...thank you. Thank you all, so much!

At present, I'm trying to find as many ways as possible to take Oxfordshire PCT to task over its blanket ban on surgery relating to gender dysphoria. For one thing, I've just had a petition approved on the Number 10 site:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/gdoxpct/

Besides putting a little more pressure on Oxfordshire PCT, I hope it might send out a ( Read more... )

Poll For those planning to be at the gathering I've arranged over the weekend....
I'm afraid my planned gathering on 26th July will no longer be happening. I'm sorry to all of you who were promised readthroughs and ice-cream on that day - if anyone who's around wants to arrange something, I'll happily donate Hitchhiker's Guide scripts for the occasion. And in penance for my sins, I shall try to arrange something for when I'm ( Read more... )

...I'd be less likely to walk out of Sainsbury's Local with a box of chordates.

Um... in case anyone's interested and able to make it, Oxford University G&S Society are putting on a production of "Trial by Jury" and a Concert of Curiosities this week - well, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, to be specific. 8pm each night, that is. Oh, and it's at the Church of St Michael at the Northgate on Cornmarket Street. There are tickets. ( Read more... )

For the benefit of anyone who would like to come along and help fill out the chorus of "Trial by Jury" and the Concert of Curiosities, here are the perpendiculars:

We will be performing at the Church of St Michael at the Northgate, from 8pm on Thursday 15th May, Friday 16th May, and Saturday 17th May.

You are welcome (nay, encouraged!) to turn up and ( Read more... )

As I was walking through university parks this afternoon, I passed a couple walking a dog. Or at least, that's how it didn't look, from a distance. It was much too small, and its gait was all wrong.

As the trio approached, I thought: mustelid? (I often think this, in my more lucid moments). Recollections of the "diving terrier" from Ring of Bright ( Read more... )

Yes. Um. Hello, Livejournal. I'm not sure whether you'll remember me, but....

Um.

You see, there was there was this... desert island. Yes, that's it. I was... shipwrecked.... on a desert island.

Well, not a desert island as such. Although there may have been palm trees. A palm tree. All right, not a palm tree. Let's provisionally refer to it as a ( Read more... )

*waves urgently at people*

Um....

If you're opposed to unfair discrimination against transgendered people, please sign:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/TransDiscrim/

Thank you :)

It's such a pity Gilbert never had chance to introduce queer relationship complications into his operas. Some time ago now, somebody (possibly
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