Crossdressers
Ah...Flickr has just told me that someone new is now 'following' me, meaning that she likes my photos and regularly looks at the shots I upload. She's welcome to look. As always, I do check a new...
View ArticleScotland comes to it at last
The Scottish Independence Referendum is but six days away. Scotland's residents - including crucially teenagers who are young enough to be idealistic, but old enough to be thoughtful about their career...
View ArticleThe Twelfth of September
Yesterday there were two Calendar anniversaries on my phone and my tablet. They came up automatically, as they always do. And they will do so next year, and every year, as they will if one uses an...
View ArticleHunting the bear
I'm not feeling very well just now. A cold came on three days ago, and I've reached the worst stage, where the runny nose and sneezing has gone, but I'm constantly coughing. Actually it's getting...
View ArticleToy Story: a new teddy for Matilda
The Bear Hunt is over already. The Quest has been successful. I have fulfilled all my oaths, and can depart in peace. But first, let me remind you that the bear I have found is intended for this young...
View ArticleA holiday in Sweden then?
I gave the BBC's latest detective series from Sweden, Crimes of Passion, a look last week and was instantly hooked. I loved the 1950s setting. I loved the sunshine and colour and nice clothes and all...
View ArticleVintage clothing fun
Yesterday I spent a few hours on Brighton with my friend Alice. This is the one who writes poetry and gives passionate performances to appreciative audiences. She is now one of the Faces of Trans in...
View ArticleSunshine and twinges
Well, what a lovely drive down to Lyme Regis! Incredibly sunny and warm all the way - that's five hours of travelling - unheard of for the 22nd September, which is a bit late in the English Year for...
View ArticleGravestones, ghostly passengers, and trams
Today started murky, turned into beautiful sunshine, and stayed that way until the sun hazed over around 4.00pm. I decided not to go beachcombing but to visit some churchyards instead, looking for dead...
View ArticleBad behaviour on both sides of the fence
Certificated Locations or CLs - that's Caravan Clubspeak for farm sites - can take only five caravans or motorhomes, and so they usually feel spacious and uncrowded. It mainly depends on two things:...
View ArticleNaming Lucy
A trans girl presently named Aimee has had her post on choosing a female name featured on T-Central. This is a perennially interesting topic that I have visited once or twice before on my own blog....
View ArticleThe back pocket, and those bent iPhones
One of the many little things that made me question my role in life during past decades was the back pocket. That's the pocket on the backside of jeans, trousers and even shorts. I noticed that many...
View ArticleLord David Owen, Mark Horton and Vicky Pryce
It's always interesting to meet people who in some way have a public life, or at least you have seen them on TV. I've been able to see and hear three such persons in the last three days. The first was...
View ArticleI am being embraced
The North Devon part of my West Country holiday has once again put me in mind of quitting Sussex and moving here. It's the people. I haven't had the chance to post much on the blog in the last week or...
View ArticleWays and means
I'm now making my way back to Sussex, and I've stopped for three nights at Coombe Bissett, near Salisbury. If I moved to North Devon, I would want to visit the South East regularly, every month or so...
View ArticleLike driving around topless
Well, have you decluttered the windscreen of your chariot? Have you removed the tax disc? Removal was allowed from 1 October, as the taxation of vehicles no longer requires the display of that round...
View ArticleInitial assessment
Now this is interesting, to me anyway. I've made a list - off the top of my head, before I seriously get down to any proper research - of which aspects of my everyday local life matter to me...
View ArticleMy dear familiar home
I'm back home again. And guess what, it felt so good to leave Wiltshire, drive across Hampshire, and then approach my home area, mid-Sussex. How pretty and sunny my part of Sussex was! How dramatic the...
View ArticleGood news and bad news
Well, an eventful homecoming! Not big things, but they make a difference to the amount of bounce in my step. The good first. And it's very good. # I mentioned that my new neighbour Toby came over and...
View ArticleDing! Ding! All aboard for a tram ride through the countryside!
At the very start of my recent holiday I spent four nights (and therefore three full days) at Lyme Regis, at the westernmost end of the Jurassic Coast of Dorset. Well, strictly speaking, the farm I was...
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