Mad March And Earlier Happenings

 

This is really a blog about the first quarter of the year,  to update the last post with the happenings of March, but also to include some things from earlier in the year, that I forgot to mention. 

For example I forgot to mention something amazing. I saw the Northern Lights. The Aurora Borealis appeared for a couple of nights back in late January and I managed to snap this photo on my phone camera. 

Aurora Borealis 

What an amazing sight, especially down in the far South West of the UK. This photo was snapped over the fence in my back garden. And to think that 11 years ago, I traipsed all the way to Iceland to try and see them and saw nothing. 

And here they are in my back garden. It really was wonderful to see them.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that I'm back on Facebook. Which is something that I have very mixed feelings about. I don't like Meta at all. I think they are a company that allows and in some ways itself abuses people for profit. I find it a necessary evil in my life. My reasons for returning to Facebook was simply, that the Beaumont Society is ending it's charity status and being a membership based organisation, and moving to being a free to join social group. And their main points of online interaction are going to be through their Facebook group which already exists and a Discord chat room. So to stay in contact with the group,  I have rejoined Facebook after a two year absence. I forgot how annoying Facebook has become in the last few years. But the positive is staying in touch with the Beaumont Society and reconnecting with old friends. It's especially nice to be in touch with Roz White and Kylie Hope again. However I had a problem with my account being suspended for absolutely no reason, which I had to appeal. Facebook definitely hasn't improved.

March has been filled with many medical appointments for my Wife along with her 60th birthday and our wedding anniversary. Also we have had a lot going on with getting assessments and surveys done for the fitting of hoists in the property. Once that is done, we can try and get a respite care package in place  which will allow me to have some time away from caring, and I'm hoping that a good proportion of that personal time will be spent en femme. But at the moment everything is in a state of flux, so I decided to not dress in March. That means that the first quarter of the year will have drawn to a close, with just one session dressed, back at the beginning of February. But I'm ok with that,  because I'm going to hopefully maximise my opportunities going forward. And hopefully that will start in April. Having had such little dressing time so far this year, really reinforces how much I need to dress.

The first quarter of the year, has been very difficult with a few health problems,  both physical and mental, but I'm moving into a much more positive time in my life, and looking forward to it being a better time for myself. I'm going to concentrate on my fitness and losing weight after Easter. My aim is to try and lose a stone by the end of the quarter, so 6kg lost by the end of June. I'm going to give it a good go.

I'm definitely going to dress later this month,  hopefully more than once, so hopefully I will have some new photos to show off soon. 

I did have some fun with AI to create a pop art image of myself, which you can see at the top of this post 

As to the blog, I have a few ideas of things to post, so watch this space.

Dee

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Back To Blogging

 

Well after a difficult couple of months,  I feel a lot better and able to resume my blogging.  A mixture of depression, my Wife's illness and the resulting care difficulties and also trying to organise a respite care package to give me some freedom. We have been assessed, but we need some equipment to be fitted to the property before we can get any carers in. We need to get some ceiling hoists fitted. But we now know what we need, so we can hopefully get things sorted soon. I'd like to have everything in place by the Summer. Here's hoping.

I won't go into any further details on the first couple of months of the year, because it's not really compatible with positive blogging, which is what I want to concentrate on. It's quite difficult for anyone trans to be positive in the current climate, with the attacks on our right to exist, the rise of the far right wing and Reform, and a far right wing lunatic in the White House, and a Labour government that seems to be intent on pandering to the right wing, to appeal to Reform voters. But rather than be miserable about it,  I took strength from the rise of the left wing and the victory of the Green Party and Hannah Spencer in the Gorten and Denton by- election. It was a victory of hope over hate, and I hope the left wing can galvanise and build on this wonderful victory. 

So we're into March, or as I call it, Mad March. March seems to always be ridiculously busy for us. We have our wedding anniversary and my Wife's birthday during this month. My Wife has a lot of dental and medical check ups during March. The car has it's MOT carried out during this month. And both the mobile hairdresser and podiatrist pay us a visit this month.  On top of this it's always a busy month in the garden. And this time around, there is all of the caregiving issues to get sorted. So it feels non stop. 

Given how busy I am, there is very little time to dress, but I'm hoping to try and get at least one short session in this month. Fingers crossed 🤞

 I'm quite excited because I have been very daring and ordered myself a pvc mini dress from the fetish clothing company, Honour. 

'Gloria' dress from Honour Clothing 

I do love shiny pvc clothes, and I always wanted a zip up dress like this. It was in a sale so I took the plunge. At some point I would like to buy some shiny thigh high platform boots to wear with it.  It's definitely not a dress for normal every day wear,  but sometimes it's good to put together a special look. Hopefully I will look good wearing it. 

This is an AI interpretation of how I hope I might look in this dress with some matching thigh boots. It's definitely a kinky look, but then I can be a little kinky sometimes, and I'm definitely not ashamed to admit it. 

I'm also thinking about getting a tattoo done. "A tattoo at your age?" I hear you cry. Well I've always liked how they look on women. So why not? The tattoo I'm thinking of is of the rose that features on the cover of the 'Violator' album by my favourite band Depeche Mode. I always thought it was a very powerful, yet feminine image, that can also be worn by a man, because of the Depeche Mode connection. I've seen a few tattoos of this design and I love them. 

The cover of 'Violator' by Depeche Mode 

I would have on my right upper arm. I think it would look good when worn with a sleeveless dress, and very feminine. I would leave the word Violator off though. Possibly use the title of the single Enjoy The Silence as in this example I found on the internet. Or I may have no words and more of the lower leaves included. After all the lyrics of 'Enjoy The Silence' do state

 "Words are very unnecessary, 

They can only do harm"

An example of the kind of tattoo I would like 

I think I'll go for black ink rather than red, because it allows for finer detail in the shading and looks better on skin than in red. And this image has been used in black on many occasions by the band. 

I know a few of my friends don't like tattoos on women, but I like them if they're feminine and not covering the woman, and  I think they look great with retro swing dresses. 

Below is an AI interpretation of how this tattoo might look on me.

AI interpretation of tattooed me

As you can see from the images on this blog post, I have been using AI to create alternative images from photos I upload into the Dola AI creator. It's a bit of fun and at times useful. I prefer to be authentic, so I won't be passing of AI images of myself  and claiming they are real  like a few people I've come across on Flickr,  but I find it useful to visualise what an outfit looks like on me sometimes, such as the image I used earlier of myself in this black pvc outfit. Another example of using AI like this, is when I wanted to know if a yellow retro swing dress would suit me. Well rather than spend money on one and being disappointed, I used Dola AI to change the colours of a dress I liked in a photo, to yellow. 

The original image in pink

And by the powers of AI, in yellow 

And the answer provided by AI is yes, yellow suits me very well. So I can now search for a yellow dress in this style, knowing it will look good on me.

So hopefully next month we are getting the survey done for the fitting of the ceiling hoists   and I hope to have them fitted and in use by early Summer. Again fingers crossed 🤞 

Next month also sees Record Store Day on Saturday the 18th and I'll be queuing up outside my nearest record shop, Lucky's Record Bar in Redruth from about 6.30am to get the records I want. I've got the Human League, Sisters Of Mercy, Empire Of The Sun, Status Quo and XTC on my hit list this year. The guy who owns the shop will make sure he has them ordered for me. But it's first come first served with no reservations allowed, hence the ungodly hour I will be queuing from. 

I'm hoping to have a few dressing opportunities, as the month is much quieter for me, and if the weather is nice, it would be nice to wear one of my vintage dresses. 

Well that's it for this bloggy catch up. Hopefully normal blogging service is resumed.

Be good my friends, and if you can't be good be careful. 

Dee 

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