Apologies for the blog delay!!

My parents were here at the weekend and we managed to get out and about quite a bit. On Saturday we went to the National Portrait Gallery and spent a couple of hours wandering around, how many nice looking men can you fit into one gallery? I was feeling slightly guilty for eyeing up guys whilst i was with my parents but needs must. Following that we went to Harrods -why i do not know, it really is the tackiest place! Just the way its done out is as if someone has swallowed money and barfed it up all over the place.

On Saturday night we went to see "There will be blood" - i did enjoy it but it is pretty slow moving, Daniel Day Lewis is magnificently evil in it and totally deserved the Oscar for his performance. Paul Dano was also fantastic. However, there is such a build up to the end of the film and it really was one of the most difficult scenes i have ever watched - be warned!

Well i managed to miss the Oscars again this year but i was very pleased that Daniel Day Lewis and Marion Cottilard won Best Actor and Actress, Have not had chance to have a look at what people were wearing but i did see Tilda Swinton and that girl needs to be introduced to the concept of make up, she is always so pale - a bit like casper the friendly ghost wearing couture. It's a shame that even though the Oscars ceremony is usually camp as xmas, the organisers of the show still see it fit to ignore the gays! Scott Rudin was one of the producers of the Best film winner "No Country for Old Men" and thanked his male partner during his speech but this was edited out for TV. What the fuck is that about?

In the last 2 weeks homophobia has reared it's ugly head in 2 grisly incidents, 50 year old Peter Jeffrey Akers was found stabbed to death in a gents toilet in Walton on Thames and on Monday night a 25 yr old gay man was stabbed to death in Manchester's gay village. Arrests have been made but it's just tragic that these crimes are still happening in 2008.

I was rather exhausted last night so was in bed pretty early and had a really good sleep, I woke this morning to a text from my mother asking if i had felt the quake? It seems that everyone apart from me felt the rather hefty quake shake at 1am. I was probably dreaming about shipwrecked drag queens or englebert humperdinck.

I am off to Sheffield this weekend to have a dance and a drink with my girls which should be fun and then am in Nottingham with work for a few days so it may well be a blogless week!

More random mutterings tomorrow though

xx