I've got news! When I went to my site this evening, I found that I've got news about some new flirt application. "Based on your personality, we have selected 10 matches for you", they wrote.

10 people to flirt with, free delivery to my screen - and I am such a curious t-girl. So let's click and see who matches my personality. Ah, Number 1:

"Somebody
male, null
Sign: null
Height:
Education: null"

I really must say that this flirt offer was rather disappointing. I wonder how they evaluated my personality to make a "null" person match me? Could it be that this application urgently needs some further improvement?

My reply is:

flirt: null

Usually, I do not send letters to a newspaper editor. I read my daily paper, but as a rule I do not communicate with it.

This morning I sent out five e-mails to newspapers which quoted an interview of a Crete mayor on behaviour of young Britons in Greece. I addressed them to The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, International Herald Tribune, New York Times and a German paper. This is what I wrote:

"They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit," said Konstantinos Lagoudakis, the mayor of Malia, in an interview quoted by your paper. Apart from the fact that in his phrase cross-dressing just comes before vomitting, I should like to ask this gentleman what is wrong with cross-dressing? Being transgendered is neither rowdy nor an expression of bad manners, but just a gender disposition. We have not chosen to be transgendered, but have a right to live our own life. And usually cross-dressers dress in a most distinguished, fashionable and classy style.
Sincerely yours, Silke Loretta Martin


I do not expect them to publish it, but at least they shall know that we no longer are a shy and silent minority.

Some days before I left for Scotland, I joined a bebo group. It was a group against testing cosmetics or medicine on animals. I thought it a good idea to join this group, as I am not in favour of testing things on animals - it is not sure if human beings react the same way on substances as mice or rabbits do.

Of course my cosmetics - and we special ladies need a lot of them - are not tested on animals, and if they were, it would do them no harm, as I use natural products only, and homoeopathic medicine whenever possible.

Now that I am back from this wonderful country I realize that my membership of the animal protection group has been cancelled, or better: They expelled me. I have no longer access to the group's site, and no reason was given for it, but I have an idea.

The idea is that they have tested their tolerance concerning gender issues on me. And failed.