Dear Sinister, Hurrah! the picnic season is with us again! There is one small problem - the burden of trying to devise an outfit which is suitable for both day AND evening wear. But otherwise, yes! very exciting. I say this every year and no one ever asks, but other than Martin's find-a-stray picnic-er stratergy, I'd be quite willing to meet scaredy-cats at the station and show them the way. I've got quite used this 'showing people around' idea, as I'm called upon by Hertford Council every so often to do my 'Civic' (duty, that is) and say hello and goodbye to people coming in and out of the Castle. Thrilling. It's good experience for dealing with old ladies, however, which is good, if, like me, you spend long stretches of time rifiling around their clothes. I have a theory that it's because I wear clothes from Hertford's charity shops that old ladies favour me so much. It's quite likely, considering Hertford's old biddy to boy racer ratio than I'm wearing the clothes of a dead friend of theirs. Their mind, quietly withering, notes the dress and feels familiarity. Or maybe I am really just a Nice Young Lady.
I keep trying to get more girls to play, but none ever do, much to my > disappointment. However, I have been promised a game on the girls side,
I played football at a picnic once. I even persuaded Lixi to come and play with me. And do you know what we did? We ran away from the ball flapping our hands around. Not the best example. Learning from my mistakes, I tend to jeer/leer from the sidelines these days.
welcomed by me, although I'm not sure when I got >promoted to the status of male Erica in terms of good->lookingness.
Ally, are you sure that's such a good thing? You know if you're the male-me people will call on you to give out kisses willy nilly (Casarotten, NO!) and generally assume you're a bit of an air-head. I hear that's the current insult du jour, anyway. It's all my fault, of course. I mean, fancy dressing up in nice clothes and having a silly accent like mine. Madison Avenue are at number one! Brilliant. Erica x The House of Scarlet http://welcome.to/houseofscarlet +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+