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[Hazybear]

Well, they are nice people, but a bit strident for me.  I'm sure that is as a result of being "born again".
I'm thinking she is not a Christian, BUT, she does attend their services - maybe they are going to strike while the iron is hot.  I surely hope she gets back in one piece - (how selfish does that sound !!)

How are you?  How's the funding - any joy?  I was doing my Meeter & Greeter stint at one of the hospitals today.  These poor souls - some of them are wound very tight - I just want to hug them!

Watch this space for a report on my, hopefully not erstwhile, cleaning lady !!

Maybe they just want to give her a chance to chat and hear more in a more relaxed environment that isn't a service.

Yeah it's hard visiting people in hospital, it's such a depressing place anyway the hugs for being wonderful

Ahh the funding looks the same as always still applying for jobs, maybe the Phd will have to go on the backburner for a bit

[Hazybear]

Hazel ...... you're not supposed to say I'm wonderful and then    .............   

Maybe you could save your PhD for when you are a "mature student"/married/all the kids flown the coup ???  It will all pop up into your face when you are least expecting it!

Aww sorry Daisy you are wonderful!

Hopefully it will...ugh please don't say that, much as I love getting to borrow peoples children no where near ready for that yet Just heard today about a woman who I was at church with when we were kids who has just had her 2nd and she's only a year and a half older than me  No thanks

[Hazybear]

<giggle giggle ^^ >

I didn't mean you should rush into all this - I've just bought my third set of baby clothes this year (and it's only March), got three more babes to go this year, but all these Mums are what I would call mature.  The latest baby's Mum is 40 and the other are all in their mid 30's.  This seems to be the way it is - getting the career jump started/getting the guy/getting the house - it all takes time!

Yeah I'm on my second cross-stitch sampler of the year already It's for the baby in the pic on my photo thread...my cousins new baby

[Hazybear]

Oh, I just adore these baby samplers.  Problem is, when you do one for someone, you're stuck for ever more.  Do you also get them framed before you hand them over?  Framing is kind of expensive, isn't it .............

Yeah I do, but quite often do my own framing which makes it less expensive...also I tend to do them for people I'm really close to so don't mind spending the money on Also now got enjoy patterns that I can just re-use some of them which cuts down on the cost.

[Hazybear]

Do you buy a frame or actually make it?  I bought a book on framing, but all that geometry is complicated .... my math skills are down around zero 

No buy the frame not that clever Always find that it's hard to get frames the right size though as quite often the cross-stitches are odd sizes

So off topic here...maybe we should start a needlework/knitting thread

[Hazybear]

ahh well Mark can tell us off if we're too bad

[Aileen]

Yeah I do, but quite often do my own framing which makes it less expensive...also I tend to do them for people I'm really close to so don't mind spending the money on Also now got enjoy patterns that I can just re-use some of them which cuts down on the cost.

Enjoyed reading this little "off topic" as, until I got (so far relatively mild) arthritis in my fingers, I did cross-stitch and tapestries.  Gave quite a lot away as gifts but after disastrous attempts at self-framing, got it done professionally.  Incidentally, Hazel, probably the most satisfactory piece of cross-stitch I ever did was a beautifully illustrated Lords Prayer, which I gave to a close relative who I knew would appreciate it.

Aileen, on a quick web search after a couple of questions to some of my friends who study theology and early church history more deeply than myself I came across this article...there are a lot that say pretty much the same thing but this one reads fairly easily, so hopefully will help explain the reincarnation thing As I said, not something I'd ever heard of and it was interesting to find out more and see some of the arguments for and against.
http://www.comparativereligion.com/reincarnation3.html

Quite a lot to digest here, so I've put it in a folder in my emails.  I also mentioned the removal of references to reincarnation again to my friend, and he tells me this supposedly happened around the 4th century ...