Lucy said: I feel all excited and bouncy. I think we should have our picnic somewhere with a netball court so the girls can wear little skirts and knee-high socks and airtex shirts and have their hair in bunchies. I wanna know what the boys will wear. I'd suggest they go in birthday suits, but I don't fancy seeing a lot of weedy skinny indie boys with shrivelled bits (May is still practically February). So I shan't suggest that. 17TH may, is of course, NATIONAL NORWEGIAN DAY! Which is wonderful. Its to celebrate the day when Norway got independence, which isn't totally true, cos it was 17th of May 1814, when Norway got independence from Denmark, but went slap bang into union with Sweden. A consolation prize for being on the winning side of the Nepolonic Wars and losing Finland to Russia (Denmark had backed the wrong horse). But its the date celebrated anyway. As I recall the Norwegian parties we held at uni, it always involved vast quantities of booze, and usually more booze, and a bit of singing of national anthems, which I won't indulge you with cos I only know the first line. Anyway, its about mountains and hills and mums and dads and how they're all ace in norway, you know, the usual anthemy shit. My mum can play it on glockenspiel. Its a real girlie anthem, in terms of being able to get the right pitch. Talking of Norway, my mum is watching some film from Norway right now, and I swear, theres this bloke who looks like a cross between that dude from Ed TV, the Wedding Planner and Stuart Murdoch. Prrrr. Anyway, I shall be there, with or without bells on. My mum won't, she'll be giggly drunk by 10am and possibly sitting on the lap of some Norwegian boy student in his 20s. Every year. Sheesh. Anyway, Apart from that, I've begun a wee blog webring for sinister. Its still in the "being built" process, and you can view my progress at http://www.geocities.com/retrosec Its in progress, so hold your horses with the criticism. Hold your horses with the criticism anyway, I don't like unsolicited advice. Yes, I am ungrateful that way. I want to keep it simple, and basic becuase I can't be bothered for complexities that take forever to learn and hours to figure out whats wrong with it if something goes wrong. Ta idleberry x ===== <a href="http://retrosec.blogspot.com/">http://retrosec.blogspot.com/</a> thoughts __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+