Nina's Blog - Monday 7th July 2025
Monday 7th July 2025, 07:07
Up early today. Catching the 08:10 bus to Coniston, if I can find it.
Up early today. Catching the 08:10 bus to Coniston, if I can find it.
61-69, T
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
Monday 7th July 2025, 19:43
I've just got back from a very interesting time with the woman who took pictures of me in the cafe on Saturday. When she left the cafe she asked if I would like to meet up for coffee or a drink some time before I leave Ulverston and gave me her card. Now anyone who knows me well will understand how it cost me a fair amount of dithering today to decide whether or not to call her. But I finally did. She suggested meeting at The Farmers pub which is just a hundred metres up te road from the Sun. She was already there when I got there, we sat and chatted for a while, both of us dithering over whether to sit there outside or go in. She got us both a drink and asked the staff to turn on the fire because it was a bit chilly. Apparently the gas got turned on but no one came out to light it so after a while she complained of the cold and we went inside. I fear that I rather monopolized the conversation. She bought us a plate of nachos and eventually another glass of wine each and we carried on setting the world to rights.
All in all a very pleasant early evening's conversation. My turn to buy drinks next time.
I've just got back from a very interesting time with the woman who took pictures of me in the cafe on Saturday. When she left the cafe she asked if I would like to meet up for coffee or a drink some time before I leave Ulverston and gave me her card. Now anyone who knows me well will understand how it cost me a fair amount of dithering today to decide whether or not to call her. But I finally did. She suggested meeting at The Farmers pub which is just a hundred metres up te road from the Sun. She was already there when I got there, we sat and chatted for a while, both of us dithering over whether to sit there outside or go in. She got us both a drink and asked the staff to turn on the fire because it was a bit chilly. Apparently the gas got turned on but no one came out to light it so after a while she complained of the cold and we went inside. I fear that I rather monopolized the conversation. She bought us a plate of nachos and eventually another glass of wine each and we carried on setting the world to rights.
All in all a very pleasant early evening's conversation. My turn to buy drinks next time.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@ninalanyon Re-reading that I can see that I haven't said anything meaningful about the conversation.
We had the usual exchange of condolences that people living outside their birth countries do. We both feel exasperated about the direction our respective countries of origin are heading in. But we also talked about our, mostly my, lives and how we came to be where we are. In her case divorce after a 30 year marriage, spending a few years in Dublin, meeting her future second husband there, and then having problems with becoming resident because apparently the Irish authorities couldn't figure out how to do it even though her husband being British had no problems at all. On a visit to Cumbria they visited Ulverston and fell in love with it. In amongst all of this were the trials and tribulations of COVID (she's had it twice, husband had bad), and Briexit (apparently a contributing factor to the Irish residency problem, though goodness knows why it was relevant).
And I gave my usual potted explanation for how we ended up in Norway. Explained that my wife died of cancer almost eight years ago and how that ad been the trigger for having to discover myself. Then the ticklish question of how to express my start at dressing. Online I usually just candidly say I bought a bra and some knickers and got on to an internet video chatroom while in my hotel room and wanked for people to see. Somehow that didn't seem quite appropriate for the moment. So i omitted the video chat part. I mentioned Sparkle and how the more I do this the more appropriate the term trans becomes. Etc., etc., I won't bore you with more because it's just a retelling of what this blog is all about. I did mention that I might visit Scotland and that I have a brother-in-law there but he doesn't know this side of me at all so I think I won't visit; I should come out to my sister first.
We had the usual exchange of condolences that people living outside their birth countries do. We both feel exasperated about the direction our respective countries of origin are heading in. But we also talked about our, mostly my, lives and how we came to be where we are. In her case divorce after a 30 year marriage, spending a few years in Dublin, meeting her future second husband there, and then having problems with becoming resident because apparently the Irish authorities couldn't figure out how to do it even though her husband being British had no problems at all. On a visit to Cumbria they visited Ulverston and fell in love with it. In amongst all of this were the trials and tribulations of COVID (she's had it twice, husband had bad), and Briexit (apparently a contributing factor to the Irish residency problem, though goodness knows why it was relevant).
And I gave my usual potted explanation for how we ended up in Norway. Explained that my wife died of cancer almost eight years ago and how that ad been the trigger for having to discover myself. Then the ticklish question of how to express my start at dressing. Online I usually just candidly say I bought a bra and some knickers and got on to an internet video chatroom while in my hotel room and wanked for people to see. Somehow that didn't seem quite appropriate for the moment. So i omitted the video chat part. I mentioned Sparkle and how the more I do this the more appropriate the term trans becomes. Etc., etc., I won't bore you with more because it's just a retelling of what this blog is all about. I did mention that I might visit Scotland and that I have a brother-in-law there but he doesn't know this side of me at all so I think I won't visit; I should come out to my sister first.