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.

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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.

Makeovers

A few things have been happening at certain sites such as changes around how long images can be stored  as storage eats capacity and hosting your own costs and  some questions around "lumping in" different scenes such as abdl and sissy that may have some crossover for a minority but most are very much in one camp or the other. 

Makeovers are a thing many of think about, the idea somebody would assist us in making a total transformation of presentation, not just putting on an outfit but make up,maybe a wig and some lessons on deportment as let's be honest if you were socialized as a male your walking and way you stand, pick things up and so on is anything but refined.

You might of fancied something like that when you were younger - it's not uncommon to feel different than your peers - or role playing something on those lines today.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

It may involve say a trusted friend - perhaps another sissy you know - who knows all about applying make up which isn't something you might of had much experience of when you were younger and first felt this way or a Mistress.

One thing regardless of how it happened is you felt so elated by the experience and anywhere you may have gone as that fully made over sissy that you just fall to sleep, in love with the real you.

Perhaps that's what sissy really needs? 

End April issue

Warm week so have been getting things done a bit in the evenings when it's cooler.

I've been playing with the Viewmaster too so thoughts moved a bit to cartoons we saw on television and often there was reel for the Viewmaster made  and one I'd love would be Scooby Doo which got me thinking.

A sissy makeover for member of the team perhaps?

That's one I'd love to see!

Every little has his plushie even if back in the day we did not call them that that typically came from Aunts although naturally there is no reason an Uncle couldn't buy you one as for that matter could your dad.

Thing is most of us don't want unicorns or things really saturated in pink  cos they're not just comforters but things that we had to play with often with other boys.

This blue Dinosaur plushie really is fine and the there's no earthly reason for me not to have one as a little sissy gurl.

The Viewmaster

Being away last week lead to talking quite a bit with others around childhood experiences, the things we did, the toys we had and all that and really that's what I feel like talking a bit about this week.

One thing I remember having in the 1970's and I'm sure my brothers had one a little before I did was a Viewmaster viewer which is something all those born this century probably have not got a clue about.

Over the decades they came made in plastic or bakelite in variety of colours with some having even a character shaped front such as Mickey Mouse or Hello Kitty.

It was like the one above with two pieces at the front that took in natural light although I think there was a powered model with a mains unit and a pair of eye pieces at the back.

The one I used to have was a beige coloured one that I think left sometime in the 2000's I think and you could get a projector too

What did you use them with I hear you cry?

Actually a card disc with seven pairs of stereo images per disc that you slotted into the viewer  and to which there was a frame advance lever on the side that took them around a pair at a time.

This is one I rebought. from the 70's. A gurl craves what she loved and all that but it was complete which was all I needed.

See the thing was most of us didn't have any kind of video recorder until the early 80's even if your school like mine did have a few, your dad might of had a Super 8 Projector that played film highlights that lasted about 5 minutes before a reel had to changed so this gave us stereo images - some from our favourite cartoons - we could watch anywhere for hours on end.

Anyway Paddington Bear was and is still most cool!

Now those "reels" shown were included in the original set and to which you might of added others from disney cartoons, Hanna-Barbara tv shows, hello kitty or gasp! educational sets about space or different places you could buy with your pocket money.

You soon could build up a good collection and major child interest films nearly always had a Viewmaster release tie-in you bought from the local toyshop or Argos the catalogue shop and today you can find many available used if like some of us you suffered excessive parental tossing out as you got a bit older and would like to buy back your favourites.

The Herbs

Last week was busy with going to the Easter Party last weekend and I had a few things to do  like packing and that.

 The Herbs were an late nineteen-sixties cartoon put together by the same people as Paddington Bear and indeed was written  by Michael Bond himself that I always loved for the  stories of the animals named after herbs such as Parsley the Lion and Dill the Dog and Sir basil and Lady Rosemary.

It doesn't take much for me to start singing:

I'm a very friendly lion called Parsley,

with a tail for doing jobs of every kind,

but I mustn't treat it roughly or too harshly,

for it's such a useful thing to have behind.

 I picked up a couple of dvd's of the show that do play in the Blu Ray machine to watch with Gordon Rollin's narrating when it's too bad to be out.

It can live with my Paddington, Ivor The Engine, Clangers,80's  Dangermouse and Bagpuss discs.

Little Sissy Gurl Life

Life as a little sissy gurl has much in common with that your initial childhood having routines you are expected to keep to and a structure that even in law adults some of us badly need to keep us grounded and settled.

A big difference between role playing as in Age Play and Age Regression lies in with the former you may play the role for a brief period but otherwise are in a very much adult mindset, for those of us who are always in for reason of developmental delays and attendant disabilities you are very much a child in a adult body to the point breaches of the accepted conduct are dealt with there and then.

With Age Regression you do have an adult sense of self you go back to which truthfully I do not being more an eternal child and I think what some call Age Dysphoria is more it because I'm permanently in a child-like headspace.

For some although not all of us we do get spanked like the child version of us would of done back in the day in the manner we did. For us, we find it helps regulate our behaviour as much as you may work on the underlying issues too.

It isn't what this blog is centred upon but it is in the life we lead.

After an interesting week trying to solve one problem, there was something that came into mind that I did feel about talking about.

Gender cultural norms.

I saw this a while back and personally I just love what it is about.

In the first instance do we know the gender of the dress wearer? Personally I couldn't careless as much as I care about your ability too be the gender you are.

It may be  someone born male  or maybe  a female who doesn't see why she should have to remove every single naturally growing hair from your leg? Nor pluck your eyebrows thin.

Can we not appreciate how they dress and what as people they are like-their inner beauty if you will?

If I as a sissy gurl want to wear a shorter skirt or a short sleeved dress especially this time of year then frankly as those who know me will know I shall without getting hung up on if there's a stray hair here or there as having a skin condition lots of shaving may remove hairs but does nothing for where patches where my eczema  is.

Easter Sissy

Well spring continues onward toward Bunny Time which brings back strong memories of childhood so it's no surprise in my world what matters outside of the Spiritual side of Easter.

Easter is a part of my Sissy Life especially in the more Little side of that loving a Easter party with frilly dresses, games and fun, fun, fun.

England's finest chocolate people strike again with this pretty decorated Egg which you might of thought was it except this also came:

Yes it's that cat again in her own exclusive design so you can tell I love Hello Kitty although I really really wasn't expecting it so thank you to the person who knows who they are for it as it's mooch appreciated.

I don't eat loads of chocolate but i just adore Easter Eggs and I feel small doing so.

Happy Easter folks!

A leopard can change its spots

It is easy to get into a mindset of thinking about those things in  your life that may not be going so well or even into comparing how you are doing compared to others but that's a habit which so easily leads to you beating yourself up.

Like for instance we may only know of what another person really is doing from what it is they've shared with us which may well be selective, missing out any mess ups and only as they feel it is so really those comparisons may not be too accurate.

The other side of this is we may be understating our own abilities, using a very high baseline to judge them by or be so used to perceiving our failure that we automatically feel we have when maybe we've done okay really.

This came to me on Sunday where I had spent this weeks Study Weekend working on a longform part of guide working with a person I hadn't collaborated with before with no indication of the exact format and structure they were working for even.

Let's say the absence of that usually gets me into tailspinning territory  as I stare into the blank page on my non microsoft office suite so I type a few headings  and eventually find one to start typing to and slowly work may way to the final one.

I review it and send it to the person I am working with with not to say it's not perfect but it's like the best I can do here thinking to myself it's not really good enough, maybe they'll do the electronic equivalent of tearing it up even.

Imagine then you get a message to say although it may need the odd change, they really like it that even they say it's a pleasure to read something so well written, that actually I'd structured it similar to their own section.

Really, Tammy that boarding school feminine boy severely dyslexic actually manages to pull it off when they was feeling like walking the corridors thinking they'd failed!

I think the point here is I grew up so much with the idea I was no good at this that I came to believe it didn't matter  what I did or anyone said they could help me, that I couldn't change that outcome.

I changed the outcome cos I actually believed in it enough to do the work using techniques that I had learned and was prepared to spend my time on learning  and learning to trust people who were prepared to help me make those changes.

The smallest of things

Things have been a bit hectic here for various reasons but birthday was marked of sorts and we did have some presents such as a Beach Boys deluxe edition of their mid 1970's albums with unreleased versions and the like which was great cos they were an early gurlhood like of mine, having many singles and albums.

Things like that go back ages as do things I have around girlguiding like badges, activity books and even the odd period dressed dolly and this gurl loves hur dollies madly.

Perhaps by arrangement I should whisked away and dressed up very much like this be a friendly firm lady for a day or so just being so so little, treated accordingly?

Sissygurl's birthday

A few days after going around the sun again things remain the same,eh?

However you attempt to wrap this up, it's all about getting better at being you rather than really getting any older or different really as from the beginning of time people have tended to say by your early years they know what the chronologically older you is going to be.

For me it remains as it always did, a fine tuning here and there but basically the same me with no blinding "now I'm a grown up" moment so Mrs "happyasagrownup" I could never be you even if I tried, it wasn't there and I'm different. I'm happy not being one.

And that is okay really.

Like this is my birthday but it's just as it's always been essentially, routed over decades, very much in the first and a bit so you have the same sorts of things as presents cos that's what you enjoy and I'll add the odd post here and there about some of them cos I like things in some kind or order.

There were some more plushies, pretty lingerie, chocolate and money.

Although there will seperate entries later on I did get a Hall and Oates sacd of album I only have on record, a sacd box set of Violin Concertos and a few classical records.

The latest installment of Now Yearbook presents the '60's: 1963-1964 was a lp present, three discs that show the new sounds coming in that were to change popular music.

Why talk about them? Cos I'm more than any one thing, nay, this whole sissy gurl thing.

There were phone calls and cards obviously but every was as it remains and I'm happy about that.

Girlguiding 2026

It's been a while since I last made a post about GirlGuiding which is trying - being the operative word in the Post Cass Report era - to find their way though a desire for inclusivity which takes in those who are or feel they're trans and the constitutional issue of being from when Dame Agnes Baden-Powell set up GirlGuiding of being just for girls (and women) with legal challenges from activisits and some parents.

Anyhow, this is how the "top" of Girl Guides looks in 2026.

Senior Leadership Team (National)

Chief Guide: Tracy Foster (appointed for a 5-year term to champion volunteer and girl experiences).

Deputy Chief Guide: Sally Kettle.

Assistant Chief Guide: Mhairi Mackay.

CEO: Felicity Oswald OBE.

Chair of the Board of Trustees: Denise Wilson OBE.

Patron: Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh. 

Ambassadors

These individuals help raise the profile of Girlguiding in the UK:

Anna McNuff: Adventurer and author.

Laura Anderson: Environmental scientist ("Less Waste Laura").

Katie Zelem: Professional footballer.

Ellen Buttrick MBE: Paralympic rower.

Dame Jacqueline Wilson: Author.

Tori James: President of Girlguiding Cymru and adventurer.

Made By Mammas (Zoe Hardman & Georgia Dayton): Podcaster

There many, many others who do help out, former girl guides, those not but with girls that are interested and those in Trefoil Guild which runs along Girlguiding areas for those who were or were not in Guides and still like to go things together as Girlguidling for adults helping out often to.

Trefoil is open to men and women.

Inclusivity isn't just about gender issues as important as they can be but also about ensuring that whatever religion, race or disability there's a space for to shine be it as a guide or as a helper.

Pictured is a former guide and now helper who has Tourette's which has been in the news, she might involuntarily say the word "Chicken" but she's making a difference and that's just what this thing is all about, helping girls be their best selves.

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The frills and I

There are two forms of presenting for me and today we'll take a look at the more traditional one.

Normally I tend to talk more about little forms of presenting being simple to put on by a younger you without lots of straps with adjusters, fastenings and the like but as we get a bit older we may wear fussier things for special occasions even if we may need an older sister or grown up to help with it.

Bodices and corsets give shape and that can extend to flowing petticoats not to mention slips and really if you got me on a good day with some support I'd just love to wear teamed with a pretty dress.

They do help in managing my age dysphoria in making me look more how I am on the inside still a junior child and were not an issue although I do like to wear skirts much of the time getting pretty antsy if I can't.

I can wear them in more feminine ways too if I wish.

The bigger thing in being a adult little gurl is following my interests as that sissy and Tom Boys are just the same in reverse.

Pasts

A week back to the usual routines and in some ways a look a bit at pasts and past conversations in lots of ways as after all nothing started from nowhere and most of us who've battled with identity know it's never really that straightforward.

For many of us, our girl friends (not girfriends!) are a bitter-sweet bit of our past, the ones we looked up to the ones whose take on being a girl whither you came to the Ts mode or Sissy mode like me we took the model of feminity and expressing in part at least from. 

Imagine just what it might of been like to have been able to say "I want to be like you and hang out with your friends" just walking to and around school but we knew that wasn't going to happen.

Either we'd bottle out or we'd fear she'd say "Don't be silly, you're just a boy and anyway I have my girlfriends all sorted".

We did the best we could. Jacqueline and I would skip games to chat together and maybe play the odd game in those gender gated days together adoring her.

Others might of thought you wanted to be her boyfriend but you knew it wasn't and she knew you weren't like the boys.

Sometimes all this comes flooding back to you over the years.

Looks 2026 style

It was a rough start to the week here so I thought we'd look a little about presentation and pose cos it matters in this life.

I just love acres of satin with frills with hose.

You might go with a pair of zip up boots and a mini skirt with leather or denim jacket feeling very ahem "hot".

You might like Sweet Lolita although I'd need help in dressing to really pull that off as much as I just love that whole look.

These days we take our clues from Team Pink and maybe they have ideas about how they'd think we'd best look as sissies.

Winter challenges

Recovering from bad cramp having three attempts yesterday to get out of bath after a long really rather indulgent in a good way soak.

There's been a few things going on here in the last week such as a couple of new pieces of equipment in the stereo and the resumption of a monthly magazine whose subscription just seemed to end without any kind of "In a months time your subscription runs out. Please renew to continue" kind of an email at all.

I ended up finding a subscription discount code and renewing by hand.

Seeing last week had it's bitterly code and windy moments I did have to remember to turn the delicates inside out when washing as I had my frilliest lingerie on underneath thick sweat shirts (a pink one) and track pants plus girlie gloves.

Few of us would disagree with that but 41 mph winds up your skirt revealing all to all isn't my idea of fun as much as I'm for being girlie.

Practicality does win out but in winter keep the layers as girl and sissified as you can for inner warmth being you whatever the temperatures might be.

Being out and having special girls know

There comes a point in your life when beyond raiding the dressing up box or the school spare clothing pile you realize there is more to this than just wanting to wear what girls you know and secretly admire do, you need to go a step more girlie and you want them very much in on it.

It doesn't have to be based around more adult themes which generally we don't go into on this blog but it might be being a uber filly femmed gurl in a play pen to play with while the girls look on and maybe play with the plushies with you.

I am becoming more and more a frilly sissy from top to bottom and learning to enjoy it.

You love it as much as it turns you red and feels humiliating but then you might secretly like that whole "caught out" thing.

A more sissified take on games you used to play and love

There again you might of wanted a sibling to see you as you felt you were rather than in the identity Mummy and Daddy had in mind for you and you just don't belong in.

They may want to exhibit you but somewhere down the line between the red cheeks you want to be "out", you almost crave that attention.

I just feel a good number of us do even if we may not feel like taking this to the lengths more full on adult sissy takes which is perfectly fine but it seems daft to deny it

Just enjoy being the sissy you are how it takes you

Now Vault 1982

Now it has warmed up a little  we'll resume on a series of entries from 2024.

In June 2024 Now launched a sub series VAULTS, which aims to cover minor hits of the sort that tended to pad out our Ronco and K Tel sets as much as we may of preferred some of them to the big hits back in the day and also American Hits which unless someone did a American Hit compilation you didn't get so I'd buy the 45's where available.

Issued Friday 16 January, it follows the broad theme of things that for all the music industry talk didn't trouble the top 30 and american hits that weren't in the UK (and should of been I'd add).

Opening the set on disc 1 we have the era-defining style with ‘The Hanging Garden’ from The Cure, taken from their album ‘Pornography’, and Bauhaus with ‘Spirit’ ahead of the collaboration ‘Bamboo Houses’ from David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto. 

A single in the U.S., ‘Secret Journey’ from The Police comes ahead of ‘Athena’ from The Who, and ‘Valerie’ from Steve Winwood – which would be a bigger hit when remixed five years later and closing the first side a beautiful song – ‘Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)’ from Elton John.

Flipping to side two we have a run of new wave and post-punk gems including from Elvis Costello, The Clash, Theatre Of Hate and Gang Of Four. Melancholic pop from The Teardrop Explodes leads to disc 1's  closers from Mike Oldfield, and a classic ‘Tug Of War’ by Paul McCartney from the album of the same name.

Disc 2 kicks off with a run of pure pop: Culture Club’s ‘I’m Afraid Of Me’ was the single before their #1 breakthrough, and is joined by Spandau Ballet, Level 42, Bananarama and Toyah with a re-recording of her 1980 anthem ‘Ieya’. 

A trio of synth-pop essentials closes the side: Visage with ‘Pleasure Boys’ their third single in 1982, Blancmange with ‘Feel Me’ – their second single, (the next would be their Top 10 breakthrough) and ‘Flowers’ by singer-songwriter Zaine Griff – produced by Hans Zimmer and featuring unmistakable backing vocals by Kate Bush. 

Flipping over the side sees the fusions of Electronic Music with hip hop and disco celebrated, opening with three huge tracks: ‘Planet Rock’ from Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force, the floor-filling ‘Loopzilla’ from George Clinton and ‘Let It Whip’ a Top 5 U.S. smash from the Dazz Band – ’82 R&B from Aretha Franklin leads into retro-influenced pop from Mari Wilson and a jazz-influenced club classic from Blue Rondo A La Turk. The LP finishes with Imagination who created one of 1982’s essential albums with ‘In The Heat Of The Night’, from which this title track was taken as a single.

The concluding disc celebrates what was happening in the U.S. in 1982 on its first side. ‘Atlantic City’ from Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ leads, ahead of huge stars Billy Joel and John Mellencamp. 

1982 would be the year that Daryl Hall & John Oates broke through in the UK with two Top 10 hits – but here featuring their U.S. Top 10 ‘Did It In A Minute’, plus, Michael McDonald who hit the Top 5 in the States with his debut solo single ‘I Keep Forgettin’ while Quarterflash leads into Asia, who had the year’s biggest selling album in America, and Journey with their biggest hit, the massive ballad ‘Open Arms’ from their Escape album.

The final side opens with an instrumental theme to a TV series U.S. Police drama ’Hill Street Blues’ ran for six years and peaked in popularity in 1982 – with its theme by Mike Post featuring  Larry Carlton spending over five months on the chart, hitting the Top 10 in the U.S. and #25 in the UK. Fun Boy Three hit with their cover of ‘Summertime’, which comes ahead of Grace Jones and Men At Work. 

This is followed by U.S. new wave from The Go-Go’s, The Waitresses, and The B-52s and closing the collection Siouxsie And The Banshees’ stunning interpretation of the traditional French carol, ‘Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant’.

This set just fits nicely between my original Ronco, K Tel and Telstar compilations and the rather good Now Yearbook 1982 set, rounding out that years great colourful sounds.

Be the doll!

A few well-being issues today, scratch that, since the weekend so it's gonna be short and sweet.

I like playing although there are times when other events do rather take over that you can do little about, they may be craft kits, lego, which in it's original form was only limited by your own imagination rather than the vast amounts of movie and tv tie-in sets they've issued over the last fifteen or so years.

There are those things we hug and involve in stories we act out such as our teddy bears, hello kitties and dolls.

Dolls do matter for gurls, as it's often our springboard to seeing what who looks may be like and where we might wear them as soft pastel outfits wouldn't do for fetching the coal in or doing a bit of gardening as much as we might feel like a million dollars dressed like that.

We may experiment with hair fashions too and a vast array of accessories but you know where it ends up for many of us?

Before you know it, we work on becoming the doll and didn't we just want that from our drab pasts, a total change so let's make 2026, the hear of being the dolly we love, upping our femming!

The classics restored

Another bitter sub zero winters day so why not get this post written so I can chill a bit later on as after that rotten migraine I need the rest.

Anyway as several of you know I have had a long liking for what is termed Classical music  stemming from actual childhood having had my own meagre record collection from around the age of 8 of my favourite pieces.

Over the years I've added recordings to them, changed formats  as the years have seen the availability of and advent of recordings new media has changed and I've written a bit in the past on the blog about them.

The start point for a good many of the restored Classical recordings on sd card was a series I bought in early 2015 and here are some comments on them.

The music of Ravel was one of the first composers I encountered and recently this recording by the distinguished American conductor  Leonard Slatkin, whose career I've followed over the years. The playing by the French orchestra is superb and I can see this and  it's second volume that I also purchased gaining a few awards at the years end.

Bela Bartok's Concerto is a fine example of twentieth century classical music, indeed many have said it has some of the boldness associated with American composers that period so it's fitting this is performed by an an American orchestra and a remarkable female American conductor Marin Alsop who has conducted in many countries including the 2013 Last Night of the Proms in England.

How many of us just loved watching Disney's Fantasia and can remember that series with Mickey Mouse getting in trouble as the Sorcerer's Apprentice?

Well that was written by by France's Dukas and is featured in this excellent modern recording that has plenty of character.

 Finally and fittingly back to violin music and a violinist I first encountered way way back in 1992 in a program of French Sonatas for violin and piano.

I completed before some issues with a computer put things on hiatus a new series including the four symphonies recorded by Sir Edward Gardner and the Bergen Symphony Orchestra by Brahms.

One thing technically all these recordings I purchased have in common is that although they are available on regular cd, I bought these as better than cd quality 'High Definition'  24 bit downloads which can be played on a computer.

I play them using my Fiio x3 digital audio players line output through my hifi system as well as on headphones where the smoothness and lack of the low level artifacts that even the best cds have is noticeable.