Third Base

 

It's that time of year and I love wearing short skirts so this Honeybee Games type skirt the sort we all used to wear for PE is just great with T shirts.

Handstands are really cool and I wasn't bad at them but you'd need gym knickers  underneath it  to avoid showing anything that's best kept covered.

Nicely finished I could just fancy a game of Hockey and maybe Rounders over afternoon tea.

The Steve Miller Band on cd

As you know from last weeks entry I do like music, visiting a record shop on my hols which is a bit of a ritual that goes back to around 1977 and 78 when I first got interested more in buying albums being just in my teens than singles.

One group I like is the Blues Rock group, The Steve Miller Band who've been going from about 1968 and in 1990 the British arm of Capitol Records issued this jolly useful compilation of that early work which included Livin' In The U.S.A and The Joker from the 1973 album of the same name.

That was one of the cd's I bought used last week.

The biggest selling compilation of theirs is Greatest Hits 1974-1978 which has hits from the Fly Like an Eagle and Book Of Dreams albums of 1976 and 1977 respectively plus some earlier recordings which was issued by Capitol in the U.S.A and Mercury in the UK/Europe in 1978.

One criticism that can be made of the original lp and cd was the didn't use the original stereo mix tapes but copies often edited for the singles versions.

In 1997 a man called Steve Hoffman who has a music forum I joined this April remastered this compilation for the specialist cd re-issue company DCC Classics in California from those original tapes to great effect.

I recent bought a new old stock sealed version of that cd which sounds much better than my Mercury one I bought way back in March 1987 providing me with great versions of Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner and Swingtown.

This was another I picked up while away although I hired it in 1987 shortly after release from a cd lending service I belonged to and recorded a lot of the songs from it but that tape doesn't play too well anymore.

There is a bit of over lap with the 1974-78 Greatest Hits set but this is good for having songs from 1981's Circle of Love, 1982's Abracadabra and 1984's Italian X-ray Eyes so we get Give It Up, Shangla La and Abracadabra plus a few more tracks from Fly Like an Eagle and Book Of Dreams sounding very good on this 1987 cd. 

This selection of discs gives me great sounding versions of many of the Steve Miller Bands greatest hits and notable album tracks.

Summer Hols 2006

Today I'm writing about my visit to the Snowdonia national park, in Wales recently as I had been experiencing a lot of stress and it was having a serious effect on my mental well-being.

I was greeted by exceptional hot, sunny weather affording superb views of Mount Snowdon and the isolated moorlands surrounding it.

The lambs were all out in the fields young and old some having a chew of the grass, others sheltering in the shade of nearby hedges, walls and trees.

A few had the bright idea of exploring the human domain of the narrow roads and we needed to slow down to allow them to cross back into the fields.

I liked the solitude up there but I’m not sure the idea of being literally miles way from the nearest market town would really do for me which I guess is a reflection of my urban upbringing.

Betws–y-coed is a place I like to stop off at as here are good range of shops and spectacular waterfalls. There are a lot woodlands in the area and I took a lot photos – on my ageing Minolta XD7 of the trees, sometimes lying underneath the branches to get the viewpoint I wished to capture.

Llandudno: It remains a largely unspoilt Victorian seaside resort with excellent shopping facilities. The Theatre is really good and many amateur choral performances are hold during the summer season in local churches. On Tuesday there was a Brass Band concert taking place, appropriately enough, on the Bandstand along the promenade. The players were really good – I’m no great fan of Brass Bands but the musicianship couldn’t be faulted.
Bangor: 

I visit here a lot, being a University town with bookshops and some good Pubs that serve meals. 

There is an excellent record shop on the High Street, Cob Records, whose staff really know about music. 

The main store is in Porthmadog – this is a ‘satellite’ store – it has a first rate second hand vinyl department that is well worth rummaging through and stock new vinyl releases too.

I took the bus to Conway - there is a very frequent service - travelling on the river, strolling around the town and enjoying the castle

Things that didn’t go as they should: I days filming got wasted as a Fuji film become tight and tore whilst rewinding it out of the camera – we came close Basil Fawty worthy meltdown!

Disability and this thing

Disability and sissification-who knew?

Really there's such a big ignoring of traits and kinks by the non disabled kink and fetish communities of anything that involves people who may need assistance, that have disabilities, that may have assistance aids and services for the full abled I could scream.

Needing crutches, being a wheelchair user, having a learning disability doesn't alter things such as your sexuality (or having one!), having a pennant for dressing in a uber feminine way when you were born male or as a submissive wanting an understanding dominant who would fully work with your needs and met theirs in using domination while respecting how your disabilities leave you.

Why shouldn't disabled sissies like me have and offer to dominants things that meet each others needs?

Jennings

I went for part of my childhood to a boarding school where of necessity all your relationships with teachers, care staff and class mates  are very different plus to a very large extent you're living by someones rules wearing a uniform all day with no chance of a change.

While there I read the Jennings series of book based upon the adventures  of two friends at prep boarding school called Jennings and Darbishire which made sense as  was in similar situation and we too had our adventures that seemed incomprehensible to those who were responsible for our welfare on the grounds. 

To me Buckeridge understood as a Form Master himself just what the prep school boy was really like and although I wasn't at prep school I too was endowed with the same spirit for good and ill.

There remains a very large part of my that would enjoy a return to boarding school and I was fortunate to spend six months in a residential college where I could go back to being the boarding school kid with informal dorm parties and all the little intrigues.