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Flying Pretty
Temple of Neptune, Paestum, Italy. It has long been an ambition of mine to visit Pompeii, ever since I studied Latin at comprehensive school. My school was formed by the amalgamation of two secondary modern schools and a girls’ grammar school. The secondary modern schools drew their pupils from areas with high levels of social…
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Happy Christmas
I wish all my readers a very happy Christmas. It has sometimes seemed during 2023 that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are at the door. Russia carries out a campaign of medieval rape and slaughter in Ukraine; Hamas terrorists visit sexual violence and murder on Jewish women and girls, and Israel responds by razing…
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Pride
An older trans friend can remember being chased by police who raided a club in Manchester in the late 1960s, intent on arresting the perverts dressed as women. It’s a reminder of how our world has changed for the better. When I was a child I recall seeing the Black and White Minstrel Show on…
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You Look Beautiful
In September, the weather was unseasonably warm and I found myself in town wearing a favourite sundress and feeling rather hot at a time when the weather should be cooling down. I took the bus home; it was packed with people and I was conscious of being a very tall t-girl amidst a crowd of…
Mrs Benn 