According to my Sunday paper ‘style’ supplement, these…

are the next big thing that we’ll all be after in 2010. So, being a bit partial to a bit of fashion hosiery I decided to check them out. And got quite a massive shock when I found the price… A cool £199 for a pair of tights Needless to say, as nice as they are, I’ll probably be giving them a miss for a while!!!

A little strange that I should decide only now to dredge up a blog post, when just a few days ago, I was notified that my steph-angel.com domain would be up for renewal in a few weeks time. Mmmmm I thought; maybe the time is right to finally put this website to bed? It’s been wastefully inactive for a painful amount of time now, which kinda reflects Steph as well. I’ve blogged before about how my life has changed since becoming a dad and how this has made it harder for Steph to be around, so I won’t go over that ground again. But as with many things, there’s always many reasons why things don’t or can’t happen and the lack of Steph is just the same. There’s really too many reasons to explain fully and if I’m really honest, for most of the last 18 months or so I really haven’t been that bothered about the lack of Steph… But recently I have been.

I still have many of the issues which make Steph being around a bit awkward, but recently I have started to miss being Steph. I really can’t think when it was that a bit of makeup last touched my face, but I’m eager to have the opportunity to get the brushes out again. When that will be I really don’t know, but the desire is there again, which it really hasn’t been for an awful long time now.

So with this in mind I’ve decided to renew my domain and give Steph a stay of execution for a little while longer… And just to prove that Steph does still exist (slightly, and with no makeup )

Mmmm… It’s taken a while I know. But just to say, Steph is still around and will be looking to be a little bit more ‘active’ (whether that be online or socially) soon.

I know it’s only brief, but hey

Not unusually (for me), I’ve had a nagging little thing whirling around my head for quite a time now. I’ve spent ages trying to think up the correct plan of action, but as yet I’ve drawn a blank, so I thought it was probably time to share…

I love having this blog, I love to blog (not that you’d know that if you look at the amount of posts this year!!!),  I aslo love all the people I’ve got to know through having this blog, but and this is a really big but, I hate the fact that I can’t share this blog with 99% of the people I know. And there are a lot of people I know who’d be genuinely interested to know that I do in fact blog. There’d also be loads who wouldn’t even know what a blog is, but I’m not overly concerned with them

I think if this was purely a ‘tranny’ site (which it did initially start out as) then there’d be no question of wanting to share this site with everyone, but as I mentioned when I gave this site a face-lift recently, the tranny bit is actually now quite a small part of this site; my last ‘tranny’ post was on 20th December 2008

And all this has been niggling away at me for ages now, as I’ve been weighing up the options…

I could completely remove any trannyness from this site… Which in effect would be like returning to the closet and hiding, which I so don’t want to do.

I could have a ‘boy’ blog (which I have already made)… But then what happens with this site? Do I then turn this site into a pure tranny zone with nothing else (I’d really rather not ).

And there lies my dilema. I want a blog that I can share with non tranny friends & family, I don’t really want to abandon this site and I definitely don’t want to lose friends from this site. I did initially think that I’d get the non-tranny site up and running and just post non-tranny stuff onto both sites and keep the tranny stuff for here, but then Becky’s PROBO ( ‘Potential Route Of Being Outed’) rule comes firmly into play… I have two websites with exactly the same blog posts on them (I’m guessing a Google search would pick them both up pretty close to each other), the site layouts are almost identical (I’m lazy!!!) only one has pictures of a rather blokey looking girl on it… Hey hang on a minute it’s the same person!!! The PROBO is frighteningly high (or low, I’m not sure how the scale goes???).

And that’s pretty much where I’m at…

Isn’t, I’m guessing, too high on many people’s list of enjoyable activities. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against choosing and giving presents; I actually really enjoy that part. It’s just the hassle of fighting your way around the insanely busy shops at this time of the year that I hate Add a pushchair and  a restless nearly 2 year old into that equation and you’ve got a thoroughly stressful few hours!!!

But my loathing of Xmas shopping isn’t all bad, as this festive time does give the troubled tranny an ideal opportunity to indulge themselves You see if there’s one time of the year when a bloke can quite happily spend ages browsing in the womens’ clothes section of a store it’s now. Admittedly most of the men won’t be too happy to be doing so, but generally people don’t seem to pay too much attention… These men are simply buying presents for their wifes or girlfriends. Why else would a bloke very brazenly plonk these onto a high street counter?

I thought that trying them on might be pushing things a little But thankfully they fit just fine. And I know that many of us¹ shop for clothes very brazenly whatever the time of year (and why shouldn’t we?), but I’ve always struggled with that one, which is why 90% of my wardrobe has come from online shopping. I have done high street shopping before, but have always felt as if a huge I AM A TRANNY sign has been hanging above my head

So after the shoes I’m now feeling slightly guilty as I didn’t actually buy Tracy anything!!!

¹ – Those of a liking for all things femme…

Since I’ve done this kind of thing…

As usual I like about 1 of the zillion pics I took and almost didn’t bother uploading any of them!!! I’m also a wee bit miffed at the contrary nature of my camera’s ‘auto‘ focus feature, which on some of the pics is shockingly bad And I really must mention to the neighbour how wet washing thrown over our fence can really spoil the average tranny photoshoot!!!