Guide to this blog
The Blogroll is now in two parts. The main part is arranged according to the date the blog was last updated, with the most recent first. The second part is a list of interesting Twitter feeds in alphabetical order. The section covering blogs that use the BDSMLR platform has been removed as it is no longer of any functional use.
Friday, 14 July 2017
Saturday, 1 July 2017
Friday, 30 June 2017
Or is it just me?
Do other people experience visiting a garden centre and wandering into the furniture section and thinking "What a waste of good rattan??
Thursday, 1 June 2017
Monday, 29 May 2017
Friday, 5 May 2017
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Favourite for May
(not Theresa May, but if anyone could figure a way of knocking some sense into her...)
As a kid I must have trawled dozens and dozens of children's stories and comics in the hope of finding a spanking story. Weeks of frustration would just occasionally reveal a nugget and make the tedium worthwhile. A relatively common source was the cartoon strip based around Billy Bunter.
Now, while seeing "the fat owl of the remove" being chased by a cane wielding headmaster was not especially erotic in itself, the act that was being threatened (yikes!) or actually carried out (yaroo!) held it's own fascination. I have a very vivid recollection on one such scene where Bunter fell into a stream head-first and someone whacked his backside with the oar taken from a handy rowing boat. For many years I've wondered about the effectiveness of such a tool - rather unwieldy to use and spreading the impact over a large area but, on the other hand, quite long so good leverage. This week's favourite brought all those memories back.
Thanks to Dana Kane.
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Hope Springs Eternal
I realise this will probably not mean much to those outside the UK but as the stats show a large part of my audience is in the UK, here goes.
This lunchtime I turned on the television part way through today's episode of the game show Bargain Hunt. For those who don't know, two pairs of players each have to buy three items for under £300 total, usually at an antiques fair of some kind, and then sell them for profit at an auction. Each pair has the assistance of an antiques expert. At the moment I turned on today the rather lovely Natasha Raskin, one of the regular experts, was just saying "Well you should look at the bottom for marks because that's what it's all about." I looked up quickly hoping she had some cane marks across her lovely derriere, but sadly she was advising her teams about how to assess the value of a glass vase. Another time maybe...
This lunchtime I turned on the television part way through today's episode of the game show Bargain Hunt. For those who don't know, two pairs of players each have to buy three items for under £300 total, usually at an antiques fair of some kind, and then sell them for profit at an auction. Each pair has the assistance of an antiques expert. At the moment I turned on today the rather lovely Natasha Raskin, one of the regular experts, was just saying "Well you should look at the bottom for marks because that's what it's all about." I looked up quickly hoping she had some cane marks across her lovely derriere, but sadly she was advising her teams about how to assess the value of a glass vase. Another time maybe...
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Record Collectors
Back in my schooldays I spent quite a bit of time hanging around in record shops and I remember that at one stage, as the number of record labels was increasing, one trick they used to draw attention to their artistes was to produce little booklets showing off all their latest recordings. I couldn't afford many records but I could collect these free booklets. I have a vivid recollection of my excitement at the time when I came across a catalogue produced by Island Records - this was around 1975 so I would have been mid-teens with raging hormones. The tiny image of the cover of Robert Palmer's album Pressure Drop kind of leapt out at me! I remember carefully cutting it out of the catalogue and pasting it into a scrapbook I clandestinely kept for such treasures. When I say tiny image I do mean tiny - from memory it would have been little more than a centimetre square. Just saw the image again on the internet (rather larger) and it brought the memory back.
Sunday, 9 April 2017
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