Sinister: Potatoes

[robin stout]

Hello!

While we were waiting at the traffic lights this morning I looked over at 
the driver of the car beside us and saw that instead of having his hands on 
the steering wheel he was hitting the wheel with a couple of drumsticks. 
Either he was getting a bit of practice in before his drum lessons that 
afternoon or he was driving a drum powered car. Steering wheel - snare drum. 
Indicators - hi hat!

There^Òs an interesting piece on the Matador website 
http://www.matadorrecords.com/news/index.html about the new album, as well 
as a hint it might be released in May. Amazon seem to think so too. So, 
that^Òs Early Spring, then.

I^Òve been away for a while, as you might have seen, and I was a bit annoyed 
not to be able to make it to Brighton, but you see I had to go to my 
Birthday Party! I thought it would be a bit rude if I didn^Òt turn up for 
that.

Then I went home for a few days to see my family but the only presents ones 
I got were;

1) A Mr Friendly (http://www.mrfriendly.co.jp ) exercise book from my 
sister, with the quite honestly disturbing slogan - ^ÓMr Friendly - he steals 
into your mind to help you to a good situation^Ô.

2) A sack of potatoes, a book on how to grow potatoes, a garden fork and a 
trowel from my mum and dad so I can ^Ógrow some potatoes^Ô. When I was nine I 
got a new bike for my birthday, who^Òd have thought it would come to this?

And that was it. Oh well. We went to see my grandad too and had the 
traditional pleasure of watching telly with subtitles. They^Òre really funny 
sometimes and make even the most boring programmes seem exciting. The news 
is the best, cos there^Òs someone somewhere typing really quickly to get the 
words onto the screen in time. So they always miss out the big words and 
spell lots of thing wrong. For a local news item about an old woman whose 
house had fallen down an old mine shaft the subtitle was simply;

^ÓIt was me savings!^Ô

Hmm.

Brake - bass pedal!

I^Òm going to spend the weekend buying a new record player, to finally 
replace the one I accidentally melted in the oven, and digging up the back 
garden so I can plant my potatoes. There^Òs an alsatian buried in there 
somewhere. I^Òll have to be careful.

Oh my god! Mr Friendly has stolen into my mind!!

Robin x

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