Tanos's weblog en http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/all/ © 2012 Tanos@tanos.org.uk The IC RSS Gadget admin@informedconsent.co.uk (Admin) 360 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:22:45 GMT Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:22:45 GMT http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324676/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324676/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:22:45 GMT Walkers are frames that allow horses to exercise by themselves in a circle. For horse owners, they reduce the amount of supervision required, and like a lot of equestrian equipment the idea can be adapted to BDSM. Horses spend their whole lives in some form of bondage or captivity if you think about it :) You do see horse walkers appear in pony play contexts now and then: there was one at the old Deferre woodland in Devon, and a couple of Insex scenes had them made out of some of PD's scaffolding. So it's something I'd had at the back of my mind for a while when at the end of last year @mia had a dream about being in one. ... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324520/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324520/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:31:19 GMT I came across this striking series of pony girl photos by Razoomovsky tonight. Rather than just go for the glossy latex look or take raw pictures of actual pony play, he's used the post processing to create narrative images of world with working pony girls. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324387/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/324387/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:38:12 GMT I've now put online a first version of my pony play history page. This deals with some of the myths (like Aristotle - that one is just a medieval story) and then the 20th Century transition from 1930s pony play fiction through to the real-life pony play scene that has now emerged. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/323536/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/323536/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:12:24 GMT mia and I made it to @Club_Lash in Manchester for the first time in a while: we've had something else on, either kink or vanilla, every second Saturday of the month since the autumn. We talked to some old and new faces, and I finally got one of @TheProf's Black Box electrical devices. I also did a bit of a consensual-nonconsent scene with mia in the dungeon. I think that's the first time I've ever set out to do that in public play. mia enjoys that style of play even more than me (at least afterwards, of course ;) ) but from my side, the best part is crouching down with my face inches from hers, listening to her genuinely beg me not to continue, knowing that I'm going to ignore whatever she says. That and sitting her on my knee afterwards for the hugs and come down :) http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/323298/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/323298/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:07:13 GMT I made a few changes to the Bridgewood Blog last night, to include older posts about Open Air BDSM as well as Bridgewood itself and to put more of the posts on the main page of the site. I'm planning to continue with more OAB posts as well as the Bridgewood updates to make it more of an open air news site. You can also follow the blog via ukBridgewood on Twitter. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/321847/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/321847/ Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:05:50 GMT In this end of year podcast, mia and I talk about some new BDSM events of 2011, and Open Air BDSM including Bridgewood and The Warehouse.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/320928/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/320928/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:51:18 GMT It's been a pretty momentous day, with Eurozone countries and aspiring Eurozone countries forming their 'euro-plus' grouping with tighter controls on governments' borrowing and budgets. This may lead to the European Commission or something like it vetting and possibly vetoing the budgets of democratically elected governments, and I doubt Britain will be the only non-Euro country to refuse to sign in the end. In fact, I can see some Euro countries failing to participate if it goes to a referendum. So huge, defining political moments of our time etc etc. But all day it's been reminding me of Laura Antoniou's Marketplace books.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/320088/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/320088/ Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:15:30 GMT Thank you so much, every one who came and made The Warehouse such a great event! We had 60 people through the door plus about half a dozen more who were helping to run the event and also participated. I counted 12 pony carts, and so this was one of the biggest pony play events ever in the UK.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/319907/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/319907/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:15:14 GMT First cart rebuilt. Second cart built. Handouts printed. Signs made. Gear packed. Box of stuff filled. Suitcase packed. Memos sent. Lots of people coming tomorrow! http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/317269/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/317269/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:58:51 GMT With the Open Air season coming to a close, I've been doing some forestry work at Bridgewood. The first thing has been to start opening up the south ride (trackway) more. This route has been marked out since 2008 and I've been mowing it during the summer for the last couple of years. However it's still a lot narrower in places than the Middle and North Rides: some ducking under branches and stepping through gaps between bushes is necessary.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/316940/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/316940/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:29:47 GMT I got hold of one of the official registrations of Bridgewood today, and it includes the area. I'd done this myself using my own GPS mapping in the past and got 19 acres, but I'd just put a straight line for one of the boundaries that has lots of kinks. When they calculate it properly, it's really 20 acres! So, Bridgewood: bigger and kinkier than I'd thought :)... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315856/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315856/ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:54:10 GMT I fell in love with computers themselves again thanks to him. What an outstanding life: Apple, then seeing the potential of Xerox PARC's work and building the Lisa and the Mac, NeXT, PIXAR, then Apple again, and the flood of changes to our lives flowing from his return. http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315671/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315671/ Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:09:02 GMT The lying Daily Heil put up their "appeal failed" story at 8:50pm by mistake, a minute or two after the "appeal succeeded" verdict was announced. You can see how much they make up just from reading this. They're touting their other version of course now. I've highlighted the outright lies and inventions about things that obviously didn't happen tonight in bold.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315601/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315601/ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:13:17 GMT We'd been planning October's event day on Saturday as end of season special for a couple of months now. Given the usual October weather, we tried to think of activities good for keeping warm :) This week's heatwave made all that a bit academic, but we had a great time.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315268/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315268/ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:34:33 GMT Last month @mia and I went to the GLLA ("Great Lakes Leather Alliance") weekend in Indianapolis after our week in New York. GLLA is one of several regional leather conventions across that have M/s contests, and I blogged about this part last time. Now I'm going to write a bit about the workshops.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315030/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/315030/ Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:44:24 GMT Last month I installed a wood burning stove in the Log Cabin at Bridgewood, and mia used it for cooking and making tea at September's event day. I also put a shelf in for bags, with a small bookcase on the wall above it near the noticeboard. Yesterday, I finished the "utility" corner of the cabin by fitting a kitchen sink. ... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/314637/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/314637/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:23:25 GMT Last month @mia and I went to the GLLA ("Great Lakes Leather Alliance") weekend in Indianapolis after our week in New York. GLLA is a one of several regional leather conventions in the US that have an M/s strand, and it covers the area to the west of the Master/slave Conference in Washingon that I went to in 2007. Both events are very different to what we do in the UK, although the substance of people's BDSM and relationships are quite similar.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/314352/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/314352/ Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:17:15 GMT I've started a thread on IC about this afternoon peer workshop in Birmingham for BDSM activities that normally need outdoor space. When Bridgewood closes for the winter, this is a chance to carry on doing things indoors :) http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/313918/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/313918/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:00:56 GMT I saw Troll Hunter on Friday and thought it was pretty good :) Suspenseful in the woodland hunting scenes and funny in other places. It's also a great advert for the dramatic scenery of Norway.... http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/313870/ http://www.tanos.org.uk/blog/313870/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:36:36 GMT @mia, @secretsmile_101 and I went to the first Fem Sub Social Club in Birmingham last night, and it turned out to be a very well run event with a great atmosphere. It was also our first visit to the amazing Exodus venue....