Nothing to do with Peter, sadly. Instead, a few of you may remember me waffling vaguely about a piquenique- type thingy in Oxford the weekend after the Greenwich extravaganza. A few people have said they would like to come, so here we go. PLACE The University Parks are fairly central and easy to find, so that should do us, unless there are too many obnoxious frisbee-throwing summer-schoolers, in which case we can always go somewhere else. After all, there are a myriad loafing opportunities in Oxenforde Towne, as befits a studenty-bohemiany- tosspoty kinda place. C'mon everybody, stick your finger in your ear for a rousing rendition of some jazzed-up ancient folk songs. Or maybe not. However, for meeting-up purposes, the pub technique (as proposed and brilliantly executed by Miss Elenita in Camden) has no drawbacks as far as _I'm_ concerned (booze and comfy chairs), so the Firkin (which infernal chain _does_ have the drawbacks of being large and easy to spot, but these are advantages in this particular case)in Gloucester Green (right by the bus station on the below mappe for the enterprising among us) would seem to be handy for those travellers from afar. http://www.ox.ac.uk/aboutoxford/maps/mainmap.shtml TIME Mr Steve "New In Town/Carsmile" Hewitt has begged for the occasion to be on Sunday, so Sunday 3rd September it is. 2pm has always proven to be a reasonable sort of time for picnicking purposes, so 1400 hours it is. STUFF Oh, I don't know. Blood, sweat, toil _nor_ tears will prevent a football being brought, I suppose, so that's a given. Food. Oh, and vast quantities of B!O!U!Z!E! Nice to see the Paula Cullen Explosion back in town, BTW. ME ME ME Anyone wanting their hand holding from the station or whatever can ring me on 01865 728454 or 0771 3014742 (mobile which I will have with me on the dread date itself). Crikey, I feel all efficient and stuff. Tee hee. Let us eat cake! Liz :x "Love without hope, as when the young birdcatcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter; So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by." Robert Graves +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+