my web site

madeleinegriffith.com

Well its been a long time coming. In fact I have been paying for the domain name for a good five years and although I have some computer skills the thought of code and scripts sent me spinning. So a few weeks ago I decided to just get started and of course things have progressed a lot in the last five years and it was a lot easier than I though. So here it is. A website of some of the things I have done and some of the things I do. It is quite a nice feeling to see it all together rather than scattered across my hard drive.  There may be a rogue apostrophe or two but you get the the idea. Let me know if you find any....

Hint #1 - If you Swallow a Pin.

My third grade teach Mrs Beamish once gave us a lecture on why you shouldn’t hold pins in your mouth. The lecture involved a diagram of a head and oesophagus with the heart placed at the base of the tube where perhaps the stomach should be. The pin would travel down your throat and stab you straight in the heart.
Here is a remedy I found in case you should swallow a pin. It is from a book called the Sunday companion dated August 18th 1894.

If You Swallow a Pin.

Drink one and a half grains of tartar emetic in a little water and immediately afterwards drink the whites of six eggs.
These two ingredients will coagulate upon the stomach, envelope the pin and bring them up.

There you go. Helpful hint Number One. I thought it best to put the most urgent first.