okay. we need some: okay. now more than ever. so. okay. here is the new and FINAL outline [it's an outline] for the edinburgh picnic. I am allowed room to tweak. if necessary. tweaking isn't a bad thing. it's just another way of saying refining. so. it was bowling. now it isn't. it was botanic gardens. very briefly. now it isn't. it was almost the meadows. but it's not. it's princes street gardens. reasoning [don't read this if you like to just have faith in other peoples' judgement]: there's grass. benches too. if you like those. there's a sheltering part up towards princes street. there's, like, a big monument and some big galleries and a big castle 'n' that around. there are nice pubs up on rose street. all of this requires no bussing and not a fantastical amount of walking. but walking's good. princes street gardens. you can eat. you can drink. you can smoke. you can talk. you can have dogs. these are requirements. the waverley station at two p.m. on saturday the fifteenth of september, two thousand and one. in case that's confusing: WHERE: the bit outside whsmith's in waverley station. WHEN: 2 p.m., 15/09/2001. I'm less confused now. meet us there and then. or. phone one of the numbers at the end of this post and ask the person who answers to tell you where the bloody hell they are. and they should. do that. how you will find people in this waverley: look for a group of mildly twee looking people shying away from each other and from everyone else. and stand next to them. and shy away from them. and everyone else. we will proceed to an as yet undecided spot in the gardens. I'll decide soon. and you'll know in advance. and we'll sit down. probably. most of us. and eat the food we brought and drink the drink we brought and smoke the cigarettes we brought and talk up the thoughts we brought and pet the dog we brought. ahem. if it rains. we'll head up to the sheltering and finish our food and drinks and stuff. or just head straight to a pub. a specific pub hasn't been selected yet. I'll do that too. so. I know of quite a few people who have said they will be in attendance. there are some coming from other countries! even! well. yeah. so. but. you don't need to know anyone else. you can just show up. and people will do their best to make you feel welcome. and we'll have fun. right? hopefully it'll be a VERY NICE DAY. yeah. I suppose that's it. for now. any questions. please do e-mail me. I get quite lonely. okay, richard. TELEPHONE NUMBERS: william salt [will]: 07990575869 sweetie sweet [sweetie]: 07940316821 ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+