Haircut 100 are back!

1982, the year Status Quo named an album after it it was that cool with all sorts of music from Post Punk via Funk and New Romantics to Heavy Metal vying for your wallet and chart positions, a World Cup like this week and a conflict thankfully won in the South Atlantic.

 Was it really all those years ago the original chapter of Haircut One Hundred beamed briefly yet brightly not to be seen after October as we followed the solo fortunes of Nick Heyward?

Haircut 100 achieved the kind of success that they could have only dreamed of: four UK Top 10 hits, all of which were definitive '80s classics - 'Love Plus One', 'Fantastic Day', 'Favourite Shirts (Boys Meets Girl)' and 'Nobody's Fool' - followed by a debut album, 'Pelican West', which peaked at #2 during an eleven week run in the Top 10, in the process reaching Platinum status.

I remember well tuning in on Radio One for the premiering of that album and been amazed at the musicianship, tight, mainly recorded live to digital tape performances and, not for the first time, going with the influences of the girls I knew for tips on hot musical acts.

That was 42 years ago and where have those heady years gone? 

But now after a lengthy absence, Haircut One Hundred are back fuelled by the power of friendship, a love of adventure, and the simple joy of seeing wherever their unexpected next chapter will take them. 

Their return now gathers pace after releasing their first new music in 40 years with the new single 'The Unloving Plum', more new music and this album in released last Friday.

An advantage of sorts is having this long for a reunion is following on a few years ago from the release of a BBC concert recording from 1982, this their new album is on vinyl too and cheaper than many other new releases.

'The Unloving Plum' sparkles with the exuberant joy of a band loving what they do. The joyous, brass-assisted, instantly unforgettable pop that they're best known for is still their most compelling trait, but it's a natural evolution that takes in touches of jangly, Beatles-esque pop and an anthemic Britpop-flavoured power. 

While vocalist/guitarist Nick Heyward explains what it means to him, it also speaks to the universal experience of something great in life emerging from what you initially thought was the worst possible outcome.

Musically this album follows a similar freespirit jazz-funk lead feel as that debut filtered though a pop presentation, mature pop without being too pretentious, easy to hum along or start moving to but having substance.

Playing it was a blast!

This has been something I've been so looking forward to.

Interuptions

I was reading on site about the second time a Sissy in their late teens got rumbled by Mum where hur stash of clothes and other accessories tm was found in the wardrobe of the guest rooms when this room seldom gets used.

To me the easier thing is get the point you manage your own room and Mum agrees to ask first before entering it. I mean respect of privacy really ought to be a given at that age.

Sadly some Mums and Dad's too think they can "barge in" whenever they like as you're "under their roof" in which instance a situation like that can easily happen and whatever your folks own views, you should be able to dress as you're comfortable in your own space.

Other rooms in the house and situations like coming down for evening meals can be more awkward as they just say "We're not comfortable seeing you like that" and in practice unless you can stopover with a mate or have Uni accommodation there's little you can do about that.

Being sissy 2026 style

 It's the second longest battle I have fought over identity issues over the one bought what my real age is and its implications when it comes to what I can be expected to do and and the degree of supervision I need in everyday life is when essentially you're still a child. 

Having the confidence to express how you feel not just in words but also in how you present such as your dress and for it to be respected is very important. 

It does not matter how much I have masculine traits, how happy I was to play rough and tough with the boys I have a sizable feminine side running through me that at the time was never able to be let out as the whole me.

Within age dysphoric life inclining playing I need to be able to play feminine games and undertake those activities as a part of being still a child amongst children.

I need full access to the whole range of children's clothes of my era and specific time devoted to being in skirts and dresses and more feminine underclothes not just to express the here and now of my gender but as a therapy for past issues.

I struggle with stockings but these would do the trick being more a patterned stocking but in below the knee which goes will just over the knee skirts or dresses, more down the sissy side without getting into ything overly bedroom fun and games.

I think there are some just over the knee ones too - I probably need to look more into that - but given these days I'm in satin and frilly panties this sort of dressing makes sense where if I'm just playing dashing about cotton socks with cute characters are great and school wear is all big proper knickers and three quarter length black, white more often or grey socks as a matter of course.

As a little sissy gurl, it matters to me that I express this side of me, being more open about as some have tried to say I can't be a little as an age regressed adult and even bullying me over it.

I can be cute as a feminine little sissy gurl in a pure age regressed side with nothing sexual in that space and I have every right to be that person. 

That's what matters.

Summer Special 2026

Last week was badd...very bad for the super hot drying up conditions we endured as we went over 30 degrees and felt by Thursday night really off so Friday's cooler temperatures, fresh breeze and even some thunder was welcome.

And that was Spring!

Now this month we enter Summer officially where you might it expect it to be warm, where in the past we looked to Summer Vacations and no school for seven or so weeks before we got crazy, stomping our feet saying "I'm bored!" 

We didn't bother with the Dandy Summer Special as like last years it another set of Jamie Smart era Desperate Dan reprints from 2007-2010 not a proper Dandy Summer edition that we've had since 2013 and the ending of the weekly print edition.

Okay, you could play with your Chromebook, Tablet or Smartphone all day which isn't that good for for other reasons, run about like crazy playing weird games which is what I did with mates or read a comic or book.

That's where summer special comic editions with more pages came in coupled with puzzle books that remain big with modern children.

While the world of children's comics and magazines has changed a lot in forty odd years - and not necessarily for the better - The Beano Summer Special, today styled as a Summer Activity Special remains available and is out...NOW!

This years plot revolves around the notion the Beanotown children think they’ve bagged the perfect getaway, a dream holiday to a seaside caravan park in Beanotown-on-Sea. 

However this is Beanotown so of course nothing is what it seems! Their hoped for R & R (rest and recreation) turns out to be more like run-down and rotten - and the weirdness doesn’t stop there. Something fishy is happening both at the seaside and back home… and the kids are determined to uncover the truth!

Packed with mysteries, mayhem, jokes and puzzles it takes you back to those times even if the world is very much the modern one with enough to keep you occupied indoors or out and doesn't require a connection nor recharging.

With this weeks weather recharging is what I need!

I loved rope climbing and exploring back then so that kind of adventure is so so relatable.

Identity and rights of the sissy

I used to do things like Tumblr in connection to this life but changes there plus attitudes within and beyond the community when it came what we could show even play or comfort items made trying to post their and not either have your account banned or people just block you made it hardly worth the effort.

I did look into what I consider to be the rights of the sissy,

The right to be addressed as hur/she/hurself and all other sissy pronouns to emphasize hur own identity

The right to have their gender affirmed, being referred to unambiguously as a Gurl

The right to single gender spaces

The right to wear girlie shorts or a skirt at school and at work.

The right of sissies  to adult Female input throughout hur life including spending time just with women and other sissy gurls in female only activities together to help hur grow and find hur sissiness.

The right not to be discriminated against in any programs and employment opportunities, being assessed purely on hur abilities compared to others for the task and nothing else.

It doesn't matter that I and others may have a feminine side because that doesn't invalidate his rights and our existance should not be used to question hur and because I may wear a skirt doesn't make me a girl demanding her privileges. 

Just to be with and of use to her.

Outdoor maths lesson by the very kind of man or woman most of us would look up to in flash.

“For Sissies”  is an electric sign we need to be prepared to stand up for because whatever certain usually people say, Sissies ARE are Gender distinct from Girls which while individual variations exist, in general they graduate toward similar hobbies, interests and like the company girls they do not see themselves as being or wishing to take the role of girls.

Your role is to help us be who we are.

To me it is sad that we seem to be going backwards in this regard. 

When I was growing up in the 70’s, the goal was to achieve a society in which a male or a female might do or become anything they wanted, without their sexual identity being questioned. Boys could play with dolls, girls could climb trees, anyone could wear anything they wanted or do anything they wanted, without it impacting what we now call “gender.” It was a great goal. 

I could and have every right to wear a skirt and to play with dolls as part of expressing the more feminine side  of me as much as I could the rough and tough side cos they're all me.

If you want to get a feel for what that movement was about, listen to Marlo Thomas’ , Free to Be You and Me, a famous series of songs recorded to help introduce children to this concept. Boys can cry, girls can compete in races…nothing you say or do changes what you inherently are.

Our conversation about gender appears to have taken a step backwards. Once more we are talking about ‘male’ and ‘female’ behaviours, and suggesting that if one gender does something associated with the other gender, the gender must be wrong. Once more we are creating boxes to define and contain gender identity, and if you step outside the box, it is deemed a denial of that identity.

Some men like to wear women’s clothing. Some girls disdain traditional “feminine” activities. The first group are still men, and the second still girls. We don't see ourselves as girls trapped in boys bodies but a species apart that share much with girls to the point we may be more effeminate than the way females may act upon.

We do them a terrible disservice when we read deeper things into that. 

I did have a love of flowers and some collectable porcelain dolls of various girls which in that era wasn't very cool to admit to other boys which was a shame, I liked to wear skirts as much as shorts but that didn't mean I had a deep seated need to change my sex because I was happy with what I had but needed the gender space of the sissy I am to be me.

We may present more as "Little Girls", School girls or our older more mature sisters depending on what is within us. And that's okay.

Making space to be...US

The world we may want to live in may be different to where we are able to be at because of health or disabilities related reasons or it might be with difficult situations you are having to share space with people who don't necessarily understand that we are sissies and need to be ourselves.

Is it wrong then to think a bit about what we'd like and how we might find a way of expressing ourselves as challenging as life can be?

That might be how we'd like to have our bedrooms, full of cute stuffies, figurines and draws to keep our frillies in.

Is it possible to have a small space for some of your own with maybe a strategically placed covering we can be pulled down when others who aren't so appreciative might be around or a cleaner might come in?

Perhaps look at a more concealed wardrobe space where our dresses and uniforms might be hung  out of sight of visitors or window cleaners,

It's not that anything is wrong with us, far from it, but about looking at making being us more possible in the world we're living in.

kk

Feminine May

May, that month that forms the bridgehead between the awakening of Spring and the glorious sun of Summer moves forward with its calendar comprising of two bank holidays and for many of us the memories of learning to dance the maypole gracefully weaving a plait with the girls who seemed more co-ordinated than we did. 

 Twenty-ten is shaping up to be quite a year as we work on my feminine presentation such as wearing these La Senza satin high cut knickers with fully elasticated legs.

The rear is sculptured to present my bottom in a feminine way complete with a frilly lace skirt across the cheeks while the overall impression is that of more mature sophistication

It's not even just all that but wearing short pretty skirts with netting like this Hell Bunny goth one as I let my feminine side right out more like a teen would.

Here it is with hold up stockings with pretty bows

I was encouraged to try wear it with stocking and suspenders to take me completely out of my comfort zone so I could see what I could be like.