Bridgewood Blog en http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/all/ © 2012 Tanos@tanos.org.uk The IC RSS Gadget admin@informedconsent.co.uk (Admin) 360 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:22:45 GMT Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:22:45 GMT http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/324676/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/324676/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:22:45 GMT Walkers are frames that allow horses to exercise by themselves in a circle. For horse owners, they reduce the amount of supervision required, and like a lot of equestrian equipment the idea can be adapted to BDSM. Horses spend their whole lives in some form of bondage or captivity if you think about it :) You do see horse walkers appear in pony play contexts now and then: there was one at the old Deferre woodland in Devon, and a couple of Insex scenes had them made out of some of PD's scaffolding. So it's something I'd had at the back of my mind for a while when at the end of last year @mia had a dream about being in one. ... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/324520/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/324520/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:31:19 GMT I came across this striking series of pony girl photos by Razoomovsky tonight. Rather than just go for the glossy latex look or take raw pictures of actual pony play, he's used the post processing to create narrative images of world with working pony girls. http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/324387/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/324387/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:38:12 GMT I've now put online a first version of my pony play history page. This deals with some of the myths (like Aristotle - that one is just a medieval story) and then the 20th Century transition from 1930s pony play fiction through to the real-life pony play scene that has now emerged. http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/323298/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/323298/ Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:07:13 GMT I made a few changes to the Bridgewood Blog last night, to include older posts about Open Air BDSM as well as Bridgewood itself and to put more of the posts on the main page of the site. I'm planning to continue with more OAB posts as well as the Bridgewood updates to make it more of an open air news site. You can also follow the blog via ukBridgewood on Twitter. http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/321847/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/321847/ Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:05:50 GMT In this end of year podcast, mia and I talk about some new BDSM events of 2011, and Open Air BDSM including Bridgewood and The Warehouse.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/320792/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/320792/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:03:46 GMT I've updated the Open Air BDSM events list with the Bridgewood dates for 2012. Next year we're going to be on the third Saturday of the month. This is usually the day before the BBB in Birmingham. http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/320088/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/320088/ Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:15:30 GMT Thank you so much, every one who came and made The Warehouse such a great event! We had 60 people through the door plus about half a dozen more who were helping to run the event and also participated. I counted 12 pony carts, and so this was one of the biggest pony play events ever in the UK.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/319907/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/319907/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:15:14 GMT First cart rebuilt. Second cart built. Handouts printed. Signs made. Gear packed. Box of stuff filled. Suitcase packed. Memos sent. Lots of people coming tomorrow! http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/317269/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/317269/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:58:51 GMT With the Open Air season coming to a close, I've been doing some forestry work at Bridgewood. The first thing has been to start opening up the south ride (trackway) more. This route has been marked out since 2008 and I've been mowing it during the summer for the last couple of years. However it's still a lot narrower in places than the Middle and North Rides: some ducking under branches and stepping through gaps between bushes is necessary.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/316940/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/316940/ Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:29:47 GMT I got hold of one of the official registrations of Bridgewood today, and it includes the area. I'd done this myself using my own GPS mapping in the past and got 19 acres, but I'd just put a straight line for one of the boundaries that has lots of kinks. When they calculate it properly, it's really 20 acres! So, Bridgewood: bigger and kinkier than I'd thought :)... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/315601/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/315601/ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:13:17 GMT We'd been planning October's event day on Saturday as end of season special for a couple of months now. Given the usual October weather, we tried to think of activities good for keeping warm :) This week's heatwave made all that a bit academic, but we had a great time.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/315268/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/315268/ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:34:33 GMT Last month @mia and I went to the GLLA ("Great Lakes Leather Alliance") weekend in Indianapolis after our week in New York. GLLA is one of several regional leather conventions across that have M/s contests, and I blogged about this part last time. Now I'm going to write a bit about the workshops.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/315030/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/315030/ Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:44:24 GMT Last month I installed a wood burning stove in the Log Cabin at Bridgewood, and mia used it for cooking and making tea at September's event day. I also put a shelf in for bags, with a small bookcase on the wall above it near the noticeboard. Yesterday, I finished the "utility" corner of the cabin by fitting a kitchen sink. ... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/314352/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/314352/ Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:17:15 GMT I've started a thread on IC about this afternoon peer workshop in Birmingham for BDSM activities that normally need outdoor space. When Bridgewood closes for the winter, this is a chance to carry on doing things indoors :) http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/313001/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/313001/ Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:28:02 GMT Earlier this month I installed this wood-burning stove in the Log Cabin at Bridgewood. It will help now we're getting later in the open air season, especially to heat the cabin in the evening, and this weekend mia boiled a kettle for tea, and then later on cooked a lovely risotto on it! ... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/311491/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/311491/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:48:41 GMT This month's event day turned out well despite the forecast. We managed to dodge the rain during Saturday daytime, so we only had it overnight on Friday and Sunday morning. I've blogged already about the new suspension frame and whipping post, and we had several net suspensions happening during the weekend. The Holding Pen was also back in service now the fallen branch is cleared away.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/310512/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/310512/ Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:49:49 GMT mia and I spent the weekend at Bridgewood, preparing for the August event day next weekend. I mowed the grassed rides and mia pulled the weeds out of the edge of the Holding Pen which is back in action after a big fallen branch stopped us using it. Then we tested a couple of new pieces of equipment I've made for the Glade.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/308418/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/308418/ Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:59:58 GMT We had another great event day at Bridgewood yesterday. We had solidly good weather for both days of the weekend, and the usual mixture of socialising and people going off to play in the woods. One of the best things about these days is the way everyone contributes to the atmosphere (and often to the food spread across the tables!) This month people were using the space in the Glade to show off everything from devil sticks and firebreathing to single-tails and rope work.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/307925/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/307925/ Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:19:12 GMT Last week I posted about the Arch Bench I've been building for Bridgewood and today (Sunday), I installed it as you can see in the picture.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/307698/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/307698/ Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:45:51 GMT I've been thinking more about pony play again recently and reading some of the great blogs that are out there. I'm going to share a few links in this post, and I'd be grateful for any more that you know of....