Swindon and Wiltshire pride 2026

During the past fortnight I went to Swindon Wiltshire pride as you can see you from the level collage I put about it was probably the most attended local pride I've been to it's also very well organized myself I was toned down as I was going with my nephew for his first pride everything is just wow and new and exciting putting this aging cynical person in their place. 

We All TV Stand Together

Walking round the past year or two and studying charity shop windows you come across many like the the above TV stand which it felt like during the 2000s almost every home had one, but now like the CRT TVs that stood on them  thrown out.

There is something very naughties aesthetic about the silver columns, almost as if you go near it butterfly clips will spring out of your hair.

Melty

Trying to keep up with the regular update thing. The booties off underneath there's just dry skin, which I'm bathing in lotion several times a day. A few weeks ago I went to Oxford pride got happily wet saw some friends enjoyed the sights and sounds. Took one half decent picture. The soggy weather probably make my foot a bit more hurty then normal so I didn't hang around for as long as I would normally. 

Hope you're not melting too much. 

Long Time No Post

Hello my popsies hope you're well the the long gap between posts yes sorry about that I know you've been  eagerly desperately waiting for something new from me. Had lots of ideas but have not got round to it been into hospital and fractured my toe in the meantime, shall not bore you with the full medical history other than to say what was making my body go weird and icky as hopefully gone and the toes nearly healed.

For someone who hasn't had anything worse than flu since they were a baby, it has definitely be a strange time. I also value my toe a hell of a lot more especially when it comes to balance and we'll never abuse it as much until the next time I buy a really nice pair of heels, in red on impulse.

 

Those Russian Lesbians

Crawling under the last few seconds of LGBT history month is a reminder of early millennial representation that's a little problematic.

On its own All The Things She Said by T.a.T.u. is an decent pop song it's the whole outrage-baiting, queerbaiting which led to the wont somebody think of the children, down with that sort of thing fueled hype that kept the media going for weeks and kept the song at number one for four weeks. 

Looking back the calls from the likes of Richard and Judy for it to be banned look a bit ridiculous. The legacy feels problematic in terms of lesbian representation and bittersweet given the repression of lgbt rights in their native Russia.

Their last big hurrah was the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest, the year of Sertab Erener winning Turkey's first and so far only victory and the least said about Jemini. Actually their vocal were just as bad as Jemini's but an energetic performance got them on to the left side of the scoreboard.

MMXXV

Starting the 2025 entries. Is there a deadline for wishing a happy new year? A bit light on posts last year so promising to write a bit more should be a easy resolution to keep. Other than that that you shouldn't have to keep to some self imposed day to make resolutions, pick your own arbitrary day for a refresh.