Porridge before a visit to Glasgow

Since I’m on holiday I’ve been thinking “I might get up, go to a café and have a leisurely breakfast out”, only, every morning I wake up and my Scottish genetics kick in and my mind goes “Porridge”. Then I wake up a little bit more and my rational mind says “Of course...

The State of (Gay) Play

Okay. So now I live in an enormous european city that is home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of openly-gay men. This has made such a difference that it may never be possible for me to communicate the sense of relief in its true strength. It is not...

Four Zero

I have made it to forty. Long-term planning was once a real fad. Everyone was devising their 5, 10 or even 15 year plans and engineering the steps they would need to follow to get there. Unsurprisingly this created  for many an equal-and-opposite reaction – in...