Charlotte7
12-03-2018, 05:17 AM
On Friday, I was able to spend the whole day out and about dressed as Charlotte as we (me and the wife, yes I was out and about whist dressed with the wife) made our way back home (five hours in the car, excluding stops) from a night away in Norfolk. This is the first time that I had been out and about with the wife openly in public whilst fully dressed. It’s also the longest time I’ve spent outside dressed (9am to 6pm) with a whole load of other firsts thrown in for good measure.
During the journey home, we visited a flour mill to buy some bread making flour, had a wander around the town centre of Holt for an hour or so, visiting various shops, I tried a coat on in one, but alas it was one size too small ( :( ) and then called in at the studio of a craft potter (sadly now retired, though selling old stock). We had a look around the delightful All Saints church in the village of Greasham, and no, the skies didn’t darken and I wasn’t struck down by lightning. We used the toilets in a Tesco supermarket in Sherringham (I used the disabled toilet) and here as it was just a quick in and out I didn't have the security of my coat to sink back in to. We called in at the Village Stores in Ringstead, a tiny village in deepest rural Norfolk, which is a “We Sell Everything” shop, across about a dozen rooms on two floors, I filled the car with petrol, at a very busy Sainsbury’s in Kings Lynn. We then stopped at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, where we had lunch in the café before having a look at some wonderful glass in the two exhibition spaces. Finally we stopped at Waitrose in Newark (Nottinghamshire) for the usual Friday supermarket shop.
All in all a great day out and about, I was seen by hundreds and hundreds of people, and not one flicker or flinch from any of them. I interacted one to one with many people in a whole range of contexts. These days people really don’t care how you’re dressed and in this I have to include the wife. I’m sure that Charlotte will spend many such days out and about in the future months and years.
And to cap a great weekend, yesterday we visited an outlet shopping park where I was able to get a pair of Hotter ankle boots. I was dressed for this too, but this time, in what is becoming my boy-girl mode, wholly dressed in ladies clothes but worn in such a way to pass as ‘normal’ me.
I’m a happy Charlotte and the moment :)
During the journey home, we visited a flour mill to buy some bread making flour, had a wander around the town centre of Holt for an hour or so, visiting various shops, I tried a coat on in one, but alas it was one size too small ( :( ) and then called in at the studio of a craft potter (sadly now retired, though selling old stock). We had a look around the delightful All Saints church in the village of Greasham, and no, the skies didn’t darken and I wasn’t struck down by lightning. We used the toilets in a Tesco supermarket in Sherringham (I used the disabled toilet) and here as it was just a quick in and out I didn't have the security of my coat to sink back in to. We called in at the Village Stores in Ringstead, a tiny village in deepest rural Norfolk, which is a “We Sell Everything” shop, across about a dozen rooms on two floors, I filled the car with petrol, at a very busy Sainsbury’s in Kings Lynn. We then stopped at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, where we had lunch in the café before having a look at some wonderful glass in the two exhibition spaces. Finally we stopped at Waitrose in Newark (Nottinghamshire) for the usual Friday supermarket shop.
All in all a great day out and about, I was seen by hundreds and hundreds of people, and not one flicker or flinch from any of them. I interacted one to one with many people in a whole range of contexts. These days people really don’t care how you’re dressed and in this I have to include the wife. I’m sure that Charlotte will spend many such days out and about in the future months and years.
And to cap a great weekend, yesterday we visited an outlet shopping park where I was able to get a pair of Hotter ankle boots. I was dressed for this too, but this time, in what is becoming my boy-girl mode, wholly dressed in ladies clothes but worn in such a way to pass as ‘normal’ me.
I’m a happy Charlotte and the moment :)