Today is Llaura Llew's birthday and it is raining. And I haven't yet sent her a gift. Which, I suppose means I am not really her BEST FRIEND as someone once claimed, shortly before I threw him off Brighton pier. Today is also a day I will go to work at the bookshop to battle my nemesis, my arch enemy that is my fat arsed colleague. I can't decide the tactic I should use: rude; off-hand; or so nice she wishes I would just go away and leave her alone (which I would happily do). Either way, I will beat her! I will overcome! I have become an old lady who goes for long country walks on Sunday afternoons with sandwiches and a thermos of (decaf) coffee. And I heartily recommend it to everyone. Especially if you go home to play scrabble, then drift off into a little nap. I know that, as a young lady, I should be out causing trouble, drinking absinthe and indulging in casual sex, but it all just seems so.... troublesome. I'll leave others to do that instead. In fact, you can all do it on Saturday night at Tigermilking. Oh, on a tangent, has someone mentioned Tiger Milk wine on the list before? I saw some in the corner shop. It's "sweet wine", and at £5.99 for a litre, I hesitated. I don't think it would rock my world really. Just my guts, I think. I'll be Tigermilking, but shan't be picnicing, as I will be in combat at the bookshop until 5 o'clock. Then, and here is a measure of my dedication to Mark Cassarole and my dancing feet, I shall jump straight on a train and come down to London. I hope to find y'all in a pub with a gin and tonic waiting for me. I never reported back from Red Knicker day. It was great, we were great, our underwear was great. Oh, and it's all true what they say about Mandee May. Except for one thing: we are NOT the same person. Neck scarves never look that good on me. Love Madeleine _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+