1. I DON'T DRESS FULL-TIME (who does?), as I'm a transvestite, not a transsexual. ('The terms 'transgender' or t-girl don't distinguish). I dress in the house a lot but leave out the wig and makeup. And being a TV, not TS means I am turned on by the feel of my tight and shiny undies and outwear, such that I'd never get anything done if I wore them every day.
2. I AM NOT currently on hormones (though I did use Oestrogel, applied topically, for just over a year).
This does NOT mean I wanted to transition - just that I thought I would see if it would give me small, passable breasts (it did). But you can't have it both ways. Think about going into a swimming pool as a guy, or going for medical treatment, with small yet definite breasts.
Stats: Wanda Bradley: straight, hair-free (IPL etc),slim 75 Kg, 5' 8" with small breasts (1 1/2 years on oestrogel) Very passable (on female authority no less :) ) Can do all styles from my large, varied wardrobe. Size 12-16 depending on fabric and make, so let's say 14. These days prefer dresses to skirts.
IGNORE the 'Favourite Look' above - I've got lots of styles - and like to experiment.
Curious Fact No 1: I was in an all-female bellydance class for over a year and finishing with a very public stage appearance! (I was on the front row :0 ). Nobody ever knew Wanda wasn't a woman.
AND I also have the video. :)
NOT the only time I got away with being accepted in all-female surrounding: I once booked a fitting for a wedding dress and was dressed in four gorgeous wedding gowns. We had a lovely chat about the wedding and honeymoon plans. :)) Sadly, I couldn't get any photos.
Curious fact No. 2: I once had tea with the Governor of Lancaster Prison, in his office, served by an old lag.
DON'T READ ON UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ME. JUST SCROLL DOWN TO THE PICS.
Cycling: My cycling has been much curtailed by health problems.
MY INTERESTS: Into Travel (cycle camping), Photography, Cycling, Music (latin, jazz, world...) AND stealthily but casually penetrating the women-only world. ;) - was in a bellydancing class for a year, finishing with a very public stage appearance! (I was on the front row :0 ).
LOTS MORE VARIETY on FLICKR, go see!: Flickr Wanda Bradley
** Remember, a lot of work goes into creating those pics! (and quite some risk too sometimes) Usually takes more than 10 per one good one.
Wanda's stats:- Height: 5ft 8in Dress/skirt/bust/shoe sizes: 12-16, 38C-D, 8. Eyes: brown. Hair: very little natural, various wig styles. Back, front and chin: IPL'd
*Favourite Thingies. (Funny - my spellcheck thinks Favourite is wrong but 'Thingies' is OK).
Seeing what’s over the horizon. And the next one …. ad infinitum.
Arriving in a strange city…
The Serendipity of Travel. (opposite of shit happens)
Cycling around Andalucía. Oh well, Anything in Andalucía! - Flamenco, El Paseo ;)
and especially, ORGIVA and it's Café Baraka (go find :) )
Highway 1 California (listening to: Gary Burton's 'General Mojo’s Well-Laid Plan'.)
Yosemite Valley (preferably without the other visitors :) )
Deserts (full of life! - see fav authors Edward Abbey and William Least-Heat Moon below)
Un Café Crème, si vous plait (at a Paris pavement café)
Expensive, thick-cut marmalade.
Green & Black’s 70% dark chocolate. (one piece at a time, mind).
and of course - tight, tight corsets! Latex is yummy too.
Remarkable, remarkably-minute technology – like my Walkman MP3 and my Canon Ixus 800.
Remarkably fine, old technology: A Stanier Pacific in full charge. (nostalgia ain’t what it used to be).
Bianchi bikes (never had one though :( )
OH! and of course, the SNAP sound of my bra straps as I pull them into place.
ARTY STUFF:
MUSIC: Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue’ . OVER 50 years old now and still the best selling jazz album EVER.
Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk et al – for making the ‘60s a time to feel alive!
Chuck E Weiss for re-defining 'Cool' to it's original, hip, meaning. (Do You Know What I Idi Amin?)
All of the great arrangers: Billie Strayhorn (for Ellington), Pete Rugulo (for Stan Kenton) and Gil Evans (for Miles) ...
Vladimir Horowitz.
Prokofiev / ‘Romeo and Juliet’. LSO/Previn recording and 'Chout' ballet Suite. also LSO/Claudio Abbado.
Songs? You want SONGS? I don't do 'songs' usually, (songs are for people who don't hear the music) but just two that apply to me are:
FILMS: Fellini’s greatest film: La Strada (maybe the only time Anthony Quinn will have you in tears), 'Belleville Rendezous.'
BOOKS: 'Desert Solitaire' /Edward Abbey and ‘Blue Highways’ /William Least Heat-Moon (ask me about them - go on!)
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Bob Carlos-Clarke, John Swannell, Ansel Adams, Fay Godwin, Frank Horvat.
Fav. POETRY quotations:
James Elroy Flecker:
We travel not for trafficking alone
By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We make the Golden Journey to Samarkand
Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference. (Wanda: Oh Yes! :) )
NOT 'Favs':
The so-called ‘Music Industry’ – for reducing people’s expectations to zilch.
'Easy Listening' (what's the point?)
‘Favourite Things’ – John Coltrane (too much!)
‘Favorites’ (aargh!) - also; ‘start over’ (another Microsoft-ism), 'alot' and 'could of'
People who can’t write in sentences and go on and on like this without using any punctuation and when they do decide to stop they leave a space then a full stop and start again without capitalising .like this.
I enjoy good conversation, humour, music and travel, wild walks, cycling for travel, writing and photography - as well as being girlie!. (Mixing them can be tricky, but fun! :) )
I have a science degree, a postgrad. management diploma and I'm a qualified photographer and IT trainer (a regular Jill of all trades!).
You won’t find me in the Chat Rooms as I prefer to write and receive a decent conversational letter.
My Photography:
I STILL use a Nikon D80 SLR for indoor and location shots. As an experienced photographer, I do try to take interesting pics with appropriate backgrounds. See more here: Flickr Wanda Bradley I hope you like!
Also try Fetlife.com
MUSIC is my other main passion, playing as well as listening, (kit drums and Latin percussion but that's in the past now) and I'm not talking about some 'here-today-forgotten-tomorrow' media-driven kind of crap. I’m talking about music for musicians; the kind that hits you right in the guts.
Don't care whether its classical, jazz, Cuban, avante-garde, kletzmer, township, Sephardic-Moorish, flamenco, bellydance, Gypsy, Rock, Blues ..... as long as it MOVES me.
You want names? Well here's just a few: Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Bob Marley, Manu Dibango, Tom Waits and Chuck E Weiss, Suns of Arqa, Belinda Sykes/Joglaresa, Tinariwen, Stanley Jordan, Frank Zappa, Fleetwood Mac (some), Joe Zawinul, Bill Frizell, Carl Orff, Prokofiev, Katchaturian....
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