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 Mon, 14 May 2012 14:21:32 GMT Mon, 14 May 2012 14:21:32 GMT http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/330688/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/330688/ Mon, 14 May 2012 14:21:32 GMT This weekend I finished off some things at the wood and tidied up for the first Event Day next Saturday. As well as opening up the South Ride properly for the first time and hundreds of metres of fencing over winter, there are now lots of little improvements that will make things easier.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/330429/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/330429/ Tue, 08 May 2012 22:28:27 GMT "Territories" is a French/Canadian production, directed by Olivier Abbou. It's firmly planted in the torture porn tradition of Hostel I/II, with the ingredients of violence, captivity, nudity, and kidnapping served up in a dish that's quite BDSM. "Territories" goes beyond this with a political message, but also some great scenes if you're interested in bootcamps, harsh discipline outdoors, or orange jumpsuits.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/329678/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/329678/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:48:11 GMT Tonight I've posted the listings for the next The Warehouse event at Exodus in Birmingham on Informed Consent and on FetLife. I've also updated www.thewarehouse.org.uk to include the date, and it will be a good way of closing the Open Air season which finishes in October. http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328941/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328941/ Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:23:33 GMT I've updated the Open Air BDSM events list a couple of times this week, following the sad news that TrainerBryan is stepping down from running the North Downs Pony Club events in Kent for health reasons. The good news today is that SirIan is taking over the reins with the aim of going ahead with all the published dates. http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328879/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328879/ Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:14:29 GMT Gloria Brame has blogged about recent negative press attention for the Woodstocks open air venue in the US. Gloria's final paragraph is worth quoting: "Meanwhile, if you identify kinky, fight the past and look towards the future: no more harassment of BDSM clubs and spaces!! You have LEGAL resources to combat hate crimes these days. USE THEM." http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328566/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328566/ Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:04:41 GMT Yesterday was the second The Warehouse event, at Exodus in Birmingham. We had another great afternoon of BDSM that normally needs outdoor space, with an emphasis on pony carting and pet play. ... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328146/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/328146/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:47:20 GMT This weekend I've been doing more preparation work for the Bridgewood event days this summer, and for The Warehouse at Exodus next Saturday.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/327731/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/327731/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:29:21 GMT Over the winter I've been clearing the South Ride and doing the fencing work I mentioned last month. This picture taken yesterday shows one of the straight stretches of the ride. Previously there was a thicket of hazel bushes in the middle distance of this view, which forced the path down to single file. ... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/327429/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/327429/ Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:42:27 GMT This week @mia, @secretsmile_101 and I had a trip to Birmingham to see friends, to try out a newly modified pony cart, and to make some preparations for The Warehouse event at Exodus next month. ... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326962/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326962/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:49:52 GMT With just under four weeks to The Warehouse on Saturday 7th April, I've added a provisional timetable on the event thread on IC, with a request for comments and more ideas. It now includes sprint and distance pony cart races, plus a show/parade of puppies, kittens, and ponies. http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326606/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326606/ Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:41:43 GMT One tricky thing that's being preying on my mind since I bought Bridgewood has been the state of the gate into the wood. It's a wooden field gate of the type that are common in the country, but the gatepost has settled and leant over causing the gate to catch on the ground.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326116/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326116/ Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:59:51 GMT This month most of my work at Bridgewood has been repairing and putting up fencing. Traditionally, rural fencing is there to stop livestock crossing boundaries, but at Bridgewood there are a few extra dimensions.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326009/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/326009/ Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:32:31 GMT I've created some versions of the Pony Pride Flag which I'm distributing under a Creative Commons license so you can download and use them yourself. I started with an SVG version, and then made several fixed-size PNG images.... http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/325604/ http://www.bridgewood.org.uk/blog/325604/ Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:29:02 GMT The ball and chain is an iconic tool of captivity, and I've been making a couple as you can see in the picture, mainly for use at Bridgewood. The shackles are Darby style leg cuffs from KUB, but I've adapted the iron balls from off-the-shelf iron gate components. The balls are 5 inches in diameter and weigh about 7kg each which is something mia can carry for a bit but not wander around where she feels like with (we felt the weight of them in the shop), and cost less than .10 each. ... 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.