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   brenda midgley
   Member

   Hi Katerina - I'm home now from Ally Pally - what a wonderful two days!

   I managed to get a needle threader for you so if you e-mail me on brenda.midgley@tiscali.co.uk to let me have your address I can post it off to you. Very small, very flat so it will easily pop into a standard sized envelope.

   Aly Pally was good. I did two enjoyable workshops - a knitting one, which I'm still going at furiously (I'm not the best knitter in the world). I bumped into Pat and Ann who say they want to see the finished article at Bradford - hence the furious continuation of the project!. I also did one with the Calico Cat lady - a felted needlebook but I did it because she is so entertaining rather than that I needed yet another needlebook!. There were about 12/14 of us round the table and she started off by asking if any of us belonged to the Embroidery Police (typical of her humour) as she wanted us to tie a KNOT at the end of our thread. Most enjoyable.

   I could go on forever about the delights of it all; the only small downside being the ladies who will persist in going to these shows dragging luggage trolley cases behind them. I'm sporting a swollen, bruised, painful area on each foot due to these wretched things. At my yelp of pain one lady turned and said to her friend that I obviously wasn't watching where I was going. Well, no actually I wasn't - I thought I was at the show to look at the stalls rather than stare at the floor all the time. How I refrained from giving her a bunch of fives I don't know.

   There seemed to be hundreds of people there and lots of stuff to look at. I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms - I wanted to go back yet again today but I'm now out of money and out of energy. Brenda

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Brigitte Gant
   Member

   Sorry, I missed you on Thursday, Brenda. It was so busy that day. However, I too bumped into Pat and Ann on Sue's stand. I am with you regarding the pullalong nasties. Why these ladies cannot park it in the cloakroom and take their goods back there once the bag got heavy. I always take my little rucksack which is fairly flat, but very visible for people behind me. Its size is also a good indicator when I have done enough shopping!!!
   Glad you enjoyed your time at Ally Pally again. See you at Olympia?

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Katerina
   Member

   Oh Brenda, that's brilliant - thank you so much :)

   I'll email you now.

   Let me know how much it was and your address so I can send you a cheque, I'd hate you to be out of pocket!

   Thanks again,

   Kat x

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   brenda midgley
   Member

   Hello again Kat - not had an e-mail from you yet so either you've changed your mind about wanting the threader (if so, don't worry) or you are having a job getting through to me on the internet. I do seem to be experiencing problems 'opening up' e-mails today. Whatever the reason - if I don't hear from you I shall assume you've changed your mind about it - absolutely no big deal; don't worry.

   Brigitte! - yes, I missed you on Thursday love - not surprising; there were just so many people there and it was the same again on Friday. I did have the pleasure though of bumping into someone else I've recently met. Geoff and I were on holiday with an organised tour of people to Germany and one of the ladies - Carol - in the group turned out to also be a Guild member! (small world isn't it - I was once in a swimming pool on holiday in Devon when a voice said 'Good morning Mrs. Midgley', I turned round and there was our postman from Crewe with Mrs. Postman and two little Post-its) - sorry - I've digressed - Anyway I asked Carol if she was going to go to Ally Pally. She did say yes and hoped to be there on the Friday; then just as I was at Jane's stall chatting, up pops Carol. It never ceases to amaze me that of the literally hundreds of people who go, you always able to bump into someone you know. Anyway, I'm sure you had a lovely day like me.

   Don't know about Olympia - living in Cheshire I usually aim for the NEC in March and Olympia tends to follow on very quickly behind it. I might give it a whirl though one year.

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Barbara Stone
   Member

   I'm so jealous of you lot who managed to get to Ally Pally. The worse thing about it is that its only 5 miles from where my mum and dad live, and I won't be going up to see them until next week. Oh well, you sound as if you all had a nice time, so hope to see you all next year at Olympia or on the coach to Germany. Come on girls - book it!!

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Katerina
   Member

   Brenda,

   I've tried to send you three emails now and they've all come back to me as, 'couldn't be delivered'.

   I sent the first one immediately after replying to you on here, but it came back later that afternoon undelivered, so I sent it again, and that came back undelivered, so I waited until the next day and tried again, and have just got the undelivered message again.

   Yes I do still want the threader, but I can't get hold of you!

   Do you have another email address?

   It must be your end because all my other mails are getting through. I'm at my computer all day everyday, so I know if there's a problem, and all is okay this end.

   Kat

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Katerina
   Member

   Just to add, I've tried yet again, and it has come back with this message -

   Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, due to being unable to connect successfully to the destination mail server.

   brenda.midgley@tiscali.co.uk

   Just a thought Brenda, are you sure it's .co.uk and not .com?

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   brenda midgley
   Member

   Hello Kat - how weird - the e-mail address I've given is absolutely correct. As I said though I was having problems yesterday (Sunday). The computer seemed very slow and of the 4 e-mails I had yesterday 3 were okay although slow and the fourth had an attachment which I had the devil of a job to open. I just put it down to the fact that it was a Sunday and no doubt the world and his wife were probably using their machines.

   Let's give it a day or two and try again. If it still doesn't work for whatever reason we'll have to bring in Plan B! At least we know we have contact via this link so we are still communicating.

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   brenda midgley
   Member

   Hello Kat - bit later in the afternoon - have just been onto my e-mail page and have found one from you so have now responded. No need for Plan B after all - just as well as I hadn't worked out what that would be yet! Brenda

   Posted 14 years ago #

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