3 posts tagged “photos”

Which is beyond rather wonderful, as the visitor in question is Ben,

, who I've not seen since I was last in Bournemouth over a year ago. He is one of my very favourite people that I've ever known, even if he did turn me into more of an alcoholic than anyone else.

We used to hang out together when he got off work or when at the weekends. On sunday's in particular we would call around to a young married couple he was friends with who would offer us "aperitifs" at 11am, and proceed to get rather merry for the rest of the day.  It's surprising how much you can drink before you get drunk when you're well practiced. Well, Ben might be a bad influence on my drinking, but he's someone I hold rather dear and he's definately one of the best looking guys I've ever been friends with. And he's someone I can just hang out with and chat with and feel completely at home.

Oh, there's more photos of this guy on my flickr.

But I just haven't been in the mood to be posting at all recently. Seems to happen whenever there's actual stuff happening in my life. However, I'm now living out in Salthill, and my front door looks down over a park which leads all

the way down to the sea. It's been beautiful here the last few days, which is great seeing as I'm now far  less employed than I have been during the year so far.

However. I was visiting Steve two weeks ago for a weekend, which was nice. Don't ask me what the story is there as I'm not going to be able to answer at all. Let's just leave it at "it's complicated".

I was supposed to go and visit again this weekend just past, but it ended up being cancelled on the day I was going to travel. Hmm, nevertheless. So I hung out with lesbians instead and then went to see some terrible drag things "performing" in one of the gay bars here. They were all absolutely terrible, but then again, I am quite a  critic when it comes to any kind of performance.

I've been in and on-off mood recently, but that's what happens when  I'm not busy. I'm a much happier person when I have a lot of things to do. I've been keeping myself busy with organising Pride here in Galway (Bród Ireland West) and volunteering to set up a LGBT youth group here in Galway also (LGBT Youth Galway) but it's not paid work, so my finances are feeling the pinch at the moment. I've a few other jobs coming up but not all that much right now.

I've been performing every week at a cabaret night in one of the bars in town, and playing with three of my friends who are great singers, and have been doing a kind of jazz trio meets 50s girl group thing which works rather well. One of them however, is  leaving to move home to Australia shortly, so we need to recruit a third female vocalist for that act. We've a few gigs coming up in that format, so we need to get that sorted soon enough.

I've been playing music quite a lot still, and playing my own music more often in the new house. I just feel a bit more comfortable here in that regard than in most of the other places I've lived. But I still rather doing it when no-one else is listening, as in my head, it's all still work in progress and not for general consumption.