so the winner of the four posters (one for each Jeepster release to date) and the t-shirt of choice is Jonathon Mackie, his was entrant no' 15 (in our numbered list) and will get his prize pickings as soon as he gets in contact with us and lets us know where he wants them sent.

to all the other entrants, we really enjoyed reading them all and had fun judging, thank you for putting the effort in. your efforts an be viewed permanently on the fan club site under the link called fiction , i hope this will inspire you to write something more when the fiction part of the site is developed to include the forthcoming book idea (details to follow in the new year).

anyway, here's that winning entry in full...

15 From: jonathon mackie

     This one's my favourite. It's from around seven years ago, when my dad
     took myself and my sister up to the dams in the country. It was just
     after my dad and mum had split up, towards the end of the summer. The
     year before, my dad had taken a nervous breakdown and had mellowed
     out, learned to show his feelings a bit more. Trouble is, he showed his
     feelings to another woman as well. The dams are always one of my
     favourite places. They're right on the boundary between the country and
     the city, and they're right beside the wee town I used to go to to play
     tennis with my uncle, even though I had to borrow a racquet because I
     couldn't afford my own. It wasn't really a town, more like a scheme that
     happened to be outside the city limits. My dad told me the dams
     supplied water to thousands of people in the city, and they'd been built a
     hundred years ago and still remained intact. You can see me in the
     background, sitting on the edge of a large pool of water. There's a small
     waterfall running into the pool. My dad and my sister are in front of me,
     staring into the camera, squinting cause of the sun. I'm wearing my red
     and white striped polo top, which I got for my 11th birthday from my
     mum. There's car in the background too, speeding past on the small
     road. I started the big school that year, stopped reading Smash Hits and
     started reading Melody Maker and NME. I had my first instance of true
     love that year, but nothing happened. My dad wasn't as bald then as he
     is now. I like him more now than I did then. My mum's not in the picture,
     which is sad. It was a really nice sunny day.

again, thanks for your support and patience

david kitchen & katrina house

@ the fanclub

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