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• 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

• Ten Reasons to Ban Gay Marriage

  

  The airwaves are full of noise about the Government’s proposals to permit same-sex marriage here in old Blighty. Whereas the original intention was to legalise... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 DIARIES, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCIETY

• Turkey, the Raw Guide – Out Now!

  

  After months of blood, sweat and tears, a lot of ripe Old English and a few hard boiled debates, the first episode of the Best of Perking the Pansies, the Turke... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Plonk and Gossip

  

  We played hosts at the weekend. Well, I say hosts. Apart from a short stroll to the Playhouse Theatre to enjoy the lavatorial humour of Jenny Eclair, the only... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• World AIDS Day, RIP

  

  A few weeks back Liam and I watched a biopic of Kenny Everett on BBC4. ‘Best Possible Taste’ documented cuddly Kenny’s struggle to achieve personal happiness an... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SELF EXPRESSION

• Get Out of My Pub!

  Close to our ancient lodgings in the parish of Norwich-across-the-water is an Irish pub called ‘Delaney’s’. Gawd knows why it’s described as an Irish bar. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Anally Retentive

  

  As Perking the Pansies has been going for a couple of years, the blog is no longer seen as a here-today-gone-tomorrow flash in the internet pan. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Blood Brothers, the Farewell Tour

  

  The flatlands of Norfolk were draped in thick wet fog when Liam dragged me out to see ‘Blood Brothers’ at the Theatre Royal. The show is on its farewell tour... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Next Big Thing

  

  I’ve never been a big reader. It’s amazing I managed to pick up the writing thing at all. But these days, I get asked to review quite a few books and I’m... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Never Knowingly Undersold

  

  Yes, I know it’s a garden tableJohn Lewis is one of the grand old dames of the British high street (Marks and Spencer is the other). Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pot, Poofs and the Good Book

  

  The wise people of the Yankee state of Washington have voted in a referendum to legalise both same sex marriage and the recreational use of marijuana. Perhaps... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION