Year: 2023

Unhurried

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Hi, Today has been a gift of unhurried time. No back to back meetings, no traffic troubles, and nowhere to be. Nowhere except a long walk through a glorious Autumn day with the Ever Lovely Mrs J and the hounds. Well, nowhere except for stopping off for an early lunch midway 😉 This is how a good day off rolls. Oh, and the afternoon Forty Winks wasn’t half had either! 😌 Slack Friday Despite the email surge of offers and app pings attempting temptation, I am oddly unmoved to buy anything this time around. I’m not sure if this is a good or bad thing, the me In years previous, I would have searching for a new party dress or […]

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Scene: Tagged

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A gentleman of senior years sits behind a modern desk in a beautiful vintage office. There’s a knock at the door. Sir Gregory Hutt-Morton: Yes? Two men enter the room wearing finely tailored dark suits. One has a briefcase and both are wearing bowler hats and vintage sunglasses. Sir Gregory Hutt-Morton: I’m sorry, gentlemen, but I gave strict instructions that I would not be attending not funding the Little Hampton Steampunk faire. Lord Darkwing, the Unseen Menace of Curs and Laggards: If I may pop my hat on the stand… Terror of Rulers, Twister of Words and Policy: Steady, I think we’ve be read…. Gregory: By Lady Margaret’s iron knickers, you two hellspawn! Lord Darkwing: Greetings, Sir If You Don’t […]

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Remembering

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The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), also known as the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, has been observed annually (from its inception) on November 20 as a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia. Wikipedia

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What did you do in the culture wars, Granny Lynn?

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Hi, So we’re midway through November and we’re into Trans Awareness Week. If you’re not aware of it, it’s a period of time where anti hate policies are activated on social media and angertainment creators take a much deserved break from holding us diabolical trans people to account… Oh, who am I kidding! 😁 In more civilised areas that’s not the case. Indeed it’s been so rather lovely to see a surge of good news stories about trans folk and their lives. To read about people just getting on; hearing how getting who they need to be helps; and how to be a good ally; etc. Which brings me around to this evening’s post and an perhaps an odd intersection. […]

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Boot time

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Hi, I’m very glad of Friday off. Mainly as this week has been a little too ‘fun packed’ – as in not at all. Nothing serious, just a lot of stuff. Lots of meetings, running errands, phone calls, etc. They all take up headspace and time. On Thursday morning, I dragged my legs out of bed and sat there for five minutes, just stalling, frozen even. Do you get that? Where you need to get up and get on, yet A) your legs are all ‘nah, fam’, and B) thoughts whirl and spin, but there’s no get up & go? Perhaps the human equivalent of booting up a modern operating system on old hardware. 🙂 So it was that it […]

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Haircut, sir?

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Hi, The other day I was sat waiting in the barbers. For the record, I hadn’t dropped in for a chat, use their WiFi, or warm up 🙂 Child 2.0 had requested a haircut, so I powered up the electro dadmobile and off we went. ( Pause for soapbox rant: ‘Warm banks’ so people have a place to go and not be cold. WTF government? ) As he sat in the chair and the barber snipped and buzzed to restyle his hair, I find my thoughts drifting around on the situation. Firstly, Child 2.0 has a certain coolness to their look that they’re happy with. Well, as much as you can when your gender and body don’t fully align. I’ve […]

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