Random Stuff II

• Posted by Rachael Louise Blanche January 15, 2014 3,825 views
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  They always say the second album is the hardest - well here we go. So I left school at the begining of the 80s. So I stood there one of Maggie's lost children, no job and no future. Considered joining the Army, managed somehow to get myself rejected!! I would like to call this period of my as my 'Macho period'. Decided that if a got myself a regular girlfriend I'd be normal. Yes! I know, the wonder of hindsight, but dressing was still a sexual thing at this point plus teenage logic. But as most you have guessed it failed.

  Also at this point in my I lost my religion. Trying to find God, never did but I did find music big time, punk, new wave, new romantics, ska, heavy metal - Mandness, Specials, Ultravox, The Stranglers, The Cure, The Jam, Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd (still a bit of a rocker) Toyah......It's a Mystery how much I wanted to be Toyah, at this point I learnt to play the guitar badly with dreams of being a rock star and still raiding my sister's room.

  Also I learnt to drive in the 80s, which brought me into my first encounter with a TG. My local test centre had a TG test instructor. Now there I sit in the test centre and a deep voice calls out my name I stand up turn around and see her. I can only describle her as a 6'4" rugby player in a tweed skirt suit. Now I'm nervous about driving test, confused about who I am, the only other TG I've seen in pic is Tula and now my test instructor. My world got very wierd and I failed my driving test. 

  After this my second encounter with a TG was a work friend of my sisters. My sister worked in the local government office, actually was first time I met an openly gay man, another one of my sister's friends, my sis was a bit of a 'fag hag' in the 80s. My sister's TG friend was called Mary, who took a shine to me, and would be of great support to me later on in my life. I do miss her so, she was a bright star in a grey sky.

  The rest of 80s was very much involved alcohol and pool and a small flat with my first stash of female clothes and my first purge.