It’s a bit late for Kerrsday Thursday, but what the heck.
Fuck he’s sexy! Yeah, all the hankering was cast aside for a month while I was distracted by “having a life” in Oz.
Back to the hankering and drooling. Lol
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In Other News – White Hot Day – March 21st
And as we are now half-way through the first month of 2020, the other focus is on gigs and other events in the calendar.
High on the anticipation scale is White Hot Day – the first Simple Minds fan convention in over 15 years and the first I’ve had the opportunity of being able to attend. Fans are coming from all over the world to attend. It really is going to be something.
Tickets are available HERE – and if are travelling from afar to sunny Glasgow, I may be able to put you up for the night.
It Was Just A Silly Joke
Not meant to be taken seriously.
Let me explain.
As I was travelling back home to the UK I posted to the SMO FB visitor wall about having Jim greet me at Glasgow Airport.
I can’t remember what I wrote exactly. I was on the plane at the time and hadn’t slept for some time so I can’t recall exactly how I worded it. But I had joked in the comments of a post written a few days before about him greeting me at the airport.
This post to the visitor wall was a “reminder” – you know “tomorrow, 3pm, be there or be square” kind of thing. Just a silly thing. Light hearted.
So why was it deleted? Who got offended by it? Was it the mention of a certain Glasgow doughnut shop? I don’t work on commission for them!!! Simple Minds have no trouble with me mentioning the band everywhere else… or running this blog as a massive advert for them.
I know I am being oversensitive worrying about why it was removed but I just get miffed about this crap.
It was just starting to feel nice again. Jim was starting to post a bit more and those months of feeling persona non grata were going away… and now this!?
I dunno. Why do I bother?
As petty as a post like that is… you just do it for a bit of fun. When it gets deleted, it feels like a kick in the guts. Like, “Oh FFS, what have I done wrong now?!” Are you just trying to tell me to fuck off? Well… just tell me to fuck off then.
Meh. Never mind, eh?
Let’s just count the days until Copenhagen and delude myself he still likes me. If he ever did.
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I can sleep with him again. It’s been a whole month! Lol
New Year In Melbourne
With now just one week left to go here in Australia, time and the opportunities of spending time with them – friends (as well as the money required for destinations to travel to/back from) – are precious.
I was really hoping I could get to visit friends in Melbourne and Adelaide whilst here. Sadly I had to forego the Adelaide trip early on as fares weren’t as affordable as I was hoping… just that time of year, you know? And even Melbourne wasn’t looking great, but after days of trying to work out a time to fit it in, I booked a flight to Melbourne to go down on New Year’s Eve and return the following day on New Year’s Day.
Ally met me at Avalon Airport. We hugged for the longest time. We drove in towards the city centre and stopped for coffee along the way to her home. And cake…
I met two little tubby tornadoes in the form of the pet bulldogs.
Ally soon had me labelled ‘the dog whisperer’. Lol
New Year’s Eve was low key and quiet. I drove Ally and her husband, Steve, nuts with my endless squeals of delight as the trams went by as we made our way to a vegan restaurant in Fitzroy for our evening meal.
Mushroom ‘squid’, spicy tofu bao buns and vegetable gyoza on the menu for starters and a katsu (which really didn’t resemble a katsu much to me) for main.
A stop off at a local pub on the way back – I had a beautiful tasting Four Pillars g&t – and we were back home about 9pm.
We talked and watched some SM. We brought in the New Year watching Jim and having a wee dram (an actual drambuie) at midnight.
A relaxing start to the morning on New Year’s day. Coffee and breakfast in bed.
A trip to the city centre, a stroll along the banks of the Yarra, lunch, a short tram ride and then it was time to get to Avalon for the flight back to Sydney.
A very fleeting visit – just on 30 hours and it was over. But it was worth it for that precious time with my beautiful friend.
Ally – I love you to the moon and back!
Happy New Year to all who read this silly old fan blog. Thank you x
Christmas 2019 Down Under
Christmas 2019 was spent with my sister, brother-in-law, three nieces, one nephew (and their partners) and my nine great nieces and nephews.
Beautiful chaos…
Simple Minds In Liverpool – New South Wales
So, I checked out of the hotel I had spent the past three nights in this morning.
I then went to the local shopping mall – Westfield, Liverpool… just to kill some time before heading up to Gosford and spending a few days with my friend, Gillian.
I wandered about Westfield for a while, that is where I spotted the travel agency photographed below.
When I left the mall and was making my way to the train station, to my utter amazement, I saw an advertising billboard for SM. I really never expected to see such a thing in my home town. Lol. It blew my tiny (and Simple) mind.
It was a nice surprise.
