Sinister: All about my mother

[Alexander Runchman]

Hello again everybody,
          As I am about to be catapulted into another enforced silence I 
thought I might share a few aspects of my life at the moment. That's if 
anyone's interested......
          I have a new mother. And a new father too. Which is all slightly  
odd. I've not met them yet, I don't know what they're like. But I got a 
letter from my mother today telling me who she was. Quite considerate I 
suppose. It's not that I've abandonned or carelessly lost my current 
parents, it's just I've got some more to go with them. It seems a good idea 
in many ways. You must have your work cut out for you being a parent. I have 
a new brother and sister too, who I'll enjoy meeting I hope.
            Eh, what is going on? you might ask. Well, it's quite simple. 
I'm about to embark on university life, and they reckoned I might need some 
parental love and care to protect me from the wicked lures of my demanding 
tutors. Rather kindly, one of them wrote me a letter too, a very nice letter 
of introduction, rather usefully suggesting that I should write an essay 
about George Eliot - I can't remember the exact title, but it was about how 
her novels progress from the abstract to the concrete, and how her 
characters eveolved from the moral consciousness - before I go up. It's nice 
to know I'll be able to find some use for my brain again, and if Mum (#2) 
would make me cups of tea to stimulate me it might help. (In an ideal world 
there'd be a Mum #3 too, who wears maternal pink pyjamas.)
           So that's why I'm going to be quiet - I'm back to my computerless 
place in England to muse over pastoral carpenters, and rose-cheeked maids 
while trying to get to know my parents. Surely scope for a Belle and 
Sebastian song in that? I'll be back on when I'm more settled, and have 
discovered the university computer room.
             B&S content? Erm, I remember a while ago someone talking about 
Lisa and Chelsea going to a school where the boys go with boys and the girls 
with girls, and thought in the light of Marcus being mistaken for a lesbian 
that it would probably be an abortive experiment (because some boys look 
like girls and vice versa). Do I make sense? I knew a girl once who said 
that homosexuals should be allowed in the army, but should be separated from 
the heterosexuals. Struck me as odd. I had visions of a Gay Pride pink air 
craft carrier floating on the waves, and fun and games with rifles..... Not 
of course that they couldn't serve a purpose in a heterosexual relationship.
               Sorry, that was a bit sick. I'd better go.
                                                                    Alex

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