I'm not sure UK customs officers would have much notion about what that was supposed to mean, but the effect was that they slapped VAT (value added tax) on it. The sender's customs declaration label ( * see above) on the parcel said "sewing notions". My context is that I ordered some books from USA related to designing and sewing sails for boats. I think dressmaking patterns (specific instructions for sewing a particular garment, that come with sheets of paper that you pin to fabric for cutting out shapes before sewing them together) would probably qualify. My question is: How loose can an item's relatedness to sewing be before you can no longer (literally, in my case, see below *) apply the label "notions" to it? So if I had said yesterday "I have a notion to do some sewing", it would not have been a feeble attempt at a pun, but if I said it today, it would. I only knew the word in its sense of a vague idea. I have never come across notions with this meaning before today. I know haberdashery only in its BE sense, where (as far as I know) it has nothing to do with men's clothing, but only means items related to sewing (basically everything except fabric). I've just come here by being a good boy and searching first instead of starting a new thread.
You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little – the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.–Idina Menzelįind over 9500 inspirational quotes at. Sports is the toy department of human life.–Howard Cosell The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.–Sam Levenson To a real child anything will serve as a toy.–John Cowper Powys Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.–Robert Wilson Lynd No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone… you answer it.–Dave Chappelle I like to do nice things for my grandchildren – like buy them those toys I’ve always wanted to play with.–Gene Perret
Jackson Brown, Jr.Ī toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.–Letty Cottin Pogrebin Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.–H. It’s like a staircase, and I am the slinky.–Jarod Kintz I have three step brothers and one step sister. Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child’s toy Slinky.–Annie Dillard Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I’ll spring back to what I originally was.–Sylvester Stallone I’ve kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky.–Louis Menand She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.–Steven Wright Slinkys now come in both metal and plastic, and in various colors, but still provide simple joy to children (and the adults who remembered playing with the toys when they were young) If you are intrigued, there is a marvelous history of the toy here. In 2001, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania made Slinky the Official State Toy of Pennsylvania. The Slinky was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2000.
In 1999, the United States Postal Service issued a Slinky postage stamp. His wife came up with the jingle, which you can see and hear in several versions on YouTube. James quit his day job and went into full-time production, setting up a shop in Philadelphia. When Gimbels in Philadelphia allowed him to set up an inclined plane in their toy department during the Christmas season, he sold out of his entire stock in 90 minutes, and a toy classic was born. His wife Betty gave the toy its name, a Swedish word meaning sleek and graceful. After months of experimentation, he decided he had found the right wire and design, took out a loan of $500 and had a local machine shop make 400 of the toys. Intrigued, he decided to see if he could create just the right steel and tension to turn it into a toy. In 1943, he accidentally knocked a torsion spring off a workbench and watched the spring “walk” along the floor. Richard James, a naval engineer, invented the slinky. Yes, August 30 we celebrate the springy toy that has brought so much fun to children. What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs
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