“A High Court judge has dismissed a legal challenge to the equality watchdog’s guidance on which public or workplace toilets and changing rooms transgender people should use.” “Currently the guidance is that a trans woman […] would be expected to…
Fashion for us not them
Have you noticed how traditional women’s attire is designed to be inconvenient, impractical, annoying or, worse, make it harder for you to run away from men? A hobble dress (by definition) & stilettos being the ultimate embodiment. It’s no wonder…
Ponderance
I feel like such a fraud right now. I know I am a girl, my mindset is of a girl, but I have reverted to living as a guy outside the house since 2nd lockdown. Not even tried to go…
A minor facet
I’ve just been reading the Wikipedia article about Arthur C. Clarke, because I wanted to look something up, and I found some things I did not know, including the fact that he was held in such high esteem in Sri…
Sam
Used the name “Sam” for the first time today. I bought something online from Marks & Spencer and I went to collect it today. You enter your deets at a terminal and then wait for a member of staff…
Hi, I am Samantha
Hey folks. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought for years, and I really hate my name. Joanne, I mean. I really don’t like it and never have. And I originally chose it! LOL Anyway, I’ve been thinking on…
William Moulton Marston; Wonder Man
I watched a superb documentary on Sky recently, called “Secret History of Comics: The Truth About Wonder Woman” It was about American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), who invented the lie detector. But, also, a…
State of flux
Just to let you know that recent changes to WordPress have broken the very old theme that I have been using for years and which has been abandoned by its author(s) and hence has not been updated to continue to…
Self-Portraiture
I thought I’d make a post about the kind of camera equipment I use to take my self portraits, since the topic came up in the comments section on one of my recent Flickr pics.
Bargain Hunting
On Tuesday I popped over to Epsom Downs Racecourse for an Antiques and Collectors fair. The weather was sunny, but cold and windy, and there weren’t a lot of outside stalls. But upon getting indoors I immediately saw that the…