[lace] Lace Days in the UK!

2010-11-07 Thread Clay Blackwell
Reading the new posts from Lace News makes me so envious of all of my UK friends who have so many wonderful lace days to look forward to in the weeks ahead!!! Since I routinely travel 2 - 5 (or more!) hours to our twice-yearly lace days, I can imagine that many of you could go to numerous

Re: [lace] Lace Days in the UK!

2010-11-07 Thread lacelady
- Original Message - Since I routinely travel 2 - 5 (or more!) hours to our twice-yearly lace days, I can imagine that many of you could go to numerous lace days within that travel time! -- There is only one lace day in the state of Oregon,

Re: [lace] Lace Days in the UK!

2010-11-07 Thread bev walker
I think that the list of lace days available in the UK indicates there are still quite a few groups able to host such events. Yay! I am not so sure that it is a smorgasbord of choices for every lacemaker there, something comes to mind about 'you can't get there from here' even though 'here' is

Re: [lace-chat] Dishwashers

2010-11-07 Thread Linda Walton
dmt11h...@aol.com wrote: [snip] One thing that you can deduce from the Consumer Affairs complaint bureau is that there is no misery greater than an appliance that is a lemon from the day you get it, and that if you are unlucky enough to get one of these, you will be shunned by the

[lace-chat] Pub food

2010-11-07 Thread Laceandbits
Lynne said I asked my daughter the other day did they cook from fresh and the reply was that salads and chips were made fresh... Define fresh, Lynne, or ask your daughter to :-) Many pubs cook their chips fresh from the bag of frozen chips. And the majority of frozen chips already have

Re: [lace-chat] Has anyone bought a good dishwasher lately

2010-11-07 Thread Agnes Boddington
He is also pretty good with the vacuum cleaner, but don't ask him to cook. Agnes Of course, what Agnes fails to mention in her comments about dishwashers is Her dishwasher makes coffee Her dishwasher can wash hair sometimes Her dishwasher walks the dog AND her dishwasher turns lace

[lace-chat] Baby boomer quiz

2010-11-07 Thread Laceandbits
David said This is NOT a pushover test. It's a Baby Boomer era test! And probably specifically an AUS or US one at that! I guessed Remember one Flick and they're gone because it made most sense, but have no idea where it cames from. Never heard of Get with the strength bank on …….. (the

RE: [lace-chat] Dishwashers

2010-11-07 Thread Margery Allcock
Linda Walton wrote: John Lewis have always used their famous slogan, never knowingly undersold. If you find the same thing for sale more cheaply anywhere else, they will match the price: I've tested this, and it's true. Value for money is not the same as cheapest. By the way, this

RE: [lace-chat] Re: Has anyone bought a good dishwasher lately?

2010-11-07 Thread Susan Reishus
Only 18/8 Stainless Steel is non magnetic. Gareth Silly me.  Best, Susan Reishus To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.

Re: [lace-chat] Baby Boomer Quiz - 15

2010-11-07 Thread Scotlace
Jaquie You should have persevered. While I agreed with your general comments even a non Beatles fan like me could identify the Christian names of the four Beatles ;-) I managed 10 right and one or two of those were complete guesses. Glad to see you are safely home from Newport. hope

Re: [lace-chat] Has anyone bought a good dishwasher lately

2010-11-07 Thread jviking
Hi All, I haven't gotten to read all the mail about dishwashers but I asked DH's opinion last night. He's a Master Plumber (licensed, not me exaggerating G). He said he has heard Bosch is the best these days. I see a few other people have mentioned Bosch. They make many of his best tools.

Re: [lace-chat] Dishwashers soap

2010-11-07 Thread jviking
Devon wrote: I would like a dishwasher that I don't have to manually clean out the filter on because of both the ick factor and the bad back factor (Bosch seems to require this.). However, many of the better, or at least more expensive ones do not have an automatic disposer in them, thus

[lace-chat] Dishwashers

2010-11-07 Thread Jean Nathan
Margery wrote: The Comet salesman rang up Curry's to confirm model number and price, I used to teach some aspects of consumer law and the chains sometimes use a perfectly legal ploy to get round the We'll match the price promise. Some manufacturers of appliances agree to put a different