Age regressed reading

When it came to reading although people tried to push me toward more 'grown up' works like those by George Orwell, Thomas Hardy and Jane Austin I always longed for my Junior and early Senior favourites which no doubt would fail a diversity test for being seen as white, middle class and stereotypically girlish.
Part of the reason is language, my disabilities limit my ability to read for understanding and comprehension of plots so in a way they have to be a bit younger and in an easy to grasp  formular, the other being they key in to recreated school age-play where these were about our lives sometimes set in school itself and all read in boarding school.
Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series is my favourite cos in so many ways I can readily identify with it's main character, Elizabeth Allen, whose attitude are not so removed from mine.

Bonfire night edition

Seeing we are approaching Guy Fawkes Night, one tradition in many ways dying out is of boys and girls making a replica of Guy to which we hawk around our local streets shouting "Penny for the Guy" at any adults.
We did for two reason, one we loved making something connected with our history and the other was it helped eek out our pocket money as we approached christmas.
We always had a bonfire with fireworks at school where we were handed out  sparklers to wave making shapes and words.

More kitty madness

Well the inner girl in me cannot get enough of Hello Kitty being so cute in that overtly girlie girl way and anyway it's really in control of me!























The above is my new HK flight bag that happens to be ideal for butting my purse and sandwiches in for work.



And this is the new Tote bag ideal for putting magazines and that in while I'm in town.

Just one more day to both Halloween AND Hello Kitty's birthday so enjoy yourselves and remember as Kitty would say "Make cupcakes not war".
I always loved the opportunities for dress ups Halloween gave and that was no surprise was it.

Play clothes II

There's a bit of me that is sandwiched between middle and little, sometimes being little and at other times influenced by but middle and it's things like ra-ra skirts especially in cotton although to wear these at this time of year you'd be look at being indoors with the central heating on.
Play clothes really is an area I feel a need actively consider wearing and to explore as a part of my physical expression of being junior me.
Something like these T shirt and skirt sets but in grown up sizes would probably would it cos they need to be connected to child-like fun .

Regressive replacements II

Why not tackle my motivation and exercise needs too

Buy me a skipping rope to help my co-ordination and keep my weight down

Making me skip in my new uniform to really make me a girl out of me

Equally mark out an area for me to play Hopscotch, in that uniform as your girl

And for indoors to keep me busy, get me a Yo-Yo to.

Wrapping up time!

It's started to get colder now and as I like to go out a good deal walking, a form of exercise that not only keeps my weight under control but also keeps me mentally alert thoughts drifted toward new extremity covering garments for the season. The colours are so girlish they're irresistible.
This caught my fancy at Monsoon. Made by Accessorize, it's a thick woollen hat and glove set entitled "Bright Heart & Check chunky Chullo" with the hat being £18 and the matching gloves for £12.

Chore for Jo?, oh come on!

 Much of this it has to be said isn't what I'm doing now and never did as an actual child at all being pretty much waited on by parental choice and that says a lot about where all this business between me getting alongside other people and their expectations is going wrong.
I have opt outs and cards to play to put a stop to chores but it's doing me no good.
That's why I think I could use some real parenting.