Sorry to be self indulgent, but just a quick memorial to my favourite guitarist, who sadly passed away today.
Chris Rea was born in Middleborough, now called Teeside, but at the time, Noth Riding of Yorkshire.
His beautiful guitar playing and gravelly voice were the soundtrack of my adolescence, from the poppy "Fool if you think it's over" to the sublime "Auberge", and, of course, he also wrote the classic "Driving Home for Christmas".
I've seen him play at least ten times, and on every occasion, he came over as a nice guy.
Lucy xx

If you want to embark on a successful journey, you have to prepare appropriately. These six questions should help assess if you are prepared to embark on the stage of the gender transition that moves into the realm of non-reversible changes.

please put a penny in poor Maddy's hat, if you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do, if you haven't got a ha'penny, may the Gods bless you.

An easy enough job with the weather we are having hereabouts this week!

but sadly, all too soon i had to return from my jaunt!

I wrote this story some time ago. Until now it was only available as an eBook from online retailers.

It was inspired by a very real protest in 2017. It was chronicled by instinctmagazine.com in their story titled: “Boys in Skirts Beat the Heat—and the System” and featured this photo.

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and with her the snow

are usual in November but it makes them no less unwelcome!

Th story starts in the lobby of a hotel.
An overweight IT consultant wants to enter the lift and bumps in into another man.
This man does a double take because our protagonist looks very much like his missing wife.
IT guy get's hired as doubleganger for the wife.

is here, Hallowe'en is passed, the build up to Weihnachts and the neues Jahre is already starting to ramp up and i'm posting this a day late!

Should be live on Kindle at any moment!

is now available on Patreon!

always seems to fall on Madeline!
Well it sometimes feels like that at any rate.

slowly but surely!

Yep, the diagnosis is in, the days of my malaise are numbered!

That's where i'm at!

For Gaby fans!

to end September and welcome October!

I have been re-reading a group of my favorite stories recently, including Clara’s works on Fictionmania.

Last night, when I finished part five of “Kiss Me Bianca”, closed it, and went to open part six, I suddenly received an error message, which read as follows:

429 Too Many Requests
If you're a human being, try again tomorrow
If you're a bot, go to Hell and stay there!

I am still not able to access anything beyond the entry page at Fictionmania. Anyone else having this issue?

Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Or why I am getting it?

To everything – Kern, Kern, Kern
There is a season - Kern, Kern, Kern
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing

To everything – Kern, Kern, Kern
There is a season - Kern, Kern, Kern
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together

Prohibiting transgender people from owning firearms, their justification being that supposedly, “Statistically, the trans population has been prone to violence.” White House Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka made similar remarks: "In just a couple of years, we have seen seven mass shootings involving people of transgender nature or who are confused in their gender. Seven in just the last couple of years. That is inordinately high."

Let’s look at real facts here:

Yep, I'm now settled at my brothers gaff in Sheffield for a few days!