As usual in the UK, the authorities, to avoid upsetting business, once more have us 'celebrating' a National day not on the day itself but on the following weekend, today then, the National mourning for those lost and injured in military conflict kicked off at 11.00am this morning. I always try to observe the 2 minute silence, its not always possible but this year a pause in the day's DIY efforts was enoiugh to take part and to see those in power doing their symbolic wreath laying at the Cenotaph in central London.

Well it's late evening here as I travel through the south Midlands back towards Bevs gaff for the second time in under a week!. This time however it's with the knwledge that the 'emergency' responsible for all the moving and travelling has finally been put to bed, the storage unit cleared and rubbish removed.

Life can, as far as it goes, return to normal for Madeline Anafrid which means that on Sunday I will be posting as normal and normal patterns will resume until late December.

Well that's it for now, time to catch 40 winks before I get back to Brunelville!

Well sort of!

Well perhaps not quite so emergency as it was.

otherwise known as Mum's birthday!

Yep, unless i've got my calculations wrong, this weekend the clocks change in Europe for potentially the last time, returning the UK to GMT.

There was a bit of a posting glitch with yesterdays update so you may have come to a dead end when you tried to look at the new Gaby chapter. This is now fixed - follow the link below

'There's more from Gaby today in the latest chapter of Ontario, #27, Farmed Out. I'll admit that its not exactly action packed but questions are answered and its time to partee in the Ahrtal!'

Tchuss,
Madeline Anafrid

with the week so far!

today

Here's a link to a thoughtful and sensible piece from Zoe Williams in the Guardian (where else?).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/14/langua...

well not quite

In the UK recently there has been a lot in the newspapers and the news about the conviction of a police officer who raped and murdered a woman.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-police-officer-given-who...

The story I am writing at the moment has the main character wanting to be a woman, but not wanting any surgery (currently) . It has raised the question for me. What is is to be a women.

Is it the clothes you wear? The role you have in society? The way you act and interact? Your Chromosomes? Or the fact you possess a cervix.

The last one is something a Labour MP has said "only women have a cervix". So is she saying trans men aren't men or women born without a cerix or have had it removed aren't women?

by a whole day!

seems to be an ongoing issue for Madeline Anafrid

but what is what?

is something I ask myself often.

I do a lot of reading on Psychological matters and sometimes take College courses. The DSM can most certainly put one in a tail spin if we take it as Gospel. I've noticed that certain schools of thought preach that MTF folk have been abused by males. That could be the case with me because of my own stepfather, and it is very easy for me to hate males. Off setting that, I have met numbers of males who were very nice and caring. The other day on an elevator a man started talking to me and by the time I got off I was gasping.

I've finally got my finger out and done some actual writing! Its the start of a new Gabysode that sits after Book 26 but i'm not sure where it fits or even if it fits in the following books. Anyhow, my Patreon supporters should have exclusive access to it now - not a supporter? well get over to Patreon, the basic package starts from £3 per month https://www.patreon.com/user?u=38088018&fan_landing=true

Have fun
Madeline Anafrid

I just heard that Charlie Watts, the drummer of The Rolling Stones, died.

I met him back in 1963, when The Stones were just getting started, and he was a lovely guy, the only one of them who wasn't either so far up himself or high on something, who gave a fan a little facetime and some conversation, without being in any way condescending.

Apart from that, he was one of those mostly unsung brilliant drummers who anchored the group for over fifty years. It makes me feel very sad and very much mortal to hear of his death as he was only a few months older than me.

It's bad if you like the simple story listing layout and definitely has more bloat going on. Just a word of warning.

well that's the name one of yesterdays Strava segments goes by,

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/magazine/camp...

This would be too hard to copy and paste. It is about a camp that was started for kids to be who they want to be.

with Kindle sales - or is it just me?