Celeb Big Bro & snow, sun, wind, stormy, clear.

Hey there folks,

It's over.......Celebrity Big Brother I'm talking about, nothing else. The hype, the fanfare, the fireworks and the over the top self importance of host Divna McCall and it was all over. The winner of the 'D' list collection of 'has been's' ? Chantelle. Who? You may well ask, she wasn't even famous, not a celeb, no just a promotions girl put into the house to pretend she was a singer with a girl group to fool and play a trick on the other so called celebrities. What a turn up for the books that was. Well not actually, for I have it on good authority from within the production company that they fully intended her to win in the first place.

Yeah, each segment director and producer was 'apparently' ordered to edit footage to show her in a good light, a positive way to ensure she was the ultimate winner of the so called contest. This kind of revalation hardly surprises me, reality TV has long been thought of the Television equivalent of a trashy tabloid. So for them to enhance someone so much with clever editing should I suppose be expected, however it begs the question - can we ever really trust reality TV?

Weather wise here on the south coast over the last few days has been to say the very least erratic. The day before yesterday I was riding to work with snow stinging my face and chilling my bones. last night it was even colder, but clear as anything. Stars hundreds and thousands of miles above were visible with the naked eye. This morning coming home was a clear bright sunny morning, kinda warm as well for a January morn! Very erratic weather, I guess that's part of the charm of living on the southern English coast.

Ok, so not much else is new apart from that really, well come on, I'm in the middle of my 4 on shift. So I work all night and sleep all day, so gossip, I have none of. Ohhh whilst I'm talking about work, I did a little calculation in the wee small hours. I work 4 nights on and 4 nights off, I get around 22 days holiday a year, so based with that information, I found that I work a mere 153 shifts each year and for that I get a wage of over £21k a year! Now you know why I work nights doing a job that I can't stand!

Ok busters, thanks for the loan of your eyes for the lil while you've been here, it's been great, but am off to my bed via the shower, hey it's been a long night! So, wherever you go, may your god go with you. Keep dreaming your dream as something they do cometruen and another pearl of JJ wisdom - smile more, for you never know who is falling in love with your smile!

Peace out.

Bike. Big Issue. Boats.

Hey hey hey, it's Friday!!!!

Ok, so while most of you are getting ready for the weekend and all the fun and frolics that brings, I'm getting ready for the start of 4 night shifts! Bummer! 12 hours a night from 8pm till 8am stuck in that office, helping an assisting rude and arrogant people - what joy!

Yesterday, my bro, Mo and I went off on a lil bike ride, you know, something to get the heart pumping, pulse racing and body working. Well, regular viewers will know that I love to cycle, it's a great way of getting fit, moving, seeing sights. Also it's one of the few outdoor activities I can do without putting too much pressure on my dodgy leg - cycling isn't about joints, it's about muscle!

Anyway, we made it to Angmering which was really good, that's a little over 20 miles, ok so it's not a great distance, just over 40 miles there and back, but it was the first long ride of the season and hey it was flipping freezing. It was a good blast, but the chill wind factor was 2 below freezing. We stopped off and had a pub lunch which was wicked and then on the way back we stopped off at the Waterside on Shoreham Beach, mainly because Mo was getting a little saddle sore and I needed a pee! It was a good day!!

No comments about what I'm wearing please - it's built for warmth and comfort!

I purchased a Big Issue the other day from a vendor in George Street, I'm not telling you this out of some false belief that it will make you think good of me, to show I support the homeless, who sell the said magazine. I'm telling you because, it's a bit thin! It costs £1.40, of which 80p goes to the person selling it which is good. But the mag is a bit thin and the features a bit, ermm shall we just say flimsy and weak, but at least it helps the homeless to help themselves. And, to quash any critics, I didn't just buy it because the vendor was good looking!!

One thing did surprise me was the lack of any main articles about actually being homeless, which I would have thought there should have been, but I guess it's not the homeless that read and buy it. Anyway, I'd rather buy a thin copy of The Big Issue from a proper vendor than just give money to a beggar - at least the registered vendors are getting of their arses and doing something for themselves!

For some strange reason all of a sudden I've got a lil fascination for boats, not sure where it's come from or indeed where it's going, but I like boats. I mean the other day I was looking at buying a house boat on sale with a local estate agent. Then the day before yesterday's ride I bought a big glossy Boat magazine. What direction this new found love of boats will take isanyone'ss guess. Mind you, I suppose it was inevitable really, after all I've liked seamen for a long time!!

Ok, right that's ya lot for today, am off for a bit of brekkie and then watch a film and then have a snooze before I have to head on over to work! Oh and don't forget to grab yaself this years big read - Brokeback Mountain! Ciao.

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Lazy days! Celeb Big Brother! Brokeback Mountain - the book!

Hiya people,

Welcome to another post from me, your host, Josh Jordan on Sex & The Sea Front, you insight in my crazily sane world!

Working nights on a 4 on 4 off rolling rosta, as I do means my weekends are all shot, meaning I don't always have them, so today I chose to be my 'lazy sunday'. Therefore I have done very little, got up late, walked round the road to my brothers for a natter, came back had lunch, read a magazine and then here are I. Wow what a fucking exciting life I lead! Geezz, someone pinch me and wake my up - I've even bored myself to sleep!

I've not mentioned it before, but a new series of Celebrity Big Brother has been playing on TV screens the lenght and breath of the country for the past couple of weeks. Quite frankly I haven't mentioned it because I haven't got into it this year as mach as previous offerings. Mainly I guess due to the night working forcing me to miss 4 days/nights a week. However, I've been watching on the live stream on E4 today, which was surprisingly interesting. Perhaps not in the way that Endemol, the programme makers, intended. It's full of z list celebs, all with their own personal axe to grind and a bunch of nasty duplicitious egomanics and it right turned me off! There was a vicious argument between two of the housemates - that's a laugh in itself housemate for mates is one thing they most definately are not. All the way through it a had a pain in my stomach, I was watching two people distroy each other emotionally for no other reason than the producers at Endemol wanted them to. With so much pain and suffering in the real world, we have to watch a falsly created situation designed purely to enforce hostilities. Good TV - I think not!

Unless you've be so consumed by Big Brother, you can't fail to have noticed a hot new film out on the big screen - Brokeback Mountain! It stars Jake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger.

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.

Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.

The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain" and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998:The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. Available from ProwlerDirect for just £7.99 bu hitting the above ad.

Right my little angel-cakes, I'm off, gonna have a bath with some Dead-Sea Salts to purify my body and soothe my soul. Maybe I'll dream about my dream man, yeah rite. Oh do you remember ages ago, near the start of the blog, I was searching for a guy I used to meet on the scene in Brighton. I used the nickname 'CapBoy' cuz I often used to see him in a cap. Well hey, no I still haven't found him - god, I wished I had. But after a few motnhs of not even thinking about him, last night he came to me and prefessed his secret love for me and promised to take me away from all this crap. Alas he came to me in sleeping hours and not in waking hours, but I still wanna find him. So if you see this boy/man tell him I want him!

CapBoy on the left in the blue - my dream boy - is he coming to rescue me?????? Stay Tuned for the outcome and the answers to the following questions - Will I ever get back my lost youth? How will I fair with my auditions for The Weakest Link and Deal Or No Deal? Is 2006 gonna be filled with love and happiness?

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So much month left!

Hey people,

I've got those mid January blues, am a little low on funds, well actually a lot low on funds. I got paid last on the 19th of January and I get paid at the end of January, so I'm pretty skint at the mo, still hey it's only for a few more days till payday!

I'm a naughty boy, I took a sicky from work, I had a sore throat, alright, I could have worked but I wasn't top form and it would have been a head fuck staying there for 12 hours, so anyways I called the team leader and phoned in sick!

I've been off today, so me and my bro and lil Mo from next door got on our bikes and cycled to the Marina. Did a bit of shopping and had lunch, it was really nice, really cool. A nice bit of exercise - 14 miles of cycling.

Spoke to my may Joe in America today, he is the one that found a brain tumer last year, anyway he was in hospital having a check up, which lasts a long time, so poor him. mind you he is coping really well, it's a lot for a teenager to take on, but he seems to be doing well. I've tried my best to just be normal with him, ya know the same old laughy and jokey self. I know when I was ill in hospital after the bike accident and not knowing if I was ever gonna walk again, it was the people being normal that help pull me through. So that's how I'm being with Joe. he doesn't need to know how worried I am, how scared I feel about his treatment and all that, he just needs to know that I care! Which I do!

Ok, that's ya lot for today, I just wanna say hello to Gaz, he's a really nice, sexy, yummy young net mate. His funny, charming and clever and I just love his Charlie!

Gaz

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Ok, I'm off for a bath, cuz my pits are rank, so I need a shower before I head off to the pub to see Jake. Also joining is will be David - so hopefully I'll have some gossip to report next time!

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New me day 8, £300, Sexy surfers

New me day 8, Glasses, Surfy!


Hey there well it’s day 8 of the new me regime and to be honest things are looking upward. I’m down to jean size 34 and lost another 4 or 5 pounds, my sonic toothbrush is really doing a wiz with the gob, the detox has kinda fallen down a little but it’s hanging on by it’s tail.

I guess you could say that my idea of a detox is a rather loose, by way of example, I was sitting in the Alibi having a rum and pineapple juice, Jakey says ‘I see you’ve given up your silly detox kick’ I looked at him open mouthed and then said “Darling, I’m still detoxing - if I wasn’t this would have been a rum and coke and a double at least!”


I’m not £300 less well off now - post opticions appointment! I had the old eye test which was ok but strange findings. My left eye is slightly better than it was and my right eye is slightly worse! Anyways, there I was pondering the frames (Yes in the designer section) and I just couldn’t decide on the electric blue Quicksilver’s or the chunky thick black Hugo Boss ones, so I ordered them both! I know, such impulsive excessive spending, but the bloody things are gonna be on my sodding face for most of my waking hours, so I’d best look good!


Hey one of the good things about living in Brighton is our close proximity to the sea, well come on honey, you couldn’t get much close to it if you were a fish! Anyhow, the surf was up and there were a fair few waves crashing to shore and a few hardy surfers out. I love watching surfers, the way they bob and weave over in the waves, effortlessly and full of grace – well until they fall off that is. Watching them is very calming, very therapeutic, like watching tropical fish swim round a tank - the glass variety not war making fighting machine. Therapeutic that is until you burn your thumb trying to light a ciggy, drop said lighter straight into a puddle or rainwater, said rainwater stops lighter from work, said inability of lighter to operate causing unlit ciggy to drop sullenly from lips and frustration creep across face. This may be the last time I sit and watch the surfers.

I'm not sure if you know, but one of my main hobbies is to write, well I'm writing a novel at the moment, It's got a working title of 'More Than A Voice' it's ya basic love story. If you feel the need or desire, please check it out - www.creativebubble.blogspot.com

Blogs worth a visit!

Hey Fronters,

Welcome to another post from Sex And The Sea Front! You eyes and ears in Gaytropolis, but this post is different, oh yes my little cupcakes, this post is about others! Yeah, I thought it's about time I did a little run down of some of the other blogs that have grabbed my attentions! So grab ya eyes by the roots, sweep ya brain and travel around the web with me!

www.wastedblog.com

Truth is stranger than fiction! Wasted Blog gathers it all!

www.pixelcouture.blogspot.com

Funny gal, funny life, funny blog - well most of the time!

www.notonlybutalso.typepad.com

A witty take on life of a gay guy, funny and entertaining.

www.freshntasty.blogspot.com

More in the way of gaydom fun from a happy gay guy!

www.stephennewton.com

Stephen Newston comes from Manchester, he's straight and interesting - yes sometimes those two things go together! lol!

www.geeksmakemehot.com

A fun an different blog, good lay out as well.

www.gigotti78.blogspot.com

Accross The Pond, a US soldier's view of life.

www.chavmum.co.uk

It's the diary of a chav mum from Cardiff! Love or loath chav's, this is great fun to read!

www.gaybanker.blogspot.com

Things I can't tell my Boyfirend! yes it's gay, yes it's worth a read.

www.universalsoldieruk.blogspot.com

A memoir from a UK Soldier. Not gay, not sexual, not rampant and not boring!

www.romulanus.blogspot.com

The Dangerous Man. The life of a 20 year old Manchester woofter!

www.rawyouth.blogspot.com

A Ridiculous Raw Youth. I like this blog, it's simply, witty, honest and a jolly good read! I've only just found it on the net and I'm now an addict!

More from Sex & The Sea Front! very soon.

New me - day six!

Hey hiya folks,

Welcome along to another post from me, here at Jordan Towers on Sex & The Sea Front! It's nice to have the loan of your peepers and grey matter for a little while!

I'm currently enjoying my time off from work, I love the four days off bit of my roster as it allows me a lot of freedom that I otherwise wouldn't enjoy. I've had a little think about it and if I use all my holiday entitlement, I actually work just a slither less than half a year! Aint that good? Now, I really do feel like a part timer!

So it's day six of my whole 'new me' regime and it's going well, I've lost a few pounds (well 3 actually!) and I'm slowly starting to review and improve myself. I'm doing it in little steps, so it's not to over whealming and therefore accomplish. First was the realization that I was over-weight, next was stopping the chocolate and eating less, following that was getting the new electric sonic tooth brush. Yesterday I arranged a opticians appointment for an eye-test, so I can get a couple of news pairs of glasses. Today's job was to get an adaptor plug, so my new tooth brush can work, go for a walk and get some stuff for a detox. So, I've been for a walk, I've got my adaptor plug thing and I've got a mud face mask, I'm going to pluck those wayward hairs from my eyebrows and nose and have a long hot bath with some genuine Dead Sea salts!

I've seen this fabo bit of tech that I really want. It's the new Sony Reader, it'll cost about £200 when it comes out on the market in a couple of months time and it's kinda like the MP3 player of book Basically, you download a book to you PC and then to the reader and it's then like an electronic book. The battery lasts for around 7500 page turns which means you could read the whole of War And Peace about 5 times without having to recharge! It's a corker bit of kit and I want one and I want it now! Not that I'm a greedy sort of chap!

Part of the funky features of this bit of kit is that, even when it's turned off it will still display the last page, plus it's not back illuminated so it's easy to read in the sunlight. It can even display pictures, although only in black and white at the moment, so it's a pretty good bit of technology. So if you're feeling generous, I wouldn't say no and be more than grateful!!

I got emailed from one of these 'be on tv' companies about being on 'Richard & Judy' reviewing Brokeback Mountain, so I emailed them and I'm trying to arrange to go up and review the film with my straight brother, so keep it here. More details very very soon!

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Late for work - part timer!

Hey, welcome to another Sex & The Sea Front!

post!

I hope you're all in fine shape, happy and dandy! I was late for work tonight, very late! I slept right through my alarm and the only reason I woke up when I did was when work called my mobile! I jumped out of bed at 9pm all bleary eyed and wobbly, what a shock! I rushed a shower, dressed rapidly and raced along to work on my bike to arrive just after 10pm. That's 2 hours late and very naughty, luckily the girls were ok about it and just laughed. Well, hey ya know its something that happens to us all and don't forget that the evening is my morning, so being at work at 8pm is my 8am and getting up at 6pm is my 6am, at least that's the way I look at it!

I feel like a bit of a part timer tho now, because I'm leaving an hour early as well, so my 12 hour shift has gone down to 9 hours! I'm such a lazy git!

Nart Nart my house mate has flown off to Tehran or some other dodgy middle eastern place, she cabing crew don't ya know, so for the next 5 days I'll have the house to myself, well except for little old Jazz the cat. So it will be peaceful and relaxed. So on Monday night, I guess it's party round mine after pub kicking out time! - your invited!!

The latest great news from the showbiz world is the the lovely Miss Kylie queen of popdom has apparently been given the all clear after 6 months of chemo. So hip hip hooray for that, apparently she's planning a comeback to to make up for the dates she had to cancel which will be great! I'm so happy about this news, for Kylie is a true diva, a gay icon no less. I just love her! Wishing you well Kylie. (Yeah - like she's ever gonna read this!)

Ok fronters, to continue with my rather lapsed occasional feature on top totty from the sporting world, I'd just like to introduce you to a well humpable 21 year old Dane that's just signed for Liverpool. His name is Daniel Agger and he's a bit of a dreamy looking straight boy!

Oh and while we're talking about top totty football players, I have to just mention Alan Smith, ohhhh yes please! Just what is it, with this fixation I have for dumb, young, straight football players? Hmmm?

Oh, I so could!

That's ya lot for this morning! Have a fun time, I'm going back to work!

New me - day one!

Hey howdy fronters!

I was in the lounge today, prior to heading to town, talking on the dog and bone (phone for my yankee friends!) when the men from the recycling truck came around on their collection. I have to say that I have never seen such a good looking crew of bin men in my entire life! Three of the five strong team where stunners of the higest order, great looking strong young men in their prime. For just a couple of moments I wished i was an empty bottle or last weeks newspaper so I could feel their strong hands around me, caressing me, holding me, that is, until the tossed me in the back of the truck!

Once in town, I got my new electric sonic toothbrush today, I couldn't resist trying out as soon as I got home and my mouth feels fresher than an eskimo's garden! I know it's only a small step, but it's a step towards a new me.

I think over the festive period and perhaps a little bit before, I kinda let myself go a little! I put on weight, I'm not a rather plump 11.5 stone which means I'm now size 36 waist which is way too big! I used to be size 30 and a nice slim svelt 9 stone, so I have to go on a diet, I have to loose a stone and a half at least. I need to get this spare tyre around my gut off and away.

So, from now on, sweets and chocolates are the odd little luxury that I can afford but once a week as opposed to every day as they have been recently. Deserts will be fruit rather than cakes and dinner and lunch will be healthy rather than fatty and cholestrol filled foods. A new me is about to be reborn, well hopefully. But why is it that all the stuff that's so bad for you tastes so good?

Walking thr streets, as I was, shopping away, I noticed that there was a lot of nice looking people about. The hunky young lad unloading a lorry outside the kosha grocers. The spritly middle aged man talking on his mobile outside Boots could have been my ideal olda man, if only he played my game. That teenage youth hangout by the pound shop had such white teeth, darkish olive skin and the most amazing pale blue eyes. he could have walked out of that discount store strainght into the pages of GQ! And how about the hunk shopping in Tesco, looking at the samlon, he was a dish that I'd love to have eatten! Yes, today was a day for the god looking people to be on the streets. Everywhere I turned that were nice looking fellas and a few fair looking ladies too. It was as if the ugly police where maintaining a curfuw, all the uglies and the not so good looking people had to stay at home, while us good looking folks went about our daily business. Oh if only that were true... but how come, I can still go out on the ugly days too????

Oh just before I pop off, I just wanna say a brief hello to Matty and Simon, two funky fellas who emailed in to tell of their enjoyment of the Sex & The Sea Front!. Thanks guys, glad you enjoy my updates, my site, my life! if you do, please feel free to email - sexandtheseafront@yahoo.co.uk or use the comment button below, or even text 07914 107077.

I'm getting old!!!

Hey fronters,

If you are a regular here than I guess you know that I work nights, I do 12 hour shifts based on 4 on and 4 off, this is the 3rd of 4 off and I'm bloody loving it! The past shift's I've worked have been pretty stressfully hard work, mainly because we're under staffed, there's 3 of doing the jobs of 6 people, so it's pretty tough. Which is pretty much the main reason I haven't done a proper update for a few days!

I think that I must be getting old, I know that sounds trite, but the other day I gave up to opportunity of going clubbing to stay home and watch tv with Chinese take-out! Yeah, and the kinda programmes I was watching were all these 'house searches overseas' or 'building a new life' kinda shows. Is this me getting old? Are my feet getting itchy? Do I have wanderlust?

I guess all 3 are some what true and pretty close to the mark, I am getting older, any you know you're getting older when the Policemen start looking younger, when your driving along somewhere and you see some sight or other and think to yourself 'Oh that would make a lovely postcard!' Or perhaps, it's those little signs of the ageing process that start becoming more noticeable, for example those little crows feet around my eyes are now huge great deep furrows. Those little flippy nose hairs are not great long bushy strands that demand plucking. Or, those little blonde flecks in my hair are not in fact blonde, they are grey! Yes, all signs of getting older and all effecting me now! Oh god, where is the youth? Where has it gone? If you find it on your bookshelf or in your laundry basket, please return it......thank you!

I guess now would be a good time of a bit of Joshy Advice, so hang on to your hats cuz here it comes. 'Youths a mask, but it don't last, so live it long and live it fast. Never wait, or hesitate to make your life extraordinary"

Those spunky fellows (hi Andrew) at ProwlerDirect have informed me of two things, first they've got a fab sale on at the moment where you can save up to 50% off some books, magazines, dvd's and other poof like products! See the banner above and below for more details. The other thing they've told me, is that 'Too Wong Foo - thanks for the memories - Julie Newmar" is finally out on DVD!

Out, not long after Prescilla, it failed to reach the same dizzy hights of mass popularity but don't let that distract you from what is none-the-les a great film. It's wicked, funny and touching and well worth splashing the cash on. The sight of Wesley Snipes in drag is worth a small fortune of anyones cash!

Snipes, Swayze and Leguizamo play top New York drag queens on the way to sunny California, but they get stranded is some hick town and change the lives of the locals, never to be the same ever again! There's a cute little lad in the movie that simply makes me want to jet off over to the midwest and mother him! Ohh god, I am getting old, not so long back I'd have wanted to roger him silly, now I just want to mother him! Anyway, 'Too Wong Foo.... is out now on DVD. Get yours by clicking the cover above or below and earn me a few pennies!!!!! Thanks!

Oh hell, I am getting well old, I've got BBC Radio 2 on and ya know what? I'm actually enjoying the Steve Wright show!

Ok then funky fellows that you are, thank you for your visit, thanks for the company and the loan of your eyes and mind for a while. I'll be back real soon for another update here on Sex & The Sea Front that is the story of my life!

1st Gay Kiss. Virgin Trains Ad.

Hey hey fronters,

Here we go, back in the swing of real life and back to reality. Yes, the festive season is well and truly over and it's back to work and getting on with life for most of us! Will 2006 be a great year or another disaster like 2005? Who knows......but we have hope!

I spent the first day of this new year getting up late and nursing a hangover, well who didn't? I got the newspapers and plonked myself in the lounge, alone, smelling slightly of alcohol and stale fags and read the papers. Not sure what I was hoping for, some kind of review of 2005 to help my addled alcohol stained memory recall, but no, not one review, just a quiz in each and every one of the 4 newspapers I purchased with my hard earned dosh!

It's so strange this thing called life, I mean when you're young and have all the time in the world, you have no time to stop and read the newspapers. Occasionally you'll quickly scan the headlines, look at the pictures or maybe skirt the horoscopes. Yes when you get old and have less time on your side, you spend more of it reading the newspapers - cover to cover and find three hours of your more precious time has passed by. And for what? Over 90% of what you've just read will be forgotten within an hour! Life huh.... It's so strange!

In one of those said newspapers, part of the odd 9% that I can recall was a little article in The Times about the discovery of what it perhaps the 1st record gay kiss! Ohhherrrr my fine little fellows, it's true, it's all about the wall paintings in an ancient Egyptian tomb. Ok, so it's doesn't show them swapping face, just merely touching noses, which apparently is the closest they were allowed to paint two people in those olden days.

According to some it shows the closeness and social acceptance Niankhknum and Khnumhotep had for their relationship four millenniums before last months legal recognition same sex marriages. Ok, so these two guys, both in charge of the manicurists to the pharaoh, their ruler had wives and families, in the tomb, they are constantly depicted together, holding hands, linking arms, rubbing noses (kissing) so it's pretty clear they were more than 'just good friends'! To me it's pretty refreshing to know that gay love was alive and well all that time ago, that it's nothing new. Gay love transfers through the ages and is as much a part of history as anything else. Do we need any more clarification of our own self worth and our valid position in society? I think not!

Ohh, I've just seen a TV commercial for Virgin Trains, it's a corker, it features various old stars of classic black and white movies riding on a new Virgin train. It's so cleverly done, so appealing that it's almost magical and demands attention. I was truly captivated by it, which is saying something when ya talking about the ads between your fav TV progs! So I say well done to those creative masters behind it, it's an amazing bit of telly! (it's just a pity the people who make our fodder of the actual programmes don't take as much care and show as much creative expression as these ad men!)

Don't just take my word for it, check the ad out yourself by visiting the Virgin Trains website. www.virgintrains.co.uk

It's 2006! A new year, a new beginning!

Hello and welcome folks,

So here we are, already in 2006! a new year, a new start, a new beginning and a new chapter in this book that is my life!

As a kid, I always found new year somewhat special, it was if the morning after Dec 31st the world was a different place, that things seemed different, not much, just a little different. Mind you I suppose that might have something to do with the fact that it was the one night of the year that my parents let me stay up past midnight and have a little alcohol!

Now, the day seems the same, nothings charged, not really, it's all the same as it was the night before. However, maybe, just maybe there is a little more hope! Yes, new year always brings new hope.

People make new plans, have new beliefs, make resolutions to eat or drink less, to get fit, to start that diet, to get a new job, to be better, to make changes in their lives. So I guess that's to be applauded, as long as folk can keep to their resolutions, to believe in them!

So, to anyone whose made a positive resolution, no matter what it happens to be, I salute you and wish you well. Let's make 2006 a better year for all of ours. Be it on a personal side, like loosing weight or stopping smoking or a more wider scale like, working against intolerance and prejudice or poverty and hunger or cruelty and neglect. Let's make 2006 count!

So, truly, I wish you a happy new year!

Oh boy oh boy! This amazing A3 sized calendar features the buff boy/man Philip Olivier. You can still grab yaself a copy, so you can have this fine bit of man/boy meat in your very own room. I have to say he's just as gorge in the flesh! This calendar is a steal at just £6.99.

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