...ad by now! It's just always there nowadays. It's miles better than the explicit porn, but just seems..I don't know... Of course the ads I see and my visitors see are not always the same. I really have no desire to find myself a slave or master, so wasted on me, I'm afraid.

Many years ago I saw the most amazing pair of red boots for sale. They were totally impractical and impossibly sexy and under a fiver.

I picked up the boot on display and tried it on. A young man came to my assistance. I giggled, pointed my foot in outrageous high-heeled red leather and pronounced 'these are just sex objects' and he went for other boot. And a woman returned with other boot and not a word was said! Don't know if young man was traumatised, excited or felt sexually harassed...

I have worn them for short spells, but they no longer fit and I just love them as objects, hence their role as bookends.

I also have fab pair of platforms that were nicknamed by a date as my 'Mariliyn Monroes'. These too have since become mad 'ornaments' in the study....

And my lovely friend Linda saw a pair of crazy mules and thought of me...

I've just been reading a book about Mary Magdalene. It contained stuff I knew, stuff I half knew and new material. I was interested in some of the things it brought up about Mary, the mother of Jesus and some other bits and wanted to read the Gospels but my bible was not where it was supposed to be. I suspected my Cariad may have tidied it away and found it all a bit frustrating.

I came into my study and suddenly noticed it! This was not a deliberate act. I use the boot as a bookend and I must have looked something up and looked for a convenient place to put it down afterwards. Tells you everything you need to know about me, shoes, books and chaos!

These pics are completely unstaged, but I guess say a lot about me. Joanna Russ and Mary Wesley are nicely alphabetised above and next to bible. A mad impossible fetishistic boot becomes a bookend. And haphazardly 'Sixteen of the best' (spanking story anthology that features mine and my Cariad's stories), 'The Women's Room' (recently reread), a Marian Keyes and a book of microwave recipes wait to be properly housed or rehoused alongside another book on Magdalene, a Patricia Cornwell and No.1 Ladies Detective Agency tomes and other bits and pieces.