The fabulous Nottingham All Stars Drag Pageant. Well done to the very funny Bin Bag, crowned as winner.

RIP Tony Head, a brilliant Frank and of course everyone's favourite librarian/magician.

Nothing says we appreciate your contribution, your innovative assessments, your award winning teaching, like a "your post is at risk" letter first thing in the morning. Really encourages you to slog your guts out for them...

A brilliant day out at the beautiful Herceg Novi!

Roman bridge, Roman artifacts from Ancient Doclea (now the capital of Montenegro, Podgorica) and pasta at the lovely La Cathedral.

Boat trip on Lake Skadar, and a trip up a mountain to see a mausoleum in Lovcen.

Beautiful Kotor and heated pool, yes please.

Mum and Dad's 50th wedding anniversary and Dad's 70th birthday bash in Cyprus.

People love it

centuries of fairy tales & folklore about not trusting glittering, deceptive entities that flatter our vanity and look at us. eating the fae food, mesmerized by the mirror, etc. clown behavior.

Truly there is nothing new under the sun

Delightful trip to the south of Crete - the lovely Frangocastello with its Venetian castle, and the tourist trap that is Loutro.

Lovely day out in Matala, Southern Crete.

The Nottingham Drag Pageant at Nottingham Arts Theatre, great fun!

Finally a Friday with no work after two months, which is something when you consider I'm part time and don't work on Fridays. Can now sit in the garden and enjoy the beautiful plants.

The news appears to be that hateful twats have as much hate for each other as they do for everyone else. Why are we surprised by this?

Rest in Pride, Edmund White. One of the greatest American writers of his time, who wrote unabashed and unashamedly of being gay. I always enjoyed his books, essays and plays from reading A Boys Own Story when I was a closeted teen onwards.

What's that? Where were almost all the East Midlands gays last night? That would be watching the Queen of the queens - Kylie Minogue!

Another win for women's rights

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Wondering where all the gays of the East Midlands over 35 were last night? That would be at Nottingham Arena watching the brilliant @scissor-sisters.bsky.social and Alison Goldfrapp! Phenomenal!

In 2015, the UK was the leading country on LGBTI human rights in Europe according to IGLA-Europe, with 86%. In 2025, we have dropped to 46%.

Just seen Starmer described as Eunuch Powell and it might be the funniest thing to take away from his horrible, racist, lying speech this week.

I can't say in my wildest imaginations as a youngster that I thought I'd live through another rise of fascism, let alone that so many people in the socialist area I grew up in would vote so blithely and happily for the same type of people they marched against when those people were BNP members.

Trans women are women. The UK Supreme Court made that clear today.

I think we should have a gender strike day, where everyone who is not a gender binarist (especially allies) dresses and behaves to confuse people as much as possible. Give binarists a sense of what it feels like to be uncertain and unsupported in social definitions of gender identity.

Trans rights and trans liberation now. Anyone with a heart or a soul is sick of this evil shit and how it's taken over the UK - not to mention it's the tip of the spear, as we've been warned by our trans siblings so many times. No forgiveness or pity for transphobes, in government or outside of it.

Last day in Germany: freezing Flensburg, well it is literally Baltic.

Day 7: excellent Eutin, lovely day at the Schloss and the Brewhouse.

Day whatever it is now, the Alster Lake in Hamburg and the Stadtpark.

Day 5, Hamburg St Nikolai church and the harbour area.

Day 4, lovely Lübeck, UNESCO world heritage site, home of the Nosferatu films old and new.

Day 3, back in Hamburg - a morning at the Kunsthalle (careful now...), the Planten um Blomen Park for a Picnic, then the Reeperbahn area and a Beatles pilgrimage and finally the Landsbrücken harbour area for beer.

Day 2 in Germany. Beautiful Bremen.

First day in Germany, wandering around Hamburg, and then seeing Disney's Hercules live stage show. Lovely day.