Monday 22 Feb 7pm UEA
I’ve enjoyed the continuing positive reaction to Becoming Drusilla, but we’re still spreading the word. On Monday 22nd Feb Dru and I will be in Norwich at UEA to give the LGBT History Month Lecture. There is a full month of events in Norwich and we’re providing some, though not all, of the T.
It is very nice to be invited, and these opportunities to keep going with the book remind me of a misunderstanding I had with Dru on the walk.
When we go walking we drink a lot of tea, which means that we’re often overtaken by other walkers while brewing up in a cosy hollow or on a friendly flat rock.
As the more earnest walkers struggle past I used to shout out ‘Keep Going!’ in what I took to be my jovial, even convivial voice. As the days went by, Dru grew increasingly gloomy. This surprised me, as she would usually support any attempt to make the world a more jovial and convivial place.
A family of Germans march by in the rain. ”Keep going!” I say, and Dru smoulders me a look.
‘What’s wrong? I thought you liked it when we talked to strangers?’
‘Yes,’ Dru said. ‘But you keep on telling them to keep going. How rude. You should try asking them to stop.’
Hi Richard.
I would be grateful if there is anyway that i can make contact with you.
Hi Emmanuel,
You can use the ‘Email Richard’ button over there on the right.
Hi Richard,
Glad to hear that the book is still going strong. Keep going! I am personally appalled by all the “Pride” business and LBGT banner waving which emphasises sexuality, sex and gender over anything else.
It’s good that these things are being taught – and I am particularly pleased that Becoming Drusilla is getting out there – but Jan Morris has been repackaged by these people as “transgender”. She is a woman. Nobody asked me whether I wanted an unelected bunch of mediocre fascist dictators representing me. Several of them have deliberately harmed me and others over the years.
On the evening of 15th November 1982 I made my third point to Dennis Silk over sherry in his study which was that I had known I was a girl rather than a boy from the age of seven, was jolly well going to be a woman when I grew up and no-one would be able to stop me.
Dennis said, “I’ve met Jan Morris…charming…charming. very interesting having you around the place.”
I have given him equal first place for that with Peter Redgrove, Winner of the Queens Gold Medal for poetry, to whom I told the story in 1988.
Redgrove suggested I would be a “wise woman”. When I read “The Wise Wound” on witchcraft and realised he was calling me a potential witch, I burst out laughing. I always wanted to be something that or a princess or female pirate.
Quite apart from anything else, I was persecuted as an alleged gay at Radley ..which eventually led to my rebellion of November 5th 1982. I was then assaulted by a gay shrink ..and then persecuted by another. I am not “homophobic” but I honestly wanted to be dealt with by a woman ..
Deenesh Khoosal is now being considered at fitness to practice level at the GMC. Revd Coulton has been supporting me and went out and bought “Becoming Drusilla” on my recommendation. It’s the best book since Conundrum.
According to Russell Reid in 2007 at the GMC, they gave Jan Morris a “hard time” at Charing Cross. The man left in his place is Khoosal .. I am fighting to get the story out in the media and have been talking to Deborah Orr..if you know anyone it should be a good chance to get things said about this..There are new posts on my blog
http://katemiddleton-lsu.blogspot.com/
Finally, when I got to the end of your book, I pointed an uncanny synchronicity. I sent the Royal Lincolnshires a photo and a link to my grandpa’s site after reading Luke 12 and a poem written to my cousin Major Charles Ferguson Hoey VC MC. I had an email on 11/11/ with this link. What does it mean?
http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/vc.shtml (added picture of Kate Middleton)
@Richard
I cannot find the button on the right, perhaps there’s a ‘bug’ with your website? That or I’m losing my eyesight.