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Gay Miscellanea

The First Fifteen Years – LGMC in concert

Last night I went to see the London Gay Men’s Chorus perform their first big show of the year. What a blast!

The show was at Cadogan Hall, and I had planned on just turning up on the night, and buying a ticket. In the end, the place looked almost sold out, so it was lucky that Liam offered me a spare ticket he had during the afternoon. Not only did he guarantee I turned up (thank you!), I also had a great seat.

If you’ve not seen the LGMC, they are an incredibly polished bunch of performers, who obviously take great pride in putting on a high quality show. They then couple this with a hugely infectious enthusiasm, which reminds me each time why I go and see them. Choir’s, after all, are not my regular taste in music.

Mind you, they seem to be turning me into a convert, and I now have some favourites, two of which were in the show – Rhythm of Life and Our Time.

If you’ve not seen them before, they are on again in London and Cardiff (among other places) this year. Highly recommended!

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Miscellanea

Your Host

Your host! The photos of me on this website are a bit old, so the picture on the left is a stab at correcting that!

I don’t often appear in my own albums, since the camera is usually in my hands. So I spent a pleasant couple of hours on Sunday with Jason as he took about 300 pics. After some brutal editing, the profiles I have elsewhere now feature 4 new pics!

I’m not sure about the iPhoto image manipulation I did to the image – it has gained a bit of a sepia tint, without actually pressing that button. However, I have added a free tan, just in time for summer!

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Railways

After Ipswich

For the second coming out on this blog, it’s time to document my interest in railways, and particularly the model variety. For some reason, model railroad fans in the UK have the habit of being rather discreet about their hobby! No more ;-)

As a kid my trainset seemed to take hold as a hobby, and I avidly read magazines, and built up a little collection of trains. I even graduated to modifying and repainting them, to make them ‘more like the prototype’.

The hobby has never really left me, and over the last few years, I’ve been slowly aquiring the tools to have a more serious go at building a layout. There have also been a few interesting technology advances – DCC control should let me combine computing and railways at some point in the near future!

After looking at a micro layouts website, I felt here was a project I could tackle and complete – most of my previous attempts to build layouts have faltered for being too ambitious for my skills or time.

A few months ago, the final part of the puzzle fell in to place – a place to base the model on. During a trip to Norwich I passed Ipswich on the train, and outside the window was the perfect location – Ipswich Stabling Point.

So watch this space, over the next year or so, and I’ll try and write up my experience as I build ‘After Ipswich’ – a micro layout based loosely on the real thing…