Sitting on the fence?

You Are 50% Boyish and 50% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

Breakfast on Pluto

Out on general release in the UK 13 Jan 2006.

Breakfast on Pluto - IMDB.

Plot briefly is transgendered kid grows up in trouble-torn Belfast in 60s/70s and emigrates to London to become a transvestite caberet worker. Portrays how the main character deals with the issues surrounding the Northern Ireland troubles from a personal perspective.

Could be one to be added to Becky's Best Trannie Film Poll?

Think it's only showing at Covent Garden at the mo - Odean Cinemas that is.

Memories...

... are made of this. In fact, my SO did five years to be precise. But put this way it's funny. Don't click on the link if you're easily offended.

The London Underground Song

BTW, anyone recognise the tune, and the group. Think 80's, I believe - about the time the SO was travelling from East Finchley to Euston on the Northern Line Mon to Fri, with her nose stuck in someone's armpit - not too tall my SO.

Anyhows, enjoy!

P.S. I know the movie is cool, coz my daughter says all her mates have it on their iPods. What? You thought I found this all by myself? Get real!

Useful Information for the Transvestite

I have a "few" words to say about all the discussions concerning a certain business whose target market is the transvestite.

But before I do, please, please, please read Siobhan, Becky and Cathii's blogs on the subject, because I don't really want to repeat too much of what has already been said.

The gist is that the certain business I mentioned earlier is, some feel, not helping your average transvestite in the street (or should that be closet?). In fact, most feel the company doing the transvestite community a disservice - my vote hasn't been cast on that issue.

Moving on, the consensus seems to be that moaning about the company is not really very effective when it comes to combating the market stranglehold this company has. A valid point raised in these discussions included the budget to match advertising spending power, which as a fragmented community we could never hope to match - mention was made of the £38k required to take out a full-page advert in The Sun. It ain't gonna happen.

But all this discussion brought back memories of a scheme I dreamt up that may have a positive impact on the situation, it's this:

A website that lists any shop and its name, location, tel no. etc. that agrees to put in it's windows a logo (say TF) that shows the transvestite that they are transgender friendly. This would need to be backed up by a website advertising fee, say £10 pa, to help fund printing, hosting and development costs.

The TF logo in shop windows means when a trannie is out and about and probably not in their home town they can see which shops they'd like to spend their money in. Of course the Website would also help promote these TF shops.

The shop could also list who to ask for when visiting these shops or calling them. It could be a fictitious name that lets the shop know that a transvestite is making an enquiry.

There are all sorts of promotional aids/schemes could be offered to participating shops. Also, this type of activity would bring greater transvestite awareness.

Also, what about an advert in say E&M of similiar size to the "other" company that advertises the website and also explains that there are price comparisions - and make sure the "other" company's prices are listed so the transvestite can educate themselves.

Another angle might be to take on a reseller account and give access to websites for the trannie community who could link back to the main site thus raising awareness of it. I know a company offering unlimited webspace and bandwidth with their reseller accounts for less than £30 + VAT per month.

Someone mentioned a committee to move ideas forward, and for once I'm not agin a committee!

Wadda ya fink, folks?

Happy New Year!

Well, it seems while every other trannie had an exciting and eventful start to the New Year, yours truly spent it with family. But before you write off our celebrations off as a non-starter let me just mention a few names...

Gaullic, Montana, Cava, Bollinger and that was just the whites. :)

Seriously, though, it was great to see in the New Year with my two sisters and their husbands, as we rarely seem to have the time for these family occasions. All the usual "catching up" on family news and plans round the dinner table, games like charades, cranium and others I don't recall.

Of course, almost inevitably, a New Year's walk later that morning (03:15 we gave up) was desparately needed to clear an aching head, but ending up in a country pub with a roaring log fire probably wasn't where I should have been since I had a 120 mile return journey to do later. Naturally, I skipped the "Speckled Hen" for an orange juice.

And the walk back with my eldest brother-in-law (to rescue the beef) turned into an interesting discussion about John Peel's life and auto/biography, Margrave of the Marshes. Funny really, I've just finished it, and so too had my other brother-in-law.

And no the beef wasn't burnt to a cinder, so it was a shame I had to pass on the claret as well...

Still, it meant we got home safely!

One of the most enjoyable New Year's I've had in recent times - even if a bit pedestrian by comparision to some of the debauched carryons some had the pleasure to experience. ;)