Year: 2008

Hey y’all. How’s you? Good I hope. Me? Well, pretty good: certainly nothing to complain about… which is nice! 🙂 A few things have been on my mind of late. One is – or rather ‘was’ – the American Election. As a rule I don’t tend to talk about Real Life ™ on here. There are others who do it better than I and do you really want to hear my take on who’d make the better leader? I doubt it, ‘cos I sure wouldn’t 🙂 Besides, we’re trans: are we just supposed to talk about make-up? 😀 Back to the point though, politics seem hardwired into people, at least in my limited experience. Seems we make up our minds […]

Hi folks, This Saturday I had the good fortune to attend the Harmony event up in a big old hotel near Matlock. Despite having a fair bit of time to get ready, the journey up there took longer than expected. But, the Fates smiled and I did arrive with enough time to park up, pick what I wanted from the menu and get a drink in with the usual suspects. 🙂 How can I describe the event? I think it would have to be: interesting. One the one hand, I had a great time talking to friends, enjoying the meal and, of course, being a disco fiend, the dance that followed. So why ‘interesting’ and not ‘fabulous’? Well, truth be […]

Hey peeps, I’m rapidly running out of different ways to say “hello” aren’t I? 🙂 This week I ave mostly bin watchin Dead Set (apologies to the Fast Show) For those of you outside the UK, it’s a nightly zombie horror series on TV. The twist is that your usual list of ragtag survivors are people trapped in the Big Brother house. There’s some dark humour in there (not surprising given the writer – who’s a true wit IMO) and for television, it doesn’t pull any punches. We Brits do like our dramas dark don’t we? It seems that American programmes (and not to knock them) are on the whole – like the Californian weather – bright, cheerful, etc. British […]

Hey good people, I hope you’ve had a good week. Last night we – the Nottingham Chameleons’ regulars – got together for our Autumn party. There’s a flurry of birthdays in Sept/Oct, so we have one bash to wrap them all together. Congratulations to Sandy, Val B, Tina and – ummm – me. 🙂 We had a fuddle: a word which may not mean something to some of you. Apparently it’s a midlander term, or so I read in the local paper. I guess you’d say it was a buffet where people bring food with them. Not being organised, I bought a box of chocolates. 🙂 Besides, we always have enough (well done to the caterers!) and it was a […]

Hiya, Mid-October already huh? How time flies. Pumpkins are in the shops and there’s a whiff of woodsmoke in the air. It won’t be long before Little Miss is a whole year old (bless!). She’s crawling at quite a rate and she’s not doing bad at trying to pull herself up either. Full of smiles too. Funny how kids are so different, even as babies. Still, enough with the doting dad eh? Aren’t we supposed to be talking about the unbearable burden of being a part-timer? [/irony] or this season’s shoes….? 🙂 The other day I was reading Alice’s blog and she was talking about writing. As I was reading that I was reminded of how I got lost in […]