Thanks for the encouraging remarks on my look last weekend. And the smooth skin feels good, as it always does. Maintenance takes time but this is the trans life and we put the effort in.
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I have a few more summery items in my wardrobe, some of which are new and some haven't been worn for years. I shall doll up properly over the summer.
I do feel a bit self-conscious when swimming: am I completely trim or have I missed a bit? My breasts are on display and this is not a topless beach! Maybe they just think I'm fat, which I admit I am but these are not 'man boobs'. ....Thoughts like these intrude.
With regard to weight, I have lost over five pounds (2.5 kg) these last couple of weeks, so that's good. A lot of lettuce has been eaten!
Healthwise, I've not been so well this week with a bit of a virus or something that kept me in bed for some of Tuesday/Wednesday but I seem reasonably OK now and had a good swim this afternoon.
The weather's been perfect: warm and bright but not oppressive, with a nice breeze.
Gallery
I thought the picture gallery (tab at the top) needed an update since the last photo was from 2020.
I've also added a link to the music, Left Bank Two by the Noveltones, that was played during the Gallery section on British TV's kids' art show Vision On and subsequent tributes. Some of us can't see galleries of pictures without this playing in our heads. Yes, TV does corrupt the young!
(For more on this fantastic show, with Sylvester McCoy in a frock, see the second half of this post from exactly two years ago: Heat - a hot topic.)
Sue x
I hope you are fully recovered from feeling ill, Sue. Congrats on the healthy eating as well.
ReplyDeleteI, um, don't remember Vision On fathom my childhood. Take Hart, yes, although that's only a few years later.
I do remember Sylvester from Jigsaw. A diet of wordplay sketch show for kids. He was one of the O Men, two superheroes summoned whenever someone used a number of words with double O in them. I think he pops up as Doctor Who later and had dinner a few audio books as that character. Wasn't he also in Eureka? Another BBC is show.
Thanks, Lynn, I am feeling well again now, and slimmer!
DeleteWe're going to relive our childhoods now as all the shows mentioned are all interconnected. Vision On was a programme with many series made through the late 60s / early 70s and aimed at deaf children and so it was very visual. Fronted by Pat Keysell, who worked in deaf education and who signed as well as spoke her parts, and Tony Hart who did much of the visual stuff. Sylvester McCoy was the comedy sidekick, as was Wilf Lunn, and they both went on to do Eureka and Jigsaw, while Hart went on to front Take Hart. McCoy was indeed one of the O-men in Jigsaw, which was an equally excellent show (I had a massive crush on Janet Ellis ... actually, I still do!). Then he was a charming Doctor Who when they revived it in the late '80s (incidentally, he had one of the best assistants ever, Ace - also crush material) and was also Radagast the Brown in the Hobbit movies where he again played it somewhat for laughs. You can see I've followed his career with interest ... actually, he's always just come across as a nice guy who does clean comedy and seems to be in the best stuff. Anyway, the music that played when Vision On had its segment looking at the gallery of paintings that viewers had sent in keeps being revived in similar contexts, like in Miranda.
Ah, a trip down memory lane! British kids' TV has always been excellent, but then childhood to the 20th/21stC British is something of an institution, rather different from childhood in other cultures.
Sue x
"Please write your name and age on the back of your picture and send it to Vision On, BBC Television Centre, Wood Green, London, W12 8QT. We apologise that we cannot return your pictures'
DeleteI had a painting shown on Vision On in 1973 and of course, it's only a memory now. Nothing to remember it by, because you didn't get any written acknowledgement back, there were no VCRs and famously, you didn't get your painting back.You just sent it in and then watched every episode hoping that today would be the day. And one day my picture of a tractor appeared. My Mum saw it, so it really happened. Then you had to hope your school friends had seen it, so you could boast about it. And if they didn't you looked like a childhood charlatan.
I always enjoy looking at your photos, with or without the Vision On soundtrack, but I expect that will subconsciously be there forever more from now on.
As to worries whilst bathing, don't worry about it. People are so caught up in there own lives and really don't notice anyone else these days. Just do your own thing and enjoy yourself.xxx
Pat Keysell's catchphrase was the longest in showbusiness! But I'm sure it ended with the immortal words "I'm sorry we can't return any of your pictures but we give a prize for all those that we show." So ... what was your prize? No prize means it didn't happen! :-p lol
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