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I was planning to go to the Pride parade today and wouldn't you know it, i came down with a cold yesterday. I'm not really sick but i do feel cruddy and i really didn't want to go sit out in the hot sun in crowds of people. Pity, because I would have enjoyed it. Meanwhile i'm taking zinc and orange juice and hoping it won't get too nasty. Graham never gets a cold and if he gets a few minor symptoms, they're gone in a day or two. He is rudely healthy.

In other news, i won a poster sized print of a portrait from eBay a couple of weeks ago. There's a Corrie actor who's no longer on the show, Steve Huison, who is a talented artist and he's done charcoal portraits of 20 of the actors. He then had a show and made prints to sell to raise money for a charity he supports. The auction was on eBay and i gazumped the person that outbid me with 20 seconds left. Ha! This is the poster and i picked it up last night. Gonna get a poster frame for it. It's William Roache (Steve spelled it without the 'e' but it does actually have it on the end) and he plays Ken Barlow, who has now broken the Guinness record for the person playing the same character the longest and continually. There was a guy in the US that was 5 months longer but his soap finished which put Mr. Roache on top. I'm quite pleased with it anyway. Steve has signed it in a very discreet spot and it's numbered 7/100