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Monday, September 17, 2007

Meanwhile, 24 hours earlier


Look, I did go out!

A picture taken in the Campanile Bathroom before I went out to Pink Punters, and Jane and I hooked up with Siobhan,, Joanna and Isobel.

You can tell this picture was taken on the night before, because I'm a lot less baggy-eyed than I was in the pictures I took last night.

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Blogger Mariana  Looking good! I love the metallic tones. 
Anonymous Jessica Shannon  sorry i couldnt make! you should book a post wedding girls night out now though :) 
Blogger Penny M  You look absolutely fantastic Becky! 
Blogger Lucinda  Penny M took my words right out of my mouth mummy! Don't stay in too long. 

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Back by non-popular non-demand

My, hasn't the year flown? Tomorrow is Non Non Photography Day again!

Yep, once again, to counteract the worst excesses of the frankly evil Non Photography Day, I ask you all to spend July 17th photographing everything and anything, just like last year.

Once you've filled your flash cards with images documenting the minutiae of your day (and hopefully thoroughly pissed off a few Non Photography Day adherents with your incessant shutter-clicking) you can upload them to the resurrected Non Non Photography Day Flickr Group which has already started to buzz in anticipation. (Well, a few people have mentioned it, anyway.)

Lets make NNPD 2007 the happiest, snappiest one yet!

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Blogger Joanna  Wow.. is it that time of year already? 
Anonymous Jessica Shannon  Would love to, but it's my grans funeral tomorrow and I don't think me snapping away with my camera all day would go down too well. 
Blogger Becky  Understood Jess, sad news. :-( 
Anonymous Stephanie Delacey  Oh, for goodness sake, what is the point of non-photography day? May I point your readers to my critique of the feeble argument presented last year in defence of this idiotic idea? 
Anonymous Paula Jayne  I was once asked to video a funeral, weddings are alright but that no.
I passed it on to another videographer who later told me that they wanted video of the deceased lying in state, he did it but vowed never to do another. 
Blogger Luis Drayton  Bit late, I know, but I just wanted to add my voice of support to NNPD. Screw "unmediated experience" - I LIKE my experience mediated! 

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

We Sparkled

Sparkle ... what can I say?

No really, what can I say? I've run out of new and interesting ways to do post-outing write ups without slipping into tired cliches.

I want to say "it was so nice to see x y and z again", but that would be boring. But then again, I did meet a lot of nice people, both old friends and new. And it was nice. Really nice. I'll just leave out the list of everyone, because you know who you are.

But that wasn't the important thing.

I want to write up a detailed account of the 3 days, but that would probably be boring too. So I'll summarize: I dressed up a lot. We went out a lot. Sparkle happened around us. And in many cases despite of us.

But that's not the important thing either.

I want to write gushing praise for people like Kim Nolan, and the AXM people, and the hundreds of other people who put an amazing amount of effort into making Sparkle happen.

That's important, but that's not it.

We took quite a few pictures:

Becky @ SparkleJane and ClarissaJo @ SparkleValerie with PuddingSackville GardensPhoto Op

But, believe it or not, that's not the most important thing.

This is the most important thing: I felt great. And, for the first time in a fair while, I felt like I looked great. Which, sometimes, is the most important thing of all.

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Blogger Valerie S  Was fabulous to see you and spend time together again! 
Blogger Mariana  You do look great, and your self-confidence shows. 
Blogger Penny M  The great thing about Sparkle is the chance to meet friends and have a chat. The terrible thing is that it is so busy that you only get a chance to wave or exchange a few words with so many people.

Oh, and the other terrible thing is the way your heels sink in the mud (Glastonbury must be torture for trannies this year).

And, there is turning up in the park to see the act you were looking forward to is just leaving the stage.

And, and trying to get to the loo... 
Anonymous Stacey  We never got to see eachother for our customary micro-chat, glad you had a great time!! 
Blogger Karol Cross  Becky
You did look great, and thats official! 

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Monday, May 28, 2007

This morning I are mainly knackered

Blergh... it might not look it on the map, but Britain is big. Traveling any distance across it is a tiring process.

The main purpose of the trip was a party at Jessica's to celebrate her quarter-century, which was great fun. Look, I dressed!

Bad bunch, best of

Yeah, I know it's not that good a picture, but it was the best of a bad bunch and, as Siobhan points out, I'm bound by The Law. If we don't post pictorial proof that we've dressed in public within 48 hours, according to Transvestite Law it never actually happened, and these big black flying monsters turn up to erase the event from history. True! My hands are tied.

Oh, and guess who we went to see on Sunday! Only one of the icons of the UK tranniesphere, that's who! She might seem to disappear occasionally, and she's getting a little long in the tooth, but she's still one of Lancaster's finest. I'm talking of course about, Erin. Well, we were kind of in the neighbourhood, seemed rude not to. She's looking well. Oh, and Siobhan was there too. Which was nice. :-)

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Blogger Penny M  What do you mean, its a lovely picture! 
Blogger Jessica Hart  Yes, it is a lovely picture - wish I could get away with a skirt that length (well, get away with it and not look like mutton dressed up as lamb) 

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Good, despite lack of dinosaurs

"Lets go to the Raptor Foundation!" Jane said. She always itching to get behind the wheel of my hot-rod Vauxhall Corsa to test her newly restored driving skills.

After being patiently convinced that not all raptors are two-legged dinosaur killing machines, I agreed.

It was a jolly good day out. I took some pictures...

Bubo bubo

Raptor

Single minded

There are a few more on Flickr, if you're interested.

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Blogger hannaviolane  saw the photos on flickr Bex....they are spectacular! especially the bottom one of these 3 
Blogger Michelle Faith  your seriously in the wrong job!! you'd make a killing 

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Friday, February 23, 2007

Picnik


Picnik is a free online photo editing tool I've been playing with this morning.

It will do all the everyday photo-tinkering functions, without the need for a desktop app. If you've not got a tool for editing photos, or you're working away from your desktop, this is ideal.

Best of all, it integrates fully with Flickr. You can even use it to touch-up photos that are already in your stream on-the-fly (although it does seem to want to reduce the resolution of very large photos by a fraction).

I was quite impressed. And now no-one's got an excuse for uploading bad pics to Flickr! ;-)

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Blogger Gordon  Very neat, bookmarked! 
Blogger Lynn Jones  Thanks for the handy hint.

Problem
In
Chair
Not
In
Komputer

Clearly a Rusky acronym. :) 
Anonymous Anonymous  J!mmy, 4/3/07
Just thorght I'd drop you a line, this site is one of the coolest I've ever been on! I m a transvestite myself and it is such a good feeling to know there is one more person out there that's cool with looking 'girly' I love your pictures Becky you look great!
-Keep donig the good work babes x 

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Diffraction


Today I mostly went to the beach.

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Blogger Lynn Jones  There's some lovely stretches of sand / pebbles Norfolk way. Ahhh... happy summer memories. I bet it was a bit bracing today tho!

If you don't mind me asking, which beach was that? 
Blogger Becky  Holkham beach on the North Norfolk coast, Lynn. 'Twas nice. 
Blogger Lynn Jones  Thanks. Ahhh.... Holkham. Well worth the walk (if memory serves me correctly).

Oh to be strolling down the beach, shoes in hand than being stuck at work. Roll on summer! 
Anonymous Natalie  Is that the same Holkham as Holkham Hall in Norfolk? It's a great architectural wonder. You really should go if you haven't been. 

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

2 months in 10 seconds

In mid-November I stood beneath a tree on the bank of the Ouse, looked up and took a picture of it's gold-green canopy.

This week the Ouse burst burst it's banks, flooding the surrounding water meadows, and today Jane and I took a walk to see the results. Recognising the same tree, now bereft of leaves, I stood in nearly the same spot and took another picture.

In one way, the video below took two months to make. In another way, it took about half an hour experimenting with Morph Age morphing software.

Either way, I'm kinda proud of it. :-)



You can see the original pictures here and here.

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Anonymous Charlee  Wow, that is incredibly beautiful. Very cool. Another feature you could do regularly perhaps? 
Anonymous Anonymous  That's rather good. Simple, yet clever.

It would be interesting to see some 'before & after' pictures as buildings / streets change from the past to the modern. 
Anonymous Anonymous  I have one of New York before and now pcitures. It's really interesting - especially as some of the buildings have only recently come down! (And others are, fortunately, still standing). I think I might have one about San Francisco, too, but I can't remember if it just showed old pics of SF, with some new ones. (I love San Francisco).

One of London would be good. (I love London, too)

Neat morphing, Becky!
Carolyn Ann 
Anonymous Nicola  Very professional, I'm impressed.

Maybe one day we'll see Simon become Becky right before our eyes?? ;-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  Amazing Becky! How did you know exactly where to stand? And exactly where to point the camera? 
Blogger Becky  I didn't know exactly where to stand, Penny, it was a fairly lucky guess. :-) And if you look at the originals you'll see that they're actually quite different. I just cropped them the same for the morph, and made it quite slow so it's less obvious that things are moving. 
Anonymous Anonymous  You have a good eye for composition. Since you like the outdoor shot , have you thought of getting a lens baby lens? 

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Thursday, November 30, 2006

I think I need more food


Hmmm, eggs make a meal out of anything. HP sauce doesn't.

Forget Naan Bolognese. Brown Sauce á la spread, anyone?

...

I need to go shopping again, don't I? :-S

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Anonymous Anonymous  Don't worry Petal, I have food.

xxx 
Anonymous Beki  Mmm, my two least favourite food substances! 
Blogger Billy  I have scraped the barrel of desperation a few times with pasta, ketchup and ready-grated cheese.

It's quite nice though. 
Blogger Kris  You must be an astoundingly neat person. When my fridge is completely empty, it still looks full of crap. 
Blogger Gordon  Hmmm no shelves in yer fridge either? Deary me. 
Blogger Becky  I should explain that because my fridge had reached a similar state to the one Kris describes I decided to give it a thorough cleaning.

This involved chucking away all the half-pots of curry paste and chunks of Possibly Cheese, and removing the shelves for cleaning.

When it came to putting back the stuff I wanted to keep I found I only had the items shown above. :-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  What you chucked away your shelves?

Tis Madness I tell you! 
Anonymous Anonymous  ...of course there are things that lurk in my fridge.

I try not to think about them. 
Anonymous Alli' Cat'  Is there an idea for a new reality tv show / flickr group here?
I'm thinkin' "How manky is your fridge?" 
Anonymous Claudia  I present:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xq-sssO7J1I 
Anonymous Charlotte  I think the worst desperate no food or money meal i ever made was pasta with marmite, the theory being that at least that way the pasta would taste interesting, suffice it to say afterwards i stuck to plain pasta. 
Anonymous PennyM  Becky, there is absolutley no need to clean out a fridge. If you leave stuff long enough, it evolves legs and walks out of its own accord. 

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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Rain


Lots of the wet stuff about today. Luckily I'm indoors with everything I need, i.e. hot soup and big mugs of coffee.

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Blogger hannaviolane  yes bex and the so called 'heat wave' of july now seems a million miles away as its so dman awful!
great pic tho! x 
Blogger Pandora Caitiff  Wow! Fantastic pic. How did you get that cool effect? 
Blogger Becky  It's all to do with "difference", Pandora. :-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  I think I'd rather have the rain...I got 45 cm of snow yesterday and expecting even more 

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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Wide versus deep


I pointed out a strange fact to Jane today: because of this site, more people know me as Becky than know me as Simon.

She agreed, but noted that although fewer people knew me as Simon, the ones that did knew me a lot better.

Which is also true.

One type of knowledge is wide but shallow, the other deep but narrow. Overall, they're probably roughly equal.

That's all there is to this post... I thought it might go somewhere but it didn't. Ho hum. :-)

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Anonymous NH  Did you deface that bench? Tsch, youth of today! 
Blogger Becky  Nah, it was someone else. :-) 

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Monday, November 13, 2006

Nothing camper than a Campanile


They've done it up! It's all leather sofas and twirly cane things in vases. Feels a bit weird drinking here in male mode.

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Blogger Joanna  I think they just hide the cane things when the trannies are in town.

Any tomatoes on the roast dinners tonight? 

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Monday, October 30, 2006

How to make your own Fetish PVC Witch costume

Hello boys and girls!

With Halloween rapidly approaching, you might be stuck for costume ideas. A lot of outfits can be quite expensive, but I’ve got an idea for a great costume that you can make cheaply at home. This outfit would make an ideal present for a tranny in your family, so you might want to make sure that they leave the room before we continue.

Are they gone? Great!

The Modern Witch Has To Be Technologically Savvy

Take a look at this outfit that Becky’s modelling, looks fantastic doesn’t it? You’d expect to pay at least 2 guineas for an outfit that good from a posh PVC shop in Knightsbridge. But would you believe it cost less than 20 pounds? That’s right!

First you need to make your PVC dress. For this I used a standard PVC maid’s uniform, of the kind that everyone has stashed away somewhere! If you’re not sure where there’s one in your house, just ask mummy or daddy!

One you have the PVC maid’s uniform, discard the satin pinny and badly-made lace headband, as it won’t be needed for this costume. You might want to wash off any obvious stains, although these add to the character of the final outfit!

Next, you’ll need to make the underskirt or “petticoats”. For this you will need about 4 metres of gauzy material, which you can get from that shop in town with the faded sewing patterns in the window that’s been going for donkey’s years and seems to keep afloat even though hardly anyone visits apart from little old ladies on market day who go in for bizarrely coloured wool and a natter with the strangely fey elderly gentleman who’s worked there forever.

He’ll also sell you some black ribbon, about 3 metres will do. He’ll also try to show you some pictures of him and his young gentleman friend on holiday in Tuscany, but politely decline and leave the shop swiftly.

You might want to get an assistant (sometimes called a Tranny Wallah) to help you with this part. You need to fold the material twice along it’s whole length, so that you have 4 metres of quadruple-thick gauzy material. Pin the material near the folded edge to keep it in place, and then sew along the whole length about 1 inch away from the folded edge.

Jane sewing the tutu

Now you can feed the ribbon down along the sewn edge of the material and gather it together. The gathered edge can be adjusted so that it fits neatly around the waist, and then the ribbons tied and cut to length.

Next the hat. Like me you’re probably thinking “there’s bugger all chance of me sourcing a PVC witch’s hat”, but actually I found one in the first costume shop I walked into. Which just goes to show that children today are all going to grow up perverts.

The devil is in the detail

Finally, add a pair of 5-inch heeled shoes that you just know are going to be torture after about 10 minutes, a set of cheap false nails from a joke shop, and a pair of expensive tights that cost extra because some “designer” put extra holes in them, et voila!

T*witch

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Blogger Siobhan Curran  Ha! Brilliant! :D

I didn't realise it was PVC from the photo - I thought you'd used sticky-backed plastic ;-) 
Anonymous Dana Strauss  Looks awesome! Recycling the maid outfit was a great idea. There's no point letting a perfectly good item of clothing collect dust because you don't need it for its "intended" purpose. :) 
Blogger hannaviolane  this i found to be most imformative becky ( ive printed out the instructions and placed in taupe coloured folder for next year) however you did not mention if i should use scissors with rounded ends or proper ones that i can accidentaly stab myself in the wrist with? please advise and like Siobhan i already had lying around some sticky backed plastic ( doesnt everyone) and washing up liquid bottle tops ( tesco value of course) and 3000 cardboard egg boxes, are you telling me that i do not need there either!!! 
Blogger steph_angel  Tranny 'Blue Peter'... It simply has to be done :-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  Hannah - seeing as I am a fully qualified Tranny Wallah (TM me btw) I think that if you promise not to run with them and are very careful you can use proper ones or if you have them pinking scissors. :D 
Blogger hannaviolane  ahh thank you jane yes i thought you were! ok well if not i shall ask a responsible adult to help me or if there is not one handy, my mummy....." shep get down, i said get down shep!" 
Anonymous Anonymous  Really like them patterned tights 
Anonymous Anonymous  very good. im going to make my own outfit from sexy red pvc soon.

love pvc - yum!

nice tights very cool
Mistress Pinkytoes xx 

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Witching hour


It was great fun. Expect full blog post later this week.

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Anonymous Beki  We have to wait?! That's just wrong! 
Blogger Joanna  Amazing what you can do with bin bags these days ;)

Great outfit, looking forward to the write up... 
Blogger Pandora Caitiff  Yow! Halloween is the PVC holiday

Puts my outfit to shame. :(

Mind you, I wasn't trying to pass, so was able to slack a bit... 

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

China Girl


I have a habit of pinning things to the notice board in my kitchen and never taking them down, so that new items get pinned to the strata of old ones.

I had a bit of a clear-out yesterday and re-disovered this little gem...

er...

Some explanation may be necessary.

I was working on multimedia learning package in the late nineties, and we were looking through a set of stock photography for pictures of rabbits. We came across this picture of a bunny lounging on a cushion in what looked liked Chinese boudoir.

The rabbit seemed to have a strangely sultry expression. Someone (probably me) suggested that it looked like high-class porn for bunny fanciers. And from that this spoof magazine cover developed.

Don't look at the close up, whatever you do.

Yeah, I know, it's wrong. I'm not into rabbits. Honest. :-/

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Blogger Miss K  What's most unsettling is how you have it pinned up proudly on your cork board... 
Blogger Becky  But it was under other things! Under! Hidden! Unseen! 
Blogger Valerie S  Too late. 
Anonymous Anonymous  "small but satisfying- why not mice" made me laugh,.... and then scowl disapprovingly because obviously it's very wrong to do erm....that to mice.....obviously.... 
Anonymous Stacey  I'm much more loving my mate Squirtle in the house!! 
Anonymous Tiffany  ...that's hot. 
Anonymous NH  I see someone's been shopping at Timpsons: The Quality Services People. 
Anonymous Stacey  There also appears to be a crude artist's impression of you Becky...perhaps Tony Hart running Crimewatch's Artist Impression Dept? 
Blogger Becky  Oi! My friend Sophie did that, and I like it! :P 
Anonymous Mrs Y  Whoops. I read that as "small but satisfying why not half price" 
Anonymous Mrs Y  In my defence I wasn't looking at the close up. 
Blogger Chrissy  Anyone with a Pokemon character on their board, is OK in my book... 

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Holiday '06

That was a fun week. :-)

It started with a Very British Tranny Night down in London. I looked like this:

It's not necessarily a 'bad' cliché

For about 5 minutes before we went out of the door. Then as usual it all went a bit rough round the edges. The outfit was kinda built around the gold lamé skirt, which I found a couple of weeks ago in Milton Keynes. It sang to me.

Amazingly, I sucessfully recognised and chatted with everyone I was supposed to at Trans-Mission. Including the delegates from Tokyo, Sydney, Finland and All Points Not King's Lynn.

Then a brief Thistle Full English Breakfast and a snooze and it was off to Portugal. The bit at the bottom they call the Algarve.

Which was great. I've never done a "beach" holiday before, normally I like to keep busy and go places where I can point at architecture and say "that's interesting" in a John Major accent. So it was a nice change of gear.

The Algarve during the summer season must be absolutely heaving, judging by the number of bars and restaurants there are to cater for tourists. The great thing was they were all still open despite the lack of customers, so we were spoilt for choice for places to eat and drink. At the same time the weather was still very good, so it seemed like the best of both worlds.

We spent most of the time lounging on the beach. I caught up with some essential work: reading a Pratchett Backlog and finding the entrance to World 4 on Super Mario Brothers. You know, real important stuff that tends to slip if you don't make time for it.

I also took some nice pictures, I'm not going to bore you by showing you them all.

I am going to bore you by showing you some of them.

This was the view from our apartment.

Night Lights

The cars really did whizz past leaving lines like that. But only after the third or fourth glass of Port.

Here's a shot taken on the beach that I'm kinda proud of.

Beach Furniture

And finally, a shop for Lady's Things.

For Lady's Things

Oh yeah, that reminds me, I've also been reading the most astonishing piece of transgendered fiction ever commited to paper. I've got no idea how or when I can blog about it though.

Or if anyone's even interested. I always get the feeling after coming back from a blog break that everyone might have wandered off to do Other Things. ;-)

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Blogger Michelle Faith  good pics I like to black and white one. I'm interested in the TG fictions. 
Blogger Miss K  Welcome back. Did you remember my duty frees? a carton of 200 low tar gussets from the lady's shop, I think it was. 
Blogger Pandora Caitiff  Glad you had a good time. Maybe you could tell us the name of the author or peice of tranny fiction so we can experience it ourselves?

Maybe we can start a TG book club...

Nah, probably better not. 
Blogger Becky  Nah you wouldn't want to read this Pandora. I really wouldn't want to inflict it on you. :-D 
Blogger Clarissa  Welcome back... glad you had a good week.

I'm glad to see that you did decide to read the latest (non-)addition to the Sunday Times Best Seller list then. I look forward to reading the review. :) 
Anonymous Beki  > "finding the entrance to World 4 on Super Mario Brothers"

The one on World 1-Level 2? Up to the top of the "Up lift", jump on to the ceiling of the level and then jump over the "down lift" on to the ceiling of the leelv again and keep running? :0) I love Mario! 
Anonymous NH  Does this piece of fiction contain any gems such as "how was Oxford Street?" "Effluvial!"? How many tranny fiction boxes does it tick on the checklist?

1. A mad aunt who forces the boy to wear girls clothes and puts hormones in his food without him knowing?

2. Does the boy have to endure a punishment of dressing like a girl, being forced to act like a girl and being pimped by his sister and her friends to a half-mad Spanish sex maniac?

3. Does the boy have to wear Edwardian style crinolines and petticoats with voluminous frilly panties that show from under the impossibly short dress?

4. Is the main character a boy under 14?

5. Will it win the Bad Sex Award? 
Blogger Billy  The beach picture is excellent! 
Blogger Becky  NH: 1. No. 2. No 3. No. 4. No. 5. Yes.

A pathetic 1 out of 5. You are the Hole in the Ring, goodbye! ;-)

Billy: Thanks. :-) 
Blogger Connie Cox  Welcome back to the gorgeous UK weather.
Love the B&W pic 
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Blogger Pandora Caitiff  Re: The Tranny fiction. Ah! I had completely the wrond end of the stick. Since we're playing 20 questions:

Is it a blog/Flickr profile masquerading as real life?

Would a really bad Fictionmania contributer slag it off for bad writing?

:D 

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Envéritély


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Blogger steph_angel  Sorry for the SPAM but couldn't really think of any easier way to do this :-/

As my domain has been nabbed, my blog link has changed to www.steph-angel.com/blog

Hopeless plugging I know... Sorry ;-) 

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Sunday, October 08, 2006

That's what I'm talking about


It's not been processed much, basically what came out of the camera with a little contrast adjustment and cropping.

This looks like me, it's not entirely flattering, but it's how I looked last night, and I think I look great. That's a good photograph.

Thanks April. Nice to catch up to. So many old friends, blah blah blah. :-)

Last night was good fun. I might blog about it properly if I get a chance.

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Blogger Becky T  I agree Bex, it's a good photograph. You look great! 
Blogger Connie Cox  Lovely photo.
Sorry we couldn't make it but at least Tracy is feeling better now. 
Blogger VB-W  The lighting, clarity and contrast seem different between fore and background. You sure this isn't a superimposed image? 
Blogger Becky  No, that's just the photographer's skill in bringing out the foreground. But I see what you mean. :-) 
Blogger April Angell  ok you want the technical explanation? first off there is a disco light on full beam right behind Becky's head (very deliberate positioning on my part) this acts as an impromptu hair light and adds a contrast line around Beckys shilloette (sp?) this gives the picture a bit of "pop" and will add to that superimposed look. now because the light is behind Becky the only illumination on her will be from my off camera flash which I held above me and too the left (note the shadow under her nose for positioning). Additionally the camera has been calibrated to 2500 Kelvin and the flash to 3200k (flash is normally 5500K but I use a quarter CT Orange gel to bring the temperature down). Because I mixed colour temperatures thats why Becky looks "cooler" than her surroundings (in more ways than one) which get much less exposure from the flashgun. Finally because the exposure on Becky is flash only and the background is majority ambient light (with a little spill from the flash) thats why Becky is super sharp and the background blurred. Its also because I used F5.6 aperture to add to the blur but I using about 3/4 sec exposure so you get motion as well as focus blur to soften the background. You see, it's all done in camera - none of this photoshop fiddling around afterwards. And most definately NOT superimposed (maybe super-posed but thats it) 
Blogger April Angell  Sorry I used a FULL CT orange gel - not quarter. I use a quarter sometimes in daylight work - but at night its the full one. 
Blogger Joanna  best use of an orange I've seen all weekend.... 
Blogger April Angell  oranges are not only fruit... oh this intellectual banter kills me :-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  what a gorgeous shot! you look fabulous, bex. nicely done april. 
Anonymous ManAboutTown  You look absolutely gorgeous 
Blogger Connie Cox  It is a very nice photo.
So all everyone needs to do is drag round someone who knows all that technical photo taking stuff....... 
Anonymous Alli' Cat'  So April, easy-peasy then? ;-) 
Blogger VB-W  Silly me. Fill in flash. Used it many times. Also accounts for the difference in colour balance. I shall lay my head upon the anvil so you can stamp on it. 
Blogger Gordon  Excellent photo. Both composition and pose and... all those other things photographers harp on about.

Me? I know what I like, and I like the look of this photo. 

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Look how hard my pen is


One of the countless perks of working in healthcare... free pens from drugs companies!

I've had this one for ages, shows no signs of wearing out yet.

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Blogger Selina  I have Viagra software to make my floppy drive into a hard drive.

And Viagra eye-drops so that I can look hard. 
Anonymous Tiffany  I get stuff like that all the time from my mother...one has like, a blue part that LOOKS like it should be really squishy, but it's totally not.


....yeah. 
Anonymous Simon From Space  That pen is is mightier than a pork sword. 

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...


... my MiniCards from Moo came today!

I couldn't resist buying a full set on top of my freebie ones, and I'm glad I did, they're awesome!

These are Simon ones... now I need to buy some for Becky. :-)

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Anonymous Tiffany  Ooh, those are so pretty! I wish I could've gotten cards of mine. Grrs. Someday. 
Anonymous Anonymous  they are very very cute and lovely! mine arrived yesterday:) 

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Jane


Just thought I'd blog this, cos it's a nice pic. :-)

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Blogger Miss K  That is beautiful. Dare I say Audrey Hepburn-esque! 
Blogger Joanna  Looking Lovely.... 
Blogger Jane  Miss K you can say Audrey Hepburn-esque as much as you like as far as I'm concerned :D

Jo - thankyou. 
Anonymous Tiffany  Oh, that is very nice indeed. I wish I had a picture of myself like that. Jane, you're officially lucky to have a fantastic picture like that. :D 
Blogger Kat  Content.

As in peaceful... obviously.

Nice. 
Blogger Connie Cox  Looking very contented.
Lovely photo 
Blogger Billy  Marvellous pic. *applauds* 
Blogger Joggerblogger  :-) 
Blogger Sarah Louise Parry  very natural, very nice 

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Becky wuz here (and here... and here...)

So Flickr have properly integrated geotagging into their service, and it seems to work quite well.

I've spent a semi-constructive hour or so going through my old pics and tagging some of them with their locations. At first I just did the ones of interesting architecture and such, but then I thought: why not the ones of me too?

After all, Becky does get about a bit (quiet down at the back).

Early Morning on the Beach, Barcelona

So now you can find out just exactly where pictures like the one above were taken, if you were so moved.

One thing that annoys me a little is that they've used Yahoo's mapping service, which is a poor imitation of Google Maps. Flickr freely admit it's not as detailed as it should be, and are promising to work on it, but at the moment I'm wishing Google had bought Flickr and not Yahoo!

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Blogger Jane  Yahoo Maps are piss poor compared to Google Maps. 
Anonymous Magpie  I've spent far too much time over the last two days playing with this new toy, and I must say that while Yahoo maps are generally rubbish in comparison to google (coverage of birmingham is piss poor) there have been a few places where yahoo has actually had better coverage. 
Blogger Becky  Yeah you're right Clair, in some places the satellite coverage is better, it will be nice when they get proper road maps for the UK too.

I found the best technique was to find places in Google Maps, then switch to satellite view, and compare it to the satellite view in Flickr! :-) 
Blogger Jessica  2 things bothered me about their mapping thing, the yahoo maps are crap, and they don't geotag the images! The geotagging format is a common microstandard that loads of other utils make use of, they could have at least offered it as an option. It wouldn't have been half as bad if they had a proximity search in their api but they don't!

Oh and bex I'm listening to the soundtrack from our Barcelona DVD :) 
Blogger Cathii Scott  I agree that the Yahoo maps are aweful. Apparently the river that runs right through the middle of Perth is actually the Canning River and not the Swan River as every other map in the world shows it.

And what is with these markings on the maps that don't correspond with any feature I know of. Double dashed blue lines.... what are they? Alien landing zones? 
Anonymous Magpie  "I found the best technique was to find places in Google Maps, then switch to satellite view, and compare it to the satellite view in Flickr! :-) "

That's exactely what I was doing. One can only hope that now the yahoo maps are exposed to a much larger audience they'll invest more time in upgrading them. 
Anonymous Eduardo Manchon  For those of you who are from areas not well covered by Yahoo Maps, like England or Australia, our project Panoramio may be interesting. I mean, not like an alternative to Flickr, but just like a place focused in geolocated photos with Google Maps.

In Panoramio you can locate your photos via drag and drop interface using Google Maps. You can also watch the photos in Google Earth through KML feed.

Hope you like it, we have been working very hard on it

Eduardo 
Blogger jessica_sweet_tv_mx  It is a great idea indeed, to locate were pics were taken, but indeed the yahoo maps, don't have the capability or detail to do it properly 

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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Cardiff...


...is not nearly as interesting as you'd imagine if, for example, your entire prior knowledge of the place is based on watching Doctor Who.

There are a lot less gaseous aliens, and a lot more stag and hen parties. And the only thing vaguely resembling a planet-threatening Slitheen-designed power plant is an odd cooling tower shaped wooden chimney over the Welsh assembly. Although I assume this is mainly for funnelling hot air safely away from the politicians below.

Speaking of which, why do the Welsh have an "assembly"? What do they do there? I'm guessing visits from the nit nurse and talks by the local Chief Constable.

Before I get mugged by a dozen Welsh readers I'd better counter that with some England-bashing. Erm, the English are all rubbish at making cheese on toast. There, that should do it.

I'm not too sure about Cardiff, I went on a whim for no other reason that it was nearby and somewhere I'd never been before.

It seems like a place in transition. There are some admirable attempts to graft a modern city onto it's old industrial bones, with varying levels of success. The waterfront, for example, is aching to be a South Bank, but currently feels more like a Southend. Trendy wine bars seem to be fighting a battle with chip shops and vendors of tatt.

Maybe I'll go back in a few years time and see who won.

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Anonymous Steph Angel  "Trendy wine bars seem to be fighting a battle with chip shops and vendors of tatt."

Funny, that's exactly what it was like about 6 years ago when I last went... Sounds like a mighty slow refurb :-o 
Blogger Connie Cox  but currently feels more like a Southend

What do they have a mile long bonfire too? ;-)

So you didn't spot any police boxes recharging? 
Anonymous Anonymous  A few miles further on you get treated to the delights of Port Talbot...at night it's a cross between Canvey Island and the opening scenes in "Blade Runner".

Further along from that, you get Swansea which we won't dwell too much on but just outside of that you get to the great named town of The Mumbles...a place which is a colony for English people. Imagine how that place was named:

"Oh, I say old chap, what is this place called?...I think it's jolly spiffy and me and the wife would like to purchase a house here."

"Llandfillapwyllignygnny haballaba fnord ichtyddyd."

"Whatever...let's call it The Mumbles instead". 
Blogger Jessica  Me and Soph were only about 30 miles away from Cardiff 
Blogger Jane  Oooh where Jess? Mind you considering some of the roads it could have been hours away. 
Blogger Daisy  Wish I'd know you were in town as we don't get many celebrities down here. I live in Cardiff, before that I lived in Swansea and reading your entry it was starting to get my dander-up (please insert you own joke here…). But then I realised I'm a Yorkshire Lass really, so that was alright. What can I say about Port Talbot, at night it is beautiful in an industrial sort of way but in the cold light of the day it is horrifying to the environmentalist in me. As for Dr Who, I do keep running into film crews for Touch Wood. Lastly, Cardiff (sorry lived here a while now so I’ve got to) is really beautiful if you know where to look. 
Blogger Daisy  My last message was sponsored by the Welsh Tourist board. 
Blogger Becky  I think I needed a guide Daisy!

I hope my email didn't write off Cardiff as a tourist destination. I know that there must be some great places to see if you know where to look, it's just that in a weekend break you don't really get the time to explore a place.

And judging by the huge number of stag and hen parties I saw, Cardiff's doing OK for pulling in the tourist pound. :-) 
Blogger Daisy  I don't know if it still is but Wales used to have the number 2 destination in the World (behind Vegas) for Hen and Stag nights, yes you guessed it Tenby. Don’t worry Bex I was only teasing, Cardiff is like most cities, very easy to miss the good bits. One more Wales / Cardiff fact, the first 1 million pound cheque was written down the bay in Cardiff (in the Coal Exchange – which is now a really good venue to see bands). Anyway enough of Cardiff and more talk of shiney things. 

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Over and out


Thanks to Jane wangling us some tickets, I spent the afternoon at an RAF families day.

Families days are basically the forces' way to show what all our taxes are being spent on. I'm exceptionally pleased to see mine have been spent on bouncy castles and beer tents. :-)

It was a jolly nice way to spend the last day of the heatwave (it officially ends tomorrow folks, and I don't need an illegal Met Office feed to tell me that).

One of the best bits was a display by the Red Arrows. I love the Red Arrows, they demonstrate what the British forces do best: incredibly precise manouvres very close together whilst clad in bright red camouflage. If we could get the red arrows to wear furry black busbies we would.

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Blogger VB-W  That looks a very similar move to one I saw years ago where they drew a giant heart in the sky and put an arrow through it. Loadsa applause that day. 
Blogger VB-W  That looks a very similar move to one I saw years ago where they drew a giant heart in the sky and put an arrow through it. Loadsa applause that day. 
Blogger jessica_sweet_tv  If only I have read this before my silly comment in flickr 
Blogger Pandora Caitiff  The Arrows did the heart/arrow thing at the Lowestoft Air Show on Thursday.

They're cool, but I prefer the sheer insanity of the Royal Jordanian Falcons. 
Anonymous NH  I always like the big Valentine's heart they do with the third plane rocketing through the middle to do the arrow...flash gits. 

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Friday, July 21, 2006

Mosaic


I just thought I'd share this with you. It's a mosaic portrait Jim Bumgardner created of little old me, using photomosaic software he wrote himself.

You have to zoom in to see the full effect; the picture is made up of thousands of individual photographs of flowers. I think it's fantastic!

Jim is a bit of a Flickr star, he designed Colrpickr, a brilliant tool that finds pictures on Flickr based on colour. He also co-wrote the book Flickr Hacks, among many other projects. I feel quite honoured to be the subject of one of his works!

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Anonymous Sylvia  That looks awesome. 
Blogger Joanna  Nice work! And a proper mosaic rather than just tinting the pictures. Very cool. 
Anonymous Alli' Cat'  Following your link to Jim Bumgardner (snigger - childish I know, but hey?), I stumbled across this site: "http://www.josleys.com/index.php". If you like Escher, tessellations, fractals, etc. then check out his work. Don'cha just love t'interweb!
P.S. flattered, or what? 
Blogger sim  ooo nifty ! 
Blogger Freiya  neat-o! 
Anonymous Isobel  PLEASE, don't ask me to identify them ;o) 
Anonymous Penny M  Great! Jim's automated Chuck Close! 

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Sunday, July 16, 2006

The Basil that Lived

I have a love-hate relationship with fresh basil. You know, the kind that comes in it's own little plant pot. I see it on the shelf in Tescos and think "mmmm, basil, great for pizzas and pasta and stuff."

So I buy it, take it home, snip a few bits off for my tea, and watch it die.

I am the Dr. Harold Shipman of herb care.

Except this one. I was going away for a long weekend, so as an experiment I stuck the pot in half a sinkful of water, thinking it would probably drown.

But it thrived. So I keep it constantly in a big bowl of water and it loves it. It's even survived several prunings for various pasta dishes.

You're probably saying "yeah Becky, that's how you keep basil, everyone knows that."

Actually you're probably saying "Worst. Blog. Post. Ever."

Hell, I needed something to replace that last blog entry. :-)

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Blogger Jane  Don't forget to snip off the flower heads before they bloom, that will keep it going for longer as well. 
Blogger Joanna  We have a little herb patch in the corner of our garden, planted a few of these. Mint, Basil etc .. Only plants I dont seem to kill :-) 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  Anyone any good with parsley? I planted some in the yard and all it's done is grow really long stems with flowers on them.

Not what you want really. :-\ 
Blogger Miss K  This is actually a very good blog post - I always wondered how to keep the buggers alive.

It's much more interesting than my last post anyway. 
Anonymous Steph Angel  Basic rule for most herbs is... Give them bucket fulls of water & (importantly) pick them on a regular basis, it encourages more growth.

The 2 exceptions are...

Mint - Do what the f#@k you like with it, it would probably survive the holocaust!!!

Coriander - It will die... Don't waste your time or money!!! 
Anonymous Natalie  Most definitely herbs are worth your time. Basil, oregano, and especially rosemary are soo much better fresh. Just give them buckets of water. They don't like this southern US heat too well.... 
Blogger thribble  I love you soooo much. I've killed masses of the stuff since coming to Oz, and leaving my herb garden behind. Having moved to a 1st floor flat, herb garden isn't an option - it's just a graveyard! Off to buy more basil and a bucket. 
Anonymous PaulaJayne  Was the Basil Faulty??? 
Anonymous Isobel  Basil can be a very vain and greedy plant: it loves full exposure (to the sun),it drinks a lot, and really likes being fed.

Parsley is a biennial: when it eventualy germinates it will grow quite well for the first year, storing energy in it's root. In it's second year all that energy is used for reproduction. So plant some every year and remove any incipient flower heads. Parsley is related to carrots, parsnips, angelica, coriander, and... er... hemlock. Just remember what happened to Socrates. 
Blogger Pete Johns  Thribble's right, we have pots of dead basil on our balcony. It usually dies shortly after I put a bit in the ratatouille! 
Anonymous Alan Titchmarsh  Stuff the gardening, can we have more tranny related posts please :D 
Blogger Charlee Brown  Took me ages to get a basil plant to live. My Mother, who really doesn't have green fingers, revived mine by mistake by it falling in the sink. So that's how I learnt that lesson.

I do however, REALLY, want to know how to keep the coriander alive. And out of interest, when I once asked in Tesco, they said "they're not suppose to last you know" and I questioned why they called them "living herbs" they pointed out that they were alive til I got them home 8-) 
Anonymous Sirena  I hear Basil was a Siberian hamster. 

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Colour Illusion

I saw a link to and intriguing optical illusion on Siobhan's blog, and decided to try to reproduce the affect myself.

Hover your mouse over the image and stare at the black dot in the middle, move your mouse away without moving your eyes. The black and white picture will appear in colour, until you move your eyes.



Clever huh? I could explain how it works, but that would be rather boring. What was slightly annoying was, after I'd worked out how to do it all by myself, I then found the tutorial. :-)

Also Jessica tells me she's trying to do an automated version that works with pictures from Flickr, so watch out for that!

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Blogger Siobhan Curran  Not working for me Bex - I think you haven't got the MMi_swapImage() and MMi_swapImageRestore() scripts on this page anywhere 
Blogger Becky  Thanks Siobhan, I spotted it. :-)

It didn't help that I made a minor edit to my blogger template to put the scripts you mentioned in the header, except that blogger had the clever idea of not loading my entire template when I edited it, so when I save the changes it cut off the last 1/3rd...

So that necessitated going to find a backup of my template... which was on another machine.

Fun fun fun! 
Blogger Jessica  Trying to reverse engineer the photoshop filters is giving me a headache :-/ I've got the formula for calculating luminosity but it just doesn't come out right. I'm getting there though :) 
Anonymous Becky T  Whoo, that's even cooler than the Whirlytron 2000. Nice picture of you too, Bex! 
Blogger Michelle Faith  that is really cool , it's also a great picture too. What that with your canon 
Blogger metrogeekboy  truly amazing darling! 
Blogger Daniela  COOL! I've seen this and it's easy to do in Photoshop. Jessica, you've to generate two images. The first one is a plain grayscale, made with "Image/Adjust/Desaturate". For the other, fill your color original with 50% gray in Luminosity mode and invert. Voilà! 
Blogger Jessica  I know daniela, but i was trying to do an automated version to work as a flickr toy, I can't do that with photoshop. Anyway, I gave up! I got it pretty close but it didn't look quite right and the colours didn't come out very vivid.

I might go back to it sometime 

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Becky's Web...


...a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist!

(Well, doesn't exist for the purposes of this blog, anyway.)

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Engerland


A pub off Russell Square, a pint of lager, and football on the telly. What could be more English?

Oh, perhaps the weather could be more English, it's bleedin' scorching out here!

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Anonymous Natalie  That's odd. Practically every picture of England I've ever seen has come complete with a dull grey sky. That's obviously not the case here! 
Blogger Gillian  You've cut off half of Jane, one could say that Jane is 'half cut'

Tap dances off stage left to rapturous applause 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  > perhaps the weather could be more English

Oh great. Cheers Bex. Way to tempt fate there :-P 
Blogger hannaviolane  yes me agress with Siobhan becky!! bleeding scorching is much more my cup of tea than 'enlgish'...Fin freezin! gale force winds n rain that never stops! 
Blogger lucien de la peste  What could be more English?

Sparrows choking on northern industrial smog?

A saturday night punchup between pub and curry?

Jade Goody?

Running out of ideas here.

Oh, the ennui. 

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Saturday, May 27, 2006

This is the road to Hull


Well, we're actually in a village near Beverley, having eschewed the delights of Hull. The Humber Bridge made the trip a lot shorter (or less wet, depending how you look at it).

Gotta go... Dr. Who just starting and Maureen Lipman's a baddie! :-O

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Blogger Becky  F*ck Maureen Lipman!

I. Need. Rose's. Outfit...

[Homer Simpson drool.] 
Blogger Michelle Faith  That is an excellent pic 
Blogger JenniferLL  drool. I want Rose's shoes 

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Snake


Slight change of pace.

Jane and I went for a walk around King's Lynn's docks today, and I took some pictures that I'm particularly pleased with.

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Sunday, April 02, 2006

The X stands for Mission

Jane and I went to Trans-Mission last night, which was nice. The great thing about TX is I can almost guarantee bumping into at least a couple of good friends. Last night was no exception. Connie and partner Tracy, Clarissa, and Joanna were all there, to name but a few! It was nice to catch up properly, particularly with Connie and Tracy, who I've not really had a chance to have a proper chinwag with before... babes, I'm sorry we dragged you both to the diner afterwards when it turned out you weren't hungry! But you were great company. :-)

Vicky and Jasmine put on a top night, as per usual and to be expected when TX is getting near it's 50th outing. They had a few problems with the new owners of the venue not providing enough bar staff, but those kinds of things are pretty much beyond control, and I know that after Jasmine has had some choice words with the manager they'll be up to scratch next month!

Wow, what a remarkably utilitarian blog entry this is! I suppose I should go the whole hog and mention that the resurfacing works on the M11 made for a very slow journey back, and that it rained heavily, and we didn't get back till 5...

but that would be boring, so I'll end with the only decent pic I have of me from last night.

Becky pre TX

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Blogger Debbie Huggins  As usual, Becky you are impeccable.
Love the outfit. 
Anonymous Stacey  What about our traditional micro-chat? What no mention?? LOL!! 
Blogger jessica_sweet_tv  A really lovely pic. 

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Windmills


Saw this on the way to Jane's and couldn't help but stop and take a few pics.

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Blogger Daisy  Great picture. I love windmills, they are so much prettier than power stations. 
Blogger Freiya  Oooohh! beautiful...... 
Anonymous Vincey  Either with camera or phone you have a most extraordinary eye. Would have liked the windmills to be bigger. Maybe next time to just wade in and get closer… 
Blogger Pandora Caitiff  Pretty windmills. You get a similar view as you head East on the A47. 
Blogger Misty  There's a similar view on the B1098 of Coldham Farm wind farm . . . . . Oh, that is that view! ;) 

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Sunday, January 22, 2006

What the test was

So yeah, so now my blog is serving pages in ASP format. For those unfamiliar with ASP: it's like PHP but better. If you don't know what PHP is, imagine a duck wearing a beanie. It's nothing like that.

ASP is better than PHP for two reasons.

1) It costs money. ASP is expensive. PHP is free. Expensive things are better. Stands to reason.

2) I can write for ASP and I don't know PHP. Things that I know how to do are better. Stands to reason.

Still confused?

Okay, basically ASP will let me do funkier, more dynamic, stuff with my blog. I've already been tinkering with adding dynamic backlinks, a-la this entry. Now if another blog links to me, a short summary of their blog entry appears at the bottom of my blog entry, together with a link to their blog. Clever huh?

I've got to work on the styling a bit, but in principal it works and I'm happy with it.

And for all of the people for whom that went entirely over their heads, here's a picture of me looking pretty:

Eighties Eyes

Yay me! :-)

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Blogger Jessica  Clever AND pretty, the only way you could be any better is if you were made out of chocolate, and multiplied by some kind of mitosis 
Anonymous Fairly-Odd  >> Clever AND pretty, the only way you could be any better is if you were made out of chocolate, and multiplied by some kind of mitosis

I totally agree - but, if you knew PHP... well, then... 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  > it's like PHP but better.

Yes Becky. Of course it is.

And your PC is better than my Mac - That's how ludicrous what you just said was. 
Blogger Jessica  Hi Becky and Siobhan, I'm testing too :) love Jessica (see my site for explanation) 
Blogger Becky  "And your PC is better than my Mac - That's how ludicrous what you just said was."

And if anyone would like guidlines, I'm currently writing a book entitled "How to Wind Up Siobhan." :-) 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  That would be a short book - it's too easy a process ;-)

1. Ply her with drink
2. Say one of the following phrases:
   i. "Computer Thing A is better than your Computer Thing B version of it"
   ii. "Your not as popular as you think"
   iii. "That guy you have a crush on does indeed get irritated when you pester him"
   iv. Anything containing the words "*giggle*", "girlie", and "lesbian trapped in a mans body"
3. Disallow <ul> tags in comments ;-) 
Blogger Julie Budd  Nice pic Becky. Love the lipstick- what is it? By the way there was a lot of writing just above the pic. Something about a small snake or something. 
Anonymous April Angell  surely all this "my x is better than your y" is irrelevant when you start comparing what is really important.

How much money it will make for you? 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  We're supposed to be making money out of all this?! 
Blogger Rachel  Why else would you do it, Curran? ;) 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  It's just an attention-seeking thing. Personally 

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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Top 20 favorites of 2005


I heard about this via the Flickr Blog. Basically you make a set of the top 20 of your most favorited pictures from 2005, make a mosaic out of them and them add them to this group.

The easiest way to make a mosaic is to use fd's nifty Flickr Toys.

It's a nice way to look back over 2005, starting with a trip to Liverpool, then Barcelona, that outfit of Jessica's, Halloween, Christmas, and New Years.

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Blogger Charlotte  Only two pics including Jane, oh and one of her shadow. Very restrained.

A belated Happy New Year, and thanks for no evilness ;)

XX 
Blogger Becky  There was no restraint involved Charlotte, it's my top 20 most favorited by others, not my favorites. I didn't use any personal judgement.

If I had they'd have all been of me. ;-) 

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Monday, January 02, 2006

2006 and all that

Well, here we are. Another year, eh?

2005 ended as 2004 did: at a party at Sophie's house. The theme was 80s. Well, more correctly my theme was 80s because I seemed to be the only one who'd taken the stuff about a themed party to heart (either that or I'd missed a couple of memos). I think that I looked so heartbroken when I was told that most people wouldn't be bothering with the theme that Sophie and Charlotte dressed up 80s-stylie in sympathy. Jane was up for it all along, of course, and regressed to her 80s goth persona.

Eighties Chic

The reason I was upset was that I'd actually gone to the effort of creating my t-shirt from scratch...

Forget Frankie...

An item that will shortly be available on Ebay. :-)

It wasn't, I must admit, the best night out of the year from my point of view. It was mine and Jane's third night out in a row (each one of which had involved a lot of driving) and it had all caught up with us somewhat. Still, it was great to see everyone again, and bring the year to a close in exactly the same place it had started for me.

Which made it easier to spot what had changed over the year. For the better, which is the main thing.

Eighties Eyes

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Anonymous Dana  Love the shirt! 
Anonymous Fairly-Odd  Definitely all 80s: The boots, the bangles and the jelly bracelets...

I'm running off now to figure out what you're saying with the color-coding of those things. Apparently there have been some strange urban myths over the years regarding that subject. ;-) 
Blogger Rachel  Glad you ended up enjoying the New Year's celebrations, and may 2006 keep getting better and better... seeya around. 
Blogger Bella  Glad to see that there is someone else out there who keeps the magic of the 80's alive.

I thought I was the only one..... 

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Sunday, January 01, 2006

... and enjoy 2006!

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Blogger Sylvia  Hello and happy new years. *Sylvia relax's cuz Becky says so* :P. 
Blogger Emilygrae  oh i am sooo relaxed! 
Blogger Bella  Wow! Cool T!!

Nappy Hew Ear...

I mean Happy New Year.....

Luv

Nina the Tipsy 

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Monday, December 26, 2005

Boxing Day


Got a bit warmer once we got in amongst the trees though! :)

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Blogger The Humanity Critic  Happy Holidays!! 
Blogger Freiya  oooh! lovely pictures, there's nothing quite like a bracing boxing day walk eh?
happy belated christmas :) 
Blogger Sylvia  Nice Photos. I really enjoy sunsets. 

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Boxing Day


The day after Christmas is called Boxing Day in the UK and some other Commonwealth Countries, and is a national holiday.

It's tradionally spent either:
a) shopping in the sales
b) going for long walks in the vain belief that this will cancel out the huge amounts of food you ate the day before.

Jane and I opted for the latter, and went for a bracing walk on Holkham beach, on the North Norfolk coast. With a strong north-easterly and nothing between us and Norway it was exceptionally bracing!

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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Booze


There are times when the slow shutter speed on my mobile really annoys me. But it's accurately captured the blur of frenzied bottle-removing that occured a few seconds after my boss dropped this crate of wine on my desk.

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Blogger Jane  mmmm splishy splashy 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  Swap you that lot for my Captain Jack picture

(kidding) 
Blogger Becky  LOL, I almost made that the tagline to the picture Siobhan. I was going to ask how many bottles it would take. :) 

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Park and Pride

"It is spacious, well-lit and adorned with beautiful red brickwork, complemented by slinky silver vertical aluminium fins that create a rippling wave effect."

London may have The Gherkin, Cardiff may have it's Stadium, and Edinburgh it's Parliament, but now King's Lynn has it's own modern architectural claim to fame.

For now we are officially home to Britain's Best Car Park.

It beat out strong competition from Liverpool and Edinburgh to take the coveted number one spot in a poll of the UK's best parking locations. The judge, who is an expert in these matters having written two books on roundabouts, said: "When I saw the St James multi-storey car park in King's Lynn it was love at first sight."

I've made a pilgrimage to the new building myself a couple of weeks ago and I must admit it does have a spacious feel. You don't have to take any bumper-scraping sharp corners to navigate it, perhaps because the architects knew that most Norfolk cars are used to long straight country roads and not this new fangled "steering".

So I urge you, visit King's Lynn in 2006! You'll not find an amazing night-life, our culinary, shopping and cultural highlights are nothing to write home about, but at least you'll have somewhere nice to park.

Building a Masterpiece
Before it was famous. The car park being built, way back in May.

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Blogger steph_angel  Here in little Derby, we may not have the Best car park, but we do have the Safest. It's soooooooooo safe that it recently appeared in a list of the 10 most secure buildings in the world...Yes, the World!!! It came in just behind Area 51... Not too sure what that says about Derby??? 
Blogger Joanna  Does it have special bays for tractors? 
Anonymous Sophie Green  It doesn't need them, Steph rarely drives into town... 

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Monday, November 28, 2005

Transpocalypse in pictures

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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Train


I took this picture at the station platform just after waving goodbye to Jane. It's a long-ish exposure of a digital train information board.

Is it me, or does it look like a digital rendition of an old fashioned steam train? At full speed with a plume of 1's streaming out of it's stack.

It's probably just me!

It looks better in the large version, I think.

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Anonymous Fairly-Odd  That is a neat photo. I can make out a train as well. I also see a duck in a speedboat (going the other direction). :) 
Blogger Joanna  Thats really cool.. before I read the text I thought it was a blurry photo of one of those awful xmas lights that people put in their garden of a giant train...... 

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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Heeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!!! ... Edgar Hoover

Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!

John Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, probably wasn't a cross-dresser as rumours have suggested, but I've never let the truth get in the way of a good excuse for dressing up! So when I needed a costume for this weekend's fancy dress Halloween party (the theme being "Dead Famous") there was something about bringing old J. Edgar back from the dead that appealed!

And who's to say that if Zombie Hoover dug his way to the surface he wouldn't be dressed in a suit, tie, silk slip and fishnet stockings?

Zombie J Edgar Hoover

If that's whetted your appetite for back-from-the-dead fun, then check out this horrible lot...

Dead Famous

In case you're thinking "hang on, a fancy dress party frequented by at least 5 trannies, and I'm not seeing too many ridiculously girly outfits. What gives Becky?"

Well, on the one hand I didn't want to be too obvious and just tranny-up as per usual, and on the other hand I still wanted to do something a bit tranny. In fact nearly all of the trannies there failed to girly-up!

Luckily Sophie was there to totally redress the balance!

Not in Kansas

You can check out the rest of my pics from the weekend here.

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Blogger steph_angel  And here's me thinking you'd gone as Mulder and Scully...Doh!!! 
Anonymous April Angell  Grayson Perry eat your heart out. 
Blogger Emilygrae  Wow. VERY nice costumes! But just to clarify, is that a Hitler costume, or a Prince Harry as Hitler costume? ;) 
Blogger Becky  It was straight Hitler. I think Prince Harry went as a generic "Nazi" where as Thom went the whole way. He does a very good "mad hitler eyes" look. :-) 
Blogger Charlotte  Very scarey, good job the pic Jane sent to me on my phone only showed the top half of your costume....oh and I had to explain the J Edgar Hoover link!! 
Blogger Charlotte  I should clarify here that I showed the pic to my SO!! 
Blogger Joanna  Great pics.... We've done murder mystery parties in the past, and it's much more fun when people make the effort in fancy dress.... 
Anonymous Stacey  That's not Hitler, it's Ron Mael http://www.diecastgarden.com/scruglet/moustacherock/sparks.jpg 
Blogger eeore  I want to know where you got the fake hands 
Blogger Tilda J  Brilliant costumes! I would have fit in with the theme. I was Glen Milstead as Divine as Babs Johnson. You should have seen the look on the in-laws faces! Precious. Moms actually asked if they had my shoes in her size. ;) 
Anonymous kathycute  Didn't realise that your upper half looks like Shane out of Westlife :) 
Blogger Becky  I had to go find pictures of Shane out of Westlife...

You're too kind Kathy.

Really! :-) 
Blogger Karol Cross  Great outfit Becky, and a brilliant photo of Sophie. Although it would probably be quite a challenge to take a bad photo of Sophie! 
Blogger Becky  Karol, you'd be surprised. Let me show you my "too scary to share" collection sometime. ;-) 

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Sunday, October 23, 2005

Not run of the mill

Warning, this posting contains scenes of extreme Englishness from the outset.

This autumn has turned out to be remarkably pleasant, with several warm and sunny weekends even into late October. Today we decided to make the most of yet another sunny day and headed out to a nearby water mill in Houghton, Cambridgeshire.

Mill Pond

It's a beautiful place and I got some quite nice pics. Here's one of a rather time-worn fire escape...

Fire Escape

And a close up of a adolescent cygnet who allowed me to get quite close before he went off in a strop (typical teenager).

Cygnet

Despite it being nearly November, there's still colour to be seen in nature...

BerriesLate Bloomer

After some mild exertion, a trip to a local pub for refeshment...

Beer on an Autumn Day

And just when you think things just can't possibly get more quintessentially English, you see a damp dog that's had a nice swim and is now a bit bored waiting while it's wellies-and-wax-jacketed owner tucks into a pub lunch.

Wet Dog, Wellies and Wax Jacket

Perfect! If you can take any more, I've posted some more pictures here. I'm off to heartily sing Jerusalem to myself in the bath.

All together now... AND DID THOSE FEEEEEEET...

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Blogger Tilda J  Becky,

Your pictures are beautiful! You make me long for the day when I can visit England, and my homeland, Wales.

Have you ever considered photo journalism? I swear, the pictures in some coffee table books pale in compairison! Please, keep the landscapes coming 
Blogger cyclic  I agree - these photos are very appealing. I'm glad you got a new camera! 
Blogger Emilygrae  We're having a fantastic autumn over here as well. I love when you have photos like that. You really do take good pictures. =) 
Blogger Freiya  oooh! it looks like you had the perfect sunday day out,... a nice walk, pub food and a wet dog :) 
Blogger Michelle Faith  Wow it's so nice over there. I'll be in the UK in March I can't wait to see as much of it as I can 
Blogger hannaviolane  becky, remember the last we we saw/spoke to each other at pink's & i said you had a real flair for creative photography? well you really do hon! x 

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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Bex n' Jane


She's great in front of the camera too. :)

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Anonymous Vic B-W  I recall some time ago you said how it was hard to find someone who would accept you for what you are and how you admired those who managed to find a partnet who accepted them for what they are.

Now it's happened for you.

Good fortune Becky. Hope it all goes well. 
Blogger Tilda J  It is wonderful when you can find someone who acepts you for who you are.
Congratulations!
All I can recommend is, 95% of the time, be who you are and nothing less. The other 5% of the time, be who they need you to be. I wish you both all the best. 

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Think Pink


Jane and I went to Angelic at the Pink Punters on Saturday night. It was nice to get out and about again, for the first time in what seems like ages!

I think I was the pinkest punter there. ;-)

I think someone mentioned the other day that I'd not taken any pics of me with my new camera yet. Consider that remedied, thank to a potential future David Bailey of the tranny world, Jane! She even remembers to get the feet in!

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Blogger Jane  She even remembers to get the feet in!

And sometimes they are in focus. ;-)

yezut - old french for "How Pink?" 
Anonymous Connie  Was great to meet Jane and to say a brief hi to you Becky. 
Anonymous Kaye and Sarah  Hi Becky and Jane,
Glad to see you two are getting on great. Love the outfit, pretty in pink. 
Blogger Lana  Cool pic, pink suits you :) 
Anonymous pb  at last a pic of you taken with your new camara!! all i can say is
"pretty in pink" 
Blogger Tilda J  You are daring with that short skirt! Looks good on you, though. 

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Sunday, October 02, 2005

It's my blog...


...and if I want to post superfluous pictures of me I will!

I could say that I had to do it to test my Flickr blogging interface but that would be a lie. :-D

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Blogger Joanna  This is such a great pic ;) 
Blogger Miss K  Yes it is 

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The big picture


One of the reasons I started re-formatting my blog layout was I wanted more room in the middle column for decent-sized photos.

Like this one, from a set I recently uploaded. I was going through my cyber-shoebox of old photos and found some really great ones that I'd not yet put on Flickr. Hell, I'm paying for Pro, might as well use it! :-)

Flickr's default size is 500 wide, which necessitated re-sizing the whole blog up to 1024 wide. Which might piss off the 3% of my readers who use 800x600 screens. But I always hated those guys anyway. They smell.

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Blogger Howard Hill  Having been handcuffed by the 800x600 at work I understand. I have being stuck at 1024 here at home but my poor laptop don't want to go higher. Maybe I should have spent the extra sheckles when I got it, although it already sucks down enough battery life I can't imagine what a higher resolution would do.

Now, if you want some real screen real estate, you need to follow the advice of Richard Campbell from Mondays. He only runs at 1600x1200 and has two or three screens. I wish I could remember the specific episode where he talks about his monitors, but I was drulling over the setup. 
Blogger Selina  My steam-powered monitor only runs at 800x600 but I have discovered the power of the scroll bar!

However, I can take a hint (been wanting a new PC and more deodorant anyway). 

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Mystery Mosaic


This took a lot more work that you might think! :-)

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Blogger Karol Cross  Just been looking at these on Flickr Bex, and they are really good and erm really weird. Really, freakily weird...but erm, good! 

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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Maids


Ooh, while I was fishing that bib picture off that camera I discovered that I had taken a few pictures at Reparty after all!

Enjoy!

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Blogger Siobhan Curran  That darling, is one of the most fascinating and gorgeous trannie-pictures I've ever seen :) 
Blogger Rachel  hope it wasn't an expensive camera ;) 

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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Manchester Pride

I promised to blog a bit about Manc Pride, so here goes.

Manchester Pride was very very busy.

The end.

Overtaking the guys in the other car on the M6Okay... a little more. We set off for Manchester on Saturday Lunchtime. We queued through the roadworks on the M6. We queued in the traffic jam snaking it's way through the city centre. We queued to turn our tickets into wrist-bands to get into the cordoned-off areas of pride. We queued to get down a heaving Canal Street. We queued to buy drinks. We wandered around and saw some of the sights until we got bored and headed back to the hotel to relax before heading out again for the evening.

The crowds at Mancester Pride The evening was like the day, but with more queuing.

It was too busy. It was about 45 minutes before I managed to get a drink, in the upstairs bar of AXN, which for some reason seemed to have decided it was going to be a quiet night and only put on 2 bar staff. Everywhere else was the same. All the outdoor entertainment stopped at 11pm, which caused the bars to fill up with even more people looking for entertainment.

Eventually we found sanctuary on the boat-bar outside Eden, and the evening started to look up. After a few drinks and a relaxing time there we elected to head back to the hotel bar, where drinks weren't cheap but were rapidly forthcoming. It was Summer's first night out en-femme, and her first experience of the GLBT community, which was a bit of a shame, as it left her and her wife with the impression that "gay nightlife = queuing". But they say they had fun!

We headed back into the gay pride area on Sunday and had a much nicer time. Well, apart from the moment Jess and I suddenly shot 200 foot into the air suspended only by two thin bits of elastic...

Apogee

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Blogger Rachel  Vividly brought back why I don't do Manc Pride anymore. Now, just need to hold onto your account in the memory cells so I'm not tempted next year! Thanks for the public service announcement Bex. 
Blogger Karol Cross  I'm glad you managed to have a good time anyway Becky, even though its a shame you had to take refuge in the hotel.

I can't really gloat though as I was stood in a field surrounded by thousands of other people. Ok, I can gloat as it was fab, I was dancing my tush off, and there was no queuing at all! :)

Yours
Smug of Leeds
xx 
Anonymous Bennett Grajeda  Interested. Keep Blogging! 

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Sunday, August 28, 2005

At Jessica's

Becky EnVérité, International Tranny of MysteryI'm still "on the road" as it were, staying at Jessica's apartment tonight after a two-day stint at Manchester Pride. It was a fun weekend, with a few negatives but mainly positives, I'll post a full report when I get back home. Also expect full details of "My Quest for the Perfect White Eyeshadow", "Summer's First Night Out", and "Me and Jessica Get Fired From a Catapult".

To answer the question from a couple of days ago about my definition "minor" shopping spree. Let me put it this way...

A second tornado hit Birmingham on Friday. Damage was extensive but localised to TK Maxx1, Claire's Accessories2, and the M.A.C. counter in Harvey Nicks3.

If you'd like to contribute to the Becky's Cashflow Emergency Relief Fund, please click on an advert on this page!

1"£10 for a top? You can't afford not to buy 4!"
2"Ooooh... shiny things!!" Transvestite demonstrates the equivalent in taste and buying power of a whole classroom of 10 year old girls.
3"Ah, yes it it a little expensive Sir, perhaps Sir would like details of our indentured servitude plan?"

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Anonymous Mia  What's the story on that pic Becks?! I need to know. I really like it. 
Blogger Jane  "Ooooh... shiny things!!" Transvestite demonstrates the equivalent in taste and buying power of a whole classroom of 10 year old girls."

That's a lot of shiny things then, but remembering I was a 10 year old girl I am now scared, very scared! 
Blogger Joanna  glad to hear you had a good time. Looking forward to all the sordid details... 
Blogger Charlotte  As a Jenny come lately I read you blog with glee, and realise that although clamouring on the barrier to be let in I can still peer through the bars and marvel comfortable that although having not done the apprenticeship,the joy of Claires is mutual :-) 
Blogger Becky  "What's the story on that pic Becks?! I need to know. I really like it."

It was taken at night while we were standing in one of the open area's of the Pride compound. I noticed that this one really strong lamp had been set up to illuminate the park, and it was casting fantastic shadows. So I got Jessica to take this picture of me with the lamp behind my head to create this silhouette effect. 
Anonymous Connie  Good thing your skirt wasn't see through :-) 

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Sunday, August 21, 2005

At the picnic


This little girl found a patch of mud at the festival and sat down to play with her pig.

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Anonymous Kate Weston  As you do. 
Blogger Joanna  Bloody kids 

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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Virtual Barcelona

I'm loving Google Earth. I was playing with it today and noticed that they'd added a high-detail map of Barcelona. In fact, it was good enough for me to virtually walk up to the fort on top of Montjuic and take this screenshot of the port below:

Barcelona Port in Google Earth

Compare it to this real photograph I took earlier this year:

Barcelona Port

The shapes are flattened, but it's obviously the same place. Incredible!

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Blogger Siobhan Curran  Presumably Google took their picture just after an oil slick hit Barcelona? 
Blogger Becky  Google is using satellite phographs. And in space, seen from directly above, the sea looks very dark. :) 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  *pfft*

Excuses... 
Blogger Becky  Just 'cos it's not out for the Mac yet. ;-) 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  Um, um, um. Nope - witty comebcak eludes me 
Blogger Jane  Very cool Becky, Google Earth rocks! 
Anonymous Anonymous  hhm not sure if that goog shot was taken via a sat becky ( thats a pretty shallow angle and the resolution would be appaling given the amount of polution across that distance) however the goog pic just doent look 'real' does it? computer enhanced or even total CGI? ive seen a few of the so called images from sats and having worked in 'proper' photography for 15 years im never that impressed...your photo looks much better! hanna xx 
Blogger Becky  Ah, I understand what you're saying, Hanna, and yes if that was just a plain satellite photograph it wouldn't be at such a steep angle. Perhaps I should have explained what Google Earth does.

It maps satellite photography onto a real-time 3-dimensional globe. So that you can zoom in an position yourself at any point on earth. It includes alitude data, so that mountains "jump out" of the image.

You can even change the angle of view, like I did with that picture. I positioned my view in Google Earth onto the top of Montjuic in Barcelona and changed the angle so it was looking towards the horizon in the direction of the port. Effectively you're looking at a flat satellite image that's been distorted and mapped to look 3D. 

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Saturday, July 30, 2005

Xtreme Transvestism


Trust Siobhan! When Joanna set up the Extreme Crossdressing group on Flickr, it must have set the wheels turning in her mind.

I wondered why she was taking a wedding dress to the wilds of Scotland!

Bravo hon! You knocked it out of the park!:)

I dare say she'll write up the full story on her blog before long.

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Blogger Joanna  Yup.. she told me she was waiting until she got to scotland to take a pic for the group. Mentioned something about trampolines and wedding dresses. Classic! 
Blogger Jane  She has certainly upped the ante as well! 
Blogger Siobhan Curran  We aim to please :-D 
Anonymous clair  Running, jumping, climbing trees...putting on makeup while you're up there. The very definition of an action transvestite ;) 
Blogger Becky  I know the significance wasn't lost on her, Clair. :) 
Anonymous Arlen Therriault  Super work performed. 

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Monday, July 25, 2005

Fairy


Jessica did a bit of photoshop work on her own picture. Love it!

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Pining for Ireland


I'm on a bit of a flickr kick at the moment and decided to upload a few of my older pics to the site.

I've just been going though some I took during a holiday to southern Ireland and it's made me really want to go back soon!

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Sunday, July 24, 2005

Look into my eyes...


For some reason I really love my expression in this picture. It's kind of confident yet enigmatic, with a "knowing smile".

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Blogger Jane  It's a lovely photo of you Becky. It really shows off your eyes to their best advantage 
Anonymous Pandora  Thats what is known as a "knowing look". Its a lok that says "I might look like a kitten, but there's a tiger ready for when yo least expect it!"

A very cute pic indeed. 

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Cottingley


...geddit?

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Blogger eeore  Send for Conan Doyle.... 
Anonymous Pandora  But watch out for Brian Froud and Terry Jones! 

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Trannies


There are a lot more new pics on my Flickr Photostream.

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Blogger Joanna  Nice photo Becky. 

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Sophie, Jessica and Me


Jessica was trying out a fantastic outfit she's planning to wear for Manchester Pride.

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Feeling Cute


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Becky with Disco Ball


I went to Sophie's at the weekend, and had plenty of time to faff about with a camera before a barbeque on the Saturday evening. Here are some of my fave pics.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Riding the rides at Pride


Joanna's set up a Flickr group for pictures of "exteme crossdressing". That's not cross-dressing in an extreme fashion, but being cross-dressed in an extreme location.

I thought it was a fun idea so I just uploaded this pic to help kick it off.

That was taken at last year's Manchester Pride, which was a great day out. Plans are afoot to go back this year too!

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Blogger steph_angel  I MUST HAVE that top you're wearing :D 
Anonymous Jayne  I am a climbing instructor, if you want a go at that let me know and I can take you up a 300 foot rock face. Don't wear false nails or heels though. It can end badly if you do. 

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Sophie Get Your Gun

Sophie went to a fancy dress party last weekend as a "saloon girl". I think this picture is what Eddie Izzard was thinking of when he called himself an "Action Transvestite"!

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Blogger Joanna  Just saw this one, she's used it as her Angels avatar. Great picture. 

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Sunday, July 03, 2005

My face - a critique

My face - a critique. I went out last night as Becky, on my own to the Loft nightclub in Norwich. Before I left I took a few pics of myself, including this one with makeup but sans wig.

I always enjoy putting on makeup, not only because it's what helps create the illusion of "Becky", but also the very process of "doing my face" can give me a frisson of that elusive feeling of femininity that trannies seek.

I also own loads of cosmetics. I like buying it, I like the smells and the colours. The exotic names and over-blown descriptions. I like shopping for makeup in the same way other girls might love shopping for shoes.

Except that, it's not a girl thing really, it's very much a boy thing. I collect makeup. I horde cosmetics paraphernalia. The two-stage mascaras and the automatic tweezers and the make-up mirrors with built-in lights. Although they're all ostensibly feminine items, it's a still very masculine trait. No different from my dad's shed-full of tools and gadgets for DIY and gardening. Some may never get used, but they're all the best you can buy. My dad has a Swiss Army knife which is as wide as it is long, with every tool you could possibly imagine. There's some tools on that knife he's never going to use. There's some nail varnishes in my case I'm never going to open.

I used to only experiment with makeup when I at home and there wasn't an urgent need to get ready, but now I'm confident enough to play around a bit even if I need to be out the door in two hours. I normally do give myself a full two hours to go from boy to girl. I could probably do it in half an hour, if pressed, but as I said earlier the act of getting ready is part of the evening for me. "Becky" time starts the moment the tweezer plucks an eyebrow hair.

Also, that time in front of the mirror is when I'm looking the best I'll look all evening. The foundation is free from a sheen of sweat, and my look is neither hidden by dim club lighting or washed out by harsh flash photography. The high-point of many an evening is when I put on the wig, take a critical look at myself in the mirror and realise... I look gooood!

Sometimes everything falls into place, the eyeliner goes on straight and my hand doesn't involuntary spasm the moment I hold a mascara brush to my eye. Other times, for no reason I've been able to figure, it just feels wrong no matter what I do. I sit in front of the mirror at the end of it all and see a man wearing makeup and a wig.

Trannies are their own worst critics. This is partly, I think, due to the fact is we've seen the man behind the makeup every day of our lives in the mirror. We know every inch of his face. Whereas a stranger might see a girl's face that looks a bit masculine, we see a man we know very well, who just happens wearing makeup.

Last night was between the two. I thought I looked pretty good, but there were several things I didn't like. Some are unavoidable without cosmetic surgery, others to do with my less-than-perfect skills with makeup. In Flickr I've annotated a load of notes to the full-sized version of the picture above, to try and give you some idea of the thoughts that went through my head as I stared vainly into my Revlon makeup mirror last night.

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Blogger eeore  Thanx for your email:)

I thought I would share this with you. It was part of a photo challenge I did with some bloggers.... the challenge was to take a picture of someone seen in an artificial light:
http://www.madforarts.org/mfa_assets/contrib_files/700/obstruction2devil.jpg

I thought it was rather good. (providing the link works)

I always think that a tranny san wig looks like that guy in Caberet, which is no bad thing....

In some ways that picture is perhaps more brave of you than going the whole hog. 
Blogger eeore  sorry the link doesn't work: try this....

yello 
Blogger Becky  That worked. :) 
Blogger God  Ummmmmmm.....

I see you like make-up....

What does it say in Leviticus 15,14?

And have you followed my command? 
Anonymous Mia Freeland  This was a very interesting post. Keep it up. 
Blogger Joanna  What does it say in Leviticus 15,14?

I think it was something like:

"And the Lord said unto him, 'That eyeshadow doest not goest with that lipstick.'

And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth" 
Blogger Becky  Actually it's "On the eighth day he must take two doves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and give them to the priest."

Hmm, not very relevant, God. You're losing your touch. 
Blogger God  Yes, yes, I know what it says.... Jeebers I wrote it for my sake....

and have you done it? 
Anonymous Jayneflakes  You say trannies are our own worst critics. If only that was true all of the time. I remeber the first time I went out in my bright blue eye make up applied with a ceiling roller! I though I looked great. The reality check was that I looked like a four year old who had found her mothers make up and ate it!

Now days as RLT moves ever on wards I have tried the no make up test day. Only to my horror to be back to the "Yes sir!" in the shops! Arse.

The worst part of it all is the burns from the lasering. For about ten days after a laser session I can't wear make up or even shave the burnt hairs away because of the blisters. Some days being a tranny is a labour of pain and big hats!

I used to see the guy under the make up quite a lot, but he is nearly gone now and the real me shines through, even on beard days! haha

Couldn't see your pics though. The link failed on my aging machine. Its a brave step to let people in to your life like that Becky. The other you must be some one quite special! 
Blogger donna  Becky: a brave post indeed, but not to worry. You're face is lovely, and your makeup technique is impressive. Color me impressed! Re: the mascara brush, I am currently sporting a pirate's eye patch due to the dreaded twitch... just kidding!
A huge hug to all my Brit sisters, we are thinking of you.
Donna 

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Monday, June 27, 2005

The Girls Out in Barcelona


And one more tranny pic before I go to bed. This was taken when we finally all got dressed-up at the same time and headed to Club Metro for the second time. Shannon will hate me for posting this one with her completely failing to strike a pose, but as she looks fantastic in nearly every other picture I've taken, and this was one of the few pics from that night where I looked good, I'm posting it anyway!

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Toy Armies


One of my favorite pictures of the whole holiday, for some reason. We were in this little shop that sold ceramics, and these little tiny figurines representing different professions. All laid out like army regiments on parade.

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Sagrada Familia Door


Detail from the huge doors on one side for the Sagrada Familia. It's covered with words of faith, some highlighted in gold. And look... tucked away on one side...

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