the ballet lesson

I had a schoolgirl photoset lined up to post tonight, but Tom and I have just watched the first part of Wheatley Manor, the epic new film from Northern Spanking, after which I am not at all in the mood for schoolgirl scenes. But that’s okay.I don’t hav…

The St. George’s Day Birchings

Today, of course, is St. George’s Day. Sadly, England is rather lax at celebrating its patron saint’s day – other than the occasional promotion of cheap beer in the pubs. Me? I’d have flags flying everywhere, and a public holiday.
Still, I’m reminded that, not too many years ago, the date was marked in girls’ reformatories […]

Ranting Beware

Several of my friends have twittered today about same-sex marriage. I suppose the news from the Miss USA contest over Miss California’s answer has brought it back to the forefront of everyone’s mind. Although, seriously, Miss North Carolina won. Did th…

Lucy Baxter and Adrian

This week I am overworked and underspanked. I got home from work half an hour ago (yeah, look at the timestamp. Not impressed) to find my cat had expressed her displeasure at my late arrival all over my sofa. Cheers kitty, I missed you too.Since I am a…

“Your first Headship”

I came across a long-forgotten book during our packing, entitled “Your First Headship”. We picked it up years ago in a second-hand bookshop, wondering what it said about disciplinary matters.
Sadly, it was rather lacking in useful advice. But I did find myself mentally re-writing along it the following lines the other day during a long […]

It’s actually a cane

I never failed to be amused by how sellers of spanking toys describe their products on customs declarations.
Say, today we got a box in the post.
It contained, according to the notice, “a wand”.
I didn’t remember buying any Harry Potter merchandise…

Madame de Sade

A few weeks ago I got an email from Abel and Haron, asking if Tom and I wanted to join them at the theatre to see Judi Dench in Michael Grandage’s staging of Yukio Mishima’s 1965 play, Madame de Sade. We accepted enthusiastically. Seeing lots of kinky…

The Governors’ Birching

I blogged recently about a 1904 volume, “Consider the Children”, packed with anecdotes of the administration of corporal punishment in girls’ schools.
The line that most caught my attention was towards the end of the book:
“The simplest proof of the inefficiency of the cane may be found in any punishment book. The same names occur […]

Early Morning Reality

How did the dream really end?I awoke to a little cold hand, clasping mine as it hung off the side of the mattress. “Mama, I want to watch Star Wars,” she said as soon as my eyes popped open. I blinked, managed not to groan. “Go on, love. I’ll be a minu…

The fear factor

I found this clipping from a newspaper we read on holiday:

This sounds like an idea for a TV show. “Caning! The fear factor!”
Not sure how the show would go, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be too hard to develop: all you need is a few canes and a TV crew - and the queue of […]

MBS Spanko Brunch #170

If you’ve come for brunch, I am delighted to announce that Hermione will be your hostess this week.Randy and I are enjoying a little R & R (red and rosy, that is…).

Early Morning Dream

Face-down I was, my hair in a braid down my back. My legs were cuffed to the spreader bar, my hands dug nervously into the bedcover, clutching the flannel.”You’re going to learn to like it,” he said quietly, firmly. “In fact, you’re going to learn to o…

Twittering

Yes, yes, I bowed to peer pressure. Or Chris pressure. I’m kinkily twittering. Latest feed in the sidebar.

4/18/09

Found these on Newsfeeds. Looks like they are all having fun.

Shew your shapes

I was rather intrigued the other day to stumble across the following definition, from the “1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue” at the Gutenberg site:
SHAPES. To shew one’s shapes; to be stript, or made peel, at the whipping-post.

(Now there’s a dilemma to ponder: whether ‘tis nobler to make the girl strip, or to strip her?)
Needless […]