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21 Jan 08 Nemesis and the weekend

This weekend was a marathon for lili and popi, with a drive down to London for Purrr. As Purrr is a women-only event, I stayed at home, hacking a website about and eating pizza

On Saturday night, we all headed over to Nemesis II in West Yorkshire, which seems to be on the way up again. [more...]

16 Jan 08 The Desire for Purpose

Recently I've got interested in general motivations: what is the most general framework for why people do things? Are people following specific drives imposed by evolution, or is there some universal, such as Nietzsche's claim that everyone's motivation is The Will to Power. But how can that be true in a world with consensual submissives? [more...]

13 Jan 08 Club Lash and the Manchester Munch

This weekend I went to Club Lash with lili and popi on Friday, and the three of us dropped into the Manchester Munch for a few minutes on Saturday. We've not been to any scene events in Manchester since the autumn, and the effects of the smoking ban are really sinking in with no "smoke hangover" the next morning for a non-smoker like me. [more...]

10 Sep 07 Machine shed of horrors

A link doing the rounds at the moment, the Machine shed of horrors: "It's all interesting, but some of it is 'interesting' in the same way an H.R. Giger painting is interesting: cool, mechanical, but indescribably creepy. Hooterville steampunk meets the Tower of London. Rather than try to describe it, here are some pictures I took during a recent visit."

12 Aug 07 Plunder!

I thought I'd post some pictures of some recent acquisitions: some cuff locks, a great flogger by Steve Vakesh, and a headcage which I've subsequently modified. [more...]

4 Aug 07 Master/slave Conference, 2007

I'm still buzzing from the Master/slave conference and I've got a bunch of things to say about it, but I'm going to try to give an overview in this blog and them come back to individual topics later. [more...]

27 Jul 07 Washington DC

After arriving in Washington yesterday, we spent today doing touristy things: mostly looking at buildings and visiting museums. [more...]

26 Jul 07 Er, welcome to America...

popi, lili and I are now in Washington ready for the Master/slave Conference. The journey itself went without any hitches, and we only had one small snag at immigration in Boston, due to there being three of us... [more...]

16 Jul 07 "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson

Neo-Victorianism is one attractive basis for Household D/s: the Victorian / Edwardian period was the last time middle-class families expected to have servants and live in hierarchical, extended households. Neal Stephenson's novel "The Diamond Age" doesn't deal with D/s or service, but it does present a Neo-Victorian world which I'd like to explore in this review. [more...]

9 Jul 07 Household D/s and Mrs Beeton

I've been thinking some more about Household D/s (HDS), and about useful sources in particular. So far, I've selected the domestic servant sections from Mrs Beeton and put them in the HDS pages.

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