Isolde (Izzy)

I'm not sure how much help I'd be, but I'm happy to talk with anyone who wants someone to talk to.

I need to take notes, because I don't think I've ever corrected anyone. Probably the closest I've come is a phonecall.

Me - "Hello, this is CT".
Colleague - "Hello, is that *deadname*?".
Me - "Yes, this is Izzy."

Then they apologised while I insisted it was fine.

So yeah, I need to take notes.

Realised and came out to close family and friends - 37

Came out at work, which effectively meant coming out to everyone - 38

Current age - 39.

A fun thing about Cutty Sark DLR station being closed is that all the kids that flock to the front of the train get to see its actual controls because the person operating the train has to sound the horn when they pass through Cutty Sark without stopping.

OMG.

I really need to crack on and finish Fantasy Finds.... And play Pokémon Legends ZA.... And try and squeeze in Outer Worlds 2...

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Successfully trans on trainsed my way to London. Now killing time until dinner, then I think everyone would benefit from an early bedtime.

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The head of a mid sized black lurcher looking straight at the camera. She's starting to get a bit grey around the nose. She looks like butter wouldn't melt.

When you're tired, but you need to stay awake in case there's any animals on the TV that need to be barked at.

"This open session of the Brightwell-cum-Sotwell parish council is now open and I invite motions from the floor.... Do I have any that AREN'T about changing the village name?".

@thesavbananas.bsky.social should be taking notes because that sounds like the most bananaball thing ever.

To do list for tomorrow.

1. Get up (utilise the clocks changing to try and do a full shave and shower before anyone else gets up).
2. Pack for London
3. Drive to the in-laws so they can look after the dog and drop us at the station.
4. Get food for dinner and a packed lunch for the train.

Busy.

They appear to have found two resusci-annie dolls buried in a very shallow grave.

But as to why some people change more, I've got nothing more than "people are ✨different✨" and no ideas on how you'd try to game that to improve your results.

Hypothesis. There are a group of chemicals called Relaxins (yes, really). They act on collagen and normally excreted by a bunch of tissues, prostate, ovarian, breast etc. also excreted by the placenta in late pregnancy. I'm wondering if they're your main culprit for the shrinking?

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For afterwards he wants some flumps, but make sure you get the correct kind, Georg does not like novelty marshmallows and has been known to get angry when people get this wrong.

You take your cheese log, cover it in gramfer gravies and then serve with a side of cheesybugs. That's how you make woodlouse Georg's favourite meal.

Pope Leo shaking the hand of President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.

Luckily the Pope already knows a guy....

Camilla can really dish the damage, but she's a complete glass cannon and she really needs Charles to tank for her and the Pope's buffs to really maximise her output.

While it's not exactly a labour heartland, they also failed to get a hundred votes combined between the two Somerset council by elections. At that point you're getting to "people the candidates personally know" as your electoral base.

Just realised tomorrow is the 1 year anniversary of me coming out at work and therefore effectively being out to pretty much everyone. I'll have to see what Year 2 brings.

I know I've told this story before, but at one point a woman on the train was going to use egg-me as "the man" in "stop that, or the man will get angry" to her early primary school age daughter before deciding that this wasn't a credible threat.

1, at most.

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I am very glad that I checked our trains to London for Monday because it now seems to be scheduled half an hour earlier than it was when I booked it!? Also the return journey now terminates a stop before where we booked to get off the train. Nationalising hasn't really helped South West Trains yet.

Thought they'd sunk it along with Lexington at Coral Sea, thought they'd hit a different carrier during the first sortie against the US fleet at Midway in June (I mean, Yorktown was sunk in May, right?") and then thought they got the final US fleet carrier at Midway when they finished off Yorktown.

Even if you go with superhuman group efforts as well, the fact that the IJN thought they'd sunk Yorktown twice before actually sinking it says a lot about the Yorktown's crew and the repair crews at Pearl Harbor to keep that ship floating and fighting.

Annoyingly, the companion book for "The Pacific" HAD a whole section following Best from the start of the war to him being forced to stop flying due to his respiratory problems. But then this wasn't in the show. I think that a series like that would make more sense than Masters of the Air did.