Christmas drink in London with ex-colleagues on Wednesday night. Train to London Bridge. Tube to Waterloo. Rush hour more ghastly than ever but I still miss the buzz. The Camel, in Lower Marsh. Tenner in the whip, pints of Guinness, crisps and peanuts. Friends from New York returning for Christmas, all getting older, the past another country.
Like misshapen jigsaw pieces we try to fit back together but the picture has changed. Some of us are the same as ever, some promoted, some moved on, some have got out of the rat race altogether. Lubricated by alcohol and goodwill the edges are smoothed and new links discovered.
When men get married they re-invent their past and populate it with numerous girlfriends. I know of several who have never previously had girlfriends and yet they meet a girl and immediately get married. Then, their masculinity confirmed, they feel free to pontificate at length on the subject of women. It was one of these who, safely married, got rather excited about the fact that I live in Brighton and started insinuating I was gay. Having lived in Brighton for ten years I’m used to this. I usually find myself being deliberately ambiguous. Someone said I looked like Alan Carr and I complained, “What, are you calling me fat?”
The train ride back to Brighton is not so bad when you snooze most of the way.
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Man shares hotel room with other man – Horror shock probe
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is smiling Gay?
The latest non story is that William Hague shared a hotel room with an advisor. Sorry, did you phase out there? I’ll say it again: William Hague shared a hotel room with an advisor. Oh and there is a photo of them in the street together and they’re both in a jolly mood. Not sure why I’m telling you this? Well apparently to some people this is evidence of them being gay. Sorry, did you phase out again. Yes, apparently smiling and sharing hotel rooms is a sign of homosexuality……you were distracted….OK, I’ll say it again…of homosexuality.
You ask again why I am telling you this? Well apparently this means that one of them has to resign.
Yes in 21st Century Britain you can be a banker who screws the public for billions or a politician who fiddles his expenses or a chancellor who run the economy into the ground with no come back. But share a hotel room with someone else and you’re in hot water.
Lord Tebbit has said that Hague was “naive at best, foolish at worst”. Lord Tebbit is talking Bollocks!
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