Steve from England

With the onset of Covid-19 I am finding I am building up a fair amount of invisible wealth. It is becoming quite hard to keep track of. Cancelled trips, vouchers and so on could easily get lost or forgotten if I don't keep track of them. £1000's could just 'expire' if the pandemic continues and I don't keep a check on them and it is driving me nuts! Sure, it's lovely to have vouchers for 2 direct flights return to the Philippines and two local flights within the Philippines. Great we've a first class return crossing of the English Channel Dover to Calais, I believe there is a hotel stop over in France somewhere too but this is becoming an issue now. £1000's tied up in travel plans I might never be able to do. Look, I get it, I am not exactly badly off if this is the peak of my worrying (It actually isn't. I have some really serious shit going on I have to deal with) so, why am I bothering? Simply put, do I trust these companies to look after my money...

  I feel we all have a list of things we want to do, you know, before we kick the bucket! I believe that is where the expression comes from because, let's face it, carrying lists around in buckets isn't overly practical and they do nothing to enhance the look of our sand castles.  Why do we bother setting ourselves goals of things we really want to do before we snuff it? After all, it can erode our spontaneity. If we're the sort that sees a bit of spare cash and just buggers off and does something, perhaps we don't need a bucket list at all because we will just do stuff anyway? Yeah, obviously that's true, to an extent. I've often times in the past just taken myself off somewhere. Was it a spur of the moment thing though or was it something itching at me to be done which just coincided with the ability to do it at the time? I think the latter. What sort of things should go in a bucket list? For me, travel ranks highly in it. Essentially though it could be anythi...

Mardi Gras 2000 - Finsbury Park, London Wow, actually well over 20 years ago now since I took the family to London Pride and the Mardi Gras afterwards. So many celebs there, so many gay iconic 'have to see' people. I watched The Weather Girls do .... It's Raining Men! A group you have probably never heard of '5ive' who I used to think were dead sexy OMG, don't he look young? This was 'All Saints' Bananarama - Walk like an Egyptian ... they probably did other stuff too Billie Piper who I think was a singer but I think she's better known from Dr. Who Above, Boy George from the pictures I am sure he'd want people to see and  how he looked on stage Katrina from 'Katrina & The Waves', erm ... 'Walking on Sunshine' Kylie above with the then London Mayor, Ken Livingstone and below performing 'Lolly', no, I have no idea who she is but she did a revival of 'Hey Mickey' Dana International who I think had something to do ...

  If I were to get a tattoo, it'd likely be something like this True, it is unlikely I ever would get one but, if I did and here is why ... I am the guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. I am an open book, what you see is what you get and nothing complicated about it. Therein lies the problem. In this day and age and especially in the UK, genuine people are few and far between. There is so much dishonesty and deceit everywhere, especially online, that it is so difficult to trust anyone. Then, we have 'profiles' everywhere which tell the world what we want the world to think we are. These things don't allow room for individuality on any significant scale.  These things have to be filtered down so that we remain acceptable to the people around us and then we have to come across as likeable and interesting and, before long we have a fairly generic profile structure and we are loathed to be more honest in case it makes us look weak, turns us into that freak with issues, wi...