Hello sinister peeps, I'm so frustrated; you see the weekend approaches really fast and we have this family reunion where my Big Aunt Myrtles will be presiding. And you will think: so who is this aunt Myrtles? Oh, Big Aunt Myrtles, the turtle of my childhood, she is the most fearsome woman in Europe... Big Aunt Myrtles was my grandfather's younger sister. You remember my grandfather, the disinherited love fool. Yes, that's the one. So auntie inherited all great grandfather's fortune. She is disgustingly rich. Everything great grandfather owned should have been gone to my grandfather. But when he chose love over wealth, everything went to aunt Myrtles. But, when great-grandfather died she wrote to my father telling him that she wanted this family to be united again, and that we should forget all about these old stories, etc. My father agreed. And that's how we found ourselves back in Prague 10 years ago. Big Aunt gave my dad the house we live in Prague and arranged so we could have a very generous annual allowance. But she didn't let us have the cottage in the countryside, we're just allowed to go there whenever we want, which is Ok, I guess... Aunt has this chateaux in France where she spends her summer vacation socialising with people of her class, slagging others off, organising small trips to play at the Casino in Monaco, etc. I remember when I first met her. We went to her house in Prague, and a butler (not a monkey one, just a plain english butler) opened the door to us and announced us to auntie. She accepted us in this huge room, which ceiling was almost 6 metres high,. It was perfect in a frozen way, a scary, magnificent museum with high quality and rare objects. Everything - the tappiseri gombl�ne, the bronze clock on the marble shelf of the fireplace, the George Lacompte armchairs, in a Ludovique IV style, covered with peanut green velvet, the little marble tables with the golden legs, the Van Gogh, gaugin, and Renoir paintings - all gathered together to praise Aunt Myrtles' impecable taste. Aunt has this son Theodor whom she wants to marry with this girl whose family own a chateaux in France as well. Poor Theodor. We used to call her a turtle behind her back. She looks like one. With these bronchocele big eyes and the longest neck ever. it looks short, but that's deceiving. When she gets mad she stretches it out and voila! Disgusting!! She wants to marry me too with this guy who comes from an aristocratic family in Tuscany. I guess that's one of the issues to be discussed in the family reunion thing that takes place at the countryside house of ours! My God! What have I done to deserve this? And my poor, spineless dad, thinks that we are eternally indebted to Aunt Myrtles, and that we should be kind to her and obey to every little whim of hers. But I'm not going to marry this italian dandy!! I swear I won't!! never! I do like auntie's schauffer you see! Maybe I'm a love fool loser like my granpaps. who knows................. bye xx Pauline L. Shivers that makes sinister all quivers She's that aristocratic slag Who lives and reigns in Prague __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+