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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1092 )

• There’s Still Life in the Old Blog Yet

  

  When I started this blogging lark way back in October 2010, life in pansies HQ was a different place – different house, different town, different country. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wuthering Heights – Wild and Windy, Moody and Broody

  

  What better way to spend Valentine’s Day than a love story at the flicks? So that’s what we did. But this wasn’t any old love story. Oh no. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Ferrow Brothers

  

  Another remarkable little gem lifted from the Queer Norfolk Archive at Norwich’s Millennium Library is the astonishing story of the Ferrow sisters of Great... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cottage Ladies

  

  Until modern times, the status of women was Bible-clear – to love, honour and obey – with a particular emphasis on obey. Women had little say and precious few... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• He’s Behind You – Again

  

  This year’s winter has been more or less the usual tedious diet of dull and damp. So what better way to blow away the blues and lift the spirits than a festive... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hamlet Or Hamnet? That is the Question

  

  We’ve seen a bunch of films over the last year – some good, some less so. But none have been as powerful as Hamnet. This no-holes-barred historical drama... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Glitter, Glamour and the Glums

  

  Our yuletide revelry was crowned with a trip to the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome, Britain’s last remaining circus building, for their ‘Christmas Circus and Water... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• London, City of Hope

  

  We saw in 2026 with a proverbial bang at a house party thrown in style by two of our favourite village people. It was a banter-filled evening of merriment,... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2026 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Top of the Pansy Pops 2025

  

  Yes, folks, it’s that time again when I look back at another year of my missives from the sticks. The most popular broadcasts of 2025 have a distinctly nostalgi... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• LGBT Armed Forces Memorial – No More Shame

  

  Last month, His Maj, King Charles, dedicated the first national memorial honouring LGBT armed forces personnel, 25 years after the ban on LGBT people serving... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Dribbling Years

  

  Being closer to the finish line than the start, I’m regularly pricked and poked, and not in a good way – blood tests for diabetes and high cholesterol, liver an... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sparks, Candles and Cardamom

  

  Suddenly one late evening our lights started to flicker and our electric hob began to beep randomly. Our neighbours, too, were experiencing spooky goings on. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happy Birthday, Perking the Pansies

  

  “In the beginning there was work and work was God. After 35 years in the business, the endless predictability made me question the Faith. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Roys of Wroxham

  

  Way back in 2013, I wrote a brief throwaway piece about a day trip to Wroxham – ‘Gateway to the Norfolk Broads’ – a town entirely given over to those who like t... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Room With a View

  

  When we first waded ashore to the fabled isle of Ithaca, we stumbled upon a tumbledown wreck of a house, perched by the waterside and overlooking a... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dwile Flonking

  

  A couple of summers ago, I wrote a tongue in cheek piece about Dwile flonking, a notorious East Anglian pub game involving two teams of twelve players, each... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lest We Forget

  

  We joined the enthusiastic crowd of locals gathered on Church Plain in front of the Loddon War Memorial to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day – the end... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spuds, Spies and Something for the Weekend

  

  The renaissance of the iconic Battersea Power Station and its surroundings isn’t the only radical regeneration along the old Thameside rust belt. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lift 109 – What a Ride!

  

  We like a spectacular view, and they don’t get much more spectacular than the view of old London Town from the top of one of the chimneys at Battersea Power... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Have I Done to Deserve This?

  

  I do get some weird and not so wonderful spam emails. We all do. It goes with the territory, I guess. Many are littered with schoolboy errors – sloppy... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2025 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION