There is nothing wrong for a man to knit. I understand the Duke of Windsor
was pretty good at it, and, I may be wrong, in Switzerland it is the
activity of men. I grew up in a small village in Holland, and in the main
street worked a (male) hairdresser for men and boys, when he had nothing to
do, he would sit outside in the street and knit to his heart's content,
women in the area would come to him for advice on knitting.
That street's name has an interesting association with WWII, the street's
name is Hessenweg. The name came from Hessian traders. During the war the
bus driver (as well as before and after the war) would announce the next
stop 'Hessenweg" but then at one stage he called out "Hess is weg",
referring to Rudolf Hess having gone to England. The German's had no sense
of humour and took him to a prison camp.
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Richardson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval, soc.history.medieval,
alt.history.british, alt.talk.royalty
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Agnate Gâtinais-Anjou-Plantagenet: was Re: DNA
On Dec 21, 2:00 pm, Joan Richardson <[email protected]
wrote:
I just noticed that my previous message was posted under my daughter,
Joan's Google account, and displays her name as the author. The
previous post was made by your's truly, not Joan Richardson.
This happened once before when I inadvertedly posted using my
daughter, Mary Richardson's Google account. Some of the nasty folks
here on the newsgroup thought it was a hoot when they noticed that
Mary's account had previously posted messages to a knitting group.
They thought I was the knitter. Well, for the record, I don't knit,
and my name isn't Mary Richardson. But it was worth a good laugh.
One other thing: If you read this message backwards, it will say "Paul
is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead."
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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