From 'La Mole' to Penge

Adrian (london1952 ) is visiting his mother in Leeds and to keep myself busy and out of trouble, I did a bit of tidying up (nothing major).
I sorted out a large box that contained a few magazines and some old stuff from what it feels like a previous life.

Are you ready for a trip down memory lane?

I moved to London in January 1997 and I was sweet, polite and quite naïve too. When it came to gay life, I was like the proverbial child in a sweet shop and not that much experienced either: I didn't really know what was in all those jars and had to open them one by one.

It was the days when my life wasn't "enhanced" by the internet and I had to do things like booking flights at the travel agent's. "Lonely hearts" adverts in magazines were more popular than they are now and in May '97 I placed one myself:




( ALAWP meant "all letters answered with photo" but I don't remember the meaning of PA - I know that it wasn't Prince Albert!)

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