinburgh for a while as well). The 'grid system' in bigger towns and cities here also help getting through them as there tend to be alternative routes if there is an accident or something. One other comment - a US gallon is smaller than an imperial gallon. That doesn't mean that prices over here aren't a lot lower (and even more so in the US) but it is another factor to consider. Ever since I came here in 1997, it has worked out fairly accurately that I pay roughly the same price number-wise for petrol/gas as family members back in the UK, just with a different currency sign in front! As I said, I couldn't resist :-) Helen. On Sunday, June 01, 2008, at 10:54AM, Dora Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't walking and bicycling both more popular options in England than here? And isn't public transportation far better and far more publicly accepted as an actual transportation option? In the U.S., only the poor and students would be caught dead taking public transportation, except in New York City, where the middle class are sometimes caught dead taking public transportation but the rich never do. Here there are two badges of honor of any worthwhile human being - driving a car, and nto sharing housing, and people literally starve to maintain that standard of living. Also, the distances are much shorter in England than here. You can actually drive from Scotland to London in a few hours.I think half of England is within an hour's drive of London. Certainly two hours.In otherwords, you can drive halfway across England in the same time I can drive from one end of Austin to the other, and you could certainly drive across England in less time than I can drive from Austin to Houston. If gasoline ever reaches $8 a gallon here, I think there'll be a revolution. Either that or the population will finally learn how to ride bicycles. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [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] Question - London Marriages
As the list is quiet at the moment, I will take the opportunity to pick the brains of all you genealogy experts and historians! I have a lot of family members on my tree who were born in the 1800s in villages around Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, etc. These are simple, country folk with the men often being farm labourers and the like. Anyway, there are a significant numbers (over 30) of marriages in London and I am wondering why this would have been? For example, you have person A born in village X, marries B also born in X. They go to London and get married then come back and their children are all born in or around X. The districts of London involved vary (St Pancras, Lambeth, Holborn, to name but a few). Can any of you shed any light on why they would have married in this way? A lot of the villages would have had rail links with London but still. Also, would one or both have had to move there for several weeks to meet the residency criteria - they would hardly have had the money for a special license, surely - or was there some sort of way round that? Any answers would be much appreciated :-) Regards, Helen (in Vancouver, BC where the earlier snow has now washed away) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] What kind of soul are you?
Interesting, thanks Janice! I came out as a Hunter Soul - I can relate to some of the description :-) Regards, Helen. On Tuesday, November 06, 2007, at 09:21AM, Janice Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this questionnaire to see what kind of soul you are. Mine was a New Soul. Fun but not very accurate. I guess you have to be honest with your answers. :-) Janice http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofsoulareyouquiz/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Anglia Television
Hi, Do any of our British contingent know of a way I could contact Anglia Television by email? I would like to ask a question about a recent programme on behalf of my parents but can find no contact details on the internet. Thanks in advance, Helen (in Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada where the weather is heating up again unfortunately) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Harry Potter and Wearable Art
Out of interest (and because the list is quiet!), which audiobook version do other countries have? I always get (via my sister) the Stephen Fry ones from the UK because I find Jim Dale's version too silly but that is just my personal opinion. What about places like Australia and New Zealand? Do you get Mr Dale, Mr Fry or someone else? Helen (in wet and thankfully cooler Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada) On Wednesday, July 18, 2007, at 05:55PM, Jane Viking Swanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They spoke with Jim Dale (who KNOWS what happens!!) who reads the audiobooks of Harry Potter. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Water charges
Quite a while ago, David (I think) started a discussion about water charges. As the list is quiet, and I have just received my utility bill, I thought I'd pass on my numbers. As you will see, some things are paid for quarterly (based on meter readings) and some annually: 1) Water charge (quarterly) $20.00 2) Sewer charge (qtrly) $14.35 3) Meter maintenance (qtrly) $10.00 4) General waste (annual) $209.89 5) Drainage (annual) $66.86 If I pay the bill by 15th June, I get a 10% discount on all of the above. All amounts are in Canadian $s so you can do your own conversions ... Helen (in dark but previously warm and sunny Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Genealogy Question - Medals
Hi, Do any of you genealogy whizzkids know where I can find any information about military medals? My great uncle apparently won the Military Cross at some point but no-one in the family seems to know more than that. He was born in 1891 so my guess would be the medal was awarded during WWI but it could have been some other time I suppose. Any websites that might be useful? Thanks in advance, Helen in wet and grey Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Genealogy Question - Medals
Thanks to those who have sent me emails already. Apologies for the confusion - I knew what I meant so surely all you should have as well, regardless of what I actually wrote?! (And if anyone gets mean about my being unclear then be warned, I can pull out the but I'm not well card faster than you can type your flames :-) ) I live in Canada now but my family roots are firmly placed in England (and nearly all in East Anglia) so it is English sites I need information on. I have tried Ancestry.co.uk but their information is currently limited to those with surnames beginning with A or B (and I am looking for Randall in this case) and I am not sure just what they will have when the rest is released - I tried looking for some other relatives who I know were in WWI (Braybrookes - some survived, some didn't) and there was nothing for any of them. I'm still hoping that people on this list will have the magic answer (and the list is really quiet) so here is the original question: Do any of you genealogy whizzkids know where I can find any information about military medals? My great uncle apparently won the Military Cross at some point but no-one in the family seems to know more than that. He was born in 1891 so my guess would be the medal was awarded during WWI but it could have been some other time I suppose. Any websites that might be useful? Oh, and it is still wet and grey here in Vancouver ... 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: Suggestions needed from a user of Earthlink ISP please
That would be System Administrator, Tamara :-) I have been one in my time (though not internet related, just LANs and WANs) and have known quite a few having been in the high tech industry for many years. However, I have never heard of the abbreviation sysad before. This person deals with doing updates as required to the system (adding and deleting bits, upgrading, etc.); identifying any problems (hardware, software, firmware, whatever) and fixing them; working with administrators for other systems that may be connected (as most tough issues are related to interconnectivity in some way or other); ensuring any and all licences, etc are current and correctly applied; lots of other fascinating techy type stuff dependent on the system. I suggest that you be happy that they are there and play nicely with them whenever there seems to be an issue :-) They can be horribly powerful - use that in your favour! On Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at 09:05PM, Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When my son (then at the U) wrote me that he was a sysad for his club and dorm networks, I dug and dug through various dictionaries (including OED) for hours, trying to find sysad, before collapsing in total defeat... :) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Medic Alert Products
Okay, I'll bite :-) What are Cash nametags? On Tuesday, January 02, 2007, at 01:44PM, Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread reminded me to check inside my helmet to make sure the information written there is up to date. (It wasn't; a sticker had peeled off revealing the WAY out-of- date information below.) I also try to remember to sew Cash nametags inside all my clothes. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it was frosty this morning, but it melted as soon as the sun hit it. 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] Medic Alert Products
Hi, I am needing to look at getting a medic alert bracelet. Does anyone on the list have experience of these products and the associated services? Are there alternatives? I would like to get something that alerts the medical authorities if/when required but would be an attractive piece of jewelry to everybody else - not much to ask, surely?! Any views, opinions, personal experiences, etc would be appreciated ... Best wishes for the new year (it is still 2006 here even if most of you have reached 2007 already :-) ) Helen (a smidge south of Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Manitoba Census question
As the list is so quiet I have decided that I can disturb it with a Canadian genealogy question :-) I have found a 1906 census record for my granddad (he was in Canada briefly before returning to England to get married). It is difficult to read the address information so I can just go by how it is identified: the district was Brandon, Manitoba, sub-district 6, sub-district townships 7 8, ranges 27, 28 29 West Is there anyone out there who is able to translate this for me? I can send the census image if it helps. I am rather limited in my ability to investigate stuff myself at the moment but would really like the information (I need all the distractions I can get just now ...) Thanks in advance, Helen (in Richmond, BC where it doesn't seem to be raining for a change and where we are clear of the 'boil water' advisory still affecting Vancouver) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Genealogy and Copyright
Firstly, a huge thank you to all those people who were kind enough to respond to my question on genealogy. I'm thinking that perhaps I should go over to Vancouver Island and take lessons from Sharon (she is nearer than David in Ballarat) :-) I have another question that is totally unrelated (no pun intended). I am looking for information on copyright-type issues. I have my own views on what the answers are (my friends tell me I have a view on everything) but am trying to solicit information from you knowledgeable folk. The question is all about a photo that you have taken yourself and what you can/cannot legally do with that photo. I can come up with different scenarios which may, or may not, make a difference (and, I hasten to add, may or may not be relevant to what I want to do!) So here goes. You take a photo of: 1) a building from a public viewpoint (such as the road outside) 2) a building from within its grounds 3) an object within the grounds of a property (such as a statue, fountain, garden ornament, whatever) 4) something within a building (lace, architecture, painting, furniture, whatever) In each scenario (if the answer is different) what can you legally do with that photo? Again, here are some things you may want to do, in case there are different answers: 1) Publish it on your own website 2) Publish it in a magazine or book 3) Give it away as prints, postcards, pictures, whatever 4) Sell it (as above) 5) Turn it into something else (e.g. jigsaw puzzle, t-shirt embellishment, cross-stitch pattern) for your own use, to give away or to sell Oh, and let's assume that you were legally in the place where you took the picture and that photography was allowed! I would really appreciate knowing what people think is the answer(s) ... Thanks in advance, Helen (in rainy Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Genealogy Advice sought ...
Hi, I know that several of you enjoy genealogy so I am asking for some advice. Since I became unemployed I have been busy building my family tree on genesreunited and I have a lot of information already (I had some good data to start with). However, I am reaching the point where I really need to start looking at records that are only available to subscribers or for credits (ie it needs me to spend money!) I am mostly looking at information in the UK but occasionally it strays off to Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA (and possibly elsewhere as well that I haven't identified). What I need advice on is which do you think is the best site to subscribe to? The main options I am aware of are Ancestry.co.uk and thegenealogist.co.uk. Which offers best value? My current thought is the latter but I really don't know, and maybe there are other sites as well? I would probably be doing a high number of searches (several common surnames!) so credits would add up considerably, I think it needs to be a 'you have access to everything' type of subscription . Opinions please :-) Thanks in advance, Helen (in Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada where, after a night of high winds and rain, the sun is shining and I can look out to blue skies) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Road Users
Hi, I just came across a cutting from a few years back. In it is quoted an extract from draft regulations for road users in Canada in 1909. It was proposed by an organization calling itself the Farmers' Anti-Protective Society. Automobiles must be seasonally painted - that is, so they will merge with the pastoral ensemble and not be startling. On discovering an approaching team of horses, the automobilist must stop off-side and cover his machine with a tarpaulin, painted with scenery. In case a horse will not pass an automobile, notwithstanding the scenic tarpaulin, the automobilist will take the machine apart as rapidly as possible and conceal the parts in the grass. On approaching a corner where he cannot command a view of the road ahead, the automobilist must stop not less than 100 yards from the turn. The automobilist must then toot his horn, ring a bell, fire a revolver, shout Hallo and send up three bombs at intervals of five minutes. Automobiles running on the country roads at night must send up a red rocket every mile and wait ten minutes for the road to clear. They then may proceed carefuuly blowing their horns and shooting rockets. The speed limit on country roads this year will be secret and the penalty for violation will be $10 for every mile an offender is going in excess of it. Apparently it was intended to be taken seriously ... Helen in sunny Vancouver, BC on the west coast of mainland Canada. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
