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14 Jan 09 The Glade Cleared, with a short video

I've now finished the work of clearing the Glade, which I talked about in this post last month, and I've put up a short video showing how it now looks from the centre. [more...]

27 Dec 08 Comments

I've never really maintained a weblog with comments, but now I've added this a feature here. Each post now has a comment box, and since the comments go to me by email first, there's no need to sign-in anywhere to post them.

24 Dec 08 Surviving

For the last six weeks the BBC has been showing "Survivors", a reworking of a 1970s series, in which a group of people survive an influenza pandemic that kills almost all of humanity - leaving only hundreds or thousands alive in the UK where the action is set. The climax last night was a bit of a surprise - mostly that they were so lame about using violence. [more...]

7 Dec 08 Clearing the Glade and a wood mouse

I had a trip to Bridgewood today and cleared the branches and tree trunks scattered across the southern half of the Glade, left over from felling trees. I also came across a wood mouse, dodging between some of the logs and managed to photograph it. [more...]

3 Dec 08 Kaotian "master" jailed

Back in 2006 I made a couple of posts about "Kaotian" master Lee Thompson being splashed across the newspapers, and then his implausible claims about secret BDSM societies in Bizarre magazine. This week he was jailed for three years. [more...]

23 Nov 08 The Baader Meinhof Complex

I went to see The Baader Meinhof Complex on Friday. Well worth two and a half hours or subtitles, as I have zero German apart from the odd "schadenfreude" etc. Apparently the film is very controversial in Germany, but it neither glamorised nor trivialised it all to me. [more...]

17 Nov 08 Carts and rides

Writing a review of The Human Pony reminded me of the prototype cart I made at the start of the year, and yesterday I tried using it as a handcart for moving firewood logs across the jumble of branches left by felling. It worked surprisingly well when pushed and guided over obstacles. [more...]

14 Nov 08 "The Human Pony" by Rebecca Wilcox

Rebecca Wilcox's new book has been getting a lot of coverage in Open Air BDSM and Pony Play circles, and I received my copy last week. I am very impressed by the quality of this book, and that's speaking as someone who isn't a real pony play enthusiast. [more...]

12 Nov 08 My new avatar image

Apparently this image, which I'm using on my various profiles on websites and chat, is scary or even sinister! It's just meant to be personal whilst being anonymous, not a re-enactment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Honest

5 Nov 08 More Bridgewood plans, byelaws etc posted

I've rewritten the Bridgewood plans page this week. New material includes the first draft of the Byelaws, and a three-part written sketch of what an open day might look like. Both of these were mostly written in the summer, but I've tidied them up enough to post now. I've also put up expanded versions of the pages about Laying out Bridgewood, and the outline of events, open-days and D/s retreats. [more...]

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