Hello! I'm home! (Lucy slams the door behind her, dumps her bags in the hallway and sits down for a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake before getting down to the tedious business of sorting out her washing) I had a lovely week away. I sipped lemon tea and caught the sun on my cheeks on a terrace at the edge of Lake Como. I licked and slurped my way through all sorts of flavours of ice cream. I remembered why I was so fond of old friends. I shopped until I dropped. We had a little pole-dancing competition to liven up a long and tedious train journey and I won (photographic evidence exists, but I'm telling you now that it will never appear in the sinister gallery). My friend and I came to an amicable agreement that she could have Paolo Maldini and I could have Gabriel Battistuta (I know he wears an alice band, but those legs make up for it. Besides, Maldini's cheekbones are freakish and have you seen what his father looks like?) We didn't allow ourselves to buy black shoes, so I bought some bright red mary janes. We gave ourselves comedy names and laughed when dirty old men chatted us up. We kept our real names and smiled sweetly when dark-eyed boys who smelled nice when you got close chatted us up. I'm still in Italy in my head, even though I'm sat at my desk now. Sigh. I was a bit worried that the weather would be inclement for the ATP people, but then I remembered you'd doubtless be spending all your time in the pub, so what would a little bit of rain or snow matter? I'm sure you had a lovely time and I sort of wish I'd been there, but then I'm sort of glad I was in Italy too, you understand? I'm not sure I want to think about how the Sinister team's football legs measure up to Battistuta's. I'm sure Stu M's football legs are lovely though. Does he have legs of sex or is it just the arms? Or was it too cold for him to contemplate exposing his limbs to the elements? Mark, I'd love to come to your pickernick. Count me in. S'all for now Juicy Lucy -- This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+