Don Henley

The Eagles were a band who I followed in the nineteen-seventies until the ugly affairs of the Long Run tour of 1979/80 saw the the band effectively end and with remembers starting or in the case of Joe Walsh resuming solo careers.

In late 1984 Don Henley released Building The Perfect Beast on Geffen records which was the home to The Boys Of Summer, a top 5 hit, Sunset Grill and All She Wants To Do Is Dance.

In 1989, he released the Age Of Innocence album that didn't chart so  well but was acclaimed for tackling more mature themes than many in rock not least the disconnect between the governed and the governors.
Recently I was able to get these, the very best sounding versions of both titles on 24kt gold cd at an affordable price to replace my original cassette copies.

Jennings follows a clue

The second story in this series came out in 1951 where Jennings feels inspired to take up the career as a detective with Darbishire as his assistant, trouble needless to say is just around the corner.

The twosome first of all detect the lights being on in the sanitarium when nobody is supposed to be in there which is the catalyst for them investigating it and the laundry room before noticing the school sports cups, to which competitions are due have disappeared!

They see a main of whom they believe to be a piano tuner leave the building with them and follow him, breaking school rules into the village going into a silversmith and jewellers oblivious to this being his occupation and that he was to engrave them for the school by permission!

In the meantime all this detective stuff is becoming something of a distraction  not just to Jennings and Darbishire but within their form leading to a number of mishaps not least being caught having defaced a textbook and not paying proper attention in class which results as did for many of our generation in a lecture and a caning from the Head.

While exploring the sanatorium they get caught by a mysterious person who locks them in a room and after escaping, investigate laundry as they lose a clue to only end up being driven  away as the school sports is taking place. In the end they found out who really stole the cups in time for presenting them.

It's a hilarious account of schoolboy life that could only exist pre internet and cellphone that I loved as a boy at boarding school.

My edition my edition is the 1967 Collins hardback which keeps this dust jacket

Ankle socks

 The options when it comes to ankle socks are endless as it is easy to get really nice cute ones for us from the girls range, something that is helped by having small child size feet and are often a better choice in the summer months.

These were from a mainstream department store.

Sissy gurls like me belong in skirts such as this pleated skater skirt that help us make the most of our feminity.

As that sissy, you never wanted to wear anything other than pretty girlie panties and now dear sissy, that's all you will wear!

Being with the girls as a Gurl

Going back in the gender divided world I grew up in you had to be in one group or the other and if you chose "other" then who knew just what the terms might be.

Sometimes it was more like that.

You could play with girls but you were not going to be treated as if you are a girl because they saw you as a "sissy" and never a "girl in a boys body".

And just to remind you you'd be expected to do anything they said so an early age female dominance just became a part of your sissy life.

To be with them required you altered your presentation.

They didn't want anything "foreign" in view so at times it could get more like this.

Secretly Tammy loved it.

Playground games of the past

This was a game I sure remember playing as a kid and no doubt if were socially possible to today I would gladly. The game involves one or more of you chasing other players with the aim of touching them generally with your hands.

Two or more players decide who is going to be 'it' using a counting out game such as Enny Meany, miny, moe and the one designated 'it' then chases the others attempting to get close enough to tag them - a touch of their hand - that makes that person 'it' and so it continues usually to the end of recess at schools.

In some forms it's deemed if you are on or touching a safe are then you can't be tagged cos it's off limits.

There was a form of it I well remember well from primary school 'cos we played it all the time called Kiss Chase.
The main difference is the tag is done by kissing rather than a touch of the hand and typically all of us of one gender are 'it' at the same time and chase the others of the opposite gender until everyone is caught at which point the team that was caught becomes it.
I really loved playing kiss chase between 8 and 11 years of age.

Littlesness

As you may have gathered from reading this blog so far, I do like reading, indeed always loved reading as a child back then although I always struggled with books intended for teens and over cos I'm both dyslexic and have developmental disabilities.

I always been little and never more than middle from that whole period when my peers became adolescents and apart from the purely physical I didn't, being the younger child by a few forms of my form, being their younger sibling who needed to be looked out for and even to a point sheltered from what were the social norms of my class.

I may as far as the law of land goes be an adult but in all of respects i most certainly am not nor will be.

I don't role play a child, I am one mentally in adult body who just dresses like I actually am albeit in short trousers or dresses but always a little sissy gurl.

Little Sissy Gurls (LSG's) like real children have nothing to do with more groan up sexual stuff and are just more prissier feminine child-like sissies of a boy heritage, having the sense to see really they were never socially a boy.