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Yes, we're back in cold, windy London, after an utterly fantastic week in Benalmadena en familia - me, birthday boy Madam A, Baby Steve, Houseboy Alex, Carol, Jen, Our Sal and Lou - a week of sunshine, booze, good food, great laughs, booze, late nights, indulgence, relaxation and booze!
Needless to say, yesterday and today have been rather slow...
Did we miss anything while we were away? Not a lot. Ukraine, Yemen and Gaza are all still in utter turmoil, there was a semi-meltdown in the House of Commons over a debate on the latter, the first private spacecraft landed on the Moon, the insane Trump versus senile Biden bore-fest continued Stateside, foreign secretary David Cameron paid a vist to the Falkland Islands amid Argentinian "muscle-flexing" over its sovereignty claims, we are in the final few days of LGBT+ History Month and the only events worth going to were last week, and the most respectable of all department stores John Lewis started selling sex toys!
We missed the centenaries of Gloria Vanderbilt, Lee Marvin and swing jazz clarinettist and bandleader Buddy DeFranco, the 95th birthday of the marvellous Dame Patricia Routledge, what would have been the 90th birthdays of the faboo Rue McClanahan, Barry Humphries/Dame Edna Everage and the gorgeous Alan Bates, the (gulp) 70th birthdays of John Travolta, Anthony Head, Plastic Bertrand, Patty Hearst and the legendary DJ and Factory Records executive (who founded M People and discovered Happy Mondays) Mike Pickering, and the 60th of "Brat-Packer" Matt Dillon.
Thankfully none of our icons popped their clogs while we were away, but we did miss bidding fond farewells to soap opera legend John Savident aka butcher "Fred Elliott" in Coronation Street, and to Iain Kerr, who was one half of "The Brothers Butch" whose pioneering gay number Kay, Why? I featured here a couple of years ago.
Did I bring anything back for your delectation, dear reader? Try this - definitely not a new song (it's from 1992), but new to us so that's all that matters:
Is it good to be back? NO!!
Thank heavens I still have another week off to catch up...
["Amigos para Siempre" = "Friends for life" in Spanish, which seems appropriate]
