X marks the spot

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Accidentally got up an hour early. Then it was off to Swansea to meet my dissertation supervisor. Mathew had cleared his diary so that we could get the day together, so he came along too. He played solitaire while Stevie and i discussed my progress. She asked lots of questions, made some suggestions and pointed out some good things in my work that I hadn't noticed. Always encouraging and enthusiastic :)

After that, we went to Gloucester simply because we could, and had never been before. It did mean passing Cardiff again but that was ok. We had a really good day. The place wasn't really anything particularly spectacular, but it's nice seeing new places. We were hungry so looked at the menus of a few pubs before deciding on one that served a sweet potato and chickpea curry. We'd been in the place for about ten minutes before I went upstairs to the toilet. It was only when I walked back downstairs that I saw lots of terrence Higgins trust material and realised that it was a gay bar. Then we were puzzled how we hadn't noticed before. I mean how had we missed the bright pink Walls, the sequinned mannequin with conspicuous bulge, the Barbara Streisand signed photographs and posters advertising 'fairy liquid' and 'keep camp and carry on' club nights? Sam the friendly barman with the bubble-gum pink hair? Oh... And we'd walked past this interesting looking device twice without noticing it. Oh dear.

When we left we turned round for one last look. We'd also missed the giant rainbow flag hanging outside!