Annoyingly, I've not worked out how to add to the vocabulary of my spellchecker on Windows, so it still doubts the existence of Suzee and wants her renamed at regular intervals. It also doubts the existence of doms and spankees, but happily accepts spankers.

I'm having far more fun with the e-mail equivalent though. The problem with this one is that it is American and wants to drop 'u' or change 's' to 'z' at regular intervals. It too doubted poor Suzee's existence, but happily took my word for her veracity. British spellings are slowly being added, as are rows of kisses of different lengths that I insist become part of its vocabulary.

There is a convention practiced among those who play out or take on power roles in the spankers' and BDSM world - that of Tops, Doms and Spankers being capitalised and bottoms, subs and spankees using lower case initials for our names. It's a convention I choose not to follow. So I was very amused when my delightful e-mail pedant 'corrected' my typo and suggested that suzee should have been Suzee!

It even accepts a few of my most-used Welsh words without tantrum. 'Cariad' the lovely Welsh word for 'Beloved' and 'Nos Da' (Good night) along with bratting and spanko are now considered proper words according to my American speaking, but spank- and Welsh-friendly guardian of the written word. I wonder if it knows about anorak...

All I have to do now is get to grips with my other spell checker