TRAVEL
118 BOURNE AGAIN:
Melbourne
Fall in love with Australia's
second biggest city.
122 BIRMINGHAM SCENE
SPECIAL
Our 7 page special on the Birmingham Gay scene.
YOU & YOURS
130 SEXUAL HEALTH
131 THE DILEMMAS
This month The Problem Page looks at the pain
of an emotional affair.
132 LEGAL CLINIC
133 KNOWING ME…
Meet Lloyd and Neil.
135 AND YOU THINK YOU’VE GOT PROBLEMS?
Like you’ve never heard her before... Well okay you have... It’s more
of the same really.
HOW NOT
TO BE SO
COMMON
It’s a constant battle isn’t it? I’m always
checking to see whether I or my
surrounded friends are being common.
Especially after a few bevvies. (Not Really)
Ho wever William Hanson
has written a book called:
How Not To Be
Common in 2014 : The
Bluffer’s Guide To
Etiquette.
1. Never say ‘Pleased
to meet you'. You may
think you're being
terribly nice saying this
upon greeting a
stranger, but those in
the know will have
mentally clocked
that you are not
saying ‘How do you
do?' If you don't
know who they are, can
you be sure you really are pleased
to meet them?
2. Revise your handshake. The last
time someone told you how to shake
hands you were probably very young. Get
a loved one to review your handshake
honestly. Try to avoid being a wet fish or a
bone crusher. People judge others on the
quality of their handshake.
3. Abandon Pancake
Day. For houses of quality, it's
called Shrove Tuesday. Serve
crêpes in the evening. Oh, and
it's St Valentine's Day, also.
4. Avoid attending
Facebook parties. If you are
invited anywhere by Facebook then don't
go. It won't be worth it and you'll probably
be served beer in the bottle or be given
wine that hasn't been decanted.
5. Pudding v dessert. The final course
of a dinner (and arguably the best one)
is the pudding. Note, it is called the
pudding. NOT ‘dessert'! If you call your
lemon posset with spun sugar basket a
dessert when dining with the hoity toity,
then you might as well prepare for a
future dining at a Toby Carvery - where
you can help yourself to
the dessert buffet for the rest of
eternity. ∎
Buy the book click here
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THEGAYUK FEB/MARCH
103 THE COST OF THE OLYMPICS
We asked our readers what they thought of
the Olympic Sponsors.
104 INTERVIEW: Meet Mr Gay UK
Meet the man crowned Mr Gay UK.
110 HEALTH
Antony Searle talks motivation and getting
on track.
112 RUNNING MAN
The five best running shoes.
114 YOUR BODY
Reader Darren Liddy gets advice from top
nutrition expert Robert Hodson.
115 GROOMING
2014
POWWOW