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• God Save the Queen’s Head

  

  The Grand Old Dame of ChelseaOnce upon a time, too many years ago, I was a shop boy on Chelsea’s trendy King’s Road. Days on the tills and nights on the tiles... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Matilda

  

  We ventured down to the Smoke during the big freeze for a night at the theatre. Surprisingly, our train ride both to and from London was untroubled by the threa... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beating the Bishop

  

  The Church of England continues to get its collective cassock in a twirl attempting to respond to the social changes beating down the cathedral door. Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Les Misérables

  

  The advantages of joining the club at Cinema City are free tickets and 10% off at the bar, both of which are guaranteed to drag us out into the drizzle. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Turkey, Surviving the Expats – Out Now!

  

  After a few weeks of tweaking, fixing and buffing, Turkey, Surviving the Expats is off the blocks. Episode Two of the best of the blog contains all the juicy... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Big Thaw

  

  After the big freeze comes the inevitable big thaw as temperatures rise to their seasonal norm. The glaciers of Norwich are gently melting to a sloppy slush of... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Hazards of Duke Street

  

  Tombland on Better DaysNorwich City Council in its municipal wisdom has decided that gritting pavements isn’t their bag. While city streets are generally... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Winter Wonderland

  

  It didn’t take the power of the Delphic Oracle to predict the chaos that would result from yesterday’s whiteout. Even a light dusting of snow generally brings... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

  

  I was going to pop out for an Americano,  but when I peered up from the laptop, I noticed that Norwich was enveloped in an instant blizzard. I thought better... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Quartet

  

  Anything Maggie Smith does is alright with me. She could break wind on screen and I’d give her a standing ovation. She’s just my kind of actress, like Judi Denc... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide

  

  Santa sent me a bumper prize this year: globe-trotting local lass Roving Jay paid me a whistle-stop visit. Jay currently lives in Los Angeles but grew up in... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Follow Every Rainbow

  

  Safely home after almost a week of festive overload, we uncorked a bottle and nested on the sofa to watch ‘Climbed Every Mountain’ on BB2. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Willy-Wares and Booby Prizes

  

  The excessive festive recess started with a Soho reunion: old friends, cards and kisses, secret Santa tat and drunken frolics. It’s a Yuletide tradition of our... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Big Bang

  

  We approached the New Year’s celebrations with the best gay-boy-about-town intentions. At first, we planned to bop ‘til we dropped at The Loft, Norwich’s premie... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Cream of the Crop 2012

  

  It’s the turn of a new year, a time to reflect on the recent past. And what a hectic time it’s been for these old two old drunken reprobates. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Alternative Queen’s Speech

  

  Confession, as they say, is good for the soul. I must confess, therefore, to being a tad disappointed with fair Norwich’s festive lights. I was hoping for a... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Talking Raw Turkey on the Radio

  

  The fabulous people at Norwich’s Future Radio asked me to pop in and talk about Turkey, the Raw Guide on the Pride Live programme. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Norwich, City of Literature

  

  Norwich is the heart of arty-farty judging by the colourful assortment of scholarly fashionistas mingling around the College of Art. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Going Once, Going Twice…

  

  The National League of POW/MIA Families is an American organisation incorporated in 1970 to obtain the release of all prisoners, establish the fullest possible... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Buttoned-Up Britain

  

  By common consent, Fifties Britain was a grim, buttoned-up time of austerity, grinding poverty, back-street abortions, bomb craters, back-to-back slums and... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION