End of Winter edition

Well last day of Winter by some definitions and the build up towards the around the sun event in just over a weeks time and yesterday we had bumble bee being struck by heavy rain in midflight as he was buzzing between the hedge that separates our house from our neighbours for a good half hour at least before hand.

The daffodils are out here too, heralding the spring that is to come as are the snowdrops where actually we do have a famous Snowdrop Walk.

 

 We do have some unfinished business on this blog following being away until very late last week that I intend to catch up with but with sustaining a fall, I do have to be mindful of overdoing things and causing additional complications.

We're back!

 

 We're back even if the lower arm to just above the fingers is very bruised following the magic carpet incident at LG Camp when I went flying and few others fell down stairs which in view of the fact my BFF fell getting off a train, hurting her knee and taking a pair of tights to boot perhaps is suggesting we're great at falling and that being a bit wobbly on our feet.

I've always been a bit wobbly under paw from childhood to be honest with you.

But beyond that it was a great time that wasn't a sit indoors winter get together but something more active and outward directed as much as I'm reading my comics while I recover from the accident.

I had a Now Yearbook for 1998 waiting for me, a preorder to pay for and a record needing a good cleaning but holding promise beyond a few letters and that.

A cold trip out for a few days

 So I'm preparing a post for this blog and there are a few a few things going on like a widening of one social media account to cover a few related points in their own way that in a previous blog life there had been some posts around but because of issues with cross linking and plowing through profiles I decided it was best removed.

It's also the case I'm literally one the move today as its Littles camp and I've a train to catch so I've got this done before I went through the front door.

It has got a bit cold this week - was around one degree c yesterday morning - so thicker socks and more layers are called for although I do have warm padded jackets for outdoors and woollen hats for exploring around and about.

I did get a used speciality record that came out some thirteen years ago by Rickie Lee Jones, namely her excellent debut album of 1979 but in a 45 rpm cut super high quality form that I missed out on then with both budget constraints and a a certain scepticism that my then stereo could make all it may have to offer.

Perhaps you remember that hit, Chuck, He's In Love?

I'm delighted to get a copy from a proper record store in Cornwall that does mail order  that knows how to package things well and it sounds great with the much improved system now.

The end of UK Angels

 

No, I'm not feeling like lobbing a snowball about today although it's rather cool out but after a good many decades one forum I have had continuous membership of will be closing on February 28 and so transitional arrangements as befits a well run establishment are being formed and I have made my own arrangements.

UK Angels was my home given my gender past since around 2005/6 although in 2008 I did lose my login stuff inexplicably so my account migrated from majorclanger to majorclanger1 where amongst things I arranged my first ever Tg meet up in real life in a town in mid cheshire we both knew.

It was where I learned about how the Law applies to Tg/Tgurls, how to deal with situations such as encountering the Police as this did concern Mom rather a lot at the time, what facilities you could expect to use and what your rights were.

It wasn't all Tgurl/Tg news and discussion although we did talk about issues, our preferences when it came to presenting "en femme" and where to by it from NOT from "Tat For Trannies" as we satirized a well known Tg/Tv supplier at the time who advertised in the popular press and whose owner had a tv feature or two on her.

There was a lively discussion about music in it's own sub forum where we had a number of people really knowledgeable about music and for a period "T Music" was a thing in an age of 96kbps mp3 downloads.

It was there where we did discuss various subcultures such as "sissy" and where I struggling with having a younger LG side and a Bigger side I came out and people accepted me as that hybrid which was deeply moving.

That paved the way for me to find groups that were LG and my excursions while not heavily pushed were known as a part which was touched on in this blog that started mainly for the Angels (and some folk at a music forum).

It is sad it is closing, part down to litigious attitudes by various bodies, more people using social media  and also upcoming legal changes but I have joined our continuation Reddit private group as Facebook is just too open for stuff you don't want family and the General Public to know just escaping.

As we say today "What is seen cannot be unseen" and things are screenshot and passed about too easily so a private group is much better.