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well, we finally got round to jdging this, actually we'd decided the winner
ages ago but hoping that the band and a few other people would offer their
opinion.
<P>so the winner of the four posters (one for each Jeepster release to
date) and the t-shirt of choice is Jonathon Mackie, his was entrant no'
15 (in our numbered list) and will get his prize pickings as soon as he
gets in contact with us and lets us know where he wants them sent.
<P>to all the other entrants, we really enjoyed reading them all and had
fun judging, thank you for putting the effort in. your efforts an be viewed
permanently on the fan club site under the link called <B><FONT COLOR="#990000"><A HREF="http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/">fiction</A>
</FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#000000">, i hope this will inspire you to write
something more when the fiction part of the site is developed to include
the forthcoming book idea (details to follow in the new year).</FONT>
<P>anyway, here's that winning entry in full...
<P><I>15 From: jonathon mackie</I><I></I>
<P><I> This one's my favourite. It's from around
seven years ago, when my dad</I>
<BR><I> took myself and my sister up to the dams
in the country. It was just</I>
<BR><I> after my dad and mum had split up, towards
the end of the summer. The</I>
<BR><I> year before, my dad had taken a nervous
breakdown and had mellowed</I>
<BR><I> out, learned to show his feelings a bit
more. Trouble is, he showed his</I>
<BR><I> feelings to another woman as well. The
dams are always one of my</I>
<BR><I> favourite places. They're right on the
boundary between the country and</I>
<BR><I> the city, and they're right beside the
wee town I used to go to to play</I>
<BR><I> tennis with my uncle, even though I had
to borrow a racquet because I</I>
<BR><I> couldn't afford my own. It wasn't really
a town, more like a scheme that</I>
<BR><I> happened to be outside the city limits.
My dad told me the dams</I>
<BR><I> supplied water to thousands of people in
the city, and they'd been built a</I>
<BR><I> hundred years ago and still remained intact.
You can see me in the</I>
<BR><I> background, sitting on the edge of a large
pool of water. There's a small</I>
<BR><I> waterfall running into the pool. My dad
and my sister are in front of me,</I>
<BR><I> staring into the camera, squinting cause
of the sun. I'm wearing my red</I>
<BR><I> and white striped polo top, which I got
for my 11th birthday from my</I>
<BR><I> mum. There's car in the background too,
speeding past on the small</I>
<BR><I> road. I started the big school that year,
stopped reading Smash Hits and</I>
<BR><I> started reading Melody Maker and NME. I
had my first instance of true</I>
<BR><I> love that year, but nothing happened. My
dad wasn't as bald then as he</I>
<BR><I> is now. I like him more now than I did
then. My mum's not in the picture,</I>
<BR><I> which is sad. It was a really nice sunny
day.</I>
<P>again, thanks for your support and patience
<P>david kitchen & katrina house
<P>@ the fanclub
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