What a gay day!

As How Ridiculous types this, Dame Shirley Bassey will be on stage in Glasgow on the opening night of her tour.

Sadly, How Ridiculous is not able to be present although tomorrow a journey to Manchester will be made to see THE DAME OF ALL TIME (as described by one of HR's Aunts). Further journeys to Cardiff, Birmingham and Wembley Arena will be made. Four concerts and four different outfits in six days. How Ridiculous will be exhausted.

In an attempt to combat the ever present Pre-Shirley Tension, How Ridiculous spent this morning completing Diarmaid MacCulloch's brilliant 'Reformation'. How Ridiculous has thoroughly enjoyed every page of it.

Following perusal of a most amusing article about Dame Elizabeth Taylor in the ever trusty Daily Mail, HR rollerbladed to the local swimming pool.

There was a Metropolitan Police function imminent, so the place was crawling with boys (and girls) in blue. Happily, no truncheons were on display.

Swimming over, Hyde Park was bladed to and thence down Park Lane and along Piccadilly did HR blade.

Eventually, the cinema was reached. 'Wah Wah' was absolutely superb. Gabriel Byrne was magnificent; but for HR the film was stolen by Julie Walters and even more so by Celia Imrie, both Dames pending surely.

Speaking of Dames, upon arrival home How Ridiculous watched several episodes of the fourth series of 'Are You Being Served?'

We shall refrain from making pussy gags otherwise HR will never be free.