Hello sweeties I want to have the next Bowlie in that place Stephane talked about. It sounds fab, I love hills and cows and scenery :) I'm not twee, i was brought up with all that and it's great :) I didn't like Camber much, I mean Bowlie and that was ace, but there was a big power station looming on the horizon and the sun came up the wrong way round and stuff. I can imagine Stephane's place to be something not unlike the Sound of Music, all lonely goatherds and small children skipping round in matching outfits made out of a magical big pair of curtains and all that stuff. It also makes me think of the Chalet School stories which I read as a child and thought were ace, before being despatched off to boarding school and finding out that it absolutely was not all super jolly-hockey-sticks fun and midnight feasts, oh no. I'm sure Aranxta can speak with much more eloquence about the chalet school stories than I can, somewhere in the dim and distant past she was very eloquent and enthusiastic about Mallory Towers and the twins at St Clares and the like :) The Chalet School was a bit like them, except set in a school in a chalet. In the Austrian Tyrol. Which has damn all to do with France, but anyway, it always seemed nice and I want Bowlie#2 to be there. I hate writing letters in the middle of the night, especially on a Saturday as I should be out partying like it's 1999. Oh, it is 1999. Well, like it's a bit of 1999 that I'm not doing all-nighters studying for exams then :) I have decided to learn French just so I can read Stephane's Tweeclub website as I really like the pictures on it and want to be able to read it. I will need a hobby anyway to while away the long hours of unemployment that this degree will no doubt provide me with, and a language seems like a good thing, even though my reasons are rather tenuous. Does anyone know what sort of job you *can* get after doing a conversion course to IT that doesn't really teach you much about anything, but bits about lots of things? Cos none of my lecturers do :) In fact, does anyone want to give me a job? Probably not as you all know I will do no work, merely sit at a computer all day and talk randomly about nothing in particular till all my colleagues want to kill me :) No I am hardworking and honest and reliable and stuff. Anyone? Something dawned on me earlier this evening. If, as seb said, the "list elite" are too busy judging us to post themselves, then why should that matter to anyone who thinks that they are an "elite"? Surely if they are just elitist tossers you wouldn't miss them anyway? And if Paul just wanted a place where he and selected chums could discuss what they wanted, why bother continuing Sinister for the rest of us? It's a hell of a big thing to maintain if it's just to give them something to laugh at :) I'm glad to see some semblance of normality descending again. Let's get back to being all the things we always have been without the need to question why, and who thinks we are or aren't good enough. I have noticed no drop in quality of the posts, and have never deleted a post without first reading it (except hoax virus warnings). I may not *agree* with them all, but I certainly am interested in everyone's point of view, and reserve the right to challenge that if I disagree strongly enough, same as I can agree with people or continue a thread. Isn't that the whole point of this list? I don't know how many times I will apologise for being "precious" about this list over the last week or so, but it's born out of passion and I defend it cos I don't want to lose it. Is that really such a bad thing? In the case of anything of this nature arising again, my post in that instance will probably just read "I agree whole-heartedly with what Nick Dastoor said". There, that saves us an awful lot of time, effort, reading and typing :) Well, not Nick obviously, but he *is* the one with too much time on his hands :) But enough of that nonsense. It's silly and dull and I can't be bothered. I have exams to study for and much as I have loved the opportunity to get on my high horse, garner a few list crush votes and increase my shag potential by being uber-twee and mimsy and precious over the last two weeks :), I think it's time to do some work and think of happy things like Bowlie#2. I won't get used to calling it "All Tomorrow's Parties" as that's a rubbish name. So was Bowlie, mind you, but at least that was rubbish and a mere two syllables. So who's going then? So we can warn the barstaff to get more beer in reserve...the girl behind the bar at the last one told me they ran out of beer as they had been told that we weren't likely to be beer drinkers and that they were well stocked with spirits and soft drinks in preparation for the expected onslaught of shandy-drinking nambly-pamblers. Come September 17th, I'll be wobbling tipsily on the table just to the left and up the stair when you come in the door of the Queen Vic. I'll see you all there, mine's a pint of Beamish Black :) Ailsa xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". 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