From HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com  Tue Mar 20 01:53:10 2001
From: HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com (HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com)
Date: 20 Mar 2001 01:53:10 -0000
Subject: New poll for HP4GU-OTEvents 
Message-ID: <985053190.208.7899.f4@yahoogroups.com>


Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
HP4GU-OTEvents group:

Do you want to chip in for a present, in 
addition to the Baby Book? 

  o Yes - I can contribute $1 
  o Yes, I can contribute $3 
  o Yes, I can contribute $5 
  o No, I think the book is enough 
  o Yes, I can contribute a galleon 


To vote, please visit the following web page:

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Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are 
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Thanks!

 







From HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com  Tue Mar 20 13:13:13 2001
From: HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com (HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com)
Date: 20 Mar 2001 13:13:13 -0000
Subject: New poll for HP4GU-OTEvents 
Message-ID: <985093993.135.7031.h9@yahoogroups.com>


Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
HP4GU-OTEvents group:

Do you want to chip in for a present, 
in addition to the Baby Book 

  o Yes, I will contribute about a Galleon 
  o Yes, I will contribute a dollar 
  o Yes, I will contribute three dollars 
  o Yes, I will contribute five dollars 
  o No, I think the book is present enough. 


To vote, please visit the following web page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP4GU-OTEvents/polls 

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are 
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups 
web site listed above.

Thanks!

 







From heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu  Wed Mar 21 15:20:37 2001
From: heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu (heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:20:37 -0000
Subject: ISO Votes
Message-ID: <99ags5+smi7@eGroups.com>

Please come over to the website & vote in the poll, so we can 
formulate a plan.
If you can't get to the site, please email me...




From editor at texas.net  Wed Mar 21 19:03:57 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:03:57 -0600
Subject: [Fwd: new mom?]
Message-ID: <3AB8FB1D.5E2CD5C@texas.net>

Hi, Amy asked this, and I thought you all might want to know.

--Amanda

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: new mom?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:39:08 -0500
From: "Amy Z" <aiz24 at hotmail.com>
To: editor at texas.net

>Humor does wonders for nervous new moms, who just *know* that if
>they do anything wrong it'll warp their kid for life.
>
>--Amanda, busily warping her own kids

Come on, how far wrong can you go if you force-feed them HP on a regular 
basis?

Is this Penny's first?

HERE'S MY REPLY, THE FORMAT DOESN'T SHOW THE DIFFERENCE

Yes, this is her first. They'd been trying for something exhausting like
four years, and so everyone is delighted. They *think* it's a girl, but
the ultrasounds have not been decisive (like my own daughter, the little
one is being coy and not showing a full frontal view), and they didn't
do amnio (which would be certain).

--Amanda



From editor at texas.net  Thu Mar 22 04:48:09 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:48:09 -0600
Subject: Does everyone have the specs?
Message-ID: <3AB98408.C3AFA92C@texas.net>

Hi, all.

Some of you weren't on my original list for the specifications for the
baby book pages--does anyone need it? The dimensions, general idea,
etc.? Just holler.

--Amanda, up waaaay too late




From jferer at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 22 12:55:52 2001
From: jferer at yahoo.com (Jim Ferer)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 04:55:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [HP4GU-OTEvents] Does everyone have the specs?
In-Reply-To: <3AB98408.C3AFA92C@texas.net>
Message-ID: <20010322125552.967.qmail@web4401.mail.yahoo.com>

I don't. Send it to me please, Amanda, or post it on
the Group. Thanks.
--- Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net> wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> Some of you weren't on my original list for the
> specifications for the
> baby book pages--does anyone need it? The
> dimensions, general idea,
> etc.? Just holler.
> 
> --Amanda, up waaaay too late
> 
> 


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From editor at texas.net  Thu Mar 22 13:44:02 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:44:02 -0600
Subject: [Fwd: Penny's book]
Message-ID: <3ABA01A2.283E739@texas.net>

Here you go, anyone who hasn't see the original idea and/or
specifications.

--Amanda

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Penny's book
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:36:08 -0600
From: Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net>

Thanks for responding, all you guys! Here's my idea, in typical
Amandesque rambling fashion.

When my cousin threw me a baby shower, lo these many years ago, she sent
little pieces of paper out with the invitations. The invitation included
instructions to write on the little piece of paper---words of advice,
anecdotes, personal experience, humor, just about anything of value to a
mom-to-be [humor *does* equal value, believe me]. Actual content was up
to the writer.

The pieces of paper were mailed back to my cousin, prior to the shower
itself, and she bound them into a book--it's got heavier paper for the
front and back, and is bound with ribbon. I treasure it.

Since Penny is due on tax day, April 15, I don't have loads of time, so
I thought I would just send you all the dimensions, and let you cut out
your own sheets, and then mail them to me. This also lets the more
voluble among you use more than one sheet if you like.

Fiction is allowed.
Cartoons and/or other drawings are allowed.
Anecdotes are allowed.
Personal experience is allowed.
Tidbits your mom told you are allowed.
Things your mom did that you hated, and you think no one should ever do,
are allowed.
ETC.
Use your imaginations. I got a cartoon from one person showing me,
holding the baby, looking furious and yelling at my husband, and my
husband, looking sheepish and lowering a raised bottle of champagne,
entitled "Polish Baby Christening." [I love it, although it wasn't
tremendously relevant to the "support a new mom" theme.]

I also need someone with a kick-ass color printer (*any* color printer,
actually--I've no access to anything but B&W) to print me out a couple
copies of logo #10, which even if it doesn't win is the one I liked
best, for me to use on the cover of the book. Or anyone got good ideas?
Like logo #10 and a little teeny hat next to it? Or a big broomstick and
a teeny one? Etc.

Anyway.
The pages of my book are blue construction paper, and are roughly 4
inches by 5 inches. This, I think, is the size you get when you quarter
the larger-than-letter-size standard American construction paper.
However, we tend to be more verbose than my shy, retiring, nonloquacious
relatives, so I think we should go with half a letter size, so 5 1/2
inches by 8 1/2 inches sound good?

I give the inch measurements because I know standard letter-size is not
8 1/2 by 11 in other countries.

I will bind it along the short side, the 5 1/2 inch side, so leave me
about an inch on the left side of your sheet (s).

Use whatever color paper you want. Construction paper is fun, but is
less flexible than writing paper.

Deadline--say the first of April? That gives you a couple of weeks, and
me a couple.

And email anyone else you know to get more people--I wanted this to be a
"list" present. I only posted to the "Chatter" group, the better to be
sure Penny wouldn't read it, but perhaps I should troll the real one?

My address:

Amanda Lewanski
929 Vista Verde
Adkins, TX  78101
Don't forget to put USA if you're not here

--Amanda



From heidit at netbox.com  Fri Mar 23 14:12:21 2001
From: heidit at netbox.com (heidit at netbox.com)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:12:21 -0000
Subject: The votes are coming in
Message-ID: <99flk5+v34q@eGroups.com>

On whether we should get a group gift, in addition to doing the book 
(yes, I'm working on my book insert Amanda!), half you the people on 
this list have voted - can the rest of you go vote, just so we know 
what people want to do/spend?
At this point, I think it makes sense to do 2 things - #1 See if 
there are any listies who *aren't* in this group, who should be, and 
#2 look at possible presents in the $50 range, the $75 range and, if 
enough people join, the $100 range. 
I'm setting up another poll on this issue - please go vote! It'll 
only be open for a week...




From HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com  Fri Mar 23 14:16:48 2001
From: HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com (HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com)
Date: 23 Mar 2001 14:16:48 -0000
Subject: New poll for HP4GU-OTEvents 
Message-ID: <985357008.737.82249.q3@yahoogroups.com>


Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
HP4GU-OTEvents group:

What kind of present do we want to get? 

  o Something connected to Harry Potter - a rocking dragon or owl, perhaps 
  o Something heirloom-ish, like a rattle 
  o Clothing 
  o A baby book/memorobilia piece 
  o Something else (if you check this, please send your idea to the whole list) 


To vote, please visit the following web page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP4GU-OTEvents/polls 

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are 
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups 
web site listed above.

Thanks!

 







From editor at texas.net  Sat Mar 24 03:22:39 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:22:39 -0600
Subject: First contribution here!..and a question
Message-ID: <3ABC12FF.BD6C254@texas.net>

YAAAY to Jennifer, jenp_97, who sent me her pages for the book! I got
them today. We're rolling!

Who was it that said they could print me a color version of Logo #10?
Did we want that on the cover, or some design of big & little hats, baby
broomsticks, or some other idea that blows mine away? I'm open to
suggestions.

--Amanda




From pbnesbit at msn.com  Sat Mar 24 04:04:12 2001
From: pbnesbit at msn.com (pbnesbit at msn.com)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 04:04:12 -0000
Subject: First contribution here!..and a question
In-Reply-To: <3ABC12FF.BD6C254@texas.net>
Message-ID: <99h6bs+j1a1@eGroups.com>

--- In HP4GU-OTEvents at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> YAAAY to Jennifer, jenp_97, who sent me her pages for the book! I 
got
> them today. We're rolling!
> 
> Who was it that said they could print me a color version of Logo 
#10?
> Did we want that on the cover, or some design of big & little hats, 
baby
> broomsticks, or some other idea that blows mine away? I'm open to
> suggestions.
> 
> --Amanda


Amanda, 

That would be me.  I have it printed, but no way to scale it properly 
& unfortunately no time to take it to the printers to have it done.  

My pages will be along very soon--just have to find an envelope to 
fit them into.  

Peace & Plenty,

Parker




From yael_pou at hotmail.com  Mon Mar 26 07:51:31 2001
From: yael_pou at hotmail.com (yael oren)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:51:31 +0200
Subject: Sent mine
References: <99h6bs+j1a1@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <OE41RDT6Z3LstPGtPrP0000556d@hotmail.com>

Hi, Amanda,

I sent you my pages, i hope you'll get it in 2-3 days.

Inside the envelope, there's:

1 short letter for you, in my very childish handwriting *embarrassed smile*
1 drawing my 4.5 yo girl drew for Penny. She insisted on knowing who this drawing is for, and wrote her name in Hebrew letters on it.
1 doodle my 1.5 yo girl drew because she saw the 4.5 yo using colours :) - i put that in, too.
1 printout of a drawing + advice for Penny from me.
1 $5 note, because it seems we're going that way, and this is my one chance of sending in the money.

It's all in a formal company envelope, because i didn't want to waste another day until i could get to a post office and get real envelopes <VBG>.

Thanks, yael



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From editor at texas.net  Mon Mar 26 13:21:02 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:21:02 -0600
Subject: [HP4GU-OTEvents] Sent mine
References: <99h6bs+j1a1@eGroups.com> <OE41RDT6Z3LstPGtPrP0000556d@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <3ABF423E.1652B130@texas.net>

Way to go, Yael! I'll let you know as soon as I get it. Sounds like you
got some great stuff in there.

Heidi, do you want me to send her $5 on to you, since you seem to be
handling the gift end of things? How *should* we handle the money?

--Amanda

yael oren wrote:

> Hi, Amanda, I sent you my pages, i hope you'll get it in 2-3
> days. Inside the envelope, there's: 1 short letter for you, in my very
> childish handwriting *embarrassed smile*1 drawing my 4.5 yo girl drew
> for Penny. She insisted on knowing who this drawing is for, and wrote
> her name in Hebrew letters on it.1 doodle my 1.5 yo girl drew because
> she saw the 4.5 yo using colours :) - i put that in, too.1 printout of
> a drawing + advice for Penny from me.1 $5 note, because it seems we're
> going that way, and this is my one chance of sending in the
> money. It's all in a formal company envelope, because i didn't want to
> waste another day until i could get to a post office and get real
> envelopes <VBG>. Thanks, yael
>
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From s_ings at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 27 02:36:32 2001
From: s_ings at yahoo.com (Sheryll Townsend)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:36:32 -0000
Subject: I made it!
Message-ID: <99oubg+dapb@eGroups.com>

My invite to this group finally made it through, thank you Heidi. I'm 
off work tomorrow, so will get my contribution ready and send it. 
I'll enclose my $5 as well.

I'm curious as to what kinds of things everyone is sending.

Sheryll




From pbnesbit at msn.com  Tue Mar 27 03:49:53 2001
From: pbnesbit at msn.com (pbnesbit at msn.com)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:49:53 -0000
Subject: Mine is on its way
Message-ID: <99p2l1+csv8@eGroups.com>



My contribution (both poetic and monetary) will be winging its way to 
Texas early tomorrow!

Peace & Plenty,

Parker




From editor at texas.net  Tue Mar 27 13:29:44 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:29:44 -0600
Subject: [HP4GU-OTEvents] I made it!
References: <99oubg+dapb@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <3AC095C7.DC8FD578@texas.net>

Sheryll Townsend wrote:

> My invite to this group finally made it through, thank you Heidi. I'm
> off work tomorrow, so will get my contribution ready and send it. I'll
> enclose my $5 as well.

Welcome, Sheryll!

> I'm curious as to what kinds of things everyone is sending.

Me, too! I've only gotten one page contribution so far, although several
others are on their way. My own book is pretty much a grab-bag, from
practical advice to humor to cartoons. That's what made it so fun.

--Amanda
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From heidit at netbox.com  Tue Mar 27 14:51:43 2001
From: heidit at netbox.com (heidit at netbox.com)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:51:43 -0000
Subject: Send me your Galleons
Message-ID: <99q9dv+rkj9@eGroups.com>

Of, if you don't have those, how about a five dollar bill? 
You can send it to me at:
heidi tandy
2630 flamingo drive
miami beach, florida, 33140.

I'll flip around on the web today & try to find a selection of about 
5 gifts in the $50 to $70 range.
I don't want to do another post about this on the lists, but I do 
want to make sure that everyone who WANTS to participate is 
participating. 
Can one of the HP4GU moderators either get me a list of the actual 
email addresses - I know you can access them - or give me moderator 
status for about 2 hours so I can cull them myself?





From HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com  Tue Mar 27 15:37:58 2001
From: HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com (HP4GU-OTEvents at yahoogroups.com)
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:37:58 -0000
Subject: New poll for HP4GU-OTEvents 
Message-ID: <985707478.803.26294.cf@yahoogroups.com>


Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
HP4GU-OTEvents group:

Now that we've decided to get an HP-
related present, what do we want to get? 

  o Mobile - http://www.hallmark.com/hmk/Website/Shopping/sh_productdetail.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0912763666.0985706139@@@@&BV_EngineID=ealkhhkkhlmbedbfchcgg.0&fromPage=/Website/Shopping/sh_prod_sub_inc.jsp&CONTENT_KEY=SFF3101&CONTENT_TYPE=PRODUCT&type=prod&oid=120855&suboid=-105626 
  o Gund Harry - http://www.fao.com/FAOWeb/EComm/categorypage.cfm?category=9279BFD2-3E84-4C59-BC18B20F74BEB8D4&keyword=HARRY_POTTER 
  o Gund Hagrid - http://www.fao.com/FAOWeb/EComm/categorypage.cfm?category=9279BFD2-3E84-4C59-BC18B20F74BEB8D4&keyword=HARRY_POTTER 
  o Gund Fluffy - http://www.fao.com/FAOWeb/EComm/categorypage.cfm?category=9279BFD2-3E84-4C59-BC18B20F74BEB8D4&keyword=HARRY_POTTER 
  o Gund Norbert - http://www.fao.com/FAOWeb/EComm/categorypage.cfm?category=9279BFD2-3E84-4C59-BC18B20F74BEB8D4&keyword=HARRY_POTTER 
  o Gund Scabbers - http://www.fao.com/FAOWeb/EComm/categorypage.cfm?category=9279BFD2-3E84-4C59-BC18B20F74BEB8D4&keyword=HARRY_POTTER 
  o Rocking Unicorn (I can't find one online...if you can, please let me know!) 
  o Wall Plaque - http://www.sylvanlaneshoppe.com/wallplaque_hogwarts.jpg 
  o Something else - please send a description/url to this list 


To vote, please visit the following web page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP4GU-OTEvents/polls 

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are 
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups 
web site listed above.

Thanks!

 







From editor at texas.net  Tue Mar 27 17:57:29 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:57:29 -0600
Subject: [HP4GU-OTEvents] Send me your Galleons
References: <99q9dv+rkj9@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <3AC0D488.8B5EA914@texas.net>

heidit at netbox.com wrote:

> Of, if you don't have those, how about a five dollar bill?
> You can send it to me at:
> heidi tandy
> 2630 flamingo drive
> miami beach, florida, 33140.

For those of you who've already sent any $5 bills my way, I'm going to
forward them to Heidi. They don't weigh just a whole lot (unless you
*did* send a Galleon), so no problem.

Too bad they don't make little gold-plated Galleons or anything. What a
cool (and easily storable) memento for a birth.

--Amanda
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From neilward at dircon.co.uk  Tue Mar 27 18:22:47 2001
From: neilward at dircon.co.uk (Neil Ward)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:22:47 -0000
Subject: Pages...money...addresses
Message-ID: <99qlpn+fq0c@eGroups.com>

Amanda - I'm going to try to do my page(s) tonight and courier them 
to you.  I've never had a baby myself (not literally, although I feel 
that I've had several metaphorically), so I'm dredging my brain for 
anecdotes told me by my mother, grandmother, sister-in-law and other 
women I've come across.  I'm also toying with a poem, which is a bit 
sickbag at the moment.  Anyway - you'll get *something*.

I have some nice A4 paper made of recycled old banknotes, but I have 
to cut an 8.5" by 5.5" piece out of it, as A4 is just under 8.5" wide 
by just over 11.5" long.  My scissor lines might be a bit wonky.

Heidi - I'll send you a $5 bill (useful that I've just returned from 
the US).  I can also make you a temporary moderator if you tell me 
when is the best time, or, if there's a risk Penny might spot that 
and wonder what's going on, let me know who you think needs e-
mailing.  Alternatively, you might find some of the addresses in 
Announcements - you are already a moderator for that list.

Neil








  




From sinead at bu.edu  Wed Mar 28 03:02:05 2001
From: sinead at bu.edu (Sinead)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 03:02:05 -0000
Subject: P&M
Message-ID: <99rk7d+v4db@eGroups.com>

I've been thinking and thinking about a page for the book. I'm 
coming up empty handed.  I can send just the five dollars in the 
mail, is that okay? I have no idea for the page......I'm sorry about 
that. 

Sinead

P.S. 5 dollars go to Heidi right? 




From editor at texas.net  Thu Mar 29 03:00:37 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:00:37 -0600
Subject: [HP4GU-OTEvents] P&M
References: <99rk7d+v4db@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <3AC2A555.67FF0750@texas.net>

Sinead wrote:

> I've been thinking and thinking about a page for the book. I'm
> coming up empty handed.  I can send just the five dollars in the
> mail, is that okay? I have no idea for the page......I'm sorry about
> that.

It's not meant to be a high-pressure thing--if you can't think of
anything, you can't. No blame. If we as a group can't understand
writers' block, who can?

Of course, should inspiration suddenly strike.... <g>

> P.S. 5 dollars go to Heidi right?

Yes. I'm forwarding her whatever I get, so she can do the purchasing. We
hadn't worked it all out before some people got organized.

--Amanda
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From neilward at dircon.co.uk  Fri Mar 30 05:30:53 2001
From: neilward at dircon.co.uk (Neil Ward)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 05:30:53 -0000
Subject: Update....
Message-ID: <9a15md+atms@eGroups.com>

Okay. I have done a couple of pages (finally) and they are all 
packaged up ready to be sent off today.  I'm still going to use a 
courier for this, but I'm not sure when the package will reach Texas.

After wondering about advice for Penny, I realised I had a book in my 
collection of 'weird-looking old books' called "The Care of Young 
Babies".  It was written in 1946, before Britain had a National 
Health Service, and some of it is unwittingly funny.  I used to buy 
musty old books like this for photographs and images to use in the 
fanzine I used to do.  Those were the days...


I'll also send the money to Heidi today.

Neil 




From jenP_97 at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 30 19:37:33 2001
From: jenP_97 at yahoo.com (Jennifer Piersol)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:37:33 -0000
Subject: Update....
In-Reply-To: <9a15md+atms@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <9a2n9t+n7ld@eGroups.com>

Neil's info snipped, now the interesting part:

> After wondering about advice for Penny, I realised I had a book in 
my 
> collection of 'weird-looking old books' called "The Care of Young 
> Babies".  It was written in 1946, before Britain had a National 
> Health Service, and some of it is unwittingly funny.  I used to buy 
> musty old books like this for photographs and images to use in the 
> fanzine I used to do.  Those were the days...
> 
> 

<'nother snip>

Just out of curiosity, Neil... can you give us some examples of the 
funny bits?

Jen (whose daughter is at the moment wearing amber-colored swim 
goggles while plinking notes on her tiny electronic keyboard and 
squeezing/talking to a rubber blowfish water squirter)




From neilward at dircon.co.uk  Fri Mar 30 21:47:23 2001
From: neilward at dircon.co.uk (Neil Ward)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:47:23 -0000
Subject: Update....
In-Reply-To: <9a2n9t+n7ld@eGroups.com>
Message-ID: <9a2utb+jk96@eGroups.com>

Jen said:

> Just out of curiosity, Neil... can you give us some examples of the 
> funny bits?

Below are the bits and bobs I reproduced for Penny.  

I know baby Linsenmayer isn't a boy, and a lot of these snippets 
refer to boys, but I should explain that the author of the book 
regards *all* babies as male in that 1940s fashion (and all nurses 
are, naturally, assumed to be women).

Neil


[How To Travel With A Baby]  `If your baby has reached the age where 
he is having mixed food for his lunch, don't take him into the 
restaurant car: the food there is usually quite unsuitable for 
babies.  Pack some tiny sandwiches, brown or white, made with honey, 
Marmite or bramble jelly, and perhaps one or two sponge fingers.  
This with milk is quite enough for any baby.'

`If you are going on a journey you will find "Napkinettes" most 
useful; these are made quite cheaply of a material like gamgee and 
they are thrown away after use.  They are also useful should the baby 
have a sudden attack of diarrh?a, as they can be burnt at once.' 

[The Choice of A Nurse for Your Baby] `Choose someone good-tempered, 
spotlessly clean, cheerful, careful and fond of children, someone 
that you like as a woman.  Choose someone not too set in her ways, 
not too grimly efficient, someone with outside interests, with 
friends of her own.'

`Some nurses make an absolute fetish of lifting the baby.  They will 
snatch the infant up if he so much as stirs in his sleep and put him 
on the chamber.  When he is due to wake, instead of letting him 
stretch and yawn like all young animals while his brain gets into 
working order, they will seize him, whip off his napkin and plant him 
blinking and dazed on his old enemy.'

`A small boy always looks nice in a little woollen cardigan which 
buttons up the front, and a tiny pair of woollen shorts worn over his 
napkin.  This makes a neat rigout and small boys look sturdy and 
compact and easy to handle.' 

`I have known several fathers who viewed with horror the prospect of 
handling a baby in long clothes, yet be extremely proud and pleased 
to hold their son when dressed more reasonably.' 

`Pregnancy is no time for invalidism, so buy yourself a pair of flat-
heeled brogues and a macintosh and go out in all weathers.'

`Toys should be few and simple and inexpensive.  They should be 
washable and have no sharp corners: they should not be painted or 
fluffy, for the baby will put everything into his mouth.  To help his 
growing sense of shape and size and colour, they should all be very 
different ? perhaps a wooden rattle, a celluloid duck, or a few small 
leather animals.'

`Sometimes a baby will develop the annoying habit of prolonged 
chewing before swallowing.  They like the feel of it: it's almost 
like chewing the cud, or the American habit of chewing gum.'







From neilward at dircon.co.uk  Fri Mar 30 21:52:32 2001
From: neilward at dircon.co.uk (Neil Ward)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:52:32 -0000
Subject: BTW, it'll be there on Monday....
Message-ID: <9a2v70+cutt@eGroups.com>

I know you set a deadline of 1st April, Amanda, but my stuff will not 
be with you until Monday.  I had to use a human being on a pedal bike 
as a courier; all the owls were out in an industrial dispute over 
hours and pay.  

I'm sure you're all fascinated by my blow by blow progress report.

Neil




From editor at texas.net  Fri Mar 30 22:05:02 2001
From: editor at texas.net (Amanda Lewanski)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:05:02 -0600
Subject: [HP4GU-OTEvents] BTW, it'll be there on Monday....
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Message-ID: <3AC5030D.2C8396DF@texas.net>

Neil Ward wrote:

> I know you set a deadline of 1st April, Amanda, but my stuff will not
> be with you until Monday.

I'll consider canceling the hex.

>  I had to use a human being on a pedal bike as a courier; all the owls
> were out in an industrial dispute over hours and pay.

Well, clearly not your fault then. Consider yourself unhexed. (H! It was
an H! I *canceled* the hex!).

Um, you're sending it by bike....? Wouldn't the mail work...? (I'm
confused)

> I'm sure you're all fascinated by my blow by blow progress report.

I'd rather get too many updates than none....

--Amanda
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From neilward at dircon.co.uk  Fri Mar 30 22:20:58 2001
From: neilward at dircon.co.uk (Neil Ward)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:20:58 +0100
Subject: [HP4GU-OTEvents] BTW, it'll be there on Monday....
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Amanda said:

<<Um, you're sending it by bike....? Wouldn't the mail work...? (I'm
confused) >>

I little man arrived on a bike (actually, he left it outside and walked in)
and he took the package away.  I imagine it will now be passed like the
Olympic torch from person to person, and carried by planes, trains and
automobiles and more bikes and pairs of legs, until it flies down your
chimney stack in Adkins, bent in half and with every third word cut out of
the pages by the FBI.

Er, how does the postal system work again?  Does it need batteries?

Neil