Year: 2019

The Body Politics

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Hi, It’s been said that no good blog post starts by talking about the weather. I wonder if this makes Climate Change difficult to promote? 🙂 Given the Summer temperatures, travel into Europe, and a flexible dress policy at work, I’ve been in shorts for more of my time than usual. I’ll skip on the pun how a dress might be flexible. The shorts situation is both a good and a bad thing. The positives are that I can cool off quicker and therefore I’m able to concentrate at work. Given previous jobs where certain employers were, shall we say, less enlightened around office attire, I try to count my blessings. If I’m too hot, I get that heat funk […]

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Comfortable

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Hi, Last night at just after 11pm I was upstairs at Chams about to get changed. The heels I’d borrowed from the Ever Lovely Mrs J were beginning to make themselves known, I was heading into A Bit Too Warm due to the industrial-strength shapewear, and yet, I was comfortable. Not physically, but emotionally. Thanks to Val Photographics Maybe it was due to a long spell between me dressing, that I was happy with my look, that I’d had a good talk with friends, met some new members, or maybe none or all of those things. Whatever caused it, I’m not sure it matters. What does, is that feeling of being comfortable with who you are. I think it’s important […]

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Dark future retro

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Hi,  I was a teen in the 80s and as any Stranger Things viewer will know, roleplaying games were a thing. For a few hours, you could be in another world as someone else and it was all good fun. I never played D&D, but we did give ‘Advanced Dungeons & Dragons’ a go for a while. The game that really had my attention was Cyberpunk. A schoolmate tipped me off to it and if I’m honest, I’ve always been more of a sci-fi geek than a fan of fantasy. Mind you, I absolutely loved playing the Skyrim computer game: that was just amazing. So Cyberpunk – aka CP – fitted my late teen misanthropy. Good & evil weren’t a […]

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Don’t make eye contact

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Hi, With a bit of luck, the Jones Crew will be working our way around Europe on our summer holiday. The thing is, I find that as I’m getting a little older, I worry a little more about the What If. of it all. What if we miss our flight? What if the hotel we’ve booked is closed? Just, well, silly worries really. As the Ever Lovely Mrs J would say, you only have to do one step. All we need to do is get to the hotel down south. Then, just be up on time to get to the airport, and so on and so on. I do my best to listen, but it’s not always easy. Perhaps it’s […]

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Small moments and self-care

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Hi, With both kids off from school and the Ever Lovely Mrs J having a few days here and there, Chez Jones seems to be getting into holiday mode. Lazy mornings, a later than usual bedtime, and occasional trips out for lunch or to stretch the legs. This is all very nice…. unless you’re the one at work 😉 Tongue-in-cheek grumpiness aside, they all seem to be doing well, which is good. The trouble with a quiet house on a morning, is I don’t have the same get up and go that I would usually. Indeed, one might say that my get-up-and-go is touch and go at the best of times. It doesn’t take me much to slip into a […]

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When your label drops off

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Hi, Earlier this month I posted about having a spot of bother in getting off to sleep…. and that was before this week’s heatwave. Still, having the air-con on a comfortable 19 made last night’s trip (in bloke mode) to Chameleons much more tolerable. Anywho, one of the things my mind was doing, was going over what I might write for a presentation in a few months. No, not work-related, but transgender outreach kinda thing. It’s not so much that I don’t know how to start it and I’ve got a brief from the organisation on what they want. It’s more… it’s more that I’m struggling a bit with the identity of saying I’m trans*. BTW, there’s a rather good […]

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