Burn your boxers

Contra dancing in a sarong

2011-06-03T19:56:00.007+01:00

My wife and myself spent a very pleasant week at Halsway manor, which is the UK centre for folk dance and music. Its a beautiful old Tudor manor house in south Somerset near Minehead.We were attending an American contra dance week, with the American caller Cis Hinkle. We had workshops in the mornings, the afternoons to ourselves and dancing in the evening.I've always danced in kilts and once

2010-06-06T11:04:00.001+01:00

Hmm, it's been a while since I posted here, so here's a tale about what I consider to be discrimination.I've just returned from a holiday on the Greek island of Corfu, where I encountered what I consider to be positive discrimination against men, although most men wouldn't see it that way. The hotel in question is the Elea Beach

5 - Floaty frocks and woolen socks

2007-04-16T16:55:00.000+01:00

It's only April and we are already seeing temperatures associated with summer weather. Let's assume that we are going to have another hot summer like 2006. The women are already digging out their summer dresses; jeans are starting (ever so slowly) to be exchanged for skirts. Why? because most women adopt cooler clothing in the hot weather. And men? I fully expect men to carry on wearing the same

4 - I don't want to look like my dad

2006-04-30T20:19:00.000+01:00

My father, God bless him, has reached the venerable age of 86. I, as my wife keeps telling everyone, will be 60 next year. My dad wears an awful lot of beige-coloured clothing. In fact, a lot of older people seem to wear beige (I keep forgetting I'll soon be able to apply for a bus pass); I'm a 20-something trapped in an ancient body. So where is this entry going? It's like this...I'm going on

3 - Masculinity? Treat it like eggs

2006-04-24T20:14:00.000+01:00

On the cruise where I sunburnt my legs, we met another couple of about our age. We would have our evening meal together and then sit and chat in the bar. On the last morning we did all the usual taking of photos to remember us all by. The other wife told us two husbands to “Go and do something 'manly' while I take your picture”. Go and do something manly? My mind went blank. What is a manly thing

2 - A potted history

2006-04-14T20:15:00.000+01:00

To misquote Churchill ”You can please some of the people all of the time; you can please all of the people some of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time”. It is on this basis that I wear what I like. It may seem arrogant but, after 50+ years of obeying society's arbitrary, unwritten rules, I've had enough. However, as I don't want to pass as a woman while wearing a

1 - Introduction

2006-04-05T17:31:00.000+01:00

I'm a bloke and I like to wear skirts. There, I've said it and, before you go down that tiresome, hackneyed, jaded line of thought that 'he must be a gay/crossdresser/transvestite', let me tell you (although it's none of your business) that I'm none of those. I'm a happily married man with two kids and a pet cat who happens to like wearing skirts (me, not the cat). I'll tell you why I like to