Tammy steps out!

 

This wet look crocodile leather look one is from Asos and originally retailed for £30 but I was able to get it for £11. It's not that I'm cheap just I don't believe in paying top dollar for everything! Do you?

Anyways this is a closer look at the skirt, showing more of the pattern and pleats (gets all excited at the  word "Pleats").

The back zips up although again like the others the is a full waist band which I much prefer, and can be worn with a sweater and either socks or tights. It's also relatively thin that helps with the cool airy feel I like.

This was another I bought at the same time that fits me like a treat.

Gordon the Gopher

The other week I was tidying one of my shelves and a white pile of dust landed on my head and with it was this:

He used to appear on Going Live and Children's BBC with Philip Schofield and his significance to me was I bought him as a hand puppet in Elvaston Country Park, Derbyshire in the English East Midlands together with some other outfits.

I was with with my family and I came skipping across the fields  jumping up and down with Gordon all excited in this public place with lots and lots of grown ups! 

Can you believe it!!! I even carried him back all the way on the bus cos I couldn't bear to be removed from him and oddly enough nobody said anything.

I think this would of been the first  time I'd acted as an adult little boy publicly although at the time I don't know it!

Love Live!

 

I'm watching Love Live! on Crunchyroll, the anime streaming site presently.

Each title in the Love Live! franchise focuses on groups of teenage schoolgirls who become "school idols" as an extracurricular activity, and their main activities involve singing and choreographed dancing to self-written songs they perform at concerts or other music events. 

Other activities include designing their own costumes, as well as filming promotional videos and music videos. Top-class groups are very popular among fans of school idols, aided in part by exposure in magazines and other media, in addition to merchandise of school idols sold in shops catering to otaku-related items.

The ultimate school idol competition featuring the best groups in Japan is called Love Live, and entry into the competition is determined by the popularity of each group. 

The size of these groups can range anywhere from solo idols to groups with nine or more members. Due to the highly competitive nature of the Love Live competition, some school idols opt not to attempt entry and simply take part in performing at other events. 

It's hugely enjoyable to watch.

However, participation in the event is very prestigious, and any group that wins the competition is afforded legendary status.

Castle Hill

You know, this whole area around age regression sometimes takes you in different directions such consider what could of happened had your life had indeed been different  as a child.

One area for me is what would of happened had I of attended a different sort of school such as more traditional coed school that had boys in skirts.

For one thing, the chances are it would be built from old brick or stone having two stories one of which would be the dormitories, recreation area and prep rooms possible in the shape of a castle with four turrets.

Each would be occupied  based on a house system with each wing belong to a house who compete in various competitions for a prize outside of that of inter form prizes which was something my own school didn't have.

There wasn't  really much to strive form that probably did not aid my motivational issues because there wasn't anything really to set your aims for or encourage you to work hard for your fellow form members taking individual responsibility for a collective effort.

It would have a large grounds to stroll around as  well as sports fields and a swimming pool that could be used by permission at the weekends for fun.

 

This is a staple of my childhood, having many pairs both at home and certainly for school as for anything outside of ball games you simply had to have a pair in your PE Kit, the thing that used to get in trouble for leaving purposely behind even though I did know I need them.

Back in the day, most were lace up which I struggled with  with very poor hand-eye co-ordination and required help doing them.

It also wasn't by any means unknown for people such as gym mistresses to use slippers or gym shoes to spank you with if you were being less than co-operative or disrespectful which certainly was the case when I grew up.

Imagine a feminine boy Tammy in a grey skirt bent over having hur blue gym knickers on show and being whacked firmly across their bottom.

They certainly make a big impression on your bottom

Lego creations

Outside of Meccano which was my favourite engineering based toy, lego was the second best because provided you avoid the misguided souvenir kits, your only limit on what you could make as a child was your very own imagination.

Even running out of parts could be tackled buy either buying whole new sets some of which may contain things like electric motors or bundles of bricks in whatever form and colour you prefer. 

Unfortunately the very set I had as a child and all the extras got taken away by folks in my mid teens for some reason or other but I do long for a 'proper' one.