Look what we made!

It's a book! A collection of fabulous stories by 20 of the scene's best writers and bloggers! Abel and Haron have been the driving force, coming up with the idea, bringing everyone together and doing all the hard work of getting it published. Everyone gave their story for free and all proceeds go to Cancer Research UK. I'm sure you're all eager to buy it so click here for all the details you need. And while you're over there, give Abel and Haron a congratulatory hug: I hope they are very proud of themselves today as it's finally published!

As for me I am disgustingly excited to be part of it. All the stories are great but I'm honoured to share a book with my pre-scene, lurking day heros Paul Bailey, Serenity Everton, The Lowewood Writers, Casey Morgan and Abel.

I'll write again about my story but here's a little hint: the cover, painted by my wonderful twin Catherine Thomas, depicts a scene from my story (with me as the model gulp!) and it's called Slipping up.

And for those of you who are lurking on here, wishing you could be part of this community, take inspiration from Eliane's introduction :)

November, November, November!

Looks like my November is getting quite busy already. I have two fantastic parties happening within a week of each other and it's all very exciting.

The first is a private party that I'm afraid I can't invite you to, but the second is Ireland's first large scale spanking party and I insist that you just have to come along! It's been organised by some very good friends of mine (aka The Shamrock Spanking Society) and it's going to be one hell of a party in the most amazing location. So if you're free November 13th drop the guys an application form and hopefully I'll see there.

All the details are in the official blurb below:

The Shamrock Spanking Society (SSS) is a new yet traditional, discipline oriented, spanking play group based in Ireland.

We are a diverse blend of friends who have been around the block once or twice and who also share a common love of spanking and partying.

So we decided to come together to create a friendly and secure spanko space. Some of us have attended and indeed helped organize similarly styled parties in the USA, most notably Florida Moonshine (FMS) and Strictly Spanking New York (SSNY). These groups provide inspiration for this venture and we acknowledge and thank them for their support.

The main goal is to host dedicated spanking parties with a distinctively wicked Irish flavour in order to create a safe, playful, fun environment for spankos of all ages, nationalities and experience levels to meet socially and 'interact'. Friends first, spanking after. Then hopefully all friends again :)

Our inaugural gala event will take place on Saturday 13th November at a fabulous select location less than 2 hrs drive from Dublin. This really is a unique historical setting that will take your breath away. The party will include a three course buffet banquet, public and private play areas, vendors tables, spanking games, a dangerously late bar(!), spot prizes and a few surprises. Luxury B&B accommodation is available on site though naturally places will be limited.

This will be the first ever party of this kind in Ireland it's going to be a great party, one you will not forget so don't miss out! There will be guests from the USA, UK and other countries, both spankers and spankees alike!

What to do next?

In order to attend an SSS party you must become a member of this group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shamrock-Spanking-Society/

You must also be 18 or older. We in no way condone the spanking of minors or the non-consensual spanking of adults.

Instructions on how to proceed further and apply for an invitation to the party will be sent to you upon joining this group. Please read them carefully. Please direct any queries to the email address provided when you sign up to the yahoo group.

In the meantime, happy spankings and we look forward to having the pleasure of your company come November.

Sarah, Frank, Caroline Grey & Ian the London Tanner

It's good to say it...

This blog means so much to me, more than I think I can really convey. I get a wonderful sense of achievement when I read over my words. Get a thrill at a particular post that I consider to be well expressed. Enjoy the generous comments I receive. Yet I am guilty of censorship. I sell you my version of Emma Jane, the good bits. The introspective thinker. The playful brat. The nice thoughtful girl. Rarely do I let go. Never do I publish anything in haste or in the true heat of emotion. Nothing on here is raw. It's all as polished as can be.

The ability to write with both clarity and depth of emotion is one that Casey Morgan exudes in spades. As someone going through a difficult time, the bereavement of her husband and kinky partner, her posts are often raw, sometimes difficult to read or heart breakingly sad, painful almost. Yet so full of honesty and courage that I am amazed.

And I have to force myself to comment on her posts. Force myself to think of something worthy to say to her. To show her how much I appreciate her writing. How I admire her courage. And how I wish I could take away even a little bit of her pain if I could.

And she shouldn't apologise for what she writes on her blog. Nor should she apologise for the gaps in between writing. As I said on a recent post of hers:

'It’s good to say IT, whatever IT is. And if you feel IT then you should share IT. Love and loss and despair. I’ve never been so humbled by a stranger’s writing as I have been by yours. I attempt to strive for honesty and reflection on my blog and yet fall so far off the standard you set.

Whatever you write about Casey I’ll still want to read it. I love your blog because you don’t hold back. So please continue to write and share with us.'

If you admire real honesty and courage stop by and say so too.

The Punishment List!

Those people over at the Spanking Writers aren't just the leading lights of online writing, they've moved on to print too! After publishing the first Spanking Writers Anthology together with Haron, Abel has now published his long awaited book 'The Punishment List'; a wonderful collection of his best spanking stories.



Like so many online newbies before me, I gravitated towards Abel's stories in my early internet forays. Not knowing what I was into or what my kink was back then, I just knew that these stories triggered something in me.

So I felt very privileged to get a sneak preview of the book before the rest of you! I can confirm the original stories are just as wonderful in print and the ten never published before are some of Abel's best writing yet. 'Midleton' is one of the most dark and emotive spanking stories I've ever read, while 'Anna and the Headmaster' gave me a warm glow all over; almost as good as a spanking itself!

Off you go and buy it, a worthy addition to any collection of spanking literature and a lovely present for that kinky person in your life. And not only do you get to enjoy the stories but also the fabulous front cover, designed and painted by the talented Catherine.

And when you've read it, come back and tell me what your favourite story was!

A birthday spanking for Abel!

Today I was struck by a great injustice in our world. It's Abel's birthday and as I was wishing him lots of nice things, I innocently asked when he was gong to get his birthday spanking? I mean 42 is an awful lot of strokes, I hoped he'd take them bravely.

To which he informed me that Haron would be taking it for him. Although he would administer all 42, personally.

That was how the world of bottoms and tops worked and all that. Usually I'd agree but really not even taking your own birthday spanking! So I'm starting a petition. Abel should get a birthday spanking! Who's with me?

Merry Christmas

Seeing as it's Christmas I thought I'd share the photo below, I hope you enjoy it!



In a new departure for me it wasn't taken as part of a roleplay and is my first attempt at posing for photography. HH, who took it, is far more practised than me and took some great shots.

Although we weren't roleplaying, I was in quite a submissive headspace when Abel and HH suggested I christen the pedestal in the garden. Normally I wouldn't even entertain the idea. Especially if it's cold!

Haron followed us out in the chilly, snowy day somewhat amused,wrapping herself up snugly in her coat and hat and scarf, while I prepared to disrobe entirely.

While I never thought I could do something like this I actually quite enjoyed it. And afterwards I was flying from the thrill of doing it. But moreover quite proud that I could put aside those insecurities that we all have about our bodies and take such pictures and actually even like some of them!

Christmas Gifts

This is my first proper kinky Christmas. Not that I'm dong anything especially kinky over the festive period but over the year I've made many close friends of the kinky variety. That's meant lots of nice Christmas cards and texts and mails from such friends all wishing me varying degrees of naughty and kinky happiness for Christmas and the New Year!

Some cards even nearly got sent to my scene name which would have made for an interesting conversation with my flatmate :)

And amongst my closet friends we've exchanged gifts, some of which I was allowed to open over the weekend. My very first proper kinky gifts and there are two in particular that I really have to share.

The first is from dear Haron and Abel and adds to my practically non-existent implement collection.



Made to order it's my first ever, very own, all mine, tawse. Isn't it pretty? Mind you it's also very heavy and whippy. Notice the thickness of the beautiful leather and the discreet XH stamp on the handle.

Already I both love and fear it, having experienced a taste of it on my bottom and hands. Haron was the first to treat me to it, with 3 strokes across my recently caned bottom. She, very nicely, gave me one over PJs, then another over knickers and the final on the bare. For such a sweet girl she really made them count! Then HH gave me one stroke, followed by Abel who added the final 2 to make an even 6. He also gave me 4 on the hands and although very restrained in his use, still managed to produce tears as the stiff leather was unyielding on my small hands.

I half-jokingly, half seriously, told Abel and Haron I was going to frame it, being far too beautiful a work of art to use for whacking a girl. Unfortunately neither agreed and Abel has warned me that it had better be ready and waiting to be used when he visits me in Dublin!

The other gift I want to share is something that HH gave me, declaring that every kinky girl should have one. A beautiful book called The Lonely Doll. Having read it I have to agree. I absolutely adore it and laughed and ooh-ed and ah-ed the whole way through reading it.


It's an actual children's book, published and sold worldwide since 1957. And it's supposedly not kinky at all. But even just reading the Wikiepedia plot summary below you'll probably think the author had to have been somewhat kinky, even if she never admitted it to herself.

The Lonely Doll tells the story of a doll named Edith, who lives by herself until two teddy bears, called Mr. Bear and Little Bear, appear in her life. One day, Mr. Bear goes out for a walk leaving the two alone in the house; He returns to find they have rummaged in a closet for dress-up clothing, smeared themselves with makeup, and written "Mr. Bear is just a silly old thing" in lipstick on the mirror. Mr Bear proceeds to discipline both Little Bear and Edith, leaving Edith to worry that he will take Little Bear and leave. Mr. Bear assures her that he will never, ever, leave her.

Yes that's right, Edith gets spanked by Mr Bear and there are adorable pictures to illustrate the story throughout the book. It appeals to me on every level, both the kinky adult I am now and the little girl I used to be. Plus there's a cute doll, cuddly teddy bears, naughty misbehaviour, funny pictures and spankings in it, sure what more could a kinky girl want from a book!

So I'm very grateful for such lovely and thoughtful kinky gifts. But most of all I'd like to thank all my kinky friends for the best gift of all, your friendship. To all of you, both online and offline, thanks for welcoming me into the kinky family this year. For your generosity and support. For being patient and understanding. For the lovely emails and blog comments and texts. For the invites to the parties. For vouching for me to other friends and playmates. And above all for helping me live the kinky dream and accepting me for who I am.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Kinky New Year!

It's Indy, but not as we know her!

I'd just like to say a HUGE welcome to the blogosphere to the fabulous Indy, Queen of Comments and Lovely Tweeter. I and many other scene friends have been long encouraging and dare I say anticipating this day.

Now dear readers, to make sure she doesn't change her mind and deprive us of her beautiful and interesting thoughts, pop over and say nice things to her at Not So Submissive so she'll feel bad if she doesn't continue!

Seriously though I really am delighted that Indy has started her own blog, she's been such a fabulous commentator on everyone else's. I haven't been writing on the online sphere myself for that long but she's been a wonderful support both on here and on Winterbrook and that means so much when faced with a blank screeen, a great idea and no words!

Hurrah for Indy :)

Keep on 'hitting' me!

Over night when I was fast asleep my blog reached 100,000 hits! And I'm incredibly excited about that.

When I started this blog back in May I was so worried that no-one would read it, let alone comment on it. And I was a lil afraid I'd give up this blogging lark after just a few days!

But back then I didn't realise how addicted I'd get to writing. And certainly never considered how good it would be for me to have an outlet to order and process my thoughts. I have to admit that I really love my lil blog and so thrilled so many of you like it too.

So thanks for all your comments and support and I hope you stay with me, I'm not blogged out yet!

Here's a lil pic of one of my latest canings to enjoy. Want to guess who painted those lovely lines across my bottom?

Loving my lurkers!

The wonderful Bonnie, has once again organised a 'love our lurkers' day, the 4th one in what's become an annual event. I'm delighted to join in cos like most bloggers I love when people comment and I love getting to chat to new people.

But I'm even more excited to join in cos just this time last year I was a lonely lurker myself and had been for years. After seeing all the blogs encouraging readers to say hi, I finally started commenting. That turned into email chats and chats turned into real life spanking and playing. It really was that simple and I have no idea what I was afraid of for all those years!

So if you've been lurking around here please say hi today or tomorrow or even the next day :)

And as an extra little incentive, how about this. My next playdate is at the end of the month with HH. For every person who delurks for the first time on the blog (for any post) between now and then I'll take one stroke from HH. And if you nominate an implement in your comment, HH will use the top 3 implements suggested. there might even be a photo in it ;-)

Just a tease

I'm a very lucky girl who gets to play with a lot of great people, both tops and bottoms and switches and what not. But when you take the labels off, these are people I happily count amongst my good friends. (Including one very delightful girl I've only just met but after a few days in her company recognise as another kindred spirit!)

Amongst all the play at the weekend I found myself looking round the room of people and thinking I was obscenely happy to be with them.

As for the actual play, considering I've had practically 3 days of continuous whacking with so many scenes that were so amazing it's no wonder I know not where to start with blogging. But I do swear I shall write up as many as I can and do feel free to beat me if I don't deliver.

Hopefully by the end of the week you'll have heard about:

- Eliane and my's trip to Headmaster Higgins. A first visit for her, alas not the first for me;

- When Emma Jane was given a band of fire to demonstrate to a new girl just how painful it was, followed by a dual beating by both Jessica and Miss Cavendish;

- When Caoilfhionn and Felicity met Juliet in full-on scary mode and were severely punished, partly because we'd been naughty, and partly cause she's just a lil bit evil;

- Then there was the party where the Irish Terror faced off against the Mighty Jew and the Kinky Catholic in an oil wrestling death match;

- I can't forget the first time beating by Martha and her boyfriend. She picked the implements out, he thoroughly did the beating;

- And most scary of all, how the maid got dealt with for stealing by the terrifying duo of Mr Jenkins and Sir Henry!

A new challenge

I'm a lil bit distracted peoples, I do apologise. I've started writing for a new blog called Winterbrook Hall. Go check it out if you haven't seen it yet. It's basically a story about life in 1907 and we are writing various characters in a grand old house with gentry and servants and of course spankings and all sorts.

I signed up to taking part with many concerns and questions. Is my writing good enough? Can I write to deadline? Can I develop a character, or characters even, throughout a year? Will I get bored and give up after a month? Can I work collaboratively with others? Will we all kill each other?

And many of these concerns are still there, time shall only tell but I'm giving it a go anyway. Sure I love a challenge!

So far it's been a lot of fun but understandably quite time intensive as we get it up and running. The discipline of writing on demand and therefore being creative on demand is new for me and I'm trying to take advantage of my initial enthusiasm to get a lil bit ahead of myself with posts.

Therefore my mind is very much on the characters I'm writing and how they are going to develop and what might happen to them. Added to that Eliane and I are spending many, many hours discussing plots and interweaving our characters. Our biggest problem so far is a reluctance for our characters to get spanked. Someone really needs to point out that's the whole idea! But it's all very exciting.

So between thinking about it, thinking about writing it, actually writing for it and reading up on the Edwardian era I'm quite distracted from my usual ruminations on life, kink and the universe. But I hope it'll be worthwhile in the end and I won't stray far from here, my refuge in a mad, mad world!

And about time too!

I have often lamented the fact that there are not enough toppy types out there who blog. While I love to read the many excellent spanking blogs by bottoms I think it's also important to get the other perspective.

So I'm very pleased to announce that HH has finally started writing on his blog!

A hugely experienced scene player, he has a wealth of knowledge and insight about TTWD that really needs to be shared. His first post is in answer to my 'standing in the way of control' discussion. He gives his excellent perspective on our latest play weekend as well as an overview of the responsibilities of a top as he sees it.

"I do think that part of the skill of a good top is to facilitate letting go: to make the bottom feel safe enough to be vulnerable, to read her well enough to stop at the right time: not too soon, not too late."

I can't wait to hear more! So go on over to the art of corporal punishment and check it out.