Fair Day

As part of the whole Mardi Gras season down under, they hold Fair Day. The only way I can describe it is, is that it is very similar to a UK pride. IE, Stalls selling everything from holidays in Fiji "for you and your lover" to toffee apples in the shape of a penis. You can also find dance tents, veggie food, beer, queues, sunshine, drugs, a couple of stages with various live acts and of course the obligatory lesbian catfight. That’s two lesbian women fighting, not lesbian cats fighting.

This is not to say that UK prides are not good, in fact I love them. I'm just using the comparison here for Fair Day.

And it was good.....

Met up with a few mates and headed towards the beer tent. It was a very orderly affair with a nice queue. It was set up like those queue thingy’s you get at Disney World or a really busy dole office where you snake up and down for 10 minutes before getting to where you think is the front of the queue, only to find upon turning a corner you're still 15 minutes away from the front.

Ok, I exaggerate. A bit. Well, maybe more than a bit, but you get the general idea. We snaked up and down. A lot!

"What would you like?"

"Err, what beer do you have?"

"Err beer? Blonde."

"Anything else?"

"No."

"OK, I'll have a blonde then."

"That’s $5.00"

and off I'd go.

The beer was actually a bottle poured into a placcy cup, the sort you get when its sunny and pubs/bars allow you to drink outside, but don’t want any trouble. Know the ones? Well, needless to say, you don’t get much for your $5.00 so it was quickly drunk (it was very hot!) so once again I'd head off to the queue for a quick snake.

"What would you like?"

"Err beer please......."

You get the idea.

Only now I had cottoned onto the idea of getting two beers instead of one. It lasts longer and saves me having to "snake."

Wrong. In fact you drink twice as fast cos its so hot and you don’t want your precious beer to get warm.

OK, now I know I'm a pom, but even I have limits when it comes to warm beer. So, basically, after only a few hours, I was pretty drunk. I was thinking of knocking it all on the head when Tina & Ebeneezer turned up and made me stay out till all hours.

Mick, Michael, Tina, Ebeneezer and I carried on at Fairday till it closed, which was fairly early. Probably around 7:30, so we headed off to Oxford St and meandered between, the Shift and The Manacle, drinking ourselves into oblivion. Lost Mick somewhere along the way and Michael had to get a bus home at 3:30 in the bloody morning.

I however continued my night alono and went to The Pleausure Chest. A "Not Nice" establishment.
I didn’t stay long and got home at around 4:30am. Watched Parkinson (the one with gay boy Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) and went to bed. ZZZzzzzz

There were supposed to be pictures to accompany this post, but Brighton "Not so bright" Mick, deleted all the pics on the camera.....

I'm ready for my close up

This picture appeared in the local Gaypers and on the Mardi Gras Website. Its in relation to this post.

I'm in here and can be seen believe it or not. I'm sat betwixt Michael and Mick, looking up at Michael in the pink shirt. Click the pic.....

This town aint big enough for the both of us

Yesterday saw the arrival of two more queens to Sydney. As if there aren't enough!

Liners, Queen Mary II and Queen Elizabeth II both sailed into the harbour with foghorns blaring and firetenders shooting water high into the sky. A rare sight to see both of these sisters together and the first time since WWII here in Sydney.

The harbour was lined with tens of thousands of people to welcome the guests for their brief visit, with a massive firework display layed on for the celebration. A truly amazing sight!

Canberra - A round city in the middle of nowhere

A long planned trip came to fruition over the weekend as some friends and I headed down to A.C.T. and Canberra for the exhibition of Egyptian antiquities on loan from the Louvre in Paris.

Leaving work early on the Friday, I made it home with enough time for a quick shower and change of underwear before we set off in the car, late afternoon. There were four of us altogether, but two of those were at deaths door with head colds. A line in the movie, Victor Victoria, states “There’s nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.”

Well, we had two queens for the journey and the quote is spot-on!!! It was like travelling with Hinge & Brackett.

A little light-hearted squabbling occurred upon arrival in this nations fair capital. “Turn left here” “No turn right” “are you sure?” “Ohhh, I can’t see properly” (swoon). Who can read a map in the dark anyway?

We got into the hotel room at around 10pm and I left it some 5 minutes later to sample “Canberra’s premier gay venue” The Cube. Well, let me tell you: there is NOTHING premier about this place. It was recently renovated and by the looks of it, it was done by some designer with a fetish for chrome (read foil) and mirrors. This is not cool and no, it is not coming back in.

That said, the décor was marginally better than the clientele. Ugly bints and fake beards were the order of the day and that was just the lezzers and as for calling it The Cube, there were that many lezzers, they should rename it The Box. Not that I have anything against lezzers, in fact some of my best friends are lezzers. :0)

If you ever go to Canberra, don’t go to that place.

The next day we went off to The National Gallery for the exhibition of Egyptian stuff. This was really great though it was also really crowded. Despite the throngs, I managed to see a load of stuff including a 2300 year old mummified pussy. Thank god I suffer from anosmia !

Afterward we drove to The Carillion and the Capt. James Cook Fountain. Very picturesque ! Being the total tourist I also visited Anzac Parade, which, for want of a better description, is a street full of memorials to the war dead. Kinda interesting and semi-moving. It takes a lot to move this heartless poofter.

Also managed a brief stopover at The Parliament House. The flagpole in the picture cost 4 million bucks !!! Nice to see that corruption and embesslement are alive and well.....

One of the highlights of the day came when we visited the National Museum of Australia. We didn’t have much time left before it closed for the day, so we asked the guy behind the counter for a map and if he could point out a whirlwind tour. He took one look at us four queens and closed up the counter and took us on the tour himself! We managed to fit in approx 60,000 years of history and stuff within 1 hour. the boys said he was only after getting into my panties!

A poignant moment on this whiz of a tour was “The Stolen Generation.” I find it incredible that this went on until nearly the 1970’s. Mixed race children (white mixed with indigenous aboriginal) were forcibly removed from their aboriginal mother, as the white father had already done a bunk and then interred into camps to “make them white.”

A sad, dark period in Australia’s history.

Homo Alono

Yesterday.



Yesterday was February 14th.



Yesterday was Valentines Day



Yesterday was lonely



Yesterday I had no-one to cuddle



Yesterday I had no lover.

Still managed to get drunk and party though :-)

Even the beautiful die

The worlds most famous gold digger has passed over to that great wallet in the sky.

Flash Dance

Saturday saw the official opening of Sydneys Mardi Gras Spectacular. The Opera House was flash mobbed by a gaggle of queens who then formed a conga line that congered down to Customs House. Speeches were given by various people of no consequence (politicians, Chairs of the Board etc etc) but the official ribbon cutting ceremony was performed by Emily Howard & Daffyd Thomas of Llanddewi Brefi fame.

Twas nice to see them in the flesh so to speak. They're here performing their sellout show across Australia.

Fab outfits!

Girls on film

Melbourne born comedienne, Tania Lacy has written a comedy that is being studied by the Australian Film Commission. It's just one of eight low budget film scripts that are being put through their paces in a series of workshops to check the viability of making it into a movie.

The Title?

Blogger Girl

The story?

A young woman uses the internet to pretend she is working overseas in a super successful career.

Sound familiar?

Oh Jesus

Jesus does indeed love Osama bin Laden. A rather controversial Sydney church sign says so.

The sign "Jesus Loves Osama" outside a number of local churches, here in Sydders, also features a Bible extract saying, "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you".

Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen says he was not involved in any decision to display the signs and had reservations about them. "I'm hesitant about it. Frankly, it's a bit misleading," he told Southern Cross Broadcasting.

No Shit Sherlock

Update on this post: I've found a picture......

The great water debate

As previously explained, the NSW government has decided not to recycle sewage. I made some quip about drinking piss and staying alive......now you can have it in peach flavour too.

Enjoy !