Nina's Blog - Saturday 5th July 2025

Saturday 5th July 2025, 09:08

Almost finished dressing. But pride doesn't really start until at least 10:00. So should I put my stockings on now which means wearing shoes of some kind at least or wait until later. I can't wear 90 mm heels all day

I think I'll go out to my car and fetch my flats first. Should I carry my heels with me or come back to the hotel later to get them.

The forecast is for a maximum of 17 C with about half a millimetre of rain per hour.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Saturday 5th July 2025, 22:34

Back in my hotel room having a supper of tea, chipotle Caesar slaw and crackers. It's been an interesting evening. I wonder if my hearing has always been in some sense defective. It's not that I cannot hear, it's just that in high noise environments I find it harder to understand what people are saying than others seem to do. Perhaps it's simply that I have avoided such environments all my life and hence lack practise.

Anyway in the craft beer and bottle shop I ordered a half of an IPA and sat down at a table occupied by a local couple. Well she was an Ulverston native but he had only recently moved from Barrow. We had a long conversation about where we were all from. It turned out that he used to visit my home town on business from the shipyard in Barrow. The company he was visiting was the one that my wife worked for in the late 1970s!

They recommended that I visit Coniston instead of Windermere an also said that the Buddhist temple complex near here is well worth a visit. They also said that I should visit the Monument because you can see Coniston from there and the mountains.

Google Maps says that the Monument is only a mile away and the meditation centre just over two miles away.so perhaps I should visit one or both tomorrow

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Saturday 5th July 2025, 23:12

After the couple left I sat alone for a while an finished my drink. Then i went to the bar to get another and settled on something called Fonta Flora. Not sure how to describe it, quite sour, very strong and quite expensive. As I was drinking it a man asked if I minded him moving the table a little so he could slide in on the other side. We chatted briefly and he asked what I was drinking and when I named it he asked if he could smell it. It seems he was part of a larger group and a couple joined us. After a while they left an a couple of women from the same group sat down at the table. One of them asked if I was trans. Before I had a chance to think about it I said yes. And se said her daughter was too and was going through transition now. I never did quite grasp which direction the transition was going. She asked if life had been difficult for me obviously thinking that I had being doing this for a long time. I explained that I was relatively new, that I had almost entirely positive experiences and that I thought that life was much easier for people like me and her daughter now than it was when I was her daughter's age. She opined that it wold be so good if everyone had such a good experience and said something about the various labels that are applied to us all; I said i wish we could foret the labels and just be ourselves.