I'm writing on behalf of all those people who are too scared to go to picnics 'cause they don't know anthyone. On saturday morning I found myself with such a problem and was frantically watching channel five and chain smoking while my flatmate who said she'd come to hold my hand insisted on staying in bed untill 12:40, adamant that it would only take her 3 minutes to shower and ten minutes to walk up to Byres road. It took her 5 minutes to shower and it took us twenty to reach byres road. It had started raining halfway through our journey and by the time we reached fopp the other waiting listees looked even more scary due to their bedraggled rain-soaked appearance. But appearances can be decieving and they all turned out to be dead nice. The picnic itself was interesting, with scotch eggs, fairy cakes and the scary bloke with cheese sticks.Then the orchid show, then the pub. It was bizzare, at first it was just wierd sitting with people you don't really know but then people started talking about the list and then more abstract things like being chased by cows and medical problems mostly to do with testicles. Then all too soon my flat mate started to feel queezy due lack of sleep and abuse of alcohol,nicotine etc and had to leave, strangely drawn to farmfoods where she felt obliged to but three arctic roles for £1.39-bargin! I left soon after, happy with a day well spent. So hello to everybody I met, And anybody considering going to a similar event - don't be scared ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Ascolta, questo è pish, io sto andando lasciare -----------------------------------------------------------------------