Recap: Spanko Brunch 2.0 for October 26

Do your spankings include warm-ups?

Norse Cavalier: All of the spankings I give include warm-up. The spankee can take a far harder spanking with a good warm-up first. For new spankees, it will make their first spanking far less scary. And for punishment spankings, it lets me pull out the heavier implements.

Roz: I would say a warm-up is included in all spankings as they tend to start less intense and slowly build up from there. The intensity often also varies during the spanking, to keep me guessing and on my toes.

Rosco: Well, yes and no. Irene is whimsical, not methodical. She likes to make it hurt (she confesses), but only to a certain degree. I’ve explained that the bottom absorbs spankings differently after a warm up and she understands that in her head but doesn’t fully get it.

So some spankings begin with decided enthusiasm, I.e. no warm up. But she’ll back off when I react with extreme kicking of the legs - I try not to yell.

As spankees know, it’s especially intense when one’s bottom is cold - e.g. if you’ve been out on a winter’s day before said spanking. Those whacks just hurt - it’s harder to savor the experience.

Glenmore: Nope! She gets right down to business.

Jack: If you mean getting a spanking then having to stand in the corner, knowing the spanking is not over, that could be a warm up. 

Bonnie: Sometimes I get a warm-up. Other times, Randy prefers full power from the first swat. As shocking as the latter approach is, I can accept a longer, harder spanking if it is preceded by a warm-up. He knows this, so that warm-up is not necessarily a kindness.

A fast and furious start feels like corporal punishment and puts me in that familiar headspace. I love to be the bad girl across his lap receiving correction for my most recent transgression.

A more gradual build up feels more like play, even if it doesn't conclude that way. In this case, I am well aware that spankings are supposed to hurt and they always do. But I get to wonder what's next.     

Wendel: No warm-up here. It is a good spanking from start to finish. 

Barrel: It depends. If we are using a spanking as a prelude to intimacy, most often she starts slower and with a smaller count, pauses and then the next sets are more intense and with a higher quantity. I usually get two to four sets with whatever implement she wants to use.
If we have a planned session, there is no warm-up, other than some caressing of my white, unblemished skin...a blank canvas, she likes to say. Then the implements come into play and we are off. As everyone knows, a hard thrashing right from the beginning is nasty, and a cold caning is the worst, but if that is what she has planned, I can only endure.  

Predfectdt: It depends on what you define as a warm-up. With most things I can go straight into proper play now, unlike when I was younger. But with harsher toys, like a rattan cane, for example, It is better if they are not the first thing out of the box. So it can be supposed that the other spanking toys used before that are a sort of a warm-up for the hard stuff. A cold caning is hard to take. Other than that, if the other participant is a first time or inexperienced spanker, then I might encourage them to start easy and work on their accuracy first and their intensity of stroke, once they have mastered a good aim. So that kind of play can have a sort of calmer start to it. 

Dan: No, Anne is pretty binary in her spanking approach. From the first swat, it's hard and at a deliberate, fairly fast pace.

Anon: Always!!! When on either side of the lap.
I don’t give/believe in punishment spankings, and certainly would not accept one (although, at certain times the Grande Finale! has been a little “vigorous”, if you know what I mean. Often “ memorable”.)

All is a prelude to ‘intimacy.’

Hermione: Not an actual warm-up. but Ron always starts off with a pretty mild implement, then moves on to the more severe ones. 

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Spanko Brunch 2.0 #614

Hello and welcome! Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable. It's always great to see you. I hope you will find today's discussion both interesting and enlightening. This week I was contemplating the role that warm-ups play. By that I mean spankings that are lighter, meant as a preparation for the main event.

Do your spankings include warm-ups? Are they used regularly or only under certain circumstances? What purpose do they serve for you and your partner?

Leave your response as a comment, and once everyone has had a chance to speak, I will publish a summary of our discussion.

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A Canadian Tradition

Last week I wrote about a baking mishap involving butter tart squares. Donn asked if I would post the recipe, so here it is.

Butter Tart Squares

½ cup butter
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
¼ cup butter, melted
2 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup raisins

Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC). Lightly grease and line an 8” x 8” (2L) baking dish with parchment paper*, letting paper hang slightly over two sides of pan to use as handles for easy removal of squares.

To Make Base: In a small mixer bowl, cream together 1/2 cup butter or margarine and confectioners' sugar. Blend in flour. Pat into pan. Bake in preheated oven for 5 minutes.

To Make Filling: In a large bowl combine brown sugar, melted butter or margarine, beaten eggs, vinegar, vanilla, and raisins. Pour over base and bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, until set. 

* A tip I learned from Jamie Oliver: Take the sheet of parchment paper and crumple it into a ball. Then smooth it out and line the pan with it. The crumpling will make the paper press into the corners easily. 

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Recap: Spanko Brunch 2.0 for October 19

What happens when you are interrupted?

Barrel: So far, we have never been interrupted, thank goodness. We have been delayed due to stuff, which is frustrating, but always made up for when the coast is clear. Being retired, we have lots of time to plan and schedule what sounds good at the time.

Jack: My wife/mommy does not care if someone drops in, normally her mother, or one of her friends. If I’m get a spanking it continues and does not matter if I’m naked or not, the spanking continues.

Wendel: When we have family over for dinner I will paddle the Misses just before they arrive. It is fun to watch her cautiously move about due to the sore bottom. There has been the occasion when a family member arrives a little early and the paddling has to stop.
Luckily there has never been an interruption when we spank each other outdoors. 

Roz: There has been a knock on the door either just before we were about to start or during on the rare occasion. We dealt with the interruption. I can't remember now whether we were then put off continuing or not but I suspect we probably were. Or at least I would have been.   

Glenmore: We had a couple of occasions when someone interrupted a spanking , both because we neglected to lock the front or bedroom door.

The first one was our 4 year old who came into our bedroom as I was bent over the bed awaiting the paddle which we quickly aborted.

The second one was when our friend and neighbour came in the house while we were in the bedroom in the middle of a hairbrush spanking. When we heard her we quickly stopped and my wife went to talk to her while I got dressed and I'm sure my face was as red as my butt when I joined them. Our friend didn't say anything but she had a wry smile on her face so she heard enough to know what was happening.

We have also had telephone calls in the middle of a spanking and one my wife did pick up as she knew it was her Mom calling to make sure we got home safely during a storm. It was pretty humiliating lying over her lap with a red butt while they chatted for a few minutes and then she picked up where she left off!

There were a couple of times where the doorbell rang but the door was locked so we just ignored it.

Prefectdt: In all of the years of playing I can only recall three interruptions. The first was during a pay to play, when someone came hammering at the door of the location. The caning, that I was getting at the time, stopped and we both just stayed, silently, where we were until the person went away and then play resumed.

The second time happened with another amateur enthusiast, who had an apartment in a converted house, where she thought that all of her neighbours would be at work in the day time. One was not and came to see what the noise was about. The lights got turned off and we pretended not to be there for about 90 minutes. Until it was deemed safe for me to leave, quickly and quietly.

The last time was in another pay to play, in the red light district of Antwerp. I was on the receiving end of a very pleasant, multiple toy whooping, when there was a tapping at the curtained window. The other person present went to see what was up. It turned out that at the end of her day there, she would always walk home with another window occupant, who had turned up a little earlier than she expected. I was asked if I minded if she came in and waited whilst my session was finished. I was away with the fairies by then and did not care at all about anything, and so gave my permission. The third person present seemed totally unaffected by what was being done to me and just sat on a stool, facing away from us, concentrating on her phone. 

Anon: I think you overlooked an option. Once upon a time a short while ago, it was determined that I'd been naughty and needed punishment. My then-boyfriend (now husband) began by putting me over his knee for a bare-bottomed hand spanking. Then he bent me over the kitchen table for a session with his leather belt. About ten lashes into it, my cat jumped up on the table and got in the way. I had to get up and lock Kitty in the bathroom. When I re-assumed my position, my love resumed my leather lesson, but was unhappy that my bottom had cooled off and wasn't as bright red. He lit into me harder and faster than before, really brought me to a fevered pitch. It felt like he belt-whipped me twice as hard and three times as fast compared with before. This was a unique situation, and it got us both super excited. So, to quote Hermione, "nudge, nudge, wink, wink." You all know what ensued right away afterward...

FL: Not interrupted exactly but on one occasion I was over her knee on the bed getting a good spanking when the phone rang. She stopped what she was doing and answered it calmly, while I remained laying across her lap. She chatted with her friend for a couple of minutes, then handed me the phone, to answer a question the friend had regarding a computer issue. It was incredibly awkward and a massive turn-on at the same time.

Ronnie: Yes there have been a few interruptions over the years. Some we have ignored and then carried on. One time a knock at the door became persistent, we stopped and I wentdown stairs. It was our neighbour (said she thought we must be in as our car was on the drive) she needed help so P went to help. Needless to say we didn’t resume my spanking that day.    

Hermione: We have had an interruption just before beginning. A neighbour came by to give us a small gift for taking in their mail while they were away. We did carry on after, but without a "happy ending" as the disturbance put us off.

Ron always deactivates our landline so no phone calls will interrupt us, and puts on the television for the dogs. On a couple of occasions a dog has stopped us by wailing that it was time for us to get him out of his crate, and that put an end to any spanking. 

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Spanko Brunch 2.0 #613

The weather is turning cooler here in Canada, but it's warm and toasty here at our weekly brunch, so let's get started on this week's topic. Here's a repost of the brunch we enjoyed 11 years ago.

Sometimes our spankings don't always go exactly as planned. Don't you hate it when that happens?

Are your spankings sometimes interrupted by external events? If so, what do you do? 

1. Ignore the interruption and carry on
2. Stop, deal with the interruption, then continue where you left off
3. Abandon the spanking or postpone it until a better time
4. It depends

Leave your response as a comment, and once everyone has had a chance to contribute, I will publish a summary of our discussion.

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A Baking FAIL (sort of)

 

 

We were expecting company for Thanksgiving last Monday, and our guests always enjoy my butter tart squares. Traditional Canadian butter tarts (pictured above) are a favourite of ours, but I prefer to make butter tart squares.

The taste is the same, but I skip the trouble of rolling out pastry, and make then in a cake pan with a sweet crumb base and a topping of butter, sugar, flour and raisins. So the squares were made, baked and sampled the day before. Yummy!

But the next morning, while Ron was preparing to make scrambled eggs in the microwave, he opened the door to the appliance and found a measuring cup full of congealed butter. Oops! I had measured out the butter (1 1/2 sticks) and put it in the microwave to melt, then had completely forgotten about it. It hadn't mattered to the flavour and we had not noticed anything wrong with the sweets the day before. 

Our guests enjoyed the goodies and we didn't mention the omission, but now Ron refers to them as 'tart squares' because there is no butter in them :) 

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Recap: Spanko Brunch 2.0 for October 12

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian readers. Do the seasons affect your spanking activities, and if so, how?

Bonnie: As winter approaches, we use our spanking bench less frequently. It's located in the basement and it's cold down there.

Wendel: Outdoor spanking is always affected by the weather. Getting paddled in the pouring rain is fun and the sting of the paddle on a wet bottom is incredible. As for the cold, the whack of a paddle or belt hurts like hell and the marks come quickly and last a lot longer.
When we spank inside the temperature outside does not really matter thanks to air conditioning and heaters. 

Roz: I always get more paranoid about being heard during the summer with neighbours being outside more and having doors and windows open.

Rosco: Well, we turned the furnace on before our “date” yesterday.

It’s been awhile since our last endeavor outside. Occasionally we would find a switch walking in the woods, but we were always pretty careful to make sure no one was around. We did once have a memorable time on a raft at the bottom of the Grand Canyon after letting the rest of our group float well downstream.

Prefectdt: Often, when playing with a fellow amateur enthusiast, neither of us can play at our own residencies. Which means that we have to find a noise friendly place to rent. This is hard to do, outside of the tourist season. So winter usually means pay to play encounters only.

Barrel: Yes, as it gets cooler, sessions in the unheated garage, while immobilized on the suspension rack require slight adjustments. I am cold while being secured but warm up quickly as the thrashing begins. My wife may not dress for the occasion and remain fully dressed to stay warm. We do have restraint capabilities in-doors, so we find ways to have our sessions.

Anon: In general, I prefer summer over other seasons. I like wearing few clothes, if any, around the house. After we first got married, my husband decided that I shouldn't wear a thong bikini in public any longer. My bottom was not to be tanned by the sun, only by him. I preferred to be spanked in the summer, too. But a couple years ago we took several drives to see the fall colors change in the trees. We went north to Michigan at its peak transition; white birches with canopies vivid reds, oranges, and yellows. I coaxed hubby to get out of the car and spank my bared bum over the bumper; white buttocks turning vivid red. Of course, we had to make love right there afterward. So turned on, so afraid of being discovered! Needless to say, now autumn is my favorite time of year. We have another car trip north planned soon.  

FL: I've always regarded spanking as an "indoor sport" and with central heat and air, the seasons matter little.

Hermione: I'm with FL on this one. We do not spank outdoors, so the weather has little to do with when or how we do it. The furnace is on now, and it's toasty warm.      

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