well, we finally got round to jdging this, actually we'd decided the winner ages ago but hoping that the band and a few other people would offer their opinion. so the winner of the four posters (one for each Jeepster release to date) and the t-shirt of choice is Jonathon Mackie, his was entrant no' 15 (in our numbered list) and will get his prize pickings as soon as he gets in contact with us and lets us know where he wants them sent. to all the other entrants, we really enjoyed reading them all and had fun judging, thank you for putting the effort in. your efforts an be viewed permanently on the fan club site under the link called fiction , i hope this will inspire you to write something more when the fiction part of the site is developed to include the forthcoming book idea (details to follow in the new year). anyway, here's that winning entry in full... 15 From: jonathon mackie This one's my favourite. It's from around seven years ago, when my dad took myself and my sister up to the dams in the country. It was just after my dad and mum had split up, towards the end of the summer. The year before, my dad had taken a nervous breakdown and had mellowed out, learned to show his feelings a bit more. Trouble is, he showed his feelings to another woman as well. The dams are always one of my favourite places. They're right on the boundary between the country and the city, and they're right beside the wee town I used to go to to play tennis with my uncle, even though I had to borrow a racquet because I couldn't afford my own. It wasn't really a town, more like a scheme that happened to be outside the city limits. My dad told me the dams supplied water to thousands of people in the city, and they'd been built a hundred years ago and still remained intact. You can see me in the background, sitting on the edge of a large pool of water. There's a small waterfall running into the pool. My dad and my sister are in front of me, staring into the camera, squinting cause of the sun. I'm wearing my red and white striped polo top, which I got for my 11th birthday from my mum. There's car in the background too, speeding past on the small road. I started the big school that year, stopped reading Smash Hits and started reading Melody Maker and NME. I had my first instance of true love that year, but nothing happened. My dad wasn't as bald then as he is now. I like him more now than I did then. My mum's not in the picture, which is sad. It was a really nice sunny day. again, thanks for your support and patience david kitchen & katrina house @ the fanclub -- ******************************************************************** Belle and Sebastian Fan Club merchandise, mail-outs, chat, lyrics, poetry, fiction http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ********************************************************************