Howl's Moving Castle

Today I'm going to talk about an anime I've always liked from 2004 and recently bought

Howl's Moving Castle is based upon the book by Briton Diana Wynne and is set in a magical world of wizardry and spells we follow the adventures of Sophie and her incredibly Odyssey to lift  a witch's curse all while being swept off her feet Howl a handsome and mysterious wizard who kindly offers her refuge in his most magical moving castle.

Howl as a character while being quite enchanting can at times by very childish, self-centred and tormented even while Sophie, is a beautiful but very reserved young woman who is rather mousy and soft-spoken.

She has a sister called Lettie but in the story she only has a small part to play as worker in the bakery and so only shows up in just one scene.

What I love about this is goes beyond the story but to director Hayao Miyzazki brilliant animation and inspirational story telling in  this art form.

Pix edit August 2017 for blu ray edition

Motown Twofer mania

Just when you all thought I'd got it all done I surprised a few with an outbreak of twofer mania this month. I blame that Diana thread!!! They didn't realize not only did it have me searching the world for a decent copy of her 1980 project with the guys from Chic, I ended up chasing an early series of discs Motown issued in the 1980's. 

The scene was the purchase of the 1986 CD release, Diana coupled with her 1979 Ashford and Simpson project "The Boss" with hits such as "No One Gets The Prize". There is a basic and I insist real problem with the 1998 Kevin Reeves version of Diana namely distortion and dynamic squashing. I know some have said he didn't do this and he mastered it from the originals which were hard to reproduce on on Lp with a lot of bass and so required some filtering for LP pressings but it isn't unknown for stuff to happen to a mastering engineers work after he's done it. Anyway I bought this old disc and it, as much as it might well of been a generation down from the master, sounds much freer and expands beautifully. "

Spurred on this find, I after nearly twenty years waiting got the Commodores Natural High/Midnight Magic twofer CD from 1986 pressed in Japan for Europe. It is very hard to find. It use the single edits of Flying High and Three Times A Lady to fit both albums within the then 74 minute time restriction of a CD but sounds amazing!
I also got the Marvin Gaye What's Going On & Let's Get It On twofer cheaply which sounds more natural than the 1994/8 issues

I got Mary Wells Two Lovers coupled with My Guy from the States which is a great stereo disc and actually quite rare

In January 2010 I picked up very cheaply The Supremes Let The Sunshine In c/w Cream Of The Crop from 1986 which was pressed in Japan

Adult little gurl presentation

This blog has always been a broad blog in terms of its coverage being more about me and my interests so it's entirely fitting to talk a little about adult little gurl presentation cos we see so much of more adult sissy presentations.

Generally given as an adult little gurl, I am a sissy who feels and acts more like a child that means my clues about who to dress are more like an actual child's even if somethings may need to be made specifically for me or involving finding suitable near equivalents in bigger sizes so I may wear something more like this.

For as long as I have lived though I have always loved pretty dresses that emphasize my shoulders, nice rounded collars and bows.

Spending a day playing with the girls was always what as a sissy I always wanted to do even to the point of playing dress up with them.

It's just so me.

Paddington Bear & The school at the turrets

Today's theme is reading and today I will write about two books.

One thing I have always liked is Paddington Bear who came from deepest darkest Peru to London.

Aunt Lucy is Paddington's aunt and Uncle Pastuzo's wife. She adopted her nephew after his parents died. When Pastuzo died in an earthquake she later sent him off to London while she resided in the Home for Retired Bears in Darkest Peru. 

Paddington often writes to her about his new family in London.

Paddington Bear was both a series of printed stories we read and at the time a cartoon series on BBC 1, part of a batch that run before the main 5:40 or 5:45 evening news slot that marked the transition from children's programming to more adult or  at least whole family material.

I have a dvd with all the original cartoon episodes on.

Connected with Michael Bond being working in the BBC, for a good many years in the 1960's and early 1970's a new Paddington Bear short story would appear in the Blue Peter book we had that Christmas.

This publication, mine is a the original boyhood edition, issued in 1975 brought a group of them together 

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As the nights start to draw in, it's a enjoyable idea to read a book about an hour before bed time several chapters per night and this is one I read recently.

 I've had this actual childhood being published in nineteen seventy-one by Armada in Great Britain and my copy is a little worn around the spine although the pages haven't started to fall out.

It's a ghost story with a twist being set at a girls boarding school where Ida sees something that almost causes her heart to stop beating for her eyes are transfixed upon a tall figure in white with an outstretched hand and a stony stare in her eyes.

This, Ida thinks must be the the 'White Lady' who legend has it haunts the old part of the school turrets.

It's a gripping story.

A sissy gurl's bedroom

To be quite honest most of the designs and pictures I see for bedrooms really do nor interest me at all.

You see in my regressed world since what happened in 2006/7 this is really the sort of bedroom I want a twenty-first century feminine gurls one, less austere than the one I was brought up with but completely free from anything adult so I can just sleep and play in it which is helping me recover right now.

Ultimately of course the only way to be you is to just go out there and do it but you may start of by trying out looks in your bedroom much like any girl experiments with things like hair styles and make up so making it really feminine couldn't be any better for you, could it?