Intermezzo

Feels like an age since i've posted here..... but being held hostage by life does that to you.....

But have found a brief and unexpected moment to say what is, what has been, and what potentially will be.........

• Attending a HLG Conference in Eastbourne at the end of this week..... the thought of spending the 9th July through to the 13th there is....... underwhelming......... The last one was in Belfast and was a riot. Belfast........ city of the young, beautiful and vivacious........ Eastbourne? Isn't............. If i was looking for somewhere to die, i wouldn't go there...... if i was dead......... i'd already be living there. At least I'll have my wireless laptop to use of an evening.........IF i can find nothing better to do......... or if i haven't already abandoned Eastbourne for Brighton or Portsmouth before the conference even starts..... it wouldn't be the first time i wasn't where i was supposed to be......... Oh God! Just had an incredibly awful thought........ what if i died there? Would anyone be able to tell the difference? I'd be stuck there forever........... well, i am catholic......... so limbo should come naturally

• My plans for my, now annual, Gay Pride rampage in Manchester have been scuppered.......... THANK YOU playmates, for going to the U.S instead...... if i didn't know you better, i'd take it personally. So instead........ thanks to other mishaps, i'll be staying in my now regular haunt, in Earls Court........ plasma screen tv......... free internet........ microwave....... HUGE bed......... and my own company. The Notting Hill carnival will be close by...... the booty shaking option is there if i should chose to take it................. shake it and wiggle it. Now all i'll have to do is escape from the graveyard that is Eastbourne.......

• Managed to escape from a close encounter with someone at my work place......... who jokingly asked me to be his date to the Trust ball on the 7th......... I say jokingly since we were both laughing about it at the time........ but given that he's asked me for an answer every time we've met since then........ i think i can safely assume that he was being serious. Now i don't get asked out to balls very often....... ok........ NEVER really........ and it's not like it was a date or anything.......... so i did contemplate it.......... UNTIL........ in a smokers chat - usually held by furtive staff in bushes and at bus stops, since being caught smoking on Trust ground can result in permanent dismissal - about the aforementioned ball with this colleague, he said that IF he went that he'd book a hotel room and stay over to avoid a drunken stagger/crawl home at 4am............ when i mentioned that i did that a lot......... stay in hotels NOT stagger/crawl home, and was planning an August bank holiday getaway......... he grinned and asked me if i'd like some company......... while i panicked on the inside, i grinned back on the outside and said that this escape was for Me time........ as i walked away, he called out with one eyebrow raised......... If you'd ever like any male company when you're staying in a hotel......... you know where i am...... Suffice it to say that i'm NOT going to the ball with him. Funnily enough......... going to Eastbourne this weekend suddenly has its positive points..... one being that it's about two hours away from the ball....

• My two favourite playmates came down to the Big Smoke (as Andy would calls it his blog) and what with World Cup fever in full burning mode........ even though we were supposed to take over a london park and skip around with flowers in our hair......... we ended up in a pub for most of the time........ you could say that rain stopped play, but it was a veritable deluge, so we had to take refuge in a public house............... for our own protection, you understand........ France was playing, so we ended up surrounded by a better class of football supporter....... but i can't help thinking that we managed to bring the tone down a touch........ must have been because we weren't french...... yes! i'm sure that was it.........

Boozy and Floozy

One of our party tried to stop being shown drunk as skunk

Someone also got caught in the men's toilets..... Zippy from Rainbow apparently

Time to let the dust settle for a moment...... until i continue......... too much to mull over and regurgitate

But time has a habit of flying by and before you know it the now moment has left you behind forever...... putting it here means that it remains stationary........... and who said it was only my face that could stop clocks..........