Juicelog 26/03/2026: It's 2026 and I'm 50yo. How da heck did that happen???!!!
Life is really good, Celebrated my 50th last September (had a massive birthday party at the hackney chinese community centre where I had lots of food, drink, a mariache band, did a video of my life and a drag queen). Went to burning man the year before (that was such a wow moment in my life). Cried a few times whilst I was there as I have wanted to go there for such a long time. The arthritis in my right foot (from the bike truck road accident where I broke my tibbie in my right leg) has got a little bit worse but that doesn't stop me from going to Zumba and my afrobeats dance class. Eyesight has also got a lot worse with old age (I'm getting to that point where I think I need vari-focals). Am contemplating getting laser eye surgery soon as well asa trip to turkey for my hair transplant. My hair is seriously thinning. The shock realisation came when I saw the top of my scalp during a teams work meeting and then our team admin switched the camera from the laptop to the camera web cam on top the big 60 inch TV. This was definitely the peak of my superficiality and hit hard on my ever so fragile and weak gay-man-living-in-London ego.
So….I would say my social life is super active now than ever. Largely because we get lots of hugely discounted tickets in the NHS. I guess the other primary driver is that I still immensely enjoy going out to meet new people and have been dipping into different things that London has to offer. Even though I’m hugely biased I don’t think many other cities can rival the variety of art, sub queer hobby/interests groups in our ever so amazing city. My advice is download “meetup” and Eventbrite apps and have a look on these apps at the things that interest you. I’m also very lucky that I have an interesting and eclectic mix of peeps in my social groups.
Still think about Huw a lot since he passed away back in 2020. Am going to try my best to keep up my blog so I can share what’s going on in my world but also to vent and have a release if those situations arise.
