Off On Holiday

We're off on holiday to Cyprus tomorrow morning, so today, I have just had a long hot shower and am now completely smooth ready for the beach. I had my laser treatment again last Thursday, so my underarms and chest are completely smooth and hopefully will be forever in another 6 months. I hate body hair, it's the most unattractive part of the body. The only place hair should be is on the head.
We are hoping for a reasonably warm week so we can lounge on the beach in our bikini bottoms or less depending if we find somewhere suitable. I don't want a full tan, I cant do a full tan in a week, it takes me about three weeks to get a decent tanned colour else I burn too quickly.
So hopefully we will have a few pictures of us on the beach that I may share on the blog if Linda Okays them first.
I will report back about our 'holiday from hell' hotel when we get back (If we get back !)

Kinky Boots Review

Yesterday we went and saw the film Kinky Boots. firstly, I had a rare experience, I travelled on a very big bus, something I havent done for over a year. what an experience. We arrived mid afternoon at the cinema for this showing, and the cinema was almost deserted. There were about 12 other people in there, and I think I was the youngest, and Linda the second youngest, It was much like a pensioners day out and I expected toffee rustling denture munching old biddies to be running up and down the isles. Anyway, the film is in my opinion is a good representaiton of a transgendered / crossdressers life, with an exciting spin on how you can actually convert total biggots to accept people who are different. The film is not spectacular, but in my mind its educational and entertaining, and to me thats important in a film. Living here in Northampton, as I do, I was pleased to see that they used more than just the Trickers shoe factory in the film, there are several scenes shot in the market square and elsewhere around the town (some of which I didnt know, but hey, Ive only lived here 5 years). They also spent time in London supposedly, in a drag Queen establishment, and I spent all my time looking to see if I recognised anybody there, and yes, I believe I did recognise a well know Tranny from Northampton who appears in many TV items (television - get your mind out of the gutter please !) .
Linda and I actually met them one night a few years back for a tranny get together, and both Nikki and his wife are very pleasent, but to us it looked like a business and making money, so we havent been back since as it was all very highbrow, nice but a bit pricey.
So if you want a laugh, and want to see what its like to be a tranny, then go see the film, it will open your eyes to many things we have to endure on a personal day to day basis.

The Ideal home Show.

Well Sunday we took a trip into London, and decided to travel on Midland Mainline from Wellingborough, which for a Sunday, costs almost as much per person as traveling during peak time from Milton Keynes. Anyway, after getting over the shock of the prices, we arrived at the show, and on reflection it was OK, nothing special, but we did manage to get loads of free food from the vendors, and from the girls in the main hall entrance, they were giving away boxes of meusli. Not my favorite breakfast cereal, but it will do, so we collected 3 boxes of the stuff during the time we were there.
I had in my mind that the show would have several houses with floor plans and fully furnished houses, but they only had two, one was for carpets, and the other was to try and sell you properties in Spain. but it was a good day all in all.

A funny old week

Well this week has been pretty busy and I have seen some strange stuff. On Monday, I had to drive halfway across the country to Swindon, and spent 2 ½ hours presenting to one of our clients. Tuesday, I spent all day schlepping around London. I was in Bishopsgate in the morning, then walked to Holburn over lunch for my second appointment. On route, I was accosted by several people pushing newspapers, magazines and religious junk mail at me. I took the newspapers as they would be good reading material on the train, and they also have my favourite game 'Soduko' in them, so that would keep me amused on the journey home. Why do they insist on pushing junk at everybody, its such a waste of paper. Also on route, I saw the strangest sight of my life so far…… A very short rotund feller wearing a bright purple leotard, stood on top of a large crate, pushing pretend weight's. What made this sight even worse for me was the fact that he was extremely hairy ALL over. It reminded me of something you would have seen in Barnham's circus way back when, right down t the handle bar moustache. There were several people standing by taking pictures of this very unusual sight. So if you come to London, you must expect the unexpected. Thursday I drove down to the office for my 3 monthly appraisal with the boss, and spent an hour parked on the M40 as there had been a major RTA and the air ambulance needed to land. There was a BMW sandwiched between a couple of trucks, poor sod. That's one of my biggest fears is that I will end up road kill by some foreign truck driver, we have more foreign trucks on our roads now and they are either very tired, just don't see you, or forget they should be driving on the left.
Anyway, I think I have ranted about drivers of various car types before, and I still maintain that Peugeot, BMW and Mercedes drivers are the worst. Anyway, must crack on and get back to work.

I've Been Blogrolled

How wicked, while noseying around the www, I found this site http://www.samanthaburns.com/ which has actually blogrolled me, and she has a pretty damn good site as well.

In Urgent Need Of Cash

Thursday evening, I picked Linda up from work, and then realized I needed some cash for lunch on Friday with my work colleagues. However, this may seem a simple task of stopping at the cash machine and withdrawing the money. In reality, this was a little more difficult as I was fully dressed in a Jean mini skirt, Pink sparkling t-shirt, tights and high heels. Anyway, I really needed the cash, so parked up as near to the cash machine as I could, Waited for the guy who was at the machine to return to his car, then bit the bullet, and exited the car, and walked to the cash machine whilst being very vigilant of anybody within a 1 mile radius of me, and, damn there was a guy heading straight towards me about 100 yards off, and two girls coming at me from the other direction, I was trapped.................So, what do you do. Well I decided I was NOT going to go home without my money, so stayed at the machine, placed my request and received my money. This transaction took what seemed like 20 minutes. Anyway, by now, both the girls and the guy had passed me by, so I was 'safe'. I guess I must have looked the part as they couldn't see my face, and I am a pretty average sized girl with damn good legs 'so I'm told'. Anyway, I turned and walked head held high back to the car, and had to wait beside the car as a bus full of passengers went by, so all in all a very successful trip, and an exhilarating experience. I will have to do it again one day, but not just yet.

A visit to the parents - I'm so Proud of Them

Well, Linda and I went down to see my parents at the weekend, it was my dad's 70 something birthday. Well what do you get for a guy who has everything, and if he finds something new he wants, he just goes out and buys it. A quandry.
So on Sunday morning we got up, I put on my black thin cotton trousers with sparkly tights underneath, 1.5 inch heeled shoes, 1 inch long solid gold earings and white t-shirt with lilac capped sleeves with a shiney lilac motif on the front, and lilac nail varnish, and off we go. We stopped in at Milton Keynes on the way down as we heard they were having a collectors fair. We browsed the stalls, and saw many people dressed up as Superman and trekies etc. so I didnt feel out of placed in my girly get-up. We found a picture of Sir Bobby Moore and the England football team after winning the World cup back in 1966, and inserted in the picture frame were two slides of actual film footage from the game. My dad is a football nut, so this was a must buy for us.

We stopped at the South Mimms services on the M25 for a cup of tea and cake, and I got some serious hard looks from one woman in particular, like she was saying 'who let that out' but I just sat there and raised my pinkie when drinking my tea, so she could see the full effect of the nails (which by the way are very long for a guy).

We arrived at my parents, and I think they were a little suprised by my outfit, but they were very polite and didnt say a thing. I came out to them back in autumn 1998 and was blunty told not to come home dressed. That was a long time ago, and I figured they had seen me in various female clothes, but always the type that left you thinking 'was that a girls top or shoes, or not'

So Sunday, I was full on girly. I have spoken to my mum since, and she hasnt made any untoward comments, so I guess they are OK with it all now. I'm so proud of them for accepting me for who I am, and hopefully they still love me.