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meet some blogging tweeting facebooking contacts and that i hoped contacts would become flesh and blood friends the second reason was that like many others i wanted to pay my own quiet thanks to that corner of the internet that helped me turn my corner ladies gentlemen and all shades between i give you the ukangels justine a smidge before a dank friday noon and i m shuffling from one foot to the other trying to keep warm with a knot of expectation and nerves in my gut keeping me out of the station coffee shop in coach c of the manchester euston virgin benderleano train was justine i had got to know jus initially from blogs and more latterly twitter i can t pretend i really knew her but felt instinctively that we would get on she had saved me a seat next to her and thankfully she is petite so i don t think she was too squished when i plonked down beside her i m glad i recognised her from her pictures because i was worried i might have to stand mid coach and holler justine we nattered away and the hour to milton keynes flew by justine is a geordie exile in manchester tolerant of my rambling and jus damn great fun oh and not forgetting a music mixing goddess as any listener to her transanthems will testify mk central station cleared and one roundabout filled taxi journey later we arrived at our hotel the campanaille this weekend with an emphasis on the camp situated just across from the pink punters nightclub just across road and our venue for the night i hadn t booked a room in time but thanks to a request from justine on the angels site i was able to book in under the name of someone off the angels site that had cancelled if you like i was using a nom de room saffy louise the milton keeners the plan was that a bunch of us were to hit the mean and very straight streets of milton keynes for a shopping expedition before assembling at the huge jaipur indian restaurant as we formed our party in the hotel lobby we were joined by louise our master planner or perhaps mistress planner if you prefer and saffy both of whom i knew from twitter it was a good job that we had louise else we may have spent the whole weekend dithering and deferring to each other in the hotel lobby saffy comes from my brother s home town of hastings and is an enthusiastic member of the unison stunt pigs facebook group see previous post she has just taken her transition plunge and i m in awe of her natural grace and composure typically of my own arrogance had me thinking i would impart my wisdom of a 4 years plus transition like a sage trans obi wan kenobi except without the beard instructing her padawan in the end i was the pupil learning that my way of stumbling through life will only lead to bruised knees our group was then completed by statuesque photographer helena cheery kay and calming sophie who in particular was so kind in ferrying me about milton keynes high street your typical small family run indian restaurant i d not been to mk before bar whizzing through on the train but i have to say its a strange place would it have killed the planners to include some curves it s a bit like telford on steroids i didn t do much in the way of actual shopping but it was nice to chat and seal bonds i did have one personal task in offloading a small pig troupe to saffy standing there around her open car boot furtively transferring my pink squidgy consignment would have appeared to any passer by like the most surreal of drug deals our group swelled in the oversized indian restaurant as experiences and rice was shared as we broke nan bread together appetite sated it was time for the main event a quick dash back to the hotel and a quicker hotel room self makeover for each of us one by one we braved the short hobble over the road to the pink punters club the club itself reminded me of the much missed highwayman or wayman midway between my school town of cheadle and alton towers i guess the clientele was very different but the mock tudor exterior and thrown together improvised comfortable dinginess of the interior was very reminiscent along with the fact everyone was having mucho fun to be honest i recall rock night s at the wayman usually ending with an uncoordinated and often amusing minor brawl perhaps this is a feature the pp could introduce there was one bizarre feature to the club in its gleaming spaceship bridge style control cctv room that was displayed through plate glass on the top floor it seemed to me that they had spent all their design budget on this room with nothing much left for the rest so they decided the least they could do was display it that may have been a mistake with the angels crowd at least 80 of whom worked in it or so it seemed to me so the window had a constant gaggle of cooing techie admirers the punk pinters starship angel 1 jane becky and the hashtag crowd highlight of the night was meeting the rest of our twitter crew the mkangels in particular jane and becky a married couple who blog and tweet with heart and humour becky s blog has been a staple on my favourites tab for years and years and as far as i m concerned the funniest tweeter full stop i did have to own up to her that at times i ve nicked the odd tweet of hers and shoved it on facebook jane is lovely to the max and we chatted away like we had known each other for ages she made some lovely confidence building comments to me which i shall remember for along time becky is just as funny in full technicolor 3d as on the blog page and was clearly adored by so many of the angels crowd their life has taken a wonderful new twist with the arrival tom who is surely the luckiest baby in west east anglia the only person i failed to talk to properly was jo angel herself the brains and beauty behind it all i really should have made more of an effort to thank her for all her work the not so solid hashtag crew justine saffy me becky and louise behind the lens i wisely decided to forgo any dancing as i had not seen the buildings structural certificates but i had an absolutely brilliant night chatting away and playing spot the web site person i had seen so many of those angels on the various websites that in my brain it was like being at a very minor celebrity wrap party final reckoning was that i was so glad i d overcome all those neurotic reservations that plagued me leading up to the glorious 22nd that i wouldn t feel part of the club that virtual friends would stay just that that belatedly joining the trans scene would be at odds with my stance as a fully rounded woman that one way or other i would make a complete tit of myself none of the above came to fruition moreover i had made new friends real friends and i hope lasting friends and in addition i left milton keynes with my confidence just a little bolstered the demons the next day a bunch of us justine saffy louise sophie kay and i visited nearby bletchley park home of the code breakers and alan turing i need to give this some more space so i will blog later my intention on the saturday morning was to get back to stoke in time to join my comrades from norscarf north staffs campaign against racism fascism on the march against the edl gathering in hanley town centre but oversleeping and network rail foiled me the edl are the nasty by product of a one night stand between the bnp and a bunch of football hooligans ostensibly anti muslim they are no friends to anyone of difference the fact that they chose stoke as the latest city to hear their hate was i guess because they thought the very visible bnp success would mean there was fertile ground for their form of fascism they were and are wrong stoke is not a racist city just maybe at times a political naive one i didn t have a great awareness as to how the day had gone until i got off the platform at stoke station the place was teeming with riot police all armoured and helmeted along with groups of drunk chanting edl thugs the atmosphere was febrile and menacing and we were ushered to leave the station straight away i was glad to reach the relative safety of my car and mused on a journey home as a succession of police vans sped past of the contrast between learning about the geniuses like alan turing who helped win a war over fascism and the thick headed lack of logic exhibited by the mob of the edl at home i caught the footage on the news my comrades had behaved impeccably contrasting notably with the rioting of the whose argument seemed to rely on shouting en ger land or just pointless sweary anti islam chants the pics below demonstrate the wit and thought of our march and the utter stupidity of the edl if you want a more thoughtful treatise on the day read a very public socialsit best banner in the world ever has to be oatcakes not racism only_in_stoke tags anti fascist friends milton keynes the angels transgender transition of cats and pigs january 18 2010 leave a comment as this blog is titled of cats there ought to be a feline quotient else the title is a pointless steinbeck based pun with myself cast as lennie cat 1 my history with cats is somewhat chequered our first family cat was called suzie who i understand was packed off or maybe put down after it tried to claw the then 3 year old pre jenny s eye i m not sure how i provoked her but maybe it was the innate wonkiness of that right eye that sacred it i never did get to know suzi although somehow i do feel responsible for her fate cat 2 came along when i reached the dizzy heights of 9 years old and was named suki because it reminded my parents of the name suzi and reminded me of my guilt suki lived a full and contented life until long after i had flown the cat basket my overriding memory of suki was her extraordinary skill with a ping pong ball though thankfully not in that thai prostitute way cat 3 arrived alongside married life spooky so called after mulder s nickname in the x files i m jenny and i m a geekaholic spooky would have been better named as spooked as she was as neurotic and jumpy as a frog in therapy you only had to shoot her a quick sideways glance and she would either go for the jugular or scamper up the curtains spooky was happy in her own jumpy world until her territory was invaded by saffy the borderline collie part collie part something with unlimited energy limited intelligence and no regard for personal space in hindsight we should have guessed that spooky and saffy would not mix a case of opposites repelling spooky disappeared before saffy s second bark only briefly resurfacing 3 weeks later to check if the hound of the basketcases was still in residence we never saw spooky again but choose to believe she hooked up with scully cat to hunt aliens and find the truth about dogs the dog eventually departed as did my spouse so i was home alone and the house felt empty so time for cat 4 the current cat in residence gammo speng the tom why gammo speng well there is an mainly uninteresting story behind the name gammo was one of a litter my friend vicky had inherited which needed re housing at the very moment i agreed to the adoption the name gammo speng appeared on the tv we had been cruising the late night sky radio channels and landed on a reggae station apparently the real no the human gammo is a famous reggae dj anyway i liked the name and it stuck unfortunately gammo is a lovely puss with just one failing an insatiable sex drive this is despite his being sorted at the vets some time ago he seems to be in denial about the state of his bits and he is on a never ending quest for things to hump his current favourite is my poor duvet despite all that she is a lovely cat and when not shagging soft furnishings she is quite good company ooops i said she sorry i meant he its funny after so many girl cats i still struggle to call gammo he oh the irony so much for the cats what about the pigs i hear no one cry well during my blog haitus or blogaitus if you wont i found myself drawn into the shallow world of the facebook and the shady underworld of pig balancing http www facebook com ref home group php gid 151286363508 a marriage of trivial and pointless in perfect harmony i am proud that the group i founded now has over 81 members and is the fastest growing union linked stress pig based group on the whole of the internet probably to date this is by far the greatest waste of time i have discovered ladies and non ladies i give you the unison stunt pigs tags cats geek stunt pigs x files making the scene january 12 2010 4 comments i ve never really been part of a scene i ve never really been part of the scene by the i mean the transgender scene the nights the parties the events that make up the trans community this i must add is not down to any sniffyness on my part mainly down to my slight social clumsiness lack of opportunity and bad time management i did attend a support group in derby for a year or so and made couple of pals but it wont no scene sic i guess one of the problems was my short window of post outing pre transitioning there was a time just breaking out into the light that i would have jumped at the chance for a boogie in a fabulous outfit and dangerous heel though in the heels it would have to be a very tiny jump once i d surged headlong into fulltime working womanhood my priorities sort of changed not a conscious thing and i could be accused of forgetting my roots which if you look at my dyed hair i still do but i just seemed to want to get on with being a woman so if i went out clubbing it was with my long standing non scene friends i think looking back i may have missed the boat a bit hmm missing the boat a bit could leave you wet missing the opportunity to cement some real rather than virtual friends what is this ere trans scene you talk about cry those gender deficient non t readers well just like the preverbal iceberg it bigger than you see and too can be a danger to shipping starting out low key at the birth of the home internet revolution groups like the fabulous uk angels after today s news i m glad they didn t plump for angels4uk site grew and grew along with networks up and down the country the pinnacle of this is the huge sparkle event running over a june weekend in manchester where the trans community stands together as one shouting we are here we are proud to be trans and where did you get those shoes i ve no idea of the exact number of trans people in the country but i will confidently and wrongly estimate it to be at least 3 0 million most just don t know it yet so why am i blathering on about the scene now well next friday week there is an event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the uk angels and i am considering making my debut two reasons firstly i want to meet a few of my internet buddies i have garnered over my twittering blogging and facebooking for me it s not about meeting fellow trans travellers but just meeting good people secondly i want to pay my respects to the angels group like any internet forum it is made up of a spectrum of lovely and less lovely people but i am absolu...