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Great news Adrian! I’m sure the new site will be a triumph xx

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Ok I’m having upload trouble but I will figure it out girls x

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So, yes, Caroline – to answer your question I DO touch on female-to-male dressers as well which is a phenomenon I find strangely fascinating!

As another ‘teaser’ which hopefully works better than my first attempt, I have attached both the book cover (which I had previously promised) AND the section on women who like to dress as men.

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Ha ha yes sod I’ve heard dear Fay!

I thought I’d attached it? I am a duffer there is no doubt. I will fix things when I’m in front of the puter tomorrow x

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I’m with Julie-Anne on this one: I was standing at the bar getting a drinkie (I know! Unusual huh?) when the band struck up a sensational version of “Suspicion”…i was also wiggling away to the rhythm right next to the COVID-19 Marshall. I did ask if what I was doing was ok and he assured me it was. I grabbed my drink and toddled off happily.

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I’m sooo looking forward to Saturday night….not just to see all my galpals and to make some new ones but to spend time with my dear, dear, friend Caroline who over the years has supported every wacky idea or event I’ve come up with.with her gentle good nature and friendship.
It’s been a long time coming but now I’m a NSW resident I get to return the favour in a small way.
Bottoms up ladies! Xx

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It is a little known fact, but Joanna Lumley based the entire character of Patsy on me…toning it down a fair bit for television.

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Yay! This will be a fabbo night xxx

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It was our pleasure to meet you Vanessa and we look forward to seeing you at the next event!
BTW I’m getting the same “bum honey…arent they fabulous?

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I may as well have my 5c worth here as I have insight in a few areas related to this subject:

As a proud Tasmanian, I can assure all that the good Senator’s views are not shared universally in the Apple Isle. Like everywhere else in our wide brown land, acceptance is rife and I have never had any issues accessing facilities in any commercial premises (usually a drinking establishment of course) in southern Tasmania. As for northern Tasmania, that region renowned for Senator Jacquie Lambie (she who seeks ‘a good package’) and the HIV infected monkeys in their cage in the centre of York Park in Launceston (known colloquially as “Incest-ton) I cannot say but given the wacky antics of the inhabitants I’m guessing all is well on the toilet front there as well.

From the sporting front, there has been a program rolled out across Australia for a number of years now to upgrade sports changerooms to provide single occupancy showers and individual toilets – in fact there is a Code of Practice AND an Australian Standard for this..and not solely for women and the trans community that has just been an added bonus. For the entirety of my playing career in Australian Rules football, which encompassed the SANFL, suburban, and country football, showers were “all in ones” with perhaps 4 x shower heads and first in best dressed. At many grounds, you may also have shared shower facilities with the opposition team after the game. The upgrading to individual showers is a good thing, not only from a privacy point of view but also from a hygiene perspective as the old style used to be noted breeding grounds for delightful consequences such as tinea. Two things to note: 1. Because of the ‘old style’ of things, there has been a big movement in the last 20 years from players to not shower in the changerooms after games but rather to head home for a shower and avoid the tinea. 2. Not only does single occupancy provide privacy and cleanliness but it has the added bonus of being absolutely ideal for the vast amount of women who now play the various codes around the country and who often share these changerooms with the men. Women generally have not had that culture of sharing showers as people my age did.

It is ok, for dear Claire, to have a different opinion as it is for anyone. Programs like Hadley’s are also hardly the bastion of Left Wing progressive thinking it must be noted but in sporting terms out there in Club-Land, creating policies around these things is somewhat superfluous as the clubs themselves are way ahead of any thinking the governing bodies may have on these subjects. Transgendered sisters already play, with great acceptance, in every code you can think of and generally do not dominate proceedings via any physical advantages they may have such as height. They can change, as can their team mates, in complete privacy if they wish and complete their ablutions post game without fear of being overseen if that is a concern for anyone. That is already happening and has done so for some time.

Without diversifying their programs to include womens teams, including transgendered folk, many clubs would have died an agonising death years ago. Clubs with histories extending over a century openly admit that diversity has saved them – and in a few instances I’m sure they would sacrifice their Mens programs to save the Womens it is that critical to them.

These squawks from people who do not really know what is going on in sport only go to underline their ignorance – and once howled down they retreat to come up with some other lunacy another day (see “Barnaby Joyce”) . The revolution started many years ago and sports, on an individual club basis, welcome all in to their midst with open arms.

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ET has indeed found home Caroline And I was very impressed how you mixed your science fiction references there whilst maintaining a Spielberg connection xx

Yes, I am happily rooted now in the “French Quarter” of Tamworth, where everything of note is only 100m from Gabby Anne’s place.

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Ha ha ha…as an engineer I fully appreciate all the above. Thank you for the laugh Caroline xxx

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Tanya, Paula and her partner are also coming so there will be quite a posse there.

We are looking forward to meeting you both

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Dear Rosemary,
My strategy for Bunnings journeys is thus (and please note I am an engineer by profession so not completely useless in this arena);
(1) I turn up in the shortest skirt and highest heels.
(2) l look completely useless.
(3) Some man offers to help/do whatever it is I want done thinking he will benefit from this.
(4) Man does job.
(5) Man does not benefit from it.

Voila!

Emma Thorne then drinks all the spirits in the house.

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Oh Rosemary! Where did you find this pic honey? I haven’t seen it in years!

I had them all you know.