Family roles
During any kind of transition, the focus is on the various stages of it, and immediate goals, and how to achieve them. Indeed, whether they can be achieved at all. It's entirely natural that 'getting...
View ArticleNeedle time
Personally, I thought my last post was a bit of a downer. Let's have something a little more frivolous. While on holiday recently, I visited Exmouth, and in particular the far south-eastern beach which...
View ArticleBig boys don't cry (but little boys do)
Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that little boys seem to cry much more than little girls? I mean, all little children cry, boys and girls both; it just seems to me that mostly it's boys, and...
View ArticleKillerton, and ghosts of the past
Having revisited Castle Drogo in March, it was the turn of Killerton in April. As with the castle, I'd last seen Killerton on my birthday in 1994 - in M---'s company. We'd actually done them in the...
View ArticleVoting in the General Election 2015
The deed is done! I didn't vote, as originally intended, as soon as the Polling Station opened at 7.00am. I waited until 11.15am. I wanted to be part of the main morning 'rush', my village being full...
View ArticlePost mortem
Well, I stayed up all night watching the General Election results come in. I did get a bit tired by 6.00am, but I hung on to see all the main party leaders make a short speech on the outcome, and...
View ArticleTreasures rediscovered
I've finally made a determined start on clearing out my attic. I have been accumulating stuff in there for the last ten years, starting when the attic was in fact Mum and Dad's. Especially since they...
View ArticleMore treasures in the attic! Some great cameras this time.
My goodness, there's a lot of stuff up in my attic! Yesterday I came across some photo equipment from the film era. I hadn't touched any of it since I went digital in May 2000. Now this was something I...
View ArticleThat female voice - here are some thoughts of my own, with some tips
T-Central (see my Blog List in the right margin of this page) are featuring a post on the female voice written by a woman called Michelle. My own post here is essentially a reproduction of the comment...
View ArticleOn other female sounds
This is a follow-up to my last post, saying more on some things, and dealing with topics that were not mentioned. First, there is what you talk about. I hesitate to go on about 'female subjects' - I...
View ArticlePortland - and nearly clapped in irons!
With another holiday looming, I'd better wrap up what still needs to be recounted from the last one! This post deals with what happened when I visited the Isle of Portland. If you don't know, the Isle...
View ArticleAnother first: crossing the muddy waters of the Usk on a gondola
No, it isn't anything to do with Venice! It was the gondola suspended beneath the span of the Newport Transporter Bridge. And although I just about remember walking across the river Usk with Dad when I...
View ArticleTrans men
I got involved in a discussion yesterday evening concerning the reported distrust between a trans men's organisation and a trans women's organisation, both of them being Brighton-based. It apparently...
View ArticleKerb Drill and other old-fashioned things in the Highway Codes of yesteryear
I was glad to discover a stash of old Highway Codes when clearing a section of my attic. The two oldest dated from 1962 and 1968, and have a very period feel to them, reflecting another, simpler world...
View ArticleThe face of failure
This was me, last weekend, just before the moment came when I realised that I was not going to get to the top of a ladder. It was in an old tower. I did so much want to get to the top, and look at the...
View ArticleBrighton Council still determined to fleece the motorist
Grrr. The City of Brighton & Hove has for some reason never liked people driving into the city and parking. Nowadays it has a Green Party MP, and Green policies have descended with a very heavy...
View ArticleThe open road beckons!
Three days hence I shall be well on my way up north. It's a packed schedule, and the most ambitious caravan tour I've yet devised for myself. # Sussex to North-east Scotland and back again, with stops...
View ArticleAt least two faux pas
I'm still alive: the silence of the last few days is entirely due to staying in places where there is non-existent (or very iffy) Mobile Internet. No Internet, no posts. I have a growing list of things...
View ArticleNot a couple
I really am the odd one out on holiday. It seems to be assumed that I'm probably the female half of a couple - the Missus - and that Mister is doing Something Important elsewhere, but will appear any...
View ArticleMiss or Mrs?
I'm beginning to wonder whether I chose the wrong title! I'm officially a 'Miss', meaning that this title is the one I invariably use for myself. I regard it as a reasonable default title for a single...
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