Just to show I am still going around in my rubber, varying the amount according to the occasion. I have been wearing the open-faced hood around rather more often. As standard I now wear my broad double-buckled latex belt over my SBR mack. As always I have it buttoned right up, and I now have wear a latex collar with big buckle to keep up the mack collar right up. I have gone from the rather light plastic gloves to heavier black rubber short gauntlets, sometimes with full-length gauntlets.

All this with no comment, just the occasional crack from yobs or giggles from girls. I have not worn the jacket and trousers without the mack though. I think the shades finish the outfitmaking it just a little more out of the ordinary.

I hope you like the picture in the bar. It shows up my hood, gauntlets and you can see my wide belt. I was talking in this bar about my gear and the girl behind the bar was glad to photograph me, and then to take one with her own camera.

Life in rubber is fun, but I need some warm weather. The gear is apt to be chilly, as I said to the checkout woman in the supermarket, and I like warm weather. "You'll sweat in that lot!" she said. "That doesn't worry me - I like it that way" I replied.

And I do. Besides which I look ordinary in the winter - on a warm sunny day I can reckon to turn more heads.

Rubberist Blackie.

Back in training.

I have had a vanilla few days, socializing, but have been out in my rubber today. The weather is damp and gloomy, so my gear annoyingly looks very ordinary - I need a sunny warm day to sweat and look out of the ordinary.

However I put the brands round my sheath very tightly and I am now feeling gratifying and stimulating discomfort, which of course makes the tension greater. I shall get on the rowing trainer in a minute and se what I can do, without a gasmask though.

No comments on my last two blogs - am I becoming just boring? I will have to undergo some really tough training, so that I have something exciting to report.

Taking it - and enjoying it!

Blackie.