A lot has been happening this last week in my life and I just didn't really have time to write a blog post until now. So where do I start. I've been again suspended from Facebook and this time I can't see a way I can get my account back as it's impossible to speak to or email anyone(same with everything these days) and they're asking me to provide ID in the form of Nina Jay. Which of course I don't have as I haven't legally changed my name like many trans people who use their chosen name on Facebook. It seems they have a strict policy that your Facebook name has to be your legal name even though you don't need any ID to create an account in the first place. Anyway if I don't get back on which looks very likely you can still find and message me on X, flickr or Fetlife.
Another thing that's causing me no end of problems at the moment is this.
I sold my old home recently after over a year of it being on the market. I paid off all my loans and had some money left over so I decided to have a summer house built mainly as a posh storage area for my motorbikes. It wasn't cheap as anyone who's ever had one built will tell you and I've still only paid a third so far. This week they started a planned 2 week build. and on day 2 I had the angry next door neighbour round complaining about it blocking out her light as it's 2 feet higher than the fence but it is set back a foot.
So that was a nightmare to start with. Then as it went up I realized it wasn't how I approved it with the doors being much smaller and the cladding a different colour to what I asked for. I had a big fall out with the boss of the company over this yesterday and now have no idea whats going to happen next. It may mean getting trading standards involved. So this is stressing me out quite a bit at them moment.
I also have lots of bike news but I think people get bored of me taking bikes so I wont go into it this month I'll talk about it another day.
With the work going on in my garden I'm currently only available evenings and weekends for sessions but this will go back to normal before too long hopefully. I'm also going to be touring up north hopefully at the end of this month if anyone wants to see me. Just email of message me on any of the sites I've yet to be kicked off and I'll get back to you.
As always about once a week I've been going out with David/Dee and as I mentioned last week the first place we went was London on the train which was great. We go in first class so always get a biscuit and a drink. Tickets weren't cheap though!
In London David took me to see the building he used to work in years ago and then we went on a boat at high speed up the Thames(which was great) followed by a look round London museum of transport. Before getting food and then the tube back to Paddington station on the tube and a rather full train home again.
Also last month we went to the cinema to watch a film with Brad Pitt and a dog in which was predicable but enjoyable all the same. We had a group meal at the Bell in Old Sodbury attended by 10 of us weird trans folk.
We went to Cardiff Castle again on the train and had a look in the upside down house in the city while in Cardiff and again found somewhere to eat which is the same place we always eat when we go to Cardiff and we even sit at the same table.
We also had a trip on a steam train at the Severn valley railway and a visit to the Royal Mint last month and no we didn't get any free samples before you ask.
All days were very enjoyable as always and we've been out again since but I'll mention that next month.
Away from my trips out I bought new sofas and much as I tried to sell my old ones I couldn't so decided to give them to St Margaret's Hospice. They came out to collect but to my surprise turned them down and didn't take them as they were a bit dirty. I had to pay the council to take them away in the end! WTF!
OK I wasn't going to talk about bikes but I can't help myself so skip this bit if you're not into bikes but for anyone into them My TZR has had a complete electrical meltdown and every component is fried. It's away with being repaired at the moment. It was going to cost a fortune so what I've managed to do is find another one for sale that the engine was blown up and the guy fixing it is going to make one good bike from the 2 and I'll sell the rest for spares or a project. That's the plan anyway. Still going to cost me a lot of money but I love having a TZR in my bike collection.
Also I mentioned it in the last blog but I bought another bike to use round the terrible Somerset levels which is so much fun and I've now just bought yet another bike from a guy up the road to use next year mainly a track day machine as I really want to get back into doing a few track days again like I did years ago on one of my GSXR600's
Now if only I could get the bloody bike shed built properly I'd have somewhere to put all my bikes
Back to films this week just gone I watched 2 more at the cinema. One was "Ghosts" which if you watched the TV program and liked it you'll like this but I struggled stay awake.
I also watched "Wildwood" which if you've not heard of or seen you really should go and watch it. It's an amazing stop motion film that blew me away but it's under performed at the box office sadly. Please go watch this awesome movie. You'll love it.
OK that's me for another month. Sorry I'm no longer on Facebook. It sucks.
Here's some more photos of me taken mainly by David/Dee. He's even in some of them too
