Sinister: The kids are melting in the doorway

[duke of harringay]

Gosh, only one more day of school? We have three more days next week!
grrrr. Except i will not be there on Monday because, ahem, i will be
ill. Actually, whisper it, i will be flying home from Paris. The
Duchess and I are off to see the end of the Tour De France. Sorry,
sporting activity there... not very twee, is it? Oh well. And on the
last day i will be helping judge the Year 9 song writing competition.
Lucky old me.

Picnics sounds smashing. I wish i had managed to get it together
enough back in the day and actually attended one. In those days
however London seemed to desperately distant from the sleepy south
west. These days i seem to be dashing up there on a regular basis.
Well, every month or so. That's more than regularly enough for my
bank manager i think. Ho hum. Is the date for a London picnic up for
debate? Cos sadly i can't make the 26th (wedding to attend in Troon,
or Irvine, or Prestwick, or one of those godforsaken Scottish seaside
towns of my childhood nightmares) but i will be in London on the 19th
for the Pants Yell! show. Yay! for Pants Yell!! If you haven't heard
them, erm, well, you should. They played with Jens Lekman (oo-er
missues) when Jens was in the States, dont you know. And with The Boy
Least Likely To too. Yum. So yeah, if the picnic was on the 19th then
i could be there. Maybe... which seems reason enough for ANYone to
want to have it on the 26th.

i haven't been to the Glasgow necropolis for years and years... it's
scary when i stop and think about it. Must be nigh on twenty years...
sheesh. And man, is it really nine years since Sinister crept into
the world, wiping the sleep from her eyes to brightly embrace the
dawn of, um, well the dawn of something pretty damn cool. Who'd have
thought then that we'd be still here, talking about shows in
Edinburgh's Princes St Gardens. Scary.

Anyway, all this activity has had me digging out those old (and not
so old!) B&S records and thrilling to them all over again. And oooh,
it IS bloody spine tinglingly lovely.

keep the faith
The Duke

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On 20 Jul 2006, at 13:30, jo perry wrote:

> To all the sun baked and listless, I am sat cross
> legged on chewing gummed carpet, to the left are my
> year 9 English class, the urchins are sweaty in their
> untucked shirts, flavoured with an impulse/lynx
> concoction that is impossible not to taste.
>
> For those of you unaware of my occupation I am a
> teacher and having wiggled my data projector cable
> vehemently for 20 minutes in the hope of screening
> "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest"
> on a whiteboard that flashes a variety of colours in
> acid house reverence (red screen, blue screen, white
> screen etc) I have decamped the entire class to the
> end of the corridor by the fire escape. So the
> children now line the way out, if the fire bell sounds
> there will be no flames licking their uniformed hides-
> just senior management to answer to when they wonder
> why my children seem so readily poised for tragedy.
>
> This rambling actually does have some meaning beyond
> the general thrill I get from working with wireless
> technology. I just wanted to know if anyone has seen
> "The blues are still blue" promotional music video- it
> is set in a launderette- Mrs Apps had it right all
> along.
>
> And far less importantly-
> Has anyone spotted my haphazard use of punctuation? It
> has all gone out of the window...
>
> One more day until the six week break, I am clawing my
> way there.
>
> Jo Perry, she who loves you. x
>
>
>
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