In the three years since I moved to London this was the first time one of the friends from home has come to visit, so the occasion meant a lot to me.

And as luck would have it, it was my fabulous friend Lisa's birthday last week and she was celebrating at my favourite lesbian bar in Soho.

I would guess that my friend Chris had never been in a lesbian bar before. And definitely never...

I also realised something which is possibly unique to my own particular set of circumstances....

As Barbara Windsor put it when she was being interviewed by the BBC earlier "He was the first.... Royalty went to his club, he was respectable. He made men dressing up as a woman, ok"

He certainly did.

Well he did in the head of a confused kid looking for some reasurrance that he wasnt alone in the world. Of course I know now that myself...

Actually a few firsts happened over the bank holiday weekend.

I'd literally been looking forward to that weekend for months. But at the same time I was a little nervous too. You see my fab cool-as-can-be friend Alison is getting married in a few weeks to a great guy and Saturday was her hen do. Now sometimes when your close friends get married, you think "Oh my god!" and sometimes you think "Yay! That is so brilliant!". Well...