Shameless*

Groan. After a fantabulosa weekend, its time to go back to the perennial dullness of the office...

The sun is still blazing away out there, and, despite the glowing tan from Essex, my dreams are still of Spain - and there's always room for a bit more cheese from the "Land of Tackiness" here at Dolores Delargo Towers, after all!

Sharing a birthday as she does with a bizarre range of famous names such as Sir David Attenborough, "H" from Steps, Sid James, Norman Lamont, Enrique Iglesias, Dame Felicity Lott, Tom of Finland, Ricky Nelson, Ezio Pinza, Phyllida Law, Toni Tennille, Philip Bailey, and - ahem - Gary Glitter, here (again) is one of the biggest-selling artists in Spain Marta Sánchez, doing what she does, accompanied by a bevy of glittering safety gays...

Marta Sánchez - Caradura

That certainly cheered me up!

Marta Sánchez López (born 8th May 1966)

[*Caradura means "shameless" or "bare-faced" in Spanish]

From Braintree to Benalmadena, and every disco I get in

Blossoms at RHS Hyde Hall

Whew! What a scorcher!

It has been (officially) the hottest May Day Bank Holiday in recorded history - the thermometers reached 28C (82F) today - and (as you, dear reader, may have noticed) I have been away. When people ask in the office tomorrow why I have such a tan; have I been on holiday? I shall answer yes! To Braintree...

The boys - Baby Steve and Houseboy Alex - were very good hosts; driving me across the highways and byways of Essex, to plant nurseries, antiques centres and to the Royal Horticultural Society's excellent gardens at Hyde Hall near Chelmsford.



Needless to say, I left (on the bus from nearby Stansted Airport) today weighed down with plants to fill our new garden - including sixteen new fuchsias from our fave specialist grower B & HM Baker, to add to the four we recently purchased from The Gardening Club. We're on our way to recreating our collection, peeps - fingers crossed the bloody gall mite doesn't get to this new locale...

I have not, of course, forgotten that it is (regardless of bank holidays) still a Tacky Music Monday! The boys and I (obviously) also spent a lot of time sat in their large and rambling garden, enjoying the sunshine - and playing loads of camp music. Like this one...

A block-buster of a collaboration, it not only features the divine Alaska of house favourites Fangoria, but also Baccara(!!), La Prohibida, La Terremoto de Alcorcón, and myriad other Spanish popstrels such as Marta Sánchez, Chenoa, Ruth Lorenzo, Nancys Rubias, Soraya Arnelas, Rosa López, Vicky Larraz, Boris Izaguirre, Javiera Mena, Innocence, and Alberto Jiménez (Miss Cafeína). ¡Muy bien!

Various Artists - World Pride 2017 Madrid anthem - A quien le importa

That's just the thing to not only round off a lovely long weekend, but also to remind us that is is less than two weeks before we will be back in Spain... for our twentieth anniversary!

Have a good week, one and all...

Just can't get enough...

Today, as we countdown to Spain in earnest (two weeks on Saturday!), it is worth revisiting another of our fabulously camp discoveries...

I blogged this time last year about the lovely Spanish diva Marta Sanchez and her duet with the sexy Carlos Baute.

Now here is the lady's massively popular gay anthem Superstar for your delectation.

Marta Sanchez - Superstar

It cheered me up, anyway!

Colgando en tus manos

Just 28 days till our next Spanish holiday, and of course my thoughts turn to all things from that fabulous country - none more so than this little gem.

Marta Sanchez is a phenomenon in the Spanish-speaking world, selling millions of records - remarkably she has collaborated with Slash from Guns N' Roses and Nile Rodgers from Chic (on one album back in 1997), and duetted with Andrea Bocelli! Her mega-hit single Superstar became such a gay anthem that she was guest of honour at Europride in Madrid in 2007.

The beautiful Carlos Baute is a bit of a celebrity in his native Venezuela, and with his good looks and fit body has apparently made a successful transition to the mother country España, appearing on various cheapo TV shows and inevitably in the tabloids.

But who cares about the lives of B-list Spanish celebs, when together they can produce something as fab as this...?

Carlos Baute and Marta Sanchez - Colgando en tus manos