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Can I design something that will be useful while gardening?
"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | | I doubt that wax would have been left in empty houses. | | Yes, it was. The aristocracy often lived in different houses during | different times of year, and such durable consumables were not moved | with the inhabitants. The same would have happened with the people | (e.g. some shepherds) who had fixed accomodation but lived away from | it for extended periods. | | Shepherds would not have used beeswax candles. Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Very big sigh Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Mary Fisher
says... Very big sigh Even bigger sigh! While you can both wax lyrical on the subject I'm tempted to knock your heads together. The snarling is getting on my wick :-) Snuff it! -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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"David in Normandy" wrote in message ... In article , Mary Fisher says... Very big sigh Even bigger sigh! While you can both wax lyrical on the subject I'm tempted to knock your heads together. The snarling is getting on my wick :-) Snuff it! :-) If a candle is snuffed it burns more brightly ... My big sigh was the last of my contributions but, although I'm flattered, you didn't have to read it :-) Mary |
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On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? |
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wrote in message ups.com... On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? No. BMW stands for Berlin Motor Works :-)) Kindest regards Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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On Oct 10, 4:50 pm, wrote:
On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed. Cat(h) |
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In article . com,
says... On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed I think? -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article . com, | says... | | Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my | confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles | in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd | would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well | have had one or two, small, votive candles. | | Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW | if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B | stands for Blue? | | Blessed I think? It's definitely Blessed, but I still don't understand the posting. It's a little clearer since I noticed the BMW - which I had, of course, read as the BVM I was expecting .... Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Mary Fisher
says... My big sigh was the last of my contributions but, although I'm flattered, you didn't have to read it :-) Mary I have a passing interest in candles, so followed the debate. I make my own occasionally from left over wax of commercial candles. The likes of Ikea sell church candles with a too-small wick, so they burn and leave wide walls of wax which have to be cut off periodically. So rather than wasting the wax I make new ones, moulding them with kitchen foil cardboard inners with a piece of string fixed between both ends. Works well, provided the hot wax doesn't melt the selotape holding the ends in and leak. -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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On Oct 10, 5:22 pm, "'Mike'" wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? No. BMW stands for Berlin Motor Works :-)) This is completetley tangential and not relevant to anything important but it is Bayerische Motoren Werke which is German for Bavarian Motor Works. Des Kindest regards Mike --www.rneba.org.ukfor the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navywww.rneba.org.ukto find your ex-Greenie mess mateswww.iowtours.comfor all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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On Oct 10, 11:47 am, "Cat(h)" wrote:
On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message groups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is too hard for earplugs - I've tried it. and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/ which can be composted in the end. Why compost? Why not swallow it? But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) He doesn't do it very well. Hmmm. Cat(h)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How is yer heart rate after the weekend exertions? I presume you watched a certain rugby match on Saturday night. Have you calmed down yet. I saw Frederic Michalak and his thighs and I thought of you. Des |
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In reply to Nick Maclaren ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say : In article , David in Normandy writes: In article . com, says... Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed I think? It's definitely Blessed, but I still don't understand the posting. It's a little clearer since I noticed the BMW - which I had, of course, read as the BVM I was expecting .... Me too. This is uber-OT, but does anyone know why there are so many BMWs with personalised plates reading BWV followed by the model number of the BMW? Has someone bought all the BMW plates as a job lot? When I had a BMW many years ago it was a "quality" car. Now it is the reps' favourite :-) |
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On 10 Oct, 17:40, "Cat(h)" wrote:
Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed. Off course! While you're there ... saturday greniad crossword, stuck on: across 1 Liniment - cabinet room (anag) (11) - I've already got 2 down for Cut Grass (3) which is Mow, 3 down Full (7) which is replete, giving me for 1 across -M-R-----O-. The O is from 6 down Banish from group (9) which I think is ostricise. I haven't found 5 down One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) which should be the 8th letter. Anyone? |
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On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote: embrocation OOhh... you're good. Ta very much. I know who to ask next Saturday ;o) |
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