I ADORE Waterfire and Barnacle and Tuneful!  But then I also love anything with TAF Button's colour scheme, which lots of people don't!

I don't like BBE babies, but I think baby frosting would be awesome as a NBBE.

I don't like the boys in baby Lucky's pose very much either, boys should have furry hooves. 

I think that all toy stores should be arranged by theme rather than 'girls' and 'boys'. Not all parents have the confidence to go against social norms in order to bring up kids as comfortable in themselves as some of your parents did. 'Boys' toys are either fighting, building or vehicles and 'girls' toys are baby dolls and cuddly toys and cooking stations and pretend make up kits - and most children will be affected by this.

I see evidence of it daily - so many parents saying "oh no, you can't have that, it's for girls" etc. The majority of British kids I see are either 'strong', 'clever' boys or 'beautiful', 'princess' girls (this includes my brothers' children). I'm afraid that while this seems harmless, it feeds into the long standing ideas that men should be competitive and smart and strong and women should be good-looking and demure and homely. After all, men do still get higher earning jobs and women (at least in Britain) still do the vast majority of housework and childcare (even if they have jobs too!)

I saw a documentary recently in which they were talking to a female firefighter and she still gets so much prejudice about it, both from other firefighters and from the public -with some people implying that they wouldn't want to rely on her to save them from a fire . We really do need to finally start breaking down these barriers at the level of society, starting with how our children dress and play, so that boys and girls can both grow up to be strong, gentle, smart, beautiful and most importantly, EQUAL.

That's how I feel about it anyway.

ps: I couldn't help noticing that in the article, they mentioned that Harrods still puts their male workers in blue and female workers in pink.
" "We are not stopping our female members of staff wearing a boy T-shirt, should they want to," he said, adding: "Although they are a different cut."
So there was no gender connotations whatsoever in the choice? "No, none at all." " 

For my Nothern English city, Lemon Drop- rainy and not too exciting (but I love it anyway).

Speedy! But I love all the unicorns!
I think my Speedy is lovely, even though the poor girl is riddled with regrind.

Here you go. For my first non-introductory post, here is Wig Wam giving you a cheeky smile. 

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Well I've finally decided to stop lurking and sign up. 

I've have had ponies since before I can remember, and have never really stopped loving them. I had a bit of a break from 2009 to 2011, partly due to moving in with my BF and his books and fossils taking pride of place (I think G3.5 had a role as well).

But I've a had a bit of a revival, and now there are ponies everywhere! I don't have a massive collection - just my childhood ponies plus a few extra G1s, and a handful of G2s and G3s. At the moment, I'm mainly upgrading and trying to get hold of some ponies that I really wanted as a child.

I also like art and animals (I have two dogs) and nature.

That's all for now folks. At some point I will figure out how to make an avatar, sig and make want/ have lists (I'm a bit rubbish at technology  ).