Sheffield? Are you still there?

What is happening with the frikkin weather?? My home city of Sheffield is all over the news at the moment with severe flooding! My darling friend Emma has posted a video on facebook of her journey home last night and it is so hideous! I have never known that to happen in Sheffield, Of course we have been snowed in before but thats always a good excuse to not go to work and finally crack open the alcohol that you are too scared to drink for fear of it being rank!

To my darlings in Sheffield please take it easy, dont go outside - just immerse yourselves in the superficial world of american sitcoms and to hell with the weather, of course if you are reading this on a laptop whilst sat on the roof of your house - it might be time to call in Dame Shirleys helicopter.

My obsession at the moment and for quite some time now has of course been the oh so lovely Rufus Wainwright. He has just announced even more live dates for October and i am so going, i am going to stand at the front and unashamedly scream like he was Take That! He puts his all into his live shows and actually gives a shit about his fans which is rarer than you might think.

Well they have gone and done it, The Spice Girls have made an announcement about making an announcement. Whatever ever they have planned is going to be revealed to the world on thursday. Lets hope it goes something like this - Sporty Spice has finally decided that her fringe is working about as well as my gag reflex, Scary Spice has realised that leopard is 'nt coming back ever!, Baby Spice has stopped being so annoyingly nice that you want to drive a nail through her head, Ginger has realised that by calling her daughter Bluebell Madonna, she has pretty much guaranteed the child a stint in rehab and Posh has started eating one snack-a-jack a day in an attempt to become human.

I do of course jest! It's going to be a massive world tour is'nt it? it has to be! i shall be there screaming like Paris in a cell or Beth Ditto in a fat farm!

So i went to the Mayor's Pride Reception last night and it was quite fun, there were the usual gay mafia types. Lots of gay men in suits which i always seem to think is funny mainly because you know that when they get home they throw that suit off and put their peekaboo slacks on before lipsynching to Dame Shirley Bassey's version of "Get The Party Started". Ken Livingstone did a very good speech highlighting how far the gays have come in their battle for equality but then Ben Summerskill from Stonewall did a majorly depressing speech about the struggle (which he said about 20 mins) that all gays and lesbians face i todays society! Chin up love it aint all that bad, sure we still face homophobia and discrimination but the progress that has been made over the last 10 - 15 years has been amazing. Let's celebrate our achievements at London Pride this saturday and not turn into the moaning minority - that will not get us anywhere! If we focus on how we have achieved so much it will make achieving more a lot easier.

xx