The weather was cold and miserable and snow and ice were threatened over the Penines so the girls from TV Complete in Huddersfield had cried off this morning. They are still hoping that the weather will be a bit kinder next week, in which case they will be here. We are crossing our fingers.
But, even though the weather was bad and there were two football matches being played in Manchester, we still had a good crowd in. The evening passed very quickly before I realised that I had not taken many photos but here are the three I managed to take towards the end of the evening.

Jessica

First of all I would like to say welcome back to Gemma who has been missing for some weeks now due to overwork and ill health. We have missed you. Many thanks to Elaine who has nobly held the fort during her absence. Also welcome to Jan who has now decided to visit us on a monthly basis so we should now see a lot more of her and to Simon who did the bar on his first week working for the Rembrandt.

At present I only have the photos taken with my camera. But it was a very busy night with well over 50 people attending so if there are any other photos people would like to see here then please send them to me and I will put them up.

Finally I was glad to see Michelle, above on the left, again. She has not been for several months and I was wondering what had happened to her. She had been unable to come for several weeks since before we decided to separate our organisation from Northern Concord. It seems that she had looked at the Northern Concord site and seen that the meetings in Manchester are no longer held. This has had the effect of preventing her from coming out to enjoy herself until she recently found a reference to this site which confirmed that the meetings are still taking place, just under another name. I am very saddened by the fact that Jenny Baker, who has sole control of the Northern Concord site, still feels that she cannot continue to help the TG community by putting a reference to Manchester Concord meetings on the "What is Concord" page. Michelle is not the only one, many other people who look at that site are missing out by not being told that the wednesday evening meetings are alive and well. We now have 185 members, of whom, every one except one, has joined by coming to the club on a wednesday evening. We have not canvassed in any way to get new members.

Emily & Georgina

Some time later Crystal came in accompanied by a girl that I had introduced her to a few weeks before when she came to the club for the first time. Crystal has met up with her a few times since then and taken her shopping to help her select suitable clothes etc which she has really enjoyed. This is a wonderful service for new girls to help give them confidence. See our recommendations page for more details.
Soon after that another newcomer joined us who has been writing to us for some time now but kept putting off coming to the club. I finally wrote to her to suggest that she came along dressed as man just to see what we are like, rather than trying to get her look perfect before joining us. The point is that once anyone has visited us, all their anxiety evaporates away and they can then relax and start to enjoy the whole experience with our help. He spent the rest of the evening with us and is now looking forward to coming back with some clothes next time without all the worry that was there before.

For any other people wishing to come out who are reading this, please just come along as you normally are and spend an evening with us, you will never regret it and the mental relief of getting over the initial meeting will be enormous. I promise you, that you will also enjoy the experience, very soon after you first come through the door.

Finally I decided to spend the night in the hotel so that I could start to install some lights over the mirrors in the bedroom we use to change in. I managed to complete one set over the tall mirror before I ran out of time in the morning, so there are still some more to do, but it will be useful to see if they work well enough before doing the others.

There are still places available for the Christmas meal on the 6th of December so dont hesitate to book if you would like to come and dont forget next wednesday is our UNIFORM evening so get your outfits ready.

First, I should let you know that we are now reported in a news entry on the Canal Street website. Do go and have a look and see what else you might like to get involved with. The site is supported by Taurus who are now providing changing facilities in place of AXM for 7 days a week. See this link for details.

We were delighted to welcome Bella Jay from Repartee magazine who came along this week to talk to as many members as she could with a view to writing an article for her magazine. I received this letter the following day.

Hi Mary, Many thanks for your hospitality last night - and always a pleasure to have a chat with you. Don't know if you will mention me on the Blog - but if so could you please thank all the girls for me and say how much I enjoyed my visit and the chance to chat with everyone. The article will be in the January issue of Repartee, Bella Jay

 

It was an incredibly busy evening with well over 50 people coming through the doors and four more people joining taking us up to 179 members. We now have membership cards available for next year so you can renew your membership to take you to the end of 2009 any time from now on. We would prefer you to come along on a wednesday to pay, but if you cannot do this then please see the instructions on the How it runs page for alternative methods.
It was great to welcome Abby again who was over from America for a week, but she only arrived this morning and had spent part of the Afternoon at Tintz and Tongz having her make up done but was rather jetlagged so was not able to stay and talk to Bella Jay. We went to the Rotherham weekend together, but that is another story. She is here for a few more days so we will see her here again next week.

 

Brydie

On the left is Jessica and a girl I cannot name and on the right are three girls of whom I cannot name the first one. The other two are Heather and Tina. I am sure that someone will let me know their names very quickly.

 

STOP PRESS During this evening J brought along her friend Dan who took some photos for a project he is doing and she has just told me they are ready for people to see at this link.

This was bonfire night so we were not sure how many people would turn up. But we needn't have worried as we still had a good mixed crowd, including a few new people and some others who crept out of the woodwork. ie had not been for some considerable time, but it is always pleasant to greet old friends and catch up with their lives again. As it is now only two months till the end of the year anyone that joins now is being offered the chance to join for £6 till the end of next year. Five people joined tonight making our numbers now 175 members. As we now have next years cards available any existing members have from now until the end of January to renew their membership.
Many of you will know that AXM bar has closed, which means that at present the changing room in there is not available for use at any time. We have now approached Taurus Bar at the far end of the village and tonight they agreed to provide as near an equivalent service as possible to allow people to change and leave their clothes there at any time while they are open. The space they have in the basement is also used by other people at times, so we will have to be tolerant and considerate to the other users, but the Taurus management are willing to help us as part of their service to the village community. See the Taurus changing room link for full details of what is available.

Paula

Susie

 

 

Elaine H

Tulip

Three more Girls joined the club this evening bringing our numbers up to 170. The christmas dinner bookings are starting to pick up so please get them in early if you want to come. If necessary you can now pay over the internet using paypal and then just send me an email with you selections. See the coming events page for details.

 

Lisa Jenny Paula & Molly

Elaine & Jenny

SarahLouise

Sue & Rachel

Finally Debbie and Christine, neither of whom have easy access to the internet so they have not yet joined the forum, have asked me to say that they will be out this Saturday evening the 1st of Nov and will be in Paddy's Goose between 10 & 10:30 pm. If anyone else would like to join them for the rest of the evening they plan to visit a number of venues in the village. They have suggested that this time and place, 10-10:30 in Paddy's Goose could be used as a known meeting point on all Saturday evenings for people who are on their own and would like some other TV's for company.

I will put this suggestion on the forum as well, but thought it would perhaps get more attention here first.