As expected it was humid in London , though bearably so , however here on the east coast autumn is giving way  to winter .
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I was reminded of when , in my early to mid teens , my Dad was on a course in London , training to be a music-therapist . .
My school and home life were unravelling fast it's true , I was knitting with only one needle , I thought I was a banana tree . . *
My Dad persuaded me to see an australian , lesbian , woman who was one of the tutors on his course , who called herself either a psychiatrist or  analyst , I forget which .
Her amazingly helpful advice : She informed me that I came across as being very , very strange , and that my Dad had a very strong feminine side . .
Brilliant , eh ?
Though I had a  few fractured friendships I was often ridiculed at school , so to hear that from her was to put it mildly not helpful , and my Dad , though no archetypal 'macho man' ( and neither am I ) was in no way effeminate , gay or transvestite ( neither am I ) , and , at a time when my relationship with him was at its most strained , those were not helpful comments .
That was ages ago and hardly matters now .
I was curiously ,  circuitously reminded of that by  discovering that a friend of my Mums , when here 18 months ago , after having breifly met me - so far as I was concerned I was just normal , feeling alright , having politely , breifly met him - though he has no medical qualifications he'd aparently 'diagnosed' me as being 'autistic' . .
If I really do , which I do'nt , come across as ultra-strange when so far as I'm aware I'm just feeling and being ordinairily normal then that is shattering to my self-confidence , but then , he seemed a bit odd to me ; It was new years eve and we watched some of Jools Holland's supposedly live bbc2 show : He  kept on and on making sexual remarks about women on the tv programme . .
Also he diagnosed that my cat is definitely female , as we thought  at the time , when he was a young kitten, before later discovering that he is indeed male , and not effeminate , either . .

Normal service may soon be resumed .