Well, it's done! The weekend was a great success, two nights out, on Friday the 13th!!! I finally made my way down to Milton Keynes it took me about 3 hrs to get down there and arrived at the hotel, eventually got checked in and started to get ready.
I'd already de-fuzzed in the week so I had no body hair!!! The things a T-Girl has to do!!
Shave, shower and then started the transformation into Catriona Dark!
It took me quite a while, hands shaking I managed to get it done, stick on nails and I was good to go.
I was picked up by another T-girl and we had dinner together, I'd never met Anna before but she kindly offered to pick me up in her car and off we went to Pink Punters!
What a place, cocktail bar, gin bar, Pink room for posing and taking selfies and photos, the club has two dance areas but also has a sort of outside area that's half inside and half outside, with huge fire pits with logs burning away to keep warm if you wanted some fresh air.
I spent most of the time in the cocktail bar.
I spotted Juiliette Noir so went over and said hello, I'm not sure if she recognised me or I looked like a strange gothic chic?
Anyway I met up with a couple who have helped me to get to this point, they are transgender girl and wife, we had a great chat and a dance and ended up leaving the club at 4am!!!
I'll tell you about the Trans Radio Christmas Ball in another post, but I'll put some photos up of my debut as Catriona xxx
Ok, second part of the weekend I was due to go to the Trans Radio UK ball at a place Called Chichley Hall in Newport Pagnall.
I met up with the couple I'd been with at pinks, Lucy& Avril and had breakfast, i was planning on staying dressed as Catriona, just an everyday outfit, some jeggings a top and boots with a flying jacket, but as I'd not had much sleep from getting in at just gone 4am and meeting up with Lucy and Avril I didn't have enough time to put makeup on before I had to vacate the room.
We had a late breakfast together and then set off to Chichely Hall, it was a very posh venue! A lovely old manor house.
By the time I'd got into the room which seemed to be late again so by the time I got into the room I only had an hour to have another shave and shower and start to get everything ready before the MUA I'd booked came at 4pm.
So Cheryl turned up on time and I had my makeover, i didn't even think anything of it sat there in my bath robe having my makeup done, I'm getting used to it now, but all this seems so natural to me, it doesn't feel forced.
Showed Cheryl Catriona with the wig before she had to go to her next client and then it was time to get dressed into my Ball gown.
I had to walk round the outside of the hotel to get to the bar and when I got in the bar there where two other girls there having a drink, we where joined by a trans male called Bruce and had a drink and a chat, while we where in the bar some of the guests from another party came into the bar and where obviously looking at the trans/CD girls who where all dressed up, but they didn't stare or make any comments but maybe they where too polite, i did find out later that someone from our party had spoken to one of the people from the other party had said we looked like we where having a better time than they where😁
The ball was great, a three course Christmas dinner, dancing and a DJ, we where supposed to have a trans singer called Broadway Baby but she said she was ill so couldn't make it.
I made it till about 11:30pm after talking to a couple who where a crossdressing husband and accepting wife sat next to me on our table, i think we'd been put together because of my situation with myself and my own wife, we talked about my situation about my wife not wanting to see Catriona and not wanting to be involved, the wife told me she was exactly the same when she found out, and gave me the same advice as most people have given me, don't push her and hopefully she will change her mind about it, but she did say allowing me to go away for the whole weekend was a big positive.
So I left the ball at around midnight and that was the end of my weekend away as Catriona!
I did hesitate to take everything off and all the makeup, i didn't want to go back to just being my male drab self, i tried to stay as Catriona for as long as I could before getting ready for bed.
If there is anyone worried about going out as their female persona I'd must admit it was a very daunting thing to do, if you have someone who will be with you then all the better, but once you've done it and stepped out of the hotel room and into the world it feels fantastic, i had to initially go out that door myself for a while, i had to really push myself out! But I did it and everyone I told the story to had nothing but admiration for me for doing it alone!
I'll post a few more photo's from the weekend, I'll show Avril and Lucy as they are not hiding away, Avril does a lot in the Trans community and Lucy is actually the countries first Transgender FA referee as well as them running Trans Radio UK together.
So I guess that's it, i had a wonderfull time and now my next outing will be at Leeds First Friday on the 3rd of January and then I've got a night out in Blackpool organised on the 21st February! After that who knows, and yes my wife knows about the next nights out and is ok about it.
If anyone would like to come to Blackpool for a meet up your very welcome of course.
Merry Christmas and lots of love
Cat xxxx
Oh P.S I was even interviewed by one of the DJ'S called Shelley, she's the one in the Stetson and was put out on Thursday, but if you want to listen again it'll be on on boxing day night at 10pm on trans radio uk, you can download an app for free to listen to it, I'm on about an hour and a quarter into the show xx