Hathersage and Hope
When I was repainting my bedroom that smart navy I cleared out lots of clutter and flotsam. Amid the detritus of 59 years on this planet, I found a box of photographs. We don’t seem to have or keep photographs anymore do we? Amongst the photos , when I sorted through them sitting in the bedroom window seat was a postcard of the moors above Hathersage in the Hope Valley. I remembered who had sent it before I read the inscription on the back Sorry, call me please….Adam x …it said simply I had met Adam at the unlikely sounding Poptastic back in 1995. I was on a break from a boyfriend and a relationship that was fraught with difficulties and too much drama, so wasn’t looking for anything in particular. Poptastic was a camp-as- Christmas gay night at the city Hall Ballroom in Sheffield. I loved the night, not particularly because it was gay themed….it was more that the surroundings reminded me of the Art Deco dining room in The Poseidon Adventure ....