mylifebyandrearaven

I don't look too happy here but the emotion was running very high at this point   Some time ago I wrote about my love for wedding dresses, ( The Dress (mylifebyandrearaven.blogspot.com)   I have had an attraction to wedding dresses for many years, dating back to my sisters wedding in the 60's. There has always been something very special about a wedding dress and the dream of wearing one for more that just an hour or so has been with me for a very long time, but until recently it remained just a dream.   At some point I made the comment  " that I would never wear a wedding dress for its intended purpose "  Well that may still be the case but late last year I was lucky enough to get as close to the 'real thing' as I am ever likely to get.  I had planned a few days away with my friend Jen, we were lucky enough to be able to stay at a cottage in Northamptonshire, one of the things we planned to do was a 'Bridal Day' as we were alone in the cottage and we

  It is a while since I posted anything here so I would like to start with wishing all my readers a happy and prosperous New Year...... Assumption, we all do it, even though I made a rule to myself years ago to 'never assume' I find myself doing it, as an example, a friend told me that a male colleague at work had spent Christmas with a man he had met whilst walking his dog, so two single men spending Christmas together, I found myself questioning his sexuality just I suppose as I would 'assume' if he were with a woman over Christmas there was more to it than just friends...... I have no right to do this especially as I have never met him! The truth is I don't know, I should never assume, but human nature intervenes and we start to speculate when we have no right too. It happens to me as well, a good lady friend assumed that as I take so much time and trouble to look the way I do, that I would 'naturally want to be with a man'. I had a hard time explaining t