Matron's School Uniform Inspection Enforced by her Leather Paddle Discipline

I'm off to London Zoo in a moment with the kids (the cost is positively ruinous - but the cost of not doing so is even more so, albeit only in terms of my deteriorating mental health!). Meanwhile here are a couple of pics I came across while doing my scanning a while back and that I think open up all sorts of imaginative pathways in terms of story construction - have a go and see what you can come up with. The continuation of that knicker inspection spanking / caning set, that I mentioned last time, will have to wait until tomorrow or Thursday as it would take me longer than I have time to spare to load up the pics right now - sorry!

INSTITUTIONALISED 2: A new Title and Blurb / Description

Thanks to all those who wished me happy birthday by text and email. Yesterday went well in Camden - although the pub was in actuality called 'The Ice Wharf' not 'The Ice House' as I mistakenly wrote last time. I managed to get all three of my daughters together in the same place for the first time; all a bit emotional all round, especially as my eldest had never before met my youngest! I do feel a bit 'weird today, though. so yes, I probably will have yet another hair of the dog day - one last time... perhaps I'll get some stuff down on paper as well though, for the first time in ages. I have been at least a little productive today - I have just made some changes to the extended version of the INSTITUTIONALISED volume 2 title and subtitle as it appears on Lulu. This to make it more visible to those search engines that mainly analyse the title - such as lulu's. I also took the opportunity to rewrite the blurb or book description as it appears on the Lulu site page for similar reasons - hopefully, indirectly this will make INSTITUTIONALISED volume 1 more visible also! Volume 1 is piratically invisible to Google at present so gets few hits.

The Title:

INSTITUTIONALISED 2: Spanking, Caning & Humiliation, Confined in the Workhouse: Being an account of the imposition of strict discipline, humiliating uniforms, the cane, tawse and martinet on a group of young ladies in a Long-term Residential Clinical study

The Blurb or Book Description on Lulu:

Two young women - each coincidentally having an inheritance at stake and a grasping, manipulative stepmother holding the purse-strings - have been talked, cajoled and manipulated into joining a privately financed, residential medical research project. Initially signing up for 3 months, isolated within a secure hospital psychiatric wing in a world of petty rules, straightjacket's, bedpans, plastic knickers, diapers, restrictive school uniforms and drab prison dresses, each has now served that term several times over; one bristling under a strict boarding-school regime, the other under prison discipline. Overseen by strict nurses, a stern, cane wielding hospital matron & a female psychiatrist, manipulating her young charges by the deliberate induction of phobias, each has been browbeaten into extending her stay. Elsewhere a girl awakens, ostensibly following a car crash – by why is she restrained behind bars on a locked ward? Why does she recall the sting of the tawse, not the twisting of metal?

Later (or tomorrow) I'll post up the second part of that old gymslip spanking picture series I have scanned in and presented a few postings ago - for original posting click HERE.

A Victor Bruno Caning - and my Birthday (week?) Continues

Hi Chaps and chapesses; Tomorrow from around 12:00 I shall be in 'The IceHouse' Camden Town, by the Canal - inside if its raining (which obviously it will be - being Britain and all and being summer!) - come chat if you see me - don't be a stranger!. Now for the origin of that pic (see top left) from last time - yes its good old Victor Bruno and the first of his books that I ever bought. I got it from the Janus shop in Old Compton Street, Soho, here in London, I think around 1984 or 1983. Later the shop got raided by the police (several times in fact) and they took all of the Victor Bruno spanking / caning books away - finally the shop stopped stocking them and the only way to buy them was by mail order from some place based on the Isle of Wight which apparently was OK as far as plod (a familial term for police) was concerned - go figure. Called Olimpia Books that company still exists on the web - try Google for details (they don't run an affiliate program so bollocks to them!).

Some Good News about 'The Institute'

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I have just received an email regarding 'The Institute' (a great institutionalised bondage, medical restraint and chastity-device site, for those that don't know) from the guy that runs it saying that "[The Institute has] moved to [its] own web space as the provider of the previous server had his sites closed without warning...". As always, just click on the site name to visit or check the link in the resource list in the sidebar over on the right. As for yours truly - I'm off for a 'hair of the dog' - first in The George in Enfield and then to The Jolly Butchers in Baker Street / Silver Street, Enfield; such exotic locations!

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By the way; today's pic has nothing whatsoever to do with this posting - I just like it - but do you know where it came from?

The Sad Demise of 'The Institute’: Links Removed

Sadly I have had to remove all links (including those leading to the reviews of – and snippets from - INSTITUTIONALISED volumes 1 and 2) to ‘The Institute’ as this excellent little site - that featured all sorts of institutionalised, medical and psychiatric bondage and was quite wonderful in its way - seems to have disappeared from the face of web-world. It will be sadly missed, I’m sure, but if by some miracle it does still exist in some form, please let me know. Also please let me know if you encounter any other broken links. On a more positive tack - I have just added a new blog to the blog list in the sidebar - over on the right - for you to check out: Thirst for BDSM Knowledge (just click to view).

A New PicasaWeb Album, a Couple of Spanking Magazine Covers and a New Scanned Caning Photoset Series Starts

Hi, folks! It's my birthday tomorrow and I'll be in the 'The Tyburn' (JD Wetherspoons, of course) which can be found at:

18 Edgware Rd Marble Arch London W2, just in case anyone is around in the area.

I'm aiming to arrive sometime around 14:30 - 15:00, although I may be earlier. My main celebration will be on Sunday though - see last posting for details.

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Now for an update. I have just started a new PicasaWeb album for high street shop girl uniforms (to be found in the women's work-wear section of the sidebar). There's not much in it yet - just a few Marks and Spencers uniforms from the 1980s and 1990s and a Tescos uniform from 2006 - but I will be expanding gradually over time. I have also added a couple of covers and a bit of artwork to the Spanking magazine covers album (also to be found in the side bar). I doubt many folk will have come across these before, so I have included them above. These both date back to the mid 1990s or thereabouts and were rather rough-hewn and basic but nevertheless had their moments - for example the delightful summer uniform dress depicted on the cover of 'The governess' taken together with the young lady's contrite and submissive posture tells a story all of its own: a thousand words indeed. Even the 'Uniform Journal' had its redeeming features - the art work may have been a little rough and ready at times but could also on occasion capture the very essence of the exploitative possibilities inherent in the imposition of a strict disciplinary regime and strict uniform on a vulnerable young woman in the hands of an unscrupulous guardian or other disciplinarian (see right). Note the juxtaposition of the basically childish nature of the gymslip and the rigidly high-buttoned collar and firmly knotted school tie with the closeness of fit around the obviously mature bust-line, the sexually suggestive short skirt flaring over maturely curving broad hips, the tightly cinched waist, not to mention the rose-red blush of embarrassment and humiliation painting her cheeks - delicious, quite delicious!

Now; here is a photo-set I have recently scanned from my collection that I am betting few will have seen before and that, together with the story that went with them, triggered many of the ideas that I have since incorporated into the INSTITUTIONALISED series when I first came across them in the mid 1980s. I will reveal their origin at the end of the series, which I shall probably split into two or three parts, to give a chance to anyone who thinks he (or she) might know the source.
Not my favorite style of gymslip, it must be said, but great school knickers - how school knickers should look - suitably voluminous, yet elastic enough to ensure a nice, tight close and intimate fit. First we have the discipline of the uniform inspection, then those knickers come down and we get to see just how voluminous they relay are despite their elasticity - such beautifully ugly knickers - how galling for a young woman of her age to be obliged to wear such humiliating and belittling under-garments . Finally we are privileged to witness the humiliation of the gusset inspection - and those intimate blemishes marring the snow-white absorbent double gusset have a tale to tell; a tale undoubtedly deserving of a few strokes of her governess's cane (just click to enlarge)... to be continued (if you like it, let me know). Meanwhile work on volume 3 and the 'in between and back-story' volume (particularly the latter) continues apace - I hope to get a bit more written in the pub tomorrow!

New Front and Rear Covers for Volume 2 and a New 'Judith' Post

The consensus of opinion, both posted as comments and as emails, as to the preferred version of the new cover design for volume 2 seems clearly to indicate the third version (version C - see last post) and accordingly I have changed the both the image in the sidebar (see right) and the cover pic presented on Lulu. I have gone one stage further in that I have uncluttered the design by removing the cane images that bracketed the titles. I have also taken the opportunity to subtly redesigned the rear cover (see above right), although I have yet to get the colour correctly matched to that of the front and so I have not yet changed it on Lulu - many thanks go out to all those who expressed their opinion!

On another tack: Those of you that remember and appreciate the fascinating semi-anonymously posted saga of Judith and the strict disciplinary regime imposed over her by her aunt, that has graced this blog from time to time, might like to know that another instalment has been posted by Judith herself as a comment on Aussie School Uniform Summer Dresses, Soap Operas and Inspiration (Just click to read). Ordinarily I would re-post such a contribution in a proof read and edited form as a full-blown update as contributions posted as comments are so easily overlooked. However in this case, due to its length I thought it best to leave it as a comment but flag it up in this manner. It makes for interesting reading nonetheless but I can't help wondering if the young lady's aunt is not 'missing a trick' here, when putting the girl to work in what amounts to domestic service, in not considering perusing charity and second-hand shops for old shop-assistant uniforms - what could be more apt than a shop-girl uniform from a bygone age, either as it comes or, if accessorised with a suitable apron or tabard and a cap, as the basis for a domestic uniform of her own design. I have some experience of putting together an outfit in such a manner for a young lady living under a not dissimilar regimen in any case, but was recently inspired to this way of thinking having come across this old photograph (see right) of Marks and Spencer's staff from many years ago (the first dress chosen for the girl I refer to above was in fact and old Marks and Spence's uniform, albeit one from the 1980s, donated by a friend of my wife of the time for the purpose - a most practical solution for work around the house, especially when teamed with a transparent plastic bib apron). The 1980s uniform, along with other shop-girl uniforms, I will feature as part of my Picasaweb album collection in due course (I shall shortly be expanding my albums).

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Meanwhile: It is my birthday on Thursday and although I am not sure what I will be doing on the day yet I can tell you that on Sunday 19th July (this coming Sunday) I shall be in (or just outside) the Camden Town Weatherspoons branch (LLoyds No 1 Bar) known as 'The Ice House' and positioned on the canal side (I'll put up the full address later) from around 13:00 - all are invited and I am easy to spot, so come and have a chat if you are in London.