Sinister: I remember Paris perfectly. The Germans wore grey, you wore blue

[Lucy Alder]

Ciao ragazzi/e

What's Tim Burgess doing on the cover of Jonathan David?  And why are B&S
singing songs about Jewish bookshops?  http://www.jonathandavidonline.com/

The fifteen minute rule isn't fair.  First up, it isn't actually a rule
and I'm not sure who invented it, but it somehow seems to have stuck.  The
other thing is that it discriminates against fast typers.  A flashy 70wpm
chick like me has to come up with twice as much
interesting/amusing/completely pointless stuff as a 35wpm slow coach and
it's not on.  I prefer to think of Cliff Richard, myself, dressed in
stripey leggings like in this picture http://www.sir-cliff.com/dist9.jpg 
Cor!  I can't quite work out if calling your website sir-cliff.com. is a
good or bad thing.  Hang on, it's Cliff!  Of course it's good!

Another thing that's good is Camera Obscura.  Their new video features Mr
Cook and Ms Lander of this here parish, wearing silly glasses and straight
faces in Struan's car.  I'd have swooned if I were them.  

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Glasgow for a whole eight days! 
Glasgow's lovely.  It has cheap record shops and pies.  Cheap records
don't drip grease all down your top when you bite into them, but pies sure
as heck do!  And then they give you heartburn and turn you cranky.  I
don't question Two-Ton Ted from Teddington's weapon of choice when he
fought Ernie.

One day, we left Glasgow early in the morning and went to the Isle of
Arran, where we were accosted by flies and an oyster catcher whose nest
Ally nearly trod on.  I blame the oyster catcher.  Who the heck lays eggs
on a rock?  Don't oyster catchers know you're meant to collect bits of
twig and moss and those plastic things that hold beer cans together and
build a nest?  I also bought a Scottish tea time cookery book which has a
recipe for tattie scones.  I thought they were a breakfast time thing, not
tea time, but never mind.  English supermarkets don't sell tattie scones,
you see.  They only sell potato cakes, which are a lot thicker and go all
puddeny when you fry them.

Honey and Linda took us to a pub that has a book of rules!  We weren't
allowed to sit in the cat's chair or in the regulars' seats and we didn't
know the special knock to get into the room for people who've been
regulars for ten years or more.  However, if you order the first Bloody
Mary of the day you get it free and they make it properly with a stick of
celery and everything.  I bet they don't have a book of rules in the
Saracen's Head.

I'm going back to Glasgow on Saturday and I've never seen B&S before and
it's going to be great, I know it is and and and!  I am starting to get
that night before Christmas feeling and have transferred all my B&S mp3s
to one playlist so I can play them all at once in alphabetical order if I
so desire.  And I do, by gum!


Juicy Lucy

ps. a while ago, Alexander asked if Sinister was a land or maybe a town,
but nay!  It's a village, look here:  http://www.move.to/sinistervillage


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