I have been friends with Nikki Kent for 16 years online. When I first created an Internet presence as Deeanna (or Davina, as I called myself back then) I joined the UK Angels forum. This was back in May 2009. Nikki made a few comments on posts i made on that site. And when I started my Flickr account, Nikki was the first person I added as a friend. After a couple of years we both drifted away from Angels, but stayed friends on Flickr and we have made many comments on each other's photos and swapped messages down the years. But we never met. Nikki lives in Kent and I lived in Hampshire before moving to Cornwall in 2016.
Well I'm very pleased to say that yesterday we finally managed to meet for a few hours. Nikki is staying in a holiday cottage here in Cornwall, about 25 miles from my home. So I arranged to drive over to see her there.
It has been a few years since I have been out in public as Deeanna, but I decided to drive there en femme, so I had to leave the house dressed. Thankfully I didn't have any problems getting out dressed. The drive went well through some beautiful countryside out on the Penwith peninsula. It was quite amusing because I was following a mini bus taking some school children out on an excursion, and I had the girls on the bus waving to me out of the back window. Whether or not they had realised I was trans, I don't know, but they seemed friendly enough.
Once i arrived with Nikki and settled in, we had a good old natter, discussing a variety of topics. We got on very well, and despite never meeting before we just chatted like old friends. Nikki was exactly the same in real life as she comes across online. I was only able to stay for 5 hours and I really didn't want to leave, when the time came to go home, because I was having such a nice time and enjoying her company. Nikki was kind enough to make us a lovely ham salad for lunch, and then we took some photos to capture the moment for posterity.
I chose to change back into drab for the journey home,so both myself and Nikki changed back to en bloke, and walked down the drive to my car, and said our farewells and I had an uneventful drive home.
It was a really lovely day spent with a lovely friend and as such, it was a red letter day for me. Nikki has some connections to Cornwall which will bring her back down regularly, so hopefully we can meet again.
Oh, and I got to meet Lily the teddy bear, who always travels with Nikki.
How wonderful that you finally managed to meet. You both look relaxed and lovely in your pretty frocks.
ReplyDeleteNikki and I planned to meet years ago but each attempt we made was thwarted. I hope to manage to see her one day.
Sue x
If you get the chance to meet Nikki, then you definitely should. She's a very lovely lady.
DeleteYour flickr page led me to your blog, Deeanna, but 'following' it was a bit trickier - I had to paste the URL into a box on my blogger site! It was lovely meeting last week and I'm sure we'll be meeting up again before too long. It was more success than I had with Sue all those years ago (I may have to visit Italy!)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you found your way to my blog and I hope you enjoy following me. I really enjoyed spending time with you last week. You are such a lovely person to chat to. I do hope you get to meet Sue, who is also a really lovely person. She does come to the UK regularly, so perhaps you won't have to traipse to Italy. Although I have heard San Remo is very nice.
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