Christmas day and New Year Eve

 

Christmas Day

Christmas day was at my parents, given my dads health issues over the last year we thought was best to spend it at theirs. I hope it's not our last together, but you just can't tell what is going to happen.

Anyway, it was a nice day, my mum had done her usual spread, lots of different things to tuck into. She did manage to burn the stuffing balls, but that was no serious issue :)

My wife had bought me a xmas jumper with a Penguin on it, which was lovely, but my parents tend to have the heating quite high, and with all that food I figured it would be better to wear something thinner.

We helped with the washing up, and spend the afternoon on the sofas.  Watch a bit of Dr Who - a bit pants , but watchable.  Then headed home about 6ish.

All in all a nice day, and my 1st as myself of course. There were quite a few name / pronoun slips, but they are trying, and it didn't ruin it. 

My wife and kids enjoyed it too, mostly - youngest had a bit of a melt down trying to do a really hard jigsaw we had bought him.

New Years Eve

One of my friends lives in Hull and was attending an 80's themed New Years Eve party there - Charlotte. She hadn't realised I wasn't doing anything,  and so asked me if I wanted to go - an offer of a free room sealed the deal. There was a prize for the best dressed, which sparked my interest too. 

It seems I had been subconsciously building an outfit for the last couple of years and hadn't realised. On searching through my cupboard I found a genuine vintage dress that was very likely 80's , and I also remembered the really curly wig I had got in a charity sale at Chams ages ago.  ( A mostly wigless month )

I really only needed to perfect some 80's makeup , and also get some accessories - some neon fishnet
gloves of course 😁 

I got ready during the afternoon after researching some vintage makeup looks of the era. I was really pleased with how I looked.

Drove over the my friends house with the makeup, but my own hair and a more comfortable dress, managed to get there about 5:30.  We had some lovely lentil stew she had made, then I got shown to her sons room which I would be borrowing for the night  (he was at his mums)

We were ready for about 7:15 ish , with a taxi booked for 7:30 , got a few photo's while we waited of course 😊 

Due to the horrible weather that day, (high winds with rain) we were not going anywhere before hand, but we did end up arriving a bit early before it had opened, so sought refuge in a tapas bar opposite to wait for the rest of the gang to turn up. 

The ticket included a glass of prosecco on entry, we managed to get some seats next to the dancefloor as well.  Gemma , Emily and Rebeka were already there, and was funny to see a few double takes when they spotted us - I haven't worn wigs in ages, so wasn't as recognisable.

Another trans woman and her cis wife turned up a bit later, had not met them before but they were nice, and also a guy that was friends with Gemma and Emily came along too.

There were quite a few other women who had gone to a fair bit of effort, so it swiftly became clear I wasn't a contender for the best dressed prize :)  -  I need a shorter dress and pink legwarmers next year I think.

The music was fab, spent a lot of time on the dancefloor, everyone had a great time.  Charlotte had pre-booked us a taxi back to her house at 00:30, so we didn't hang about after midnight.  But we had some White Russians back at her place when we did get back.

Probably not the best of ideas, it took me a while to feel sober enough to come home in the morning 😁

It was a great night though, and I hope to go back there next year ! - I hadn't seen much of some of the Hull crew for a while, so was great to catch up with them as well.