The Spanking Writers

The New Year has come; the festivities are wrapping up; the sugar rush is beginning to wear off. Thus it’s time for us to look back at the year that was.

Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you…

The inaugral Spanking Writers awards: our festive round-up of our personal 2006 favourites.

Spanking Novel of the Year. Easy, that. Fiona Locke wins hands down – an appropriate position for a girl “Over The Knee”.

Spanking Video of the Year. Perish the thought that we would ever watch pornographic filth. If we did, we’d undoubtedly vote for “Trouble in Carson’s Gap” by Spanking Epics: a tale of country sherrifs, fake nuns and previous lives. With lots of spanking, naturally.

Hot Mainstream DVD of the Year. V for Vendetta. No actual spanking scene, but lots of hot kinky overtones.

Spanko Shop of the Year. Ooooo, a tough one… but the marvellous Coco de Mer is always such a pleasure, and Haron’s new handcuffs are just so lovely.

Abel’s Award for Haron’s Post of the Year. A Licking For a Licking.

Haron’s Award for Abel’s Post of the Year. The 19th Century Blogger.

Spanko Event of the Year. Well, we didn’t get to go to all of them (hey, invitations always welcome!) but of the ones we did attend, Lord Fawcett’s Regency House Party wins by a mile. (Fantastic organisation, and one of the most special weekends of our lives. One of our fellow guests wrote a great report of the event in Captain Farthingdale’s Diary. Note: it’s quite explicit, and therefore is not for the easily shocked.)

Most Spankable Celebrity of the Year. In our minds Billie Piper has overshadowed them all.

Spanking Blog of the Year. A tough one, this, as blogs vary so much. We have to go with My Bottom Smarts.

Spanking Forum of the Year. Spanking Facts and Research – a gold mine of spanking-related information you didn’t know you wanted to find out.

Spanking Site of the Year. For beautiful design, nothing can rival Niki Flynn’s new site. Just gorgeous, quite like Ms Flynn herself.

Erotic Site of the Year. As obsessed with spanking as we are, sometimes we peek into other areas of sexuality as well. On those occassions nothing gives us an erotic jolt quite like ErosBlog, with its exploration of humans as sexual beings.

So, this is it for the year. We hope you like our selection – and extend our thanks to those responsible for the winners, for bringing us so much pleasure in the past year.

Those of you in the UK may have caught the BBC’s fantastic New Year’s Day production of “Wind in the Willows”. Fortunately we had glasses of wine to hand when the main characters, plotting a raid to reclaim Toad Hall, armed themselves with staffs and raised a toast:

“To the proper handling of sticks!”

Needless to say, we joined in enthusiastically. As a motto for the year ahead, it seemed rather appropriate.

Haron had ‘enjoyed’ her first 2007 experience of the proper handling of rattan shortly after midnight. Rob made a wonderful suggestion in a comment in reply to my post about Haron’s Christmas day caning that we might bring the new year in with a dozen strokes, one per second counting down to the chime of Big Ben. We had company as midnight struck, and the TV pictures of the astonishing fireworks display on the Thames then kept us enraptured – but as soon as we were left to ourselves, we conducted our belated kinky celebration.

My young lady was told that she could choose her cane; she disappeared upstairs, returning with the longest, thickest, heaviest rod in the house – our Singapore rattan, bought more with curiosity than intent. Even the lightest stroke resulted in a spectacular response, and a delightful stripe; the twelfth and hardest engendered a yelp that the crowds in London could surely have heard 200+ miles away!

Here’s wishing all of you a joyful, healthy and prosperous 2007, filled with every kinky happiness.