Right, time for our second Annual Awards, recognising the highlights of our spanko world.

Best spanking implement provider. An easy one, this. Back in the summer, we purchased a selection of implements from Spankinc. They really are quite superb: beautifully made, fabulous to use and very effective indeed. Given the size of our implement collection, it takes a lot to impress us, and we were duly impressed.

Best spanking blog. Joint winners here. The Lowewood Academy blog, with daily posts on school life, regularly contains great writing. (Note: we may be biased, as we contribute to Lowewood!). And the wonderful Little Red Schoolhouse is always a delight to read.

Best bookstore. We adore Barter Books, the huge bookstore in Alnwick. It regularly proves to be a treasure-trove of books providing kinky inspiration. (Hey, should we be telling you this? If you all dash to the education section, please leave something behind for us).

Best spanking book. We’ve recently discovered the wonderful Curious Pleasures: A Gentleman’s Collection of Beastliness by the “Rev’d Dr Erasmus St Jude Croom DD”. Perhaps the most convincing category winner of all: we’ll doubtless post a few snippets here when we get time, but in the meantime, do get on and buy it for Christmas for friends!

Best spanking scene we’ve played. Our Easter birching scene, so wonderfully recounted by our dear friend Martha.

Best spanking event. We were fortunate to be invited back to Lord Fawcett’s weekend House Party, which took place last month. Wearing regency costumes, staying in character all weekend, surrounded by dear friends, wonderfully organised. A privilege to attend – and, as with our 2006 awards, undeniably our ‘event of the year’.

Best kinky place. No contest: London’s wonderful Coffee, Cake and Kink. Our favourite haunt for meeting like-minded friends. And, it seems, friends we’d previously thought to be vanilla…

We hope you like our selection – and congratulations to the winners!

Meanwhile, we’re heading off on holiday, visiting Malaysia to celebrate Abel’s fortieth birthday. We’ve lined up a pile of posts, and hope to be online pretty regularly to write more – but we’re not sure quite what we’ll have by way of web access.

In the meantime, do excuse any slight delays in responding to or moderating comments!

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