Don’t Feed the Animals

Tis the end of the line for the go-go gorillas of old Norwich town. They’ve been rounded up and corralled behind bars on Millennium Plain to be gawped at by the townsfolk and their over-excited sprogs before being auctioned off to the highest bidder, all for charity. Bye bye, Guy.

I know I said I wouldn’t mention the gorillas again. I lied. So shoot me.

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Jack Scott Imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, married, middle aged, middle class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country. I chronicled our exploits with the mad, the bad, the sad and the glad in a blog for the whole world to ignore. Then came the book which became a critically acclaimed best seller. Its success opened out a whole new career for me, firstly as an author, and now as a publisher. Who'd have thought it? Certainly not me. In June 2012, we ended our Anatolian affair and paddled back to Britain on the evening tide, washing up in Norwich, a surprising city in eastern England, then to the wilds of Norfolk as the only gays in the village. I’m sometimes nostalgic for our encounters with the hopeless, the hapless and, yes, the happy go lucky. They gave me an unexpected tale to tell and for this I thank them.

10 thoughts on “Don’t Feed the Animals”

petchary says:

29 September, 2013 at 18:09

You never know, a real live gorilla might soon be spotted strolling the streets of Norwich, one day… That WOULD be excitement!

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  29 September, 2013 at 18:12
  
  There’s quite a few gorillas strolling the streets most Saturday nights 😉
  
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Let's CUT the Crap! says:

29 September, 2013 at 18:19

All’s well that ends well and then again, all good things must come to an end.
Sorry for the clichés. *smiles*

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  29 September, 2013 at 19:03
  
  I love a cliché or two 🙂
  
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  1. Let's CUT the Crap! says:
    
    30 September, 2013 at 15:06
    
    Sometimes one MUST…
    
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backtobodrum says:

30 September, 2013 at 07:58

I’d love one in the garden, scare the quad bikers away.

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  30 September, 2013 at 08:41
  
  But then you’d get people coming along to gawp at it, probably on quad bikes.
  
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Alan says:

1 October, 2013 at 18:56

. . bang-bloody-bang!!

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1. Jack Scott says:
  
  2 October, 2013 at 21:04
  
  Blimey, Alan. What’s the problem?
  
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