Here’s a quick recap of the previous programme…

After chatting about coffee and bears and Coronation Street, I asked that you join the Gadget Show campaign to Wi-fi the whole country even though Norwich was already ahead of the game. I told a couple of jokes that had been lifted from Internet sources and told you how I’d bumped into a friend from uni days via My Space. I also told you about which red wine I was drinking at that time. Kylie added me as a ‘friend’ on My Space, shortly followed by the Scissor sisters and one of the Bucks Fizzes and Pam Ann, all before I decided to pull the plug on it.

I Googled Christmas, had trouble with woollen Tribbles, it snowed and I bought an olive tree. That takes you to February where, I visited Cardiff and went as far as Land’s End before coming back to a job that had a horrible manager that was about 13 years old. I knew this because she asked me, “How many letters are there in the alphabet?”. I then took in a show, ate baked dough balls and emailed a friend in Oz…, Australia, not Emerald City. Then there was a fire down my street, but it didn’t wipe out a 1970s style shopping complex (more’s the pity), but it was okay as the council had decided to knock most of it down next year and revamp the area. One of the lesbians next door mooned me from the courtyard – except she didn’t realise I could see her and it was aimed at her girlfriend anyway.

Talking of moons, around that time, there was a lunar eclipse and the moon went red. I visited Dunwich, then got tonsillitis, drew a cabbage and couldn’t wait until Doctor Who came back on the telly. Easter happened and Australia had a new season of Kath & Kim and I watched “Snakes On a Plane” which was rubbish. My tomato seedlings were strong enough to move outside even though the rocket seedlings died and I bought myself a new camera.

Mum had an operation and went to recuperate with my sister and I took lots of pictures on my new camera. Father Christmas stalked my house with a telephoto lens and I found loads of cool Pam Ann footage on You Tube and then went to see her live. There was a blackbird singing the “Addams Family” theme tune in the garden and then I went to see “Terre Haute” at the theatre. I visited the Kensington museums and saw Kylie’s hot pants and some dinosaurs and then stayed in the hotel that had some radiation problems just a while before. I didn’t take tea there.

I watched another terrible Eurovision Song Contest and was amazed that even Poland didn’t throw a point our way and bought an Apple TV – which is still a pretty cool thing… My friend told me she was getting married the coming year and another friend got hitched that weekend. I had a holiday and read the new Maupin and then decided that my job needed to be changed. Pam Ann made a comedy ad for British Airways and I carved a pumpkin that won me £50 in a competition!

A marketing company read my Blog and sent me a free DVD to say thanks for posting some Pam related Blogs online and then I went to watch the fireworks. The local gay club was turned into a straight disco for the vacuous blonds of the city and then the Blog turned one year old.

I changed jobs and sang “Top of The World” and I asked you to singalong in a karaoke stylee and then continued the theme by dancing to Viola Wills. I told you about the evil British Banks and their way of making money from you using penalty charges as income, had some lovely coffee and took some pictures of my local riverside…

So what now?, well, last night, an earthquake woke me up!

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Tales Of The City, Shirley Valentine and Time travel

Blimey!, since I last Blogged, we’ve changed Prime Minister and Dr Who has ended. The UK got flooded and we had hail storms in July and it’s illegal to smoke in a UK pub. All very odd huh? See what happens in such a short space of time? Phew.

I am missing Dr Who and thought that this series was fab. Here come the drums! Thinking about it, I hear drums too – just kidding, it must just be the beat of the corporate banking system or my shackles under my desk at work; or both.

Isn’t it cool that finally, a mainstream BBC production with a younger demographic can show that being gay is a normal thing and NOT something bad that you should be ashamed of. Wow – got a bit deep there. Let’s take it up a couple of clicks and get back to pop culture *lite*, but before we do, check out Mark Simpson’s Blog. That man’s writings saved my dissertation and gave me a clearer view of my world way back when…

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We’re getting ready to fly off to Mykonos soon. I can’t wait to escape the humdrum of the UK and work for a while and beach myself by the side of the pool. My plans for this weekend involve an Internet shop for some reading fodder and, I’m quite excited to read the new Armistead Maupin which is hiding upstairs at the minute.

Tempting I know, but I will be strong. I don’t think I’ve been this excited to read a novel since I began reading the Tales of The City series when I was a student. Student life – Now that’s a whole other chapter. Maybe one day, I will write down some of my most favourite episodes of being at art college in the early 90s. Maybe.

Filed under: Dr Who, Mykonos, Queer culture, Tales Of The City

Good evening Helsinki, this is Norwich calling and here are our votes…

After the last few days of rain, the garden seems a lot healthier. All the plants are big and leafy and it has washed away that dusty layer that April laid. The Triffid now looks as though it’ll soon be walking on its own, but the chillies seemed to have gone into suspended animation somehow – guess we’ll have to wait for some hotter weather for them. We’ve also bought some rock speakers so we can listen to music outside and since they’ve been installed, the rain hasn’t stopped. 

I saw my friend Gem during the week. Gem’s looking to buy a house nearby and was quite excited. We had a really lovely night out just chatting and catching up and after looking at my art pages online, has said that she really wants one of my paintings. Cool!

Meanwhile… to ease the Dr Who drought, Sandra sent me a Tardis on Saturday. It’s a little model that makes the dematerialising sound and flashes its blue light whenever your mobile gets a call or text. I love it! It made up for the Eurovision Song Contest and the farce that it was this year. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t really like Scooch, but I do feel sorry for them a little… maybe the whole thing should be renamed the East European Song contest judging by the way the voting went. Even Poland didn’t give us douze points.

 

I popped over to see mum on Sunday and undid a few jars of pickles for her as she was going mad by not having any grip in her hand to do it herself. It looks like the healing process is taking a little longer than we’d all hoped and I can see that she’s going a little stir crazy. Still, to occupy herself, she went on a mission to find an old photograph of Norwich for us to add to our collection. It’s a picture of Bonds department store, before it became a massive grey concrete building and it’s fab.

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The Daleks are back! Nearly

I saw this and thought of WORLD DOMINATION!

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