Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief

2003-07-08 Thread Louise Hume
; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief > - Original Message - > From: Louise Hume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Arachne Lace-chat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:14 PM > Subject: Re: [

Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief

2003-07-07 Thread Louise Hume
>...but mice? Since when did they like nice shinies? The indigenous rat in North America is the wood rat, sometimes know as the Pack Rat. It does collect shiny things, and sometimes exchanges one it is carrying for a better one it finds. The skinny tail common rat is an immigrant that came over

Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief

2003-07-06 Thread Toni Hawryluk
> http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/ > Jean in Poole Thanks, Jean, that worked, and the story is now on 'Page 2' . . . The description 'cheeky mouse' is *so* apt - and cte ! We have them on this continent in some areas - or their relatives. They were termed 'pack rats' as

Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief

2003-07-06 Thread Carol Adkinson
Has anyone pondered whether it wasn't mice at all, but the Borrowers in action?I loved those books, and now put down any loss of small and insignificant things to their acquisition of same! Carol - in a grey and not-very-warm Suffolk UK. - Original Message - From: "Ruth Budge" <[EMAI

Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief

2003-07-06 Thread Angel Skubic
Me too!!! I knew that ferrets would do such things and crows but mice? Since when did they like nice shinies? Cearbhael - Original Message - From: Ruth Budge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 6:44 AM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thi

Re: [lace-chat] Unusual thief

2003-07-06 Thread Ruth Budge
Thank you Jean! That did the trick! I'm interested that mice would be interested in such things! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- Jean Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try: > > http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/ > > (the whole address for the page with the story is just

[lace-chat] Unusual thief

2003-07-06 Thread Jean Nathan
Try: http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/ (the whole address for the page with the story is just a tiny bit long with lots of % signs in it) and then click on the story headline: 'Gold thief belongs to hole in the floor gang' As it's from a newspaper it'll probably only be there f

Re: [lace-chat] Unusual Thief

2003-07-06 Thread Ruth Budge
I think more than jewellery must've been stolen - the web site seems to have gone as well!! (VBG) (At least, I got the message that it couldn't be found!) Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Linda Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Lacemakers, > > have you lost any jewellery lately ? Then

[lace-chat] Unusual Thief

2003-07-05 Thread Linda Walton
Dear Lacemakers, have you lost any jewellery lately ? Then do read this! http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/content_objectid=13144668_ method=full_siteid=50082_headline=--Gold-thief-belongs-to-hole-in-the-floor- gang-name_page.html Linda Walton, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire,