Sunday Blog Stuff Roundup With More Stuff Than Can Fit Into This Title and Parking Fail

A spanko on the move

Panty Spanking  has moved, the new address is http://pantyspanking.blogspot.com.

Moving a blog

The Official Spanking Online Blog has not posted in many months. it is hard to think that such a prolific blog has shut up shop and so it is being moved to the dormant blogs page, until it has become clear what has happened here.

What has happened to Elder Lee?

I missed the last post on this blog but it has disappeared. Does anyone know what has happened to it?

Brunch moved this week

Bonnie’s  Sunday brunch is being hosted by Hermione this week. It can be found through this link Hermione’s Heart: MBS Spanko Brunch #300.

Cherry Red Guest posts

There have been some interesting guest posts and interviews on Cherry Red Report spanking blog recently. Including one from Pandora Blake and one from David Pierson.

Interesting interview

Amber ‘Pixie’ Wells  has taken part in a very interesting interview. You can read about it in this post Fractured Politics Interview or go directly to the interview though this link Fracturedpolitics.com – Critical theory about current events: Interview: Amber Pixie Wells.

And she has a license?

Honestly, I could park a bus in that space.

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Google Blogger Is F&%^c#*d Up Again And Thought For The Week

The morons at Blogger are being useless F’ups again

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I tried to leave the following comment at Hermione’s Heart, on this post Whatever Gets the Votes.

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Governments Pah! Who needs them. We have just celebrated a whole year without a government here in Belgium. It’s been brilliant, especially the stripping protests. Canada, just tell your politicians to go home and chill for a year. Every country should have an occasional break from these windbags.

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I tried to register the comment with the “Name/URL” option several times and also using the Anonymous option, using both of these I was redirected to the Google ID log in page every time. So I went to a couple of other Blogger blogs and tried commenting on them as well, same result. I would like to ask you readers if any of you are having the same problem or is my paranoia about being targeted by Google Blogger justified?

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Sorry to Google Blogger bloggers but I cannot comment on your blogs

As I am so peeved with those smegheads from Google that I refuse to use my Google ID to comment, I am afraid that I am unable to comment on your blogs until this situation is resolved.

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Thought For The Week

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This weeks TFTD may seem a little vanilla in flavour but it’s spankoness comes from it’s sources. And anyway, for vanillas or kinksters I just think that it is damn fine advice.

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If you no longer like what you are doing then stop doing it

Or change the way that you are doing it and see if that works

[sources - Lucy McLean and the second line is an add on from me]

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>Spanking Tube – A Couple Of Questions For Readers

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Question #1

Spanking Tube has changed it’s format recently and part of this format change has included some unasked for pop up windows for a live chat show website. I am not against websites making an honest buck but in my opinion unwanted pop ups are not acceptable on any site. I am very protective of the contents of my side bar links and would not have linked Spanking Tube there in the first place if the site had had this from the beginning. But this site is such an excellent resource for spanking clips that I am loathed to lose it as a link now. So my question is…..

Do you as a reader think that I should dump the link on ethical grounds or keep it, as this is just an annoyance on an otherwise great site?

Question #2

I have had trouble embedding clips from Spanking Tube on this blog before but the embedding seems to be working now, when I view it in the post preview. Taking into account that this is a scheduled post and I will be at work when it appears on the blog my second question is…..

Can you see this clip and is it playing OK?

http://www.spankingtube.com/media/player/player.swf?f=http://www.spankingtube.com/media/player/config_embed.php?vkey=8223

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and help on these matters.

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>A New Blog For The Rolls – The Return Of Purple Angel – The Huntress Domain? – A Forum Gone – And I Want To Watch This Show

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My apologies for the delay in this week’s roundup but as the old excuse say’s (that no Top that I have ever known has ever excepted), better late than never.

A New blog for the rolls

Chelsea’s Journal – I have tried to add this before but could not get a direct link, but now, the wonderfully hot, Chelsea Pfeiffer has moved her blog onto a WordPress base, a direct link is possible (dribbles).

An old cyber friend returns

Spankful delight – I thought that Purple Angel had given up on her blog but it turns out that she has been coping with some very serious problems. Welcome back and I hope things are on the up now.

What happened to The Huntress domain?

The blog and indeed the whole website of Cassie Hunter seems to have disappeared but the not found message say’s that the server and not the website is not there. So the question remains, Is Miss Hunter still out there, in cyberia? any information welcome.

The forum of Mitch, from All Things Spanking, has tuned out to be a no go and so will be removed from the list.

I want to see this show

Nathan Fillion has appeared on this blog before, asking for a spanking but an episode of his latest show, Castle, shows that his partner in crime solving has a kinky side too.

The Trailer

A snippet

When is this coming to Belgian TV?

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>The Catholic Ferula, Research And A Request For Further Information

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The Project

I want to do another in the Toys are born posting series. The aim is to recreate, as closely as possible, using modern materials, a ferula, as used to be used in Catholic schools in the UK and some other countries. In it’s most basic description, this sort of ferula was a piece of whale bone encased in leather. Obviously real whale bone cannot be used but hopefully I will be able to find a substitute that will be very similar.

How you may be able to help

Research as I might, I have not been able to find much about the actual details of what these implements where actually like. So if you have personal experience of these or have heard an account of someone with experience of a real ferula or have seen an old one in real life or even in a museum, please can you tell me what it looked and felt like. In particular I am looking for answers to the following questions -

1/ How thick was it?

2/ How flexible or not was it?

3/ What kind of leather was used (thick? thin? textured? smooth?)?

4/ How was the leather attached? e.g. Was it folded over and stitched on one side or did the stitching go all the way round?

5/ Does anyone have the web address of a site that has a picture of a real ferula?

This and any more information would be most welcome.

What I have found out so far

This is the only picture of a ferula that I have found so far, it is from M C Customs, but I think it is more of a Greek style ferula, stiff leather rather than having a hard “core” and so do not think that this is the same type of ferula that I want to make.

I have found two vague descriptions so far one from Excerpts From The Book :: Alfred Tolhurst – The Life and Times of a Victorian Entrepreneur that went

“The Jesuits were well known as great disciplinarians, punishment being swift and harsh but usually fair. The weapon used for this was called a ferula consisting of a flat piece of whalebone covered in leather some three inches wide and ten inches long”

and the other from Rhyme And Punishment – CBS News that went

“Our teachers were authorised to hit us with a nasty device called The Ferula. The Ferula is shaped like the sole of a shoe. It’s made of whalebone, covered in leather and – so, we always joked – was manufactured by the Sisters of Mercy.”

I have found many accounts of people receiving the ferula but very little by way of accurate descriptions. I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone could give me on my quest to make an accurate as possible ferula.

If anyone wants to read more about the ferula you can follow the links below
St Ignatius’ College – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caned Or Strapped/Tawsed On Hands? – Forums
Richard Milward – Telegraph
Goodbye, Mister Thwackum – Arts & Entertainment – The Independent

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>Help – Two Blogs For The Rolls – Beverly Bacci Retires – A Worthy Petition – And A Cute Kitten Trick

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Asking for a little help

Normally I would not ask for help with my vanilla blog but today there is a blog event going on there, Expat World Blogger Surf Day, this is a chain posting event and my vanilla blog does not get much traffic, so the blog that follows mine might suffer from not getting many hits from that link. The blog that I am linking to is A Flamingo In Utrecht, from an American lass living in the Netherlands. So if some of you would be kind enough to click into my vanilla blog BBE’s video snapshots and follow the link to A Flamingo In Utrecht, I would be very grateful for the effort in sending this lady a few numbers. You don’t have to read the posts if you don’t want to but you may find something interesting.

Two blogs for the rolls

All Things Kinky – This is a new blog from Mitch at All Things Spanking, exploring the kinky world outside of spanking.

Marks and Stripes – I thought that this blog had seen it’s last posting but I was wrong. Apple is back and her blog is once more alive and well. Welcome back Apple.

Beverly Bacci is retiring

Beverly Bacci has announced in this post Hello and Goodbye that she is retiring from the world of kinky modeling. She is IMHO one of the most photogenic models from across the pond and this is sad news for the video producers of the USA. Lets hope that Ms Bacci has great success with whatever she chooses to do.

A petition at Mistress Switch’s blog

MISTRESS SWITCH has from this post Petition, linked through to a petition that is calling for better controls of the UK press. Anyone resident in the UK or holding UK citizenship is entitled to sign it. I have signed it and I hope that others who are able to will sign it as well.

The cutest ever kitten flip

I have never seen a kitten do a trick like this before, it is so cute that I dare you to watch this clip and not say AH!

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