Monday, 31 August 2026

TGirls and their endless photos!

 I thought it was about time I updated the picture gallery here (one of the tabs at the top). Rather than a few photos in date order I've now arranged things by themed blocks, which I think is more coherent. There are a lot more photos there now and it's easier to add more. A lot of them have never been posted here before. 

I'm always interested to hear if you think the new arrangement works well.

I can't believe how many photos I have - thousands over many memory cards - and I know I have many more elsewhere that I haven't managed to assimilate into the main collection yet. 

The fact is, we TGirls make a lot of effort with our appearance to combat the less feminine features nature gives us and so recording our successes is part of the deal. And so much of our social life is an event that that needs recording, too. 

I need to update the tired old jokes page, too. (...What do you mean that's the same as the photo page! Cheeky!)

I'll get round to it. Like my decorator always says. He's a bit of a joker, too. 

 

A visit to Epping Forest

The holidaymakers here on the coast have been packing up this weekend as school and work start again over the next week. I don't mind the visitors as it livens the place up.

But it has been a horrifically hot summer, not so much temperature-wise here but in terms of the temperature never having changed day or night for two months. 

I was also amazed to see how burnt the grass was in England this year, as that's a country famous for its rain. I'd gone there last month to stay with friends who live on the London/Essex border in order to seek a bit of greenery.

I took Luggy the LGBT Crab with me on my travels, as I always do now, and he enjoyed a bit of tree climbing in Epping Forest near London.



 

A detached part of the forest forms the rather nice Wanstead Park with its lakes, woods and lawns. 

 

You can see how burnt the grassland is, though.

We also visited Valentines Park, which is not so well known, but is deemed one of London's ten most beautiful parks, with a rather nice bee garden, boating lake and other ponds, and interesting water birds.


As for food, in this part of the world the locals are happy to join long queues for traditional delicacies such as jellied eels, whelks and, of course, fish and chips. I took my friends for a traditional Sunday roast at a pub, which was not bad although pubs have become pricey. There was a tasty sticky fig pudding with ice cream to end the meal. 

 

I'll be back in London at the end of September and then I'll be going to Scotland to see my friend Roz. More girly photos will doubtless be added to the collection.

Sue x

6 comments:

  1. You're not wrong about food prices going up. Big oof as our eldest says 🙂 Good to see you getting out and taking a few snaps of your travels. I hope all goes well up to Scotland.

    As to the gallery - and let's skip on the Take Hart music 🙂 - the new layout looks good.

    I'm never quite sure if it's best to start with recent and 'scroll down' to see older photos, or go the other way. Personal preference, I guess.

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    1. Thanks very much, Lynn. Yes, the cost of eating out and buying in the shops horrified me. It'll be egg 'n' cress sandwiches from the chiller cabinet next time.

      Thanks for the thoughts on the gallery. You're right that the music was also for Take Hart, at least initially. Then it was replaced by other themes. But "Left Bank Two" has been cemented in the British public psyche as gallery music ever since.

      Sue xx

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  2. Oh yes, T-girls and pics....haha. I simply can´t count them anymore. They simply are too much. And at every outing there coming more to my archiv. I simply can´t delete many of the same motive. When I watch them some times later I say to myself...that´s too much , you have to delete some. But that is quite a big action....and too big for the moment...ans so they keep staying where they are. And I LOVE to make photo-sessions for my own memory.....
    I like your crab...and it´s so nice that you always take him/her/it with you when you travel.
    Have a good time and all the best dear friend. As we travel to Greece for a bit over a month I will not have much time for blogging...or better I would like to spend my time with other things....
    Have a good time
    Violetta

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    1. Thank you, dear Violetta. Thanks for sharing your photos on your blog so we all get to enjoy them.

      My crab makes me laugh. He's there to represent the LGBT community so I carry him around and take pictures with pretty things. I have a lobster, too.

      Enjoy Greece.

      Sue xx

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  3. Endless photos, yes, but a much larger proportion get assigned to the trash/recycle bin. Though I wish I had taken more photos of places I have visited.
    I don't think I've ever had figgy pudding. It looks a bit OTT.

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    1. Oh yes, I find about one photo in five may be worth keeping. So that reduces the overall number to about twenty thousand!

      The pudding was nice and the toffee sauce was good. The ice cream and physalis were unnecessary. But they like to doll things up these days.

      Sue xx

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