Hi everyone,
I thought this would get your attention, Sonia and Alana are alive and chasing the hamster, (s)he escaped the basement of CCK and headed to Canada.
We arrived on the 18th December in Oshwa on the outskirts of Toronto and was greeted by over 3ft of snow on the road side and minus 10, (minus 20 with wind chill), the snow had come early just in time for Christmas. This made Sonia happy as she could create Snow Angels and wrestle with me in the snow!
We are staying in Oshwa, home to GM Motors We are about 30mins by car from Toronto. It is a little slow here, in fact its come to a halt in terms of diversity, nobody walks, everyone gets in the car to shop or even get a coffee from the drive through.
However near our house we discovered by chance an alternative little church (Kidron Church) with a woman Vicar, so decided to show our support for Midnight Mass, venturing out in my trade mark long black jersey dress and my famous kinky leather boots. We were made very welcome by her and her female partner, it was such a picture perfect little church and her service reminded me of our own wonderful friend Father Alex, who ran Spirit Space at CCK, so it just goes to show there are champions of diversity in every community.
Just before Christmas we ventured into Toronto on the local train in search of the hamster, it was a beautiful sunny but cold day, we had a WALK on Lake Ontario, which tells you something about temperatures here:) It’s big, we could not see the other side of the lake (about 2 hours by ferry).
In Toronto Downtown, the streets and buildings look so familiar yet very different from the London, just like out of the movies and then we learnt that Toronto is a favorite filming for Hollywood, acting as a double for New York City. The Fairmont Royal York Hotel has played a role in many films including “That Old Feeling” starring Bette Midler, “Murder at 1600” starring Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone’s “Champs”, “Bait” with Jamie Fox, John Cusack’s romantic comedy, “Serendipity”, and Russell Crowe’s boxing epic “Cinderella Man.”
A few interesting discoveries on our first visit was Yonge Street which once was the longest street in the world at 1,896 kilometers. We discovered several kink/queer businesses on/just off the street including North Bound Leather , who gave us a free DVD of their latest club night X-POSE, starring Midori and Circus of the Damned and nearby Buddies in bad times theatre LGBT theatre both flying the flag for kink! We are planning a trip to see ZONA PELLUCIDA & THE NEEDLE EXCHANGE .
While walking down a very windy cold street, near the famous CN Tower, Sonia spotted a sexy tattooed lady coming out of The Loose Moose and with that we dived inside to see what other sexy people we could find, her radar was working and we found a chilled out bar full of office workers and bikers. We discovered very good ribs and beer!!!
Still looking for the best Coffee and Cake in Toronto, have a few places on our hit list, should get to them before we leave. We have now been twice into Toronto and on our last trip got distracted by the Boxing day sales. Sonia was in heaven, not only all the clothes fit her, she needed to buy “Petite” for the first time in her life… Canadians like their women Big, I’m the skinny one! Still didn’t find the ultimate Coffee and Cake, but found Chicken wings, the hottest wings (The Canadians are mad about ch/dicks!!!) at a LGBT friendly bar/music lounge called Mitzi Sister
We still have not managed to catch the hamster and last we hear (s)he was spotted catching a Grey Hound bus to New York. So Sonia and I are heading tomorrow to New York, we will keep you informed of our latest attempts to catch him/her.
Hope that everyone is well, we hear Munch attendances are up after we moved!
