The famous date of Saturday 28th July is approaching, and with it the GREAT EMBRA PICNIC BY THE SEA! It's going to be, as has already been said, a barbecue on the beach. North Berwick beach, to be precise, because it's easy to get to, not too far away, and nice and yellow and sandy. We'll be bringing a three-pack of those disposable mini-barbecues you can buy in the supermarket and some rocket fuel for lighting them. We welcome MORE FIREPOWER from anyone else with a bunsen burner or similar, because rubbing sticks together is Just Too Slow. What you bring to cook on said hardware is up to you. We'll reserve at least one of the barbecues for veggie food if that's what people want. If you want to roast a whole sheep, please remember that it takes a nice big bonfire, a spit, and about 7 hours cooking time (one of us has witnessed such a preparation over the course of about fifteen cans of Heineken...) Of course, feel free to bring along the usual picnic grub as well: Haribo, vodka, langoustines, a few small sherries, vodka, whatever you want to eat, whatever you want to share, and maybe some vodka. OK. Details. The easiest way for most people to get to North Berwick---and the way *we'll* be going---is by train from Edinburgh Waverley station. Trains leave at 7 and 37 minutes past the hour. We plan to travel on the 13:37 train, and we'll hang around either on the appropriate platform or outside WH Smith from about one o'clock so we can all meet up, tickets purchased and ready to go (or tickets not purchased and ready to spend the half-hour ride hiding in the loo). If you miss the train, there's another one half an hour later. If that happens, or if you want to make your own way there, you can meet us on the beach. We should make it clear that North Berwick has two beaches. The one we're referring to lies to the left hand side of the main street and stretches from the left hand side of the harbour and the lido (as you look out to sea), to the west. If you get lost, you can always phone us---see below for the numbers. Once we reach the beach, we'll probably make camp some way along the shore, probably near the golf links outside the Royal Marine Hotel, if we can all be bothered to walk that far. The beach gets even nicer a bit further along, but that means walking about a mile... If it's raining, we'll go to a cafe (surely not?) or pub (that sounds more like it) or some other place of refreshment. This is where those awfully modern mobile telephone things come in to play. Gordon's number is 07977 507 293, and Will's is 07990 575 869. We might also try smoke signals. Any questions, email us: gogron@netscapeonline.co.uk or wpsalt@btinternet.com If you want to come but have never met anyone from the list before, feel free to get in touch so we can put your fears to rest :-) Gordon Will P.S. If you want to paddle (and you *know* you will ;-), remember a towel and whatever you normally swim in (like a paddling pool, for example). P.P.S. Sorry, we meant "If you want to ease your feet off in the sea..." :-) See you on the 28th! -- http://www.btinternet.com/~wpsalt ICQ 66321009 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+