Month: October 2009

Greetings denizens of Earth, Makes a change from hi, doesn’t it? 🙂 I was about to write “the other day” or “earlier this week” and I’ve realised I start a lot of posts (and paragraphs) that way. Weird huh? Phrases that you just keep using eh? Talk about blogger’s fingerprints. 🙂 Where was I? Oh aye. Yes, I had an email from a friend – a trans friend, just so we’re clear. There’s nothing super-personal about it, but I’ll preserve the lady’s anonymity as it’s not mine to give away. Mrs B had written in and – amongst other things – asked: I wanted to hear from you what you get from your group outings. It seems to methat you […]

Hiya, This week’s been rather odd. Not in a dodgy way, but more in a blogging kinda way. This will be my third post that I’ve started. Sometimes the writing bug bites and it seems there’s lots I want to get out of my head and on to paper… so to speak. 🙂 It’s not exactly like a lot has actually happened: no ground breaking changes or shifts in the whole trans experience. I was going to say that maybe I’ll store those posts up, but actually, I don’t think that’ll happen. I’ll probably come to look at them in a week or so, re-read what I’ve put and delete them. Perfectionism? Maybe, but if something doesn’t feel quite right, […]

Hiya, While I was off being a dirty stop out last week, dear Auntie Beeb – BBC 4 to be precise – ran a programme entitled Micro Men. No, not a superhero tie-in or some quirky tribute to the Incredibly Shrinking Man, but partly facts based drama set in the early 80s, on the relationship between two of the UK’s leading computer manufacturers, Sinclair and Acorn…. and the men behind the companies. I won’t give you a capsule review; mainly because I’m lazy and should you wish to make up your own mind, it’s available on iPlayer. 🙂 I must confess that at the time, the history of what was going on passed me by. I was still at primary […]

Hey y’all, Autumn is well underway in Notts at the mo. Low temps (well, single figures in centigrade anyway) and it’s jumpers and coats when you go outside. I do like the change in seasons. Sure, I’m not big on the wet weather, but I don’t like I’d like day in day out sunshine. But, hey, maybe I’m just morose 😛 So what’s been going on? Well…. we – the Chameleons Group – had a party. 🙂 We often have one at this time of year, as a number of our… umm.. number have birthday’s around… ummm… this time of year. 🙂 Besides, do you really need a reason for good food, good company and some good music? Nah! 😀 […]

Howdy folks, A case of so far so good this week. A couple of items in the media and some good news on the Chameleons front. Regular readers may know – assuming I did remember to blog about it (Ed: uh-oh, dippy moment ahoy!) – that I dropped Boots an email about their make up services. Well, thanks to a lucky gap in my packed work calendar (!) and rather than play telephone tag, I dropped into to branch in question as the whole email thing wasn’t working for either party. Sometimes I swear technology eats your messages rather than deliverying them! 🙂 So we’ve got a provisional date booked (25th November)…. and Boots were kind enough to offer 10% […]