Here you go then James, we were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round, looking out the window. it was quiet, and then in the car park across the road we saw elvis - look, there beside the postman's van, looking in the open door - he looked as if he was thinking about getting in, but then the postman came back, and he swaggered off, up past the window and down the stairs, and then to the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office, and he started licking the pavement. every night now since we moved in that new house there's this noise outside the door at just about half seven or eight o' clock every night. and if we go and look outside the door, elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in. and then he wanders round the living room, maybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the floor. he doesn't say much, he just lies there for an hour or two, watching the tv. we talk to him a bit, and then about ten o' clock, he'll go away again, and not come back until the next night. there's a lot of lakes and stuff around here, around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite like the country, it's been hidden - safe i suppose, made for night living. there's a lot of squirrels and birds, and stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there when he's jumped over the fence on his way to prior's road. sometimes you can go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore, so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you. i suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why he's come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels. i read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot. there's these two videos that we got for wedding presents - called the e-files, e-files one and e-files two about how elvis is supposed to be still alive. and one time when he came round we were watching one of those, but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair. it was pretty much the colour of it, and we watched it right through and then when it finished he just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything. the first few times he came round i didn't speak to him at all, i wasn't really sure what to say. pam spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than i do. they have quite strange manners, they just went through your stuff and looked through it, then maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while, but they'd never make any comment about any of it. seemed pretty rude to me. i just watched whatever was happening with him - less than pam, she talked to him and then, after a while i started to copy that, tell him a few things, not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not. i think the first time i spoke to him we were sitting up on the desk and i said that i would tell him about you, me and pam, and how it was that it we came to be living there. i thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much, so i thought he might want to know how it was that it came about. we did it all over backwards until now. first of all we got to know each other, and then we met, and when we'd known each other for about seven years we decided to have an anniversary, and that went quite well, so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon, and that went well too, so after that we decided that we'd get married. that's why we're living here now. i used to think my dad was elvis, but i haven't told him that yet. i haven't told my dad either... I know there are loads of mistakes in it... I'd appreciate it if anyone could correct any of the more obvious ones, 'cos there are bits I just can't seem to work out. Love, Rob P.S. talking about misheard lyrics, I thought it was '..there's these two vineyards that we got for wedding presents..' and that confused me a lot! ------------------------------------------------------------- **"..give yourself up to the allure of catcher in the rye..." ------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------