Last adventures recorded up to 12th of March , with single entry in April about bra fitting.
21st of March - we visited my friend Bella in Blackpool, explored the town in the afternoon, ate in the food hall. Got a guided tour of her trans-cave , then headed to Waterloo rock bar in the evening.
3rd of April - LFF , Benni's birthday. We met some lovely youngsters who were attending for their first time, got two marriage proposals, went to Pieminister for tea. We drank too much as was a bit hungover for the Bra fitting we had the next day. Might have been the first time we did Buzzballs, the latest cocktail in a strange shape craze.
5th of April we had a lovely but cold walk along the bank of the Humber, through the timber yard and onwards to a dockside factory.
We had a lovely braised steak casserole for tea.
9th of April, drove Josephine to Hull to make sure she was ready for the big Rustival car show we were displaying at later in the month.
Popped to Halfords the next day to get a new fire extinguisher, got talking to a friendly guy in the car park who was very intrigued by the car.
11th of April, drove down to Derby to pickup some car parts for the Flying9 I had bought on ebay. He had one himself, and was really nice - gave me some free hood latches too ! Afterwards met up with Ann at Costa for a catchup, which was nice.
17th of April, Rustival adventure begins, had driven over to Hull on Wednesday evening, we were heading down towards Gaydon on Friday afternoon. Had booked a pub/motel nearby to stay over on the Friday night.
Drive down was not too bad, the clutch was making some weird noises though which was concerning. We arrived around 5ish and checked in, there were two other minors in the car park :) which was nice.
The pub was doing food but there was a lot of excess testosterone around, and we didn't fancy it. Met a nice chap in the car park who had a Morris traveller who recommended we try the nearby Gilks garage for food. There was a pre-event meetup there, but it was ticketed and we didn't have tickets, so decided to go for a curry instead, then chance heading to Gilks afterwards.
Curry was lovely, really good service too. We walked to Gilks and the nice chap was there, we had a few drinks and a good chat with him. There wasn't that many people there, spotted a few trans youth. We headed back to ensure we were not sozzled for the morning, stopping in a a Co-op to buy breakfast supplies.
In the morning we pootled to the petrol station on the way to the museum. On arriving there we were asked if we were members of the young morris minors group, which I took as a compliment, but had to correct him and say we were with the womens drivers group.
Show was fab as always, lots of great cars. The green Talbot and a number of Twingo's were my favorite.
There was a trans club attending for the 1st time, but they were all very young and didn't seem to want to interact - wondered if it was more like a club for their friendship group than something they were looking to grow.
I had brought GF rolls, and the nice lady in the food van was willing to just sell bacon on it's own, so i got to have a butty unlike previous years. Had a jacket potato in the museum cafe for lunch. We did a bit of talking with the other group members, but the leader was attending this year and it seemed a bit more fragmented than normal.
Headed back about 3pm i think. On arrival back in hull I realised I had caught the sun :(
We went to the local kebab shop for a quick and easy tea, and had some beers out of the fridge. I had been joking with Charlotte that we should visit her local pub, and she finally relented and we walked to that.
It was a nice experience, they had a young person of indeterminate gender identity singing as well as anything I had heard on BGT, They had a nice IPA for Charlotte and a box of proper cider for me - not much left in the box though I ended up finishing all they had :)
It did seem to empty after an hour or so, and soon it was just us two and an old guy. We felt the need to apologize on leaving !
Would go back again for sure.
25th April - Pub lunch with the family for Roberts 17th, how time fly's. He was disappointed as they had a run out of eggs for his mixed grill :(
28th April - a rare day in the office !
