Saturday was too sunny to be true. I should have realised it was just the sun giving a final smile as its nose twitched and it prepared to sneeze. And on Sunday it did. It sneezed everywhere, all over my house and my bike, all over my hood and through the cracked soles of my brown leather shoes. My umbrella got caught by the howling crosswind every time I passed a side street. It blew inside out and I had to drag it back into shape. It flapped limply like a bat with a broken wing and held its course like a bicycle wheel with bent and twisted spokes. All the way home there was a trail of dead umbrellas, abandoned in doorways, thrown into hedges, sprawled in the middle of the road. I honestly thought I'd be swept away and end my days at the bottom of a drain somewhere, drowned and broken like one of those umbrellas. I didn't think the sky had the room for so much rain. Maybe this is just Wales. Don't know. Now all the coal's run out in the valleys perhaps they should work out a way of selling rain somehow. Rain energy? Will that work? We certainly have an inexhaustible supply here. Did anyone see John Otway singing "Bunsen Burner" on Top of the Pops? After Justin Fucking Timberlake and No Fucking Doubt I was beginning to lose the will to live, but then he came on and showed the spirit of Rock 'n' Roll is still alive and kicking. It's a shame it takes a 50 year old bloke with a boney chest to prove it. Well that got me feeling happier again and made me think of Belle and Sebastian's well deserved Brit Award - the last great rock moment - when a trailer came on for a new chat show on BBC2 Wales which is presented by Stuart Cable - you know, the one from the Stereophonics with the big scary perm. It looked dreadful; terrifying even. No wonder it's only on late night BBC2 Wales. That made me feel depressed again so I made myself a milky drink to get over the trauma. Blah blah blah, shut up robin. Anyway, I have a little proposal. Miss Annie Tremp and I will be having a mini Sinister picnic in Cardiff on Saturday, so if any sinisterenes are going to be in the area you're quite welcome to come along. I haven't worked out when or where it's going to be yet, but just send me an email if you're interested and I'll work something out. You may need to bring your wellies, though, or possibly a small boat if this rain keeps up. bye Robin x _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+