In the Total Politics Blog Awards, Michael agrees with Stephen and Caron that it’s time to Vote Andrew Reeves 1, as a fitting tribute to the man, friend, campaigner, and blogger that we all lost when he died in June. Continue reading blogged elsewhere: Vote Andrew Reeves №1
Experiencing many forms of banking in one day: traditional in branch, telephonic, online, and not entirely happy with any of them, Michael comes away with a small profit of £2.10 after a complaint about the address being wrong in correspondence. Continue reading Banking problems… once again
Andrew’s talk Jonathan Loved David has prompted much talk on former Presbyterian Moderator Stafford Carson’s blog – Andrew make further comment on Faith and Pride. Continue reading Faith and Pride: Did David and Jonathan Have Sex?
It’s only two weeks since I was up at the HIV clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. That appointment was an emergency one due to the somewhat awful cough and chest infection from which I was suffering at the time. The news back then was that the results from May’s blood tests were very encouraging:
CD4 = 190 (9%)
VL = undetectable
Well, today I had the results of the tests on the blood taken two weeks ago. Whilst the CD4 count is down numerically to 140, the percentage is the same at 9%. This was not entirely unexpected as my body was fighting the chest infection at the time. Viral Load was once again undetectable.
My consultant, Dr Carol Emerson, reckoned that this was all down to a certain Andrew. Continue reading “results and more tests…”
On Sunday 24 July, my husband Andrew delivered a talk in All Souls’ Church, Belfast as part of the inaugural Faith and Pride event during Belfast Pride Festival. The talk was entitled Jonathan Loved David, and the text is available for download here. Andrew was heard on BBC Radio Ulster as part of William Crawley‘s programme Sunday Sequence. You may still be able to hear him in that on BBC iPlayer about 20 minutes into the programme. It’s well worth a listen. It was rather clever of the Rev. Stafford Carson to comment on the talk before it was even … Continue reading Jonathan Loved David
Michael wonders what the issue in Sandown Free Presbyterian church was that kept Mr McIlveen from the ‘Hymn or Us’ debate as part of Belfast Pride tonight. Continue reading And so he didn’t turn up…
Michael comments on a misleading post from a former Moderator of the PCI about tonight’s inaugural Faith and Pride event in All Souls’ Church, Belfast, at 7pm. Continue reading correcting Stafford Carson on ‘Gay Pride sermon’
Belfast Pride Festival 2011 is almost upon us and there is plenty to do in the first weekend. There’s even a short film season this week in the Odeon Cinema Belfast. Michael reminds us of all of this. Continue reading This weekend: come out for a film, a walk, two talk, a lark in the park, and much, much more
Michael and Andrew were both visibly shaken after an incident with a security guard in Belfast’s Victoria Square. Michael explains the story. Continue reading We don’t go looking for homophobia: sometimes it comes looking for us
Trouble appeared to be brewing in East Belfast as the bus I got home was making its away into East Belfast. There were just too many police landrovers lurking on street corners. Sure enough, there has been rioting in the Short Strand area of Belfast this evening. Read the rest of this post here. Continue reading blogged elsewhere: Appeal for all to work together…
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