You say it's your birthday... it's my birthday too yeah. The Sinister garden has indeed produced all manner of exotic blooms and rampaging, unruly weeds in the last five years. And whatever the modest darling might say, it would have been just a nasty old patch of empty scrubland without Honey's and Linda's gentle watering and pruning. But as it is I think we can all proudly accept the Best Kept Garden In Cyberspace on behalf of the Sinister Village :) I'm sure I wasn't the only one with a wee lump in my throat on Sunday as a roomful of familiar voices were raised in song and Ken blew out our five candles on the underwear-adorned cake so lovingly baked by Liz... ... but of course, we were all pissed as newts, so you can't read too much into that. The weather had smiled on Primrose Hill that day (by the time we actually hauled our collective ass up there from the pub), and there was football and frisbee and trying not to swear in front of our youngest (but by far the coolest) picnicker, Hazel. Then there was dancing and gossip and sweat and all that sordid business. BOYS made ME blush on TWO separate occasions during the evening, so you can imagine how debauched it must have been. Sadly I had to leave early to ensure my sober, dignified presence in Brighton by the time The In-Laws arrived. I will leave it to other pens/keyboards to describe the rest. But to paraphrase Hilaire Belloc, I hope it will be said: 'OUR PANTS WERE SCARLET, BUT OUR POSTS WERE READ'. I must go now, as I have urgent business to attend to in Birmingham. It may be dangerous (business in Birmingham usually is). If I come back alive, I'll tell you all about it. luv Archel ****************** Visit www.buzzwords.ndo.co.uk for the best new writing on the web. Email submissions to buzzwords@bigfoot.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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+