This totally took the magic out of pasta making for me. I’d always wanted to believe it was some form of old stereotypical Italian mamma twisting the pasta by hand.  I am broken, forever. 

Ever since the EVolution show has been announced, I’ve been contacted by people asking me if I’m going, or expressing surprise when I say no.  So this is a short, concise post to explain why.  I’m not going to go into the long (and complicated) reasons behind my decision, but I am going to say…

Christmas (dos) come but once a year. pyoorkate: It has come to my attention that if I go to the Christmas Party this year at work I will have to wear a new dress. This is because my one viable party dress, which I like very much, I wore last year. To the only work…

pyoorkate: thisnorthstarview: Signs in the bathrooms at Bristol Uni for Trans Awareness Week. Yay for Bristol Uni 🙂 Yes yes, and yes some more . One of the schools in our area (Ridings Academy) has done away with their single gender bathrooms, and now has just single stalls. Although I note they still have gender…

As I discovered yesterday when it was peeing down with rain and again this morning, my ILR is just at the wrong place to wear waterproof trousers with suspenders: the left strap pushes on my ILR. It doesn’t hurt per say, but it does make the thing uncomfortable. And having just got used to having…

Distractions pyoorkate: So I had a momentary distraction (that lasted about an hour). I wondered if, for our upcoming Thanksgiving, I could coax the RiscPC into providing us with music. The only slight problem was that the RiscPC is 18 years old, and won’t talk to the network properly. It has internet access, of sorts….…

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For the past month — since I came out of hospital — I’ve been kind of hiding from the fact that there might be something wrong with my heart. I’ve also been taking ß-blockers in an attempt to prevent me from fainting quite as much.  While that has been met with limited success — I…

It’s a very surreal walk tonight.

So these beta blockers. They’re making me feel exhausted all the time, and already I’ve put on six pounds. I’m also cold all of the time. I want off.