The 2024 top of the crop had a distinctly thespian theme – gays and the arts. Could it be any more of a cliché? Or maybe it just reflects a need for a distraction in worrying times. Who knows? Also thrown into the mix were celebrating the life of a dearly departed, a fond memory from our lotus-eating days in Turkey, and a few Greek postcards from gorgeous old Corfu Town. Oh, and then there was the little piece about my money-making side hustle as an Only Fans porn star. If only.
For some inexplicable reason, a 2020 post about a game old bird fit for the pot waddling around our modest small holding took off. Why? It’s a mystery.
Also, numbers-wise, Perking the Pansies enjoyed the best year since 2016, so there’s still life in the old blog yet. I thank you.
Happy New Year. Let’s hope for a lot more peace for 2025.
There’s Still Life in the Old Blog Yet
When I started this blogging lark way back in October 2010, life in pansies HQ was a different place – different house, different town, different country. Remarkably, the blog took off almost immediately – a bit of a sell-out tour, in fact. It led to that book followed by that sequel and the rest, as…
Wuthering Heights – Wild and Windy, Moody and Broody
What better way to spend Valentine’s Day than a love story at the flicks? So that’s what we did. But this wasn’t any old love story. Oh no. This was the latest cinematic reimagining of Emily Brontë’s epic novel Wuthering Heights, as sweeping as the desolate Yorkshire landscape it’s set against. This new version was…
The Ferrow Brothers
Another remarkable little gem lifted from the Queer Norfolk Archive at Norwich’s Millennium Library is the astonishing story of the Ferrow sisters of Great Yarmouth who became the Ferrow brothers. Census records reveal they were born in 1922 and 1924, registered originally as Marjorie and Daisy and then re-registered as Mark and David. Mark medically transitioned in…
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You have built lots of wonderful memories throughout the year!
Wishing you both peace and happiness in 2025!
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Thank you and back atcha! 😀
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Happy New Year to the two of you and may 2025 be wonderful for you.
Peace? Well, the world is a mess, and my country funds a lot of it. I’m sickened.
And of course we have a new president to look forward to in 11 days.
Make room. I may be moving in.
Nah, I’m more the type to disappear into Mexico.
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And best wish to you. Mexico is looking increasingly attractive 😉
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