February 7th - February 13th 2005
Sunday Sackcloth
Saturday Rove on the woks
Friday Boring
Thursday Sketchy
Wednesday Sold
Tuesday Comes around
Monday Cue Clary
Sunday 13th February 2005
"The Prince of Wales and his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles face a call to apologise for their adultery at the General Synod of the Church of England next week.."
That, or something very like it, is what I swear I read in the Independent sometime over the weekend. (I can't check because the article in question is hidden behind their stoopid pay-wall.)
It would be the call, rather than the apology, that would take place at the Synod, of course.
But just for a moment I had this glorious vision of two middle-aged adulterers, clothed in immaculately-tailored sackcloth and a tasteful daub of ashes, kneeling penitent before the robed and righteous might of a wrathful church militant...
Saturday 12th February 2005
Harrow.It's so lost in translation here.Neon everywhere and so busy.kareokee in a mo.R gaydar is so fucked they all look same.Consent is 14."rove on the woks"a+kx
Andy and Kevin set off for a two-month trip to the Antipodes on Thursday, and the first of Andy's characteristically opaque text messages arrived soon afterwards.
I spent most of yesterday wondering what the hell they were doing in Harrow...
Friday 11th February 2005
Millionaire marries mistress shock
I particularly liked the front page of the Daily Star:
Thursday 10th February 2005
I brought a number of things back from my other home following my New Year visit, amongst them a sketchbook that has travelled with me on various holidays. This is a drawing I made fom our hotel room in 1992. Bet ya can't guess where:
Wednesday 9th February 2005
Things I have bought during my recent (overdue) induction into eBay:
Three pairs of 2xist underpants £13.45
One Canon LiDe30 scanner £26
One Aeron office chair £420
Tuesday 8th February 2005
Though I'm sure Dame Ellen MacArthur deserves all this front-page coverage for her speedy circumnavigation [not], I confess that any inclination I might have had to take her seriously went overboard the day I noticed her passing resemblance to Janet Tough...aka Wee Jimmy Cranky.
Monday 7th February 2005
Gay Plaudits...
...to Philip Johnson for wangling the Telegraph's first obituary reference to a surviving male lover
...to SpongeBob SquarePants for keeping quiet during attacks on his sexuality by right-wing American morons
...to Elton John and David Furnish for not only being voted Snappy Snap's most loving couple but for following that with an announcement that they want to get married
...to Chris Smith for not only surviving the furore surrounding his announcement that he is HIV+, but dealing with rumours that his statement was perhaps not entirely voluntary
...to Julian Clary for surviving a kidnap plot involving -quote- broken pool cues-quote- but also for announcing the title of his autobiography: A Young Man's Passage
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