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Yup Pseu,
It’s a bit of a bugger and no mistake.
I wonder if the archives will still be there if it comes back.
My guess is that DT will ‘relaunch’ MyT, which possibly means a clean slate and a new look. Maybe even ONEshite has been cashiered too. We’ll no doubt ‘see’.
What you mean Janus is that you hope One*** has been cashiered!
Someone on MyT was pointing out that all the adverts for drugs are illegal in Britain. So I expect DT’s lawyers are recommending that Onesite be ditched pronto.
I sent an e-mail on the subject;
“Good Afternoon Ms Day,
Can you tell me anything about the prolonged maintenance of the My Telegraph website?
How much longer is it expected to be offline for?
regards
Ferret”
I have just received this e-mail response from Kate Day.
“Hello Ferret,
I’m afraid I’m not able to give you a definite date for My Telegraph’s return but it will be days rather than weeks. This is certainly not an attempt to abandon My Telegraph, far from it.
I will be in touch again as soon as I have more information.
All the best,
Kate”
Reading between the lines, she must have been getting some queries about the DT dropping its blogsite. I never suggested any attempt to abandon My Telegraph. 🙂
Thank you Ferret, undercover investigator.
Hee Hee Nym,
Nothing undercover about it. That was a prime example of overt ops. 😉
In a further response Ms Day explained that she has been looking in on us here and had noticed some comments to the effect of abandonment.
I think that’s brilliant! She actually looks in on us here to see how we are doing. Either that or Kate blogs here under another name, now that would be hilarious. 🙂
Really Furry!!!
Hello Kate,
Could I remind you about some other little niggles please.
” Friend only” posts and the abuse thereof of this facility, as previously discussed.
No HTML on some pages and this seems oddly to be the default for new accounts.
No way of approving comments for new accounts; they must think we are such an unfriendly lot.
Thanks and regards.
OK, I admit it, I was Kate all along.
Did you like my “English as a second language” ruse? Worked well didn’t it. And how about being a cabbie at the other end of the world? What, you bloggers think anyone could be bothered to blog at four in the morning after a twelve hour shift?
Anyway, it was a lot of fun while it lasted.
As for My T, be patient dear users, we are sacking the one shite crowd and are engaging our legal team to screw them well and truly.
The biggest problem we have right now is trying to find a good host provider. We approached quiet a few, but after looking at some of the clients we had on our books, most companies declined with an embarrassed look on their face.
We are currently looking at Australia and I may have to go on a fact finding mission to Sydney, Cairns, the Gold coast and Ayers Rock to find a provider that will take our business.
I shall write all of your a postcard, eh, email regarding my success in the matter.
In the meantime, thanks for accessing the “Closed for maintenance” page three times a day, and giving me, as the cabbie, a fair go.
You lot are alright and personally I don’t care if any of you ever buys a paper for the rest of your life. XXX OOO
😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉
Oddly enough Bearsy suggested this morning, jokingly, that we write to Kate and invite her to put a post here re MyT –
So if you’re reading Kate – do join and let us know what is happening. You’d be very welcome! 🙂
Hello Pseu, I have every confidence that when the site re-opens we will all be a lot happier, good luck to them, it’s just a pity that it took them almost 2 years to realise that Shane had bought a pup.
I’m quite looking forward to the ‘new myt’
Ditto, Soutie. I just hope that archive material will be there. (I have actually deleted all my posts except for the most recent, but Poets Cornered had been left intact.)
Hear Hear Soutie,
I have a sneaky suspicion the Arkansas Chug-a-Bugs will still be at the helm however.
I have a sneaky suspicion the Arkansas Chug-a-Bugs will still be at the helm however.
Oklahomans, Ferret, Oklahomans… There is a difference. The Arkansas Chug-a-Bugs have on average one more tooth and have command of 5 rather than 2 grammar rules.
Oklahomans, Ferret, Oklahomans… There is a difference. The Arkansas Chug-a-Bugs have on average one more tooth and have command of 5 rather than 2 grammar rules.
Still better than some on MyT
I don’t know, you have it wrong, the couple next to us at the Dallas Opera House, subscription seats section were from Oklahoma. The wife had a Russian Sable coat and diamond tennis bracelets up her arm to her elbow, she took nigh on a season to actually reply to my ‘good Evening’ Well I was only wearing arctic fox and not enough diamonds obviously!
I had two acquaintance from Arkansas, one girl I knew in Memphis used to have her moonshine delivered personally to her apartment, (very upmarket) in crates of Kilner jars, beyond quite beyond, it was quite good stuff, never seen the inside of a radiator!
The other chap was a savage, never forget being at a ‘do’ in Rural Arkansas, he was bare footed and legged in chigger territory and made us all stand still, casually walked across and stomped the biggest spider with his bare foot, juice and gore spurting everywhere, evidently it was a poisonous, no help, killing type creepy! Didn’t even bother to wash his foot!!
combine that with the Little Rock race riots which were much better than Memphis could ever achieve and I give them the savages of America award every time!
anyway what else do you expect from Clinton territory?
Kate says, “I’m afraid I’m not able to give you a definite date for My Telegraph’s return but it will be days rather than weeks. This is certainly not an attempt to abandon My Telegraph, far from it.”
Pity. That means there’ll be no major sortout, I fear.
What you mean Janus is that you hope One*** has been cashiered!
Boa, not wishing to pry (too much), aren’t you supposed to be intermittent about now? 🙂
Kate replied to my query in similar terms to Ferret’s reply in that it would definitely be back – and Pseu, Louise has been told it’s down for maintenance… so you will have to continue on those tenterhooks 😉
I’ve never know what a ‘tenterhook’ is, so, inspired by Jan’s last comment I looked it up.
First definition in the list; ‘one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter. So, now I know. Don’t I?
Bravo – Well go and look up “tenter”, then, just like I had to. 🙂
OZ
Way back in the 14th century, a “tenter” (probably from the Latin “tendere,” to stretch) was a wooden frame upon which newly woven and milled cloth was stretched to dry. The cloth was held in place by rows of small, sharp hooks called, you guessed it, “tenterhooks.” Back when everyone knew what “tenters” were, “to be on tenterhooks” must have seemed like an excellent metaphor for “being in a painful state of suspense.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase was first used in this sense in the mid-18th century by Tobias Smollet (“I left him upon the tenter-hooks of impatient uncertainty”). http://www.word-detective.com/011502.html
a tenterhook is a clothpeg 🙂
Sorry, should have finished that last comment with a question mark 😦
Oz, did it, got it, what Pseu said.
Times on line now charging for news… will everyone else follow? And charge for the MyT type site? I wonder
Yes, interesting, Nym.
I wonder how many would pay?
From: Kate Day (kate.day@telegraph.co.uk)
Sent: 28 May 2010 14:03:49
To: help ma boab (helpmaboab[at]hotmail.co.uk)
————————
Hello,
It’s going well thanks. Shouldn’t be too much longer now.
I’ll email again when I have a firm date for My Telegraph’s return.
Many thanks,
Kate
Holy Moly, hmb, you’re connected! Question is: what does ‘going well’ mean?
Janus, refers to the ‘maintenance’ that they tell us has closed the site.
Will they update the homepage? Will they keep out the idiots? Will they, will they?
Ah pseu, but you have omitted the reason why newly made cloth was wet in the first place!
It doesn’t come off the looms wet now does it?
what you really needed was a digression upon the art of fulling!
I’m sure either wikipedia or utube will have a picture! That is what appears to pass as communication here these days.
Was it wetted then dried to reduce future shrinkage?
pseu, that was an unintended benefit, the pre shrinking!
The fibre in the UK was nearly all wool, woven generally as broadcloth in differing weights for differing purposes. That is warp and weft equal, this makes a rather flimsy cloth in that there is so much stretch on the bias. Fulling was just that, fulling out the cloth to bulk it up and give it more stability. The surface of the cloth was teased up so that it was higher and thicker, there would have been limited matting of the fibre and the depth of the cloth would trap air and be warmer. It is almost a prefelting process. Think modern school blazers, they are fulled cloth.
There were various ways to achieve this, literally worked by hand with teazle heads, combed with
carding tools with delicately hooked wire tines, no more than half an inch long. Finally machine, by putting through a series of rollers with bumpy hooks surface to tease the cloth. To set the fibre, ie lock the wool teased from shedding it had to be wetted, it wont do it satisfactorily dry. As it had to be wetted, making a virtue out of a necessity the cloth was often dyed at this stage, hence the tenterhooks!
PS why dyers and tanners were social outcasts, mordants used were often piss, they stank!
This cloth was the foundation of the great wool fortunes of the Middle Ages. Serges were made more in the West of Britain, one needs a harder wool ie a higher diameter hair to be found in mountain sheep, fibre thinner, it less but thicker hairs, but with a greater twist.
Silks and velvets were the preserve of the continent, mainly the Low Countries.
Big trade back and forth.
Maybe you remember I am a hand spinner? I own wool combs and carding tools today, still made, bloody expensive too!
I know I’m cynical but, as regards Kate Day’s message, what is “going well” could be the negotiations to find a replacement for the Oklahoma disasters.
Janus, any idiots in particular you’d like to see sidelined?
CO, thank you for that interesting piece on weaving.
Thanks CO. Excellent information and interesting too.
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Yup Pseu,
It’s a bit of a bugger and no mistake.
I wonder if the archives will still be there if it comes back.
My guess is that DT will ‘relaunch’ MyT, which possibly means a clean slate and a new look. Maybe even ONEshite has been cashiered too. We’ll no doubt ‘see’.
What you mean Janus is that you hope One*** has been cashiered!
Someone on MyT was pointing out that all the adverts for drugs are illegal in Britain. So I expect DT’s lawyers are recommending that Onesite be ditched pronto.
I sent an e-mail on the subject;
“Good Afternoon Ms Day,
Can you tell me anything about the prolonged maintenance of the My Telegraph website?
How much longer is it expected to be offline for?
regards
Ferret”
I have just received this e-mail response from Kate Day.
“Hello Ferret,
I’m afraid I’m not able to give you a definite date for My Telegraph’s return but it will be days rather than weeks. This is certainly not an attempt to abandon My Telegraph, far from it.
I will be in touch again as soon as I have more information.
All the best,
Kate”
Reading between the lines, she must have been getting some queries about the DT dropping its blogsite. I never suggested any attempt to abandon My Telegraph. 🙂
Thank you Ferret, undercover investigator.
Hee Hee Nym,
Nothing undercover about it. That was a prime example of overt ops. 😉
In a further response Ms Day explained that she has been looking in on us here and had noticed some comments to the effect of abandonment.
I think that’s brilliant! She actually looks in on us here to see how we are doing. Either that or Kate blogs here under another name, now that would be hilarious. 🙂
Really Furry!!!
Hello Kate,
Could I remind you about some other little niggles please.
” Friend only” posts and the abuse thereof of this facility, as previously discussed.
No HTML on some pages and this seems oddly to be the default for new accounts.
No way of approving comments for new accounts; they must think we are such an unfriendly lot.
Thanks and regards.
OK, I admit it, I was Kate all along.
Did you like my “English as a second language” ruse? Worked well didn’t it. And how about being a cabbie at the other end of the world? What, you bloggers think anyone could be bothered to blog at four in the morning after a twelve hour shift?
Anyway, it was a lot of fun while it lasted.
As for My T, be patient dear users, we are sacking the one shite crowd and are engaging our legal team to screw them well and truly.
The biggest problem we have right now is trying to find a good host provider. We approached quiet a few, but after looking at some of the clients we had on our books, most companies declined with an embarrassed look on their face.
We are currently looking at Australia and I may have to go on a fact finding mission to Sydney, Cairns, the Gold coast and Ayers Rock to find a provider that will take our business.
I shall write all of your a postcard, eh, email regarding my success in the matter.
In the meantime, thanks for accessing the “Closed for maintenance” page three times a day, and giving me, as the cabbie, a fair go.
You lot are alright and personally I don’t care if any of you ever buys a paper for the rest of your life. XXX OOO
😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉 😉
Oddly enough Bearsy suggested this morning, jokingly, that we write to Kate and invite her to put a post here re MyT –
So if you’re reading Kate – do join and let us know what is happening. You’d be very welcome! 🙂
Hello Pseu, I have every confidence that when the site re-opens we will all be a lot happier, good luck to them, it’s just a pity that it took them almost 2 years to realise that Shane had bought a pup.
I’m quite looking forward to the ‘new myt’
Ditto, Soutie. I just hope that archive material will be there. (I have actually deleted all my posts except for the most recent, but Poets Cornered had been left intact.)
Hear Hear Soutie,
I have a sneaky suspicion the Arkansas Chug-a-Bugs will still be at the helm however.
Oklahomans, Ferret, Oklahomans… There is a difference. The Arkansas Chug-a-Bugs have on average one more tooth and have command of 5 rather than 2 grammar rules.
Oops Chris my bad. 😦
Mea culpa.
Still better than some on MyT
I don’t know, you have it wrong, the couple next to us at the Dallas Opera House, subscription seats section were from Oklahoma. The wife had a Russian Sable coat and diamond tennis bracelets up her arm to her elbow, she took nigh on a season to actually reply to my ‘good Evening’ Well I was only wearing arctic fox and not enough diamonds obviously!
I had two acquaintance from Arkansas, one girl I knew in Memphis used to have her moonshine delivered personally to her apartment, (very upmarket) in crates of Kilner jars, beyond quite beyond, it was quite good stuff, never seen the inside of a radiator!
The other chap was a savage, never forget being at a ‘do’ in Rural Arkansas, he was bare footed and legged in chigger territory and made us all stand still, casually walked across and stomped the biggest spider with his bare foot, juice and gore spurting everywhere, evidently it was a poisonous, no help, killing type creepy! Didn’t even bother to wash his foot!!
combine that with the Little Rock race riots which were much better than Memphis could ever achieve and I give them the savages of America award every time!
anyway what else do you expect from Clinton territory?
Kate says, “I’m afraid I’m not able to give you a definite date for My Telegraph’s return but it will be days rather than weeks. This is certainly not an attempt to abandon My Telegraph, far from it.”
Pity. That means there’ll be no major sortout, I fear.
Boa, not wishing to pry (too much), aren’t you supposed to be intermittent about now? 🙂
Kate replied to my query in similar terms to Ferret’s reply in that it would definitely be back – and Pseu, Louise has been told it’s down for maintenance… so you will have to continue on those tenterhooks 😉
I’ve never know what a ‘tenterhook’ is, so, inspired by Jan’s last comment I looked it up.
First definition in the list; ‘one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter. So, now I know. Don’t I?
Bravo – Well go and look up “tenter”, then, just like I had to. 🙂
OZ
Way back in the 14th century, a “tenter” (probably from the Latin “tendere,” to stretch) was a wooden frame upon which newly woven and milled cloth was stretched to dry. The cloth was held in place by rows of small, sharp hooks called, you guessed it, “tenterhooks.” Back when everyone knew what “tenters” were, “to be on tenterhooks” must have seemed like an excellent metaphor for “being in a painful state of suspense.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase was first used in this sense in the mid-18th century by Tobias Smollet (“I left him upon the tenter-hooks of impatient uncertainty”).
http://www.word-detective.com/011502.html
a tenterhook is a clothpeg 🙂
Sorry, should have finished that last comment with a question mark 😦
Oz, did it, got it, what Pseu said.
Times on line now charging for news… will everyone else follow? And charge for the MyT type site? I wonder
Yes, interesting, Nym.
I wonder how many would pay?
Holy Moly, hmb, you’re connected! Question is: what does ‘going well’ mean?
Janus, refers to the ‘maintenance’ that they tell us has closed the site.
Will they update the homepage? Will they keep out the idiots? Will they, will they?
Ah pseu, but you have omitted the reason why newly made cloth was wet in the first place!
It doesn’t come off the looms wet now does it?
what you really needed was a digression upon the art of fulling!
I’m sure either wikipedia or utube will have a picture! That is what appears to pass as communication here these days.
Was it wetted then dried to reduce future shrinkage?
My Telegraph
Sorry, this site is currently down for maintenance
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
pseu, that was an unintended benefit, the pre shrinking!
The fibre in the UK was nearly all wool, woven generally as broadcloth in differing weights for differing purposes. That is warp and weft equal, this makes a rather flimsy cloth in that there is so much stretch on the bias. Fulling was just that, fulling out the cloth to bulk it up and give it more stability. The surface of the cloth was teased up so that it was higher and thicker, there would have been limited matting of the fibre and the depth of the cloth would trap air and be warmer. It is almost a prefelting process. Think modern school blazers, they are fulled cloth.
There were various ways to achieve this, literally worked by hand with teazle heads, combed with
carding tools with delicately hooked wire tines, no more than half an inch long. Finally machine, by putting through a series of rollers with bumpy hooks surface to tease the cloth. To set the fibre, ie lock the wool teased from shedding it had to be wetted, it wont do it satisfactorily dry. As it had to be wetted, making a virtue out of a necessity the cloth was often dyed at this stage, hence the tenterhooks!
PS why dyers and tanners were social outcasts, mordants used were often piss, they stank!
This cloth was the foundation of the great wool fortunes of the Middle Ages. Serges were made more in the West of Britain, one needs a harder wool ie a higher diameter hair to be found in mountain sheep, fibre thinner, it less but thicker hairs, but with a greater twist.
Silks and velvets were the preserve of the continent, mainly the Low Countries.
Big trade back and forth.
Maybe you remember I am a hand spinner? I own wool combs and carding tools today, still made, bloody expensive too!
I know I’m cynical but, as regards Kate Day’s message, what is “going well” could be the negotiations to find a replacement for the Oklahoma disasters.
Janus, any idiots in particular you’d like to see sidelined?
CO, thank you for that interesting piece on weaving.
Thanks CO. Excellent information and interesting too.