Ready girl?

So the season moves ever closer with just a week to run as you put the finishing touches to your card writing, present wrapping and personal deliveries to family such as my aunts who have played an important part in encouraging me to just be myself.

Christmas unlike in previous childhood is set to be a very feminine girlie thing whatever errors the odd relative might make with presents that are suited for a girl, a staring role with mommy in the kitchen making chrismas leaving the boys with the men doing their thing.

I'm to dress very femininely with frills, pinks and no hiding under track pants and the like because I feel so much better for being who I am.

That is the real gift of the year.

Happy Christmas!

Righting wrongs of the past

 

The one thing you don't have much say into when you're younger really is how you are dressed because for one thing you don't actually buy it, at best you'll be taken and then when you are it'll be only to those sections they think  you should chose from.

That never felt right to me as I saw all those girls outfits as I was marched briskly away from them because I really really wanted to wear them and it really put me off shopping and amplified my gender issues cos I wasn't allowed to be me.

One thing about being out of the adult world is today with your encouragement and support the wrongs of the past can be put right.

I can be dressed in short little girl dresses with matching girls socks and shoes, given a dolly or two to carry with me, playing.

Wouldn't it be great to play with others just like you?

Chalet School

Reading is something that is very much linked to my actual childhood  and as an adult little girl remains a preoccupation of mine, loving to read story about schooldays and one series I am currently reading is the Chalet School series number sixty in total by Elinor Brent-Dyer from 1925 through 1960.

Here's a three in one omnibus edition from 1987 from my meagre collection of this series.

Howl's Moving Castle

Today I'm going to talk about an anime I've always liked from 2004 and recently bought

Howl's Moving Castle is based upon the book by britisher Diana Wynne and is set in a magical world of wizardry and spells we follow the adventures of Sophie and her incredibly Odyssey to lift  a witch's curse all while being swept off her feet Howl a handsome and mysterious wizard who kindly offers her refuge in his most magical moving castle.
Howl as a character while being quite enchanting can at times by very childish, self-centred and tormented even while Sophie, is a beautiful but very reserved young woman who is rather mousey and soft-spoken.
She has a sister called Lettie but in the story she only has a small part to play as worker in the bakery and so only shows up in just one scene.
What I love about this is goes beyond the story but to director Hayao Miyzazki brilliant animation and inspirational story telling in  this art form.

Pix edit August 2017 for blu ray edition

Study period

At high school and also at college, I like many of my peers, sat outside studying as we found the fresh air, natural light and space more helpful. Sometimes it might be that we went over our lesson notes perhaps correcting or adding detail to them while on other occasions we might read a text. I was kinda studious like that.
I love this girls dress too.

The School At The Turrets

As the nights start to draw in, it's a enjoyable idea to read a book about an hour before bed time several chapters per night and this is one I read recently.

 I've had this actual childhood being published in nineteen seventy-one by Armada in Great Britain and my copy is a little worn around the spine although the pages haven't started to fall out.
It's a ghost story with a twist being set at a girls boarding school where Ida sees something that almost causes her heart to stop beating for her eyes are transfixed upon a tall figure in white with an outstretched hnad and a stoney stare in her eyes.
This, Ida thinks must be the the 'White Lady' who legend has it haunts the old part of the school turrets.
It's a gripping story.

Walk with me

I was looking at some pictures I took recently and thought I'd share it with you.
Where we live there's this a inland waterway and while there's not much traffic on it now, there often is in the spring and summer.
Be that as it may, one thing I've always enjoyed doing is walking ever since being a child and I find walking in this area quite stimulating as you see a lot of wildlife both mammals and birds plus at this time of your you sure can appreciate the fall as you see it in the trees and vegetation near the locks such as this one.

It makes walking so much enjoyable.