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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1059 )

• God Save the Queen

  

  Regular readers might remember that, last year, I had keyhole surgery when a double stent was inserted into my abdomen to deal with a narrowing of the arteries... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Healthy Intermission

  

  Normal broadcasts will be resumed shortly. In the meantime, here are a few random shots of the micro-loft. Well, why not? Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Holding Out for a Super-Hero

  

  Just like good old Auntie Beeb, I aim to inform, educate and entertain. It’s for others to judge whether I succeed or not. I find myself rather indisposed at th... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Norwich Pride 2014

  

  We’ve had a good run of sun so far this summer and there was no rain on the Pride Parade. Old queens that we are, we watched the Technicolor pageant from the... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Say It Again, Sam

  

  I’m like a stick of rock. No matter how much you nibble, you always find the word ‘London’ running through me. But, my love affair with the Old Smoke has... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• There is Turkey and Then There is Bodrum

  

  A few weeks back, I entered another writing competition with the marvellous ‘I Must Be Off!’ travel site. The piece is about Bodrum (naturally) and was adapted... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Turkey Street

  

  The sequel to Perking the Pansies is the story of our lives weaved in between those around us. For a good few months, act two of our emigrey tales had the... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Goat Herder Required, Apply Within

  

  House-sitting and house-swapping are fantastic low cost ways of getting to stay in some amazing places. We have old friends in Turkey who live in……Gökcebel, a... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Oldest Gays in the Village

  

  Aside from late starters, rent-a-womb celebrities and the yogurt pot and turkey-baster brigade, most people of a queer bent don’t have any children. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Happy Birthday, Uncle Sam

  

  There’s a tense stand off in the Scott-Brennan household. The air has cleared of gun smoke leaving a wreckage of words scattered round the cutting room floor. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Istanbul Pride 2014

  

  It’s the summer marching season once again and the ordinary and the extraordinary all around the world are doing their bit for the cause (when they’re not... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Neighbourly Relations

  

  Albert John Cooper the third was born to Albert and Alice Cooper of 48 William Street, Norwich on the 16th of June 1933. Like all new born babies for those firs... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• They Think It’s All Over

  

  A young inexperienced England Team crashes out of the 2014 World Cup, Mexican and Brazilian fans chant homophobic abuse, Croatian and Russian fans unfurl... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Who Ate All the Pies?

  

  East Anglia is England’s breadbasket, a land of milk and honey, a cornucopia of plenty. From crab to duck, sugar, saffron and samphire, poultry and pigs, mustar... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Commonwealth Gaymes

  

  The Commonwealth (a misnomer is ever there was one) is holding its Games in Glasgow this summer. The sporting jamboree will bring together athletes from across... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gumusluk Travel Guide

  

  Roll, roll up for your free Kindle copy of the meticulously researched Gümüşlük Travel Guide: Bodrum’s Silver Lining by the incomparable Roving Jay. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wild Things

  

  The old Co-operative Society depository that now ware-houses our micro-loft sits along one side of St Stephen’s Square, just outside the old city walls. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Normal for Norfolk

  

  As a recent interloper to this green and pleasant corner of England, it’s not for me to suggest that the north folk of Norfolk are less blessed in the old grey... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Sight for Sore Eyes

  

  Meandering through the fairground masses in Chapelfield Gardens at Easter, I was stopped in my tracks by two unusual sights standing out from the candyflossed... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Lofty Visitors

  

  English weather at its worst is a depressing and insipid affair – no drama or performance, just days of persistent damp greyness. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION