Recent Entries

• To be or not to shop?

  by Rachel de Blanc April 17, 2009
  A quick window-shop between business errands and an impromptu encounter with a former colleague whilst gazing into a fashion-house window. A laughed-off throwaway excuse. Good job I wasn’t walking out with bags full of goodies.. I need to get some stuff. Shoes, a dress or perhaps an eighties insp...

• Today everything just got to me

  by Rachel de Blanc April 8, 2009
  You can hold it all at bay so long, then without warning you’re engulfed and flooded, squashed and flattened, sopped and splattered. It almost helps just typing that out, but opening the window and screaming ‘For F***k’s Sake’ feels more appropriate but it’s a shame to spoil the sunlit Spring air...

• Bedside Stories

  by Rachel de Blanc March 24, 2009
  I have recently remembered a significant event from my childhood, which provides a little insight into what was to follow. On the bedside table of my grandparent’s house, where I would occasionally stay when my parents were at an event, was a children’s novel, The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsle...

• Shadow Puppet

  by Rachel de Blanc March 23, 2009
  My SO will be away soon over the course of a weekend. I’m sorry to admit that I am relishing the thought of this free time, when I can do as I please, as Rachel. I’m normally a skulker, dressing in the shadows whilst living in a state of confusion in the daylight. (Funny that – wonder whether I’d...

• London Buses

  by Rachel de Blanc March 9, 2009
  What on earth generated 16 visits to my blog in one day I wonder? Then almost immediately I remember that I was Trannyweb Member of the Day last Wednesday and assume that must be the reason. I suspect these curious souls may not be returning too quickly, given the rather dull fare on offer. I st...

• Aimlessly listening

  by Rachel de Blanc February 28, 2009
  I wonder whether there is any statistical evidence to confirm that women read blogs more than men? I recently listened to a radio article about blogs, about their existence and whether they perform a function. The conversation suggested that to be successful, a blog needs to develop its’ own form an...

• Tickly Cough

  by Rachel de Blanc February 2, 2009
  On a fairly full bus yesterday I noticed an embroidered petty-coat hemline and heavily jewel encrusted hands of a fellow passenger. As she read the News of The World she travelled across North London within her own private but yet public world, brave enough to allow herself out to play, to step outs...

• Tightening Nets

  by Rachel de Blanc January 25, 2009
  As my SO informed me that she would be out on Friday evening, I returned home at pace keen to take a long relaxing shower, a quick facial and to simply relax and unwind. Fortunately I had ‘un-dressed’ and was preparing a meal when at least 3 hours prior to the time I expected her to arrive, she retu...

• Resolved Crime

  by Rachel de Blanc January 5, 2009
  Whilst visiting a Museum over the holidays I used the toilets, which in this case were unisex cubicles. Lying on adjacent to the washbasin was a ring, not jewelled or of financial value, possibly even the content of a Christmas Cracker. An embroidered circular face, glistening and plastic, gold and ...

• Christmas Resolve

  by Rachel de Blanc December 22, 2008
  My mobile phones rings as I receive an incoming phone-call and my wife enquires ‘What are you doing now?’ and moves to look. Katie’s note about the December issue of Tranny Tribune drops onto the screen and so I exclaim that it’s a message about a Christmas delivery. I’m not certain the news ‘I ...