Did you think I had forgotten to post some selfies?
After my beer and before the parade arrived I had time to take some so I propped up my mobile set to take video and posed in front of it. The weather started just a little cool so I was wearing my favourite crocheted cardigan
But it was starting to warm up, so I took it off
Of course I then had to fold it up and stuff it in my handbag. I know that some of you will find this difficult to believe but I had completely forgotten how short my skirt was and didn't deliberately bend over revealing my stocking tops and bum. I'm normally very careful to not do that anywhere where there are other people about. In this case the camera wasn't even down at the usual ground level, it was propped on a window ledge about half a metre from the ground.
@turbineman40 Thank you Billie-Jean. Out of several hundred people in the parade I think there were fewer than half a dozen of us wearing heels. I might have been the only one in laddered stockings, I felt quite the rebel :-)
@ninalanyon Sometimes feeling the rebel is a good strong stepping out. Nina you have grown a great deal since we first started talking. I am so proud of your courage and determination to grow into the Lady you have become
@turbineman40 Oh goodness me. It's not courage really. I and the woman from Samaritans discussed exactly this point as we walked in the parade, it's so much easier for us now than it was a generation or two ago. I would not have dared to walk the streets in a miniskirt, heels, and crop top in the 1970s, it would have been at the very least uncomfortable and quite possibly dangerous. Of course there are places even in Europe where it is still dangerous to be visibly gay or trans, etc.
But now for me it has been easy, all the barriers have been inside my own head; every door I have pushed at so far has just swung open.
