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!
Great choices, I wonder if that leather strap I “encountered” when I visited you came from Spankinc? If so, I can thoroughly recommend them too!
My New Year Resolution for 2008 is to finally make it to Coffee, Cake and Kink, wonder who I’ll find there… you two would be wonderful!
Have a fantastic holiday, you both deserve it, I look forward to reading all about Abel’s Birthday spanking which I’m sure Haron will be on the receiving end of… x x x
Yep, Sarah, that’s the strap
Glad you endorse it!
Happy holidays both
Thanks for leaving us some material to amuse us in your absence, will miss you enough as it is. Love the annual awards, always a great read. As for best blog, best spanking event, best naughty book and best kinky meeting place, I wholeheartedly agree with your choices! Although the rest of us might argue the case for SW as best blog too, I suspect!
Happy Birthday Abel and I hope you both have an amazing time on holiday. Xxx
Happy Birthday Abel,I just know you are going to enjoy your naughty forties!
Hope you both have a wonderful holiday.
H x
p.s. Hmmmm Malaysia,renowned for it’s rattan and bamboo! What a perfect choice for a holiday,can’t wait to read about your adventures. Enjoy!
Happyhappyhappy holidays to you both! Thank you ever so much for the award–I wish it was the sort I could tell everyone about! Have the most wonderful time on your holiday. Happy Christmas and Birthday and spankings! (I’m really ridiculously excited but must keep this short, as I’m a few days behind in my blog-visiting and this is the first I’ve seen of it, and must now gush to my husband, who with any luck will congratulate me with yet more to write about!)
~Abby