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Post by Demdike on Sept 5, 2019 21:08:52 GMT
I have two sewing machines, both were made not far from where I live, and both were made a LONG time ago. One is a hand operated table top machine, and the other a treadle machine that my Great Aunt bought new to pursue her career as a seamstress. When I remember I will fish out the info I found on them both. Oh - yes, I live by Loch Lomond, and Singer is a stop on the rail line into Glasgow . . . Oh heaven what a blissful place to live on the Bonny Bonny banks. I love our annual trip to Skye when we pass by. It seems to be there at the side of us for so long. |
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Post by 2ndwitch on Sept 5, 2019 21:35:25 GMT
Mmmm . . . one of the reasons it seems to be at your side for so long is that damned road! The A82 is linear hell, closed so often (usually for another fatal crash), and the stretch north of Tarbet is lethal - despite its winding and narrow nature it is the main trunk road north. Bank hols and fine weekends we accept we cannot go out - too many cars and frequently at 'home time' the traffic is tailed back past our drive.
It's a beautiful area, but also a tourist trap - a few years back I went down into Luss on Christmas Day for a wee walk, and there were two coaches of Japanese tourists in. The tourists were wandering round the village and I overheard some complaining that nothing was open . . .
Gosh, don't I sound ungrateful? I'm not - but I'm also not living here by choice.
And is that Pendle Hill you have there?
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 5, 2019 21:43:09 GMT
Oh, I never Linked Glasgow, Ship-Building and Singers Iron Foundary, with Loch Lomond. For some reason I am thinking of a Peninsular with Castle on it, and a Former Barge Route mid-water ... or am I in the wrong Lake, Country... Think I needs more Sleep.
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Post by Demdike on Sept 6, 2019 5:36:40 GMT
Mmmm . . . one of the reasons it seems to be at your side for so long is that damned road! The A82 is linear hell, closed so often (usually for another fatal crash), and the stretch north of Tarbet is lethal - despite its winding and narrow nature it is the main trunk road north. Bank hols and fine weekends we accept we cannot go out - too many cars and frequently at 'home time' the traffic is tailed back past our drive. It's a beautiful area, but also a tourist trap - a few years back I went down into Luss on Christmas Day for a wee walk, and there were two coaches of Japanese tourists in. The tourists were wandering round the village and I overheard some complaining that nothing was open . . . Gosh, don't I sound ungrateful? I'm not - but I'm also not living here by choice. And is that Pendle Hill you have there? It is indeed. I adore that hill. There are so many places in West Yorkshire from which you can see it. I didn’t know it existed till I went up from Denholme to Scar Top and saw this amazing thing over the hill. Then I read the story of the Pendle witches, When I went to visit it it felt like my spiritual home, although I have a strong affinity with Skye too. Anywhere hilly and wild tbh, or woody and wet. The story ‘daughters of the witching hill’ made me cry. I seriously feel like I remember being jeered at as a witch. When I was a little girl I told everyone I was a witch. I havent dont much about it though, I am too busy, but I meet a pagan group every month. The outdoors and windy wether excites me though. |
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Post by 2ndwitch on Sept 6, 2019 13:16:21 GMT
Ah - I am a red rose to the core, born a sand grown 'un (Lytham) and brought up in the linen weaving town of Leyland (what do you mean, it's famous for cars? Cars were never built there, linen came first and then buses, tanks and trucks!) - I have loved the stories of the Pendle witches - indeed my absolute all time favourite book ever in the whole world is Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill. My off-spring all appear in Harrison Ainsworth's epic, and 4 of them in Mist Over Pendle :-) (Philip, Jennet, Alice, Robert, Elizabeth).
My own name here grew from a folk group I was in - it consisted of my friend Helen, myself and my daughter Alice (Ali) - so we were 1st, 2nd and 3rd witch, The Three Witches. The group folded when Ali was killed, and the friendship bewtween myself and Helen has died the death - though I do miss the harmony singing we did.
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 6, 2019 13:22:35 GMT
Cant finf Pendle on my 50th anniversary of the AA map. Is it a dud map, - can finde pendleton - or is that different?
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 6, 2019 13:27:29 GMT
Looks Like its up in Fred Dibnah's Land.
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Post by Demdike on Sept 6, 2019 18:45:05 GMT
Cant finf Pendle on my 50th anniversary of the AA map. Is it a dud map, - can finde pendleton - or is that different? I am sure there is a village nearby called Pendleton. Can you find Barley? That is my usual starting point for going up it. Sabden at the back of it. |
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Post by 2ndwitch on Sept 6, 2019 21:01:02 GMT
These song lyrics might assist:
Oh Pendle.....
....oh Pendle, thou standest alone,
Twixt Burnley and Clitheroe, Whalley and Colne,
Where Hodder and Ribble's fair waters do meet,
With Barley and Downham content at thy feet.
Oh Pendle, oh Pendle, majestic, sublime,
Thy praises will ring till the end of all time,
Thy beauty eternal, thy banner unfurled,
Thou dearest and grandest old hill in the world.
And when witches fly on a cold winter's night,
You must not tell a soul, and you'll bolt the door tight,
You'll sit by the fireside and keep yourself warm,
Until once again you can walk in her arms.
Oh Pendle, Oh Pendle, o'er moorland and fell,
In glorious loveliness ever to dwell,
Through life's fateful journey where e'er we may be,
We'll cease in our labours and oft think of thee.
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Post by denisewasbabs on Sept 7, 2019 8:11:20 GMT
Mmmm . . . one of the reasons it seems to be at your side for so long is that damned road! The A82 is linear hell, closed so often (usually for another fatal crash), and the stretch north of Tarbet is lethal - despite its winding and narrow nature it is the main trunk road north. Bank hols and fine weekends we accept we cannot go out - too many cars and frequently at 'home time' the traffic is tailed back past our drive. It's a beautiful area, but also a tourist trap - a few years back I went down into Luss on Christmas Day for a wee walk, and there were two coaches of Japanese tourists in. The tourists were wandering round the village and I overheard some complaining that nothing was open . . . Gosh, don't I sound ungrateful? I'm not - but I'm also not living here by choice. And is that Pendle Hill you have there? The A82 along Loch Lomond is the one thing that I dread every time we go oop North. My OH is a careful and safe driver but I still breathe a sigh of relief when we get on the wider road. When we came back a few weeks ago he suggested taking the longer route via Callander and I was so relieved! Tourists - we were amused driving to Trotternish to see a couple standing in front of the most amazing view, photgraphing themselves with a selfie stick....nowt wrong with that, of course, but... One of the joys of the year is the now-annual Dark Gathering in Boscastle, where amongst other things we honour the sisters of the past persecuted for their craft. Including the Pendle witches. It's a quiet moving moment in amongst noisy Morris dancing and other shenanigans, great fun  |
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Post by Demdike on Sept 7, 2019 19:49:20 GMT
Mmmm . . . one of the reasons it seems to be at your side for so long is that damned road! The A82 is linear hell, closed so often (usually for another fatal crash), and the stretch north of Tarbet is lethal - despite its winding and narrow nature it is the main trunk road north. Bank hols and fine weekends we accept we cannot go out - too many cars and frequently at 'home time' the traffic is tailed back past our drive. It's a beautiful area, but also a tourist trap - a few years back I went down into Luss on Christmas Day for a wee walk, and there were two coaches of Japanese tourists in. The tourists were wandering round the village and I overheard some complaining that nothing was open . . . Gosh, don't I sound ungrateful? I'm not - but I'm also not living here by choice. And is that Pendle Hill you have there? The A82 along Loch Lomond is the one thing that I dread every time we go oop North. My OH is a careful and safe driver but I still breathe a sigh of relief when we get on the wider road. When we came back a few weeks ago he suggested taking the longer route via Callander and I was so relieved! Tourists - we were amused driving to Trotternish to see a couple standing in front of the most amazing view, photgraphing themselves with a selfie stick....nowt wrong with that, of course, but... One of the joys of the year is the now-annual Dark Gathering in Boscastle, where amongst other things we honour the sisters of the past persecuted for their craft. Including the Pendle witches. It's a quiet moving moment in amongst noisy Morris dancing and other shenanigans, great fun Discovered Callander on the way back. The home of a historic witch I hear, Helen Duncan. I bought a hand crank singer from a charity shop there. I was delighted. What a wonderful little place. God, Scotland is awesome. |
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Post by denisewasbabs on Sept 7, 2019 20:17:16 GMT
I'm into PreRaphaelite art and want to visit Brig O'Turk where Millais painted John Ruskin. I remember reading about Helen Duncan some year ago, didn't she have some psychic doodahs during the second world war?
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 7, 2019 20:24:42 GMT
Sewing Machines .... Ok, I'll admit, am a nidiot. There is a Little old Lady (Yup, Even older than me) wanted help to get a Taxi. She hobbles along after a strain on her back - She can do a fair turn of speed using her Shopping barrow as support, but Steps, Stairs, Kerbs etc are difficult for her. She parked herself and wheelbarrow as I walked to the Kerbside to see if her Cab was near. I caught her Barrow as I passed and found a length of cotton on my shoe - seemed to be a thread out of a a bit of sewing from my shoe - but it did seem that if I unbundled the cotton, it would be a long thread.
Only when I got her in the cab that I felt the draft - taken the thread out of my trouser seem from above the knee to my ankle. Not much one can do except to act normally when people watched you. I tried looking nonchalant but had to carefully find a seat on the appropriate side of the bus to keep my leg away from the aisle. That was my interview suit, so I guess I'll never work again.
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Post by judithl on Sept 8, 2019 16:23:11 GMT
If it's just a seam it will mend easily.
It's tears that can be a problem - all jagged edges.
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Post by goodlookingone on Sept 8, 2019 17:01:23 GMT
No, it is only unstitching - but it makes me concerned about the security of all the cotton involved, not just the bit that is unthreaded.
Which reminds me - still in the washing m/c pending examination.
A re-edit - I am concerned about my ability to spell "concerned"
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