I heard discussion about this on the radio the other day "On Morecambe Bay", written and performed by Kevin Littlewood (with Bev Sanders on backing vocals and Chris Nelson on fiddle)
http://www.lesliebrown.plus.com/On%20Morecambe%20Bay.mp3

Can't remember programme. but talking about modern folksongs for our time

Great to be so well-read at the moment - Thank you, Folks! I guess some of you are here for the spanking, but it's hard to turn one's thoughts to a subject and find something worth saying, even when the subject is so close to my heart, so I'll just gently ramble I think...

I have a Domme/sub couple of friends who are happily on their way to a certain dungeon soon. They were recently at a gathering of like-minded souls and she was only Domme with load of Doms who were perfectly polite and accepting but struggling at times for conversation. I was joking that to me Wales seems to be full of sub males. When I was single and looking the Welsh Doms I met in life and cyber had a tendency to come out as switches and closet subs. I reiterated jokey stereotype of 'Welsh Mams'and henpecked men.

All three of us had interesting chat about sting-y thin canes and 'thuddy' heavier ones. Although the heavier ones can be more damaging, it is thin swishy ones that are often harder to take. My cariad's thinnest cane is now several inches shorter and has a taped end! My friends were amused that for me the worst implement is a very cheap and nasty (in both senses!)flyswat from Ikea.

For some reason our local gi-normous Tesco's has a small horseriding section and there was a group of giggling young women looking at riding crops. We have a real one and a silly one with a leather hand - and once again it's the silly one that is the nastier!

I did write a story that featured a riding crop once. I think it's a good story, but I misunderstood the instrument and thought the handle was used - Very dangerous apparently! In my story a woman asks her fiance to punish her so she can be forgiven an infidelity and move on. This is an extract:

So purely in the interest of justice William went away and thought about Celia’s punishment. To his astonishment he found his ‘research’ quite a pleasant distraction from the hurt, humiliation and anger of her affair. He’d always considered himself a ‘new man’ so other than as a schoolboy and just occasionally as a student he’d avoided ‘men’s magazines’ but he remembered the odd ‘spanking pose’… In order to further his research he bought a copy of ‘Festival’ at a motorway stop en route to a conference. He wondered if there’d always been this much about spanking… He could ring up and hear the babysitter being spanked (all the noises) or there was the college girl wife accepting hard punishment or ‘timeless tales of classic corporal punishment.’ William was too sophisticated and too nervous to ring a premium rate number although he found himself surprisingly affected by the lure of “lower your knickers and bend over” and “Sally strapped across her bare behind”. He particularly enjoyed the “Timeless Tales” advert with its tasteful line drawing of a pretty young thing wearing nothing but stilettos and being caned by a professional man and then there was the drawing of a woman not unlike Celia… Only she was bent over a desk wearing stockings and suspenders with stilettos and her knickers around her knees with a paddle (?) being applied to her bare bottom.