During the Spanish Civil War, a Messerschmitt BFW 109B/C was captured in Teruel. I don't know whether it was shot down or they caught it in a huge butterfly net or whether it was resting on a nearby hillside when a gigantic catlike robot pounced on it. Anyway, it was inspected by French technicians before being sent to the USSR, wherever that is. Who started all this Messerschmitt nonsense anyway? I bet it was Rodd. We had a picnic on Saturday, it was GRATE. We sat outside a bar with manky toilets where we were entertained by an endless round of talentless street musicians as we discussed matters such as Montgolfier Magic and the Piano Brothers, played guess the listee's age (you can now play guess the listee whose age we guessed), marvelled at the prospect of Trousers possibly coming down and generally had a GRATE time. Then we went to look for Nazi memorabilia at a market stall, but had to make do with Falange bric-a-brac. Falange rhymes with orange. If you're sucking on a Polo mint. Then Elenita999 went to the beach while the rest of us retired to one of the finest restaurants in Barcelona. Once again, the toilets left a little to be desired. I don't know about the others, but I had a bit of an upset tummy later on. Then we had a quick whizz round the listening posts and Natascha bought some clever books. Judging by what the rest of the people in the huge check-out queue were carrying, it was the most intellectually satisfying purchase of the day. But none of this is really any of your business, because it was a Segundos de luz picnic, which are much better than Sinister picnics. Sod off, B&S Primrose mafia! On Sunday I took Struan's advice and went to church. It was a Catalan Orthodox service, so I didn't understand much. At one point two women tried to shake hands with me, but I was having none of it! There were no hymns, and the vicar was wearing a green cassock. Some people look as if they wished they'd got eyes in the back of their head, they don't miss a thing. Adeu, Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+