The return of GUNTER

Gunter has returned! Hoorrraay! It's been far too long!!

For those who missed the initial discovery of Gunter - allow me to momentarily recap - when moving in with Beau we spent a great deal of time shopping for everything from furniture to cupboard handles. For the most part Beau has modern, masculine taste (clean lines with a preference for the monochromatic) however, on this particular day, while shopping for towels and bedding, Beau declared in his Arnold Schwarzenegger-like English:

"I love Laura Ashley floral prints for the bed, in blue - oh please? That's what I want..."

It was at this moment I met Gunter - Beau's inner gay man. Yes indeedy - Gunter rebels against the monochromatic and proudly defies the starched collars, pinstripe suits and sensible black shoes that make up Beau's every day. Instead, Gunter embraces blue floral print bedding with a vengeance, scatters silky brocade pillows with tassels willy-nilly wherever possible, buys the pink and yellow roses and comments on 'how pretty they are', cries more than I do at Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and whose favorite all-time movie is Casablanca.

Ah Gunter - he really is quite fun to have around when he comes out to play, and that's exactly what he did this weekend. As I lay on the couch on Sunday with an upset tummy and (admittedly) a bit of a hangover, Gunter came to the rescue and put on a DVD concert of Barbara Streisand (and he did get a little teary at points while Babs was crooning) and then proceeded to put on a DVD concert of Queen (which was when I pointed out the name of the band was actually quite telling).

Oh believe me, Gunter bought both of the concerts entirely of his own accord, and when we finished watching them, I watched him proudly put them next to his Shirley Bassey Concert DVD collection, alphabetically.