Ken and Madeleine stirred my thoughts earlier (which is odd, because usually they both stir me somewhere else entirely), mainly through talking about swimming. It's something I actually do in this life-on-pause I seem to have burdened myself with at the moment. Ken was spot on - thoughts of staying afloat/alive predominate, with the occasional "ooh, look at her thighs" and the rather more frequent "bugger, that old man who's paralysed down one side wants to overtake". I also am increasing, by one per day, the number of 20-metre lengths I complete. So keeping count is urgent and key, especially when you get to 55. I also think a great deal about the correct leg action that goes with breaststroke, as I'm not very good at it. Should I suddenly find myself swimming instinctively, I imagine my thoughts turn to thighs once more. Ken also described a 28-year-old as a man, which is perfectly accurate really, but made me start a little. I'm 28 on Saturday, which is ridiculous. How on earth did that happen? What's more ridiculous is that I still view 16-18 as my glory days, which are a full decade away. Now that can't be right. So who's coming to Tigermilking then? Mark xxx NP: the "c" section of my MP3 collection, including Call and Response, Can, Chris Leonard and, erm, Chicago. But mainly Camera Obscura, who make me feel warm and tingly :-) __________________________________________________ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+