Owl Woman

Living up to my butch image over the last couple of days - doing some building work in the garden this morning, and yesterday, well yesterday there was a bit of an incident. Gf and I had gone to Tesco's in Penzance, for a cheap coffee before she began work, and before we left we both needed the bathroom. So I'm at the sink, washing my hands and gf is drying hers when two old women come in, mother and daughter I'd guess. The mother peered at me (short hair!! tattooed thumb! trousers!!!), gazed across at gf (short hair!! trousers!!) and began shouting, "This is the gents'!". I could only vaguely hear this above the sound of the hand drier, but the daughter was desperately embarrassed (and possibly quite frightened). "Don't be ridiculous - women wear trousers these days!" she yelled back, but the mother was having none of it. She peered down at me again (me, with my DD bust), waved her arms around frantically and then took a couple of steps back in horror. "It IS the gents'!". At this point, me and gf bundled ourselves out so as not to collapse laughing in front of them.

In London, this was beginning to happen a lot. Down here, very rarely. Which is odd, to me - Hackney being jammed packed with lesbians. Cornwall has plenty, too, but they're a bit more camoflaged around here. I expect it'll be in the local papers next week.

Which is more than can be said for this Saturday's Trevithick Day. The local rag is acting as if everyone knows exactly what will happen, where and when, instead of printing details. The website claims that 3 Daft Monkeys and Dalla, among others, will be playing again this year on the Cornish Music stage. It should be fun, despite the local police banning the steam parade 'due to safety concerns'. Well, that makes sense. The police bend over backwards escorting psycho football 'fans' to matches every week but steam engines driven at around 1 mph is risky. A week after that and it's May Day, time for the 'Obby 'Oss to make it's appearance in Padstow. I'm determined to go this year.