Hullo again. After some to-ing and fro-ing, if not to say toeing and frolicking yet, a bunch of us have decided that a nice place for our picnic (that is, the soonest Scottish one, as plenty are going on or are being planned for elsewhere too) would be Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Gardens. 2pm, 15th Sept, 2001. Although I suspect that consumption of picnics amongst their prized collection of 'representatives of most families of flowering plants, conifers, cycads, ferns and their allies - nearly 17,000 species' might have to be somewhat on the discreet side, we can always go to the pub after (nearby Stockbridge has some nice ones) and, if it's raining, there's a hothouse full of exotic things. The idea is that's it's simply a rather attractive and interesting place to meet up. And it's free to get in. The link below describes what buses to catch, etc: http://www.rbge.org.uk/visitor/visinfo.htm#inverleith This map may also be of assistance: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?scale=25000&X=325000&Y=676000&gride=324852&gridn=675560&width=700&height=400&client=M6&db=&overviewmap=&coordsys=gb&down.x=15&down.y=21 The gardens are in the middle, at the top. Waverley station is towards the middle, on the right. I hope the link works... if not, try the multimap.com site. The main entrance is on Aboretum Place. If anyone wants to meet earlier at, say, Waverly Station, let me know and, of course, please E-mail if you have any other queries. Unfortunately, in the blurry and latter stages of the picnic by the sea, my mobile phone disappeared... elsewhere. If someone who does posess the requisite equipment would like to offer to be mobile networker on the day that would be cool. Richard? OKYDOKY. I think that's about it. Now that there seem to be a few people definitely on board, the whole thing is gaining momentum and, hopefully, lots of you will be able to come. I still want to gatecrash Harry's party, though :) Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+