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Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.

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Tag: Girl-Mode

  • Don’t Stop Me Now

    Seven weeks of full-time girl-mode and it’s going great. How I feel is simple… I’m burnin’ through the sky, yeahTwo hundred degrees, that’s why they call me [Sister] FahrenheitI’m travellin’ at the speed of lightI wanna make a supersonic woman of you After Queen, “Don’t Stop Me Now” It has been a very busy few…

  • Here comes the Sun, and I say “It’s all right”

    It’s three weeks since I wrote about “Stepping into the light”. Since then, I have been having a great time, and introducing Sophie to just about everyone; I’m not hiding her any more, that’s the whole point, and indeed I am actively introducing her to people who know me as Robert but have been as-yet…

  • Croatia Update

    Somewhat to my surprise, Sophie feels very relaxed here after all. I’ve had a few genuinely curious glances but nothing offensive or overtly unfriendly. Very pleasantly surprised by this. Maybe this is what it is like in a society where there has not yet been effort expended by populist politicians, the far right, and hostile…

  • Croatia Beckons

    Freshly returned from România, now off to Croatia for a week, most of which will be work. Some play. And some (finishing my late BCC2025 write-up for a start) a combination of the two. I don’t yet have a great feel for the level of open acceptance of the non-binary in Croatia. The larger cities…

  • Happy Sophie-Day

    Five years ago today, on New Year’s Eve 2019, was the first time that Sophie emerged for a proper night out. Accompanied and supported by my amazing friend Indie, without whom Sophie might never have been more than an idea never realised because of fear and lack of confidence. Fear doesn’t even really convey it;…

  • The only thing we have to fear is…fear itself⁽¹⁾

    Sometimes the only way to deal with a particular fear is to face it, head on[2]. Flying in girl-mode Without being reckless, Sophie can be herself in most European countries (EU/EEA/CH), at least in the Capitals & big cities. She has toured the Vatican (which is full of men in dresses anyway who work there),…

  • Sophie Office Days: 1-30

    “[…] you are the only person I know who could wear a tutu to work and carry it off” (Day 14!) Now Sophie is confident enough to go into an office environment, she has to find suitable non-repeating outfits which won’t match anyone else’s. Sounds simple. It isn’t. So here we are: 30 days, 30…

  • Stepping Out of the Shadows

    As Sophie gradually & progressively steps out of the shadows and into the daylight, she thought it time to give a bit of a shout-out to a few small businesses which have greatly assisted her, one way or another.

  • Size Specifics: Shocking Stockings

    More clothes size woes, but with a sneaky solution

  • Latent Creativity

    Saturday 2023-05-13 brings…. The Eurovision Final! Having singularly failed to obtain tickets for the event itself in Liverpool, I am instead travelling with some friends to the great City of Manchester to watch on a big screen in the VIP Lounge of a bar in the city centre. Manchester, especially the city centre, is extremely…

  • Identity, & Face Matching

    Google photos is pretty good at picking out faces which turn up in multiple photos. I’ve been impressed at times when it has correctly picked up a face in the background which I hadn’t noticed. You can remove an erroneously identified face from a grouping, and merge groups where the same person has been identified…