An Update from the Luff House

 From Madam Alice:

Afternoon Everyone,

we know that we have been very lax in our posts over the last 12 months, and for some people we have been very poor in our communication and responses to emails, for this we and particularly I am very sorry.

while we have made the excuse of the change of job, house move and our renovations - and these have been all true through to the end of 2025, the major issue that has now become obvious to me is that Mick/ billie hasn't been very well.

As many of you know he has had an ongoing health issue but we believed that we had that all in hand and managed with his weight loss, change of diet and also the retirement to reduce stress and also the strain of travelling.  We believed that all of this had things levelled out and the blood tests showed that we were starting to stabilise the condition

The problem is that Mick has continued to loose weight, more that the specialists would like, and while losing 6 inches from his waist is good, it is more that he was asked to do.  Also his energy levels have crashed and he is constantly tired.

The problem was that he has been driving himself hard to do work at our new home and while we believed that this work may be the cause of him being extremely tired at the end of each day, it appears that it isn't and that there is a bit more to it than that - more blood tests have been done, he has been told to rest and to try and get some more weight back on - and keep it back on.  The aim is to get his body back in balance and physical energy back on an even keel, it is proving a challenge for him.  I'm working from home a bit more to keep and eye on him and he has been banned from doing jobs and tasks for my family as they were consuming a significant amount of his time and energy, event to the point that he almost had an accident coming back home after helping a family member due to being so tired and drained.

To that end for the last month or so he has been put on enforced rest, slowing things down for him and also try and adjust make him feel and be better.

Sometimes I do despair with him but at other time I am always surprised how much he will commit to help others often to his own detriment, well yet again I have put my foot down to try get him to focus on himself and to accept that sometime he needs to selfishly focused on himself so that he has a quality of life and quality of health.  It will be a bit of a journey for him and us, but hopefully we can get him on the road to improvement.

Thanks to all of you if you have stayed with us and if you are expecting emails and responses you now know why there has been a bit of a delay or silence.

I hope that you will understand and please be patient with us.

Alice 

 

Stockings and trainers! Is this a fashion trend?

 Afternoon everyone, well we are well and truly into the new house.  While initially we were living and sleeping in the lounge while we started the redecoration and some of the conversion work, we have now actually been able to sleep in one of the bedrooms.

Madam's bedroom is well underway as that has been the priority and I seem to be smelling continually of paint at the moment.

With Madam very settled into her job and me being very focused on the renovations of the house, we decided to take some time out yesterday and go out for a sunday lunch in a local pub.  The aim was to give both of us a break from the work at home but also to start to see what there is locally to where we now live.  

While we know the area well geographically, and we are getting a handle on places to go walking, our knowledge of place to socialise and good places to eat are significantly out of date as the last time we really went out socially in this area was over 25 years ago.....and there has been some significant changes in that time.

so with a few online checking of reviews we headed to to chosen venue, a couple of miles away in a near by village.  The place was quite busy which was a good sign and it had a very good mixed crowd - old and young.  

Drinks were ordered and we watched some of the meals come out and they looked pretty good, so food was also ordered.

Lovely......

as we chatted, just normal vanilla stuff, Madam noticed a few younger women in skirts and wearing tights or stockings.  nothing unusual, particularly as the weather has changed to being a bit cooler and Madam was also wearing stockings and a Tweed skirt (oh how country folk we looked....) but where Madam was wearing a pair of knee boots with a block heel, she pointed out that these others were all wearing trainers.

This created a bit of a conversation between us, was this a trend? is it a fashion that we had missed.  

as we had our food there were a few more small groups and couples that came in and again several of the girls were wearing hosiery and trainers.  Quite a few of the younger women wear wearing fishnets.  

Then I noticed the next thing quite a few of them had seamed stockings/ tights, certainly more than just one or two.  At this point our conversation became even more serious as both Madam and I noticed that none of them had a straight seam amongst them.

Look we all know that keeping seams straight, particularly on stockings is a constant challenge, and when I'm required to wear seams it is an easy win for Madam if she is looking for something to pick me up for, but quite a lot of those that we saw yesterday were quite badly crooked and it was almost as if they hadn't straightened them when they put them on.

It gave us an interesting point to discuss, particularly as we both like our stockings and we both know what is involved in keeping them straight.  

So the question is - is this a trend and fashion to wear Stockings and trainers? and if they have seams does it matter if they are not straight? or is it simply a case that some people just don't care if they are straight?

The lack of attention to detail certainly annoyed Madam.

Changes but still here.

 Afternoon everyone,

Apologies for the very long gap in posting but the work life balance has been completely out of balance at the moment.

Some of you may know that we have moved house, or to be more honest, we are still in the process of moving.  Having gone through the stressful process of selling our house as well as finding a new home nearer to Madam's work.  Well we have found and purchased a home but be have a few more weeks before we can move in.

In the mean time we are staying with Madam's family, and daily life is very vanilla.  Most of our belongings are in storage and we are effectively living out of a number of bags.

At the moment we are staying with the Mother in Law (MoL) and it is becoming quite stressful for Madam, and it's not great on my side as I have a "Shadow" as I try and work from a small desk in her conservatory.  There is nothing remotely FLR about our current situation as the MoL would pick up on it immediately and she is quite a straight laced individual.

So what is the plan, well we move in to the new house in middle of september and while it is in very good condition we do want to make some changes, such as convert a small bed room to an en-suite for the Mistress Bathroom as part of it as a walk in dressing room.

Also the spare bedroom would become my room.  The kitchen needs work and there is the need for a home office for Madam and also one for me, we know what we want but we also know that we will do it over a period of time.  Madam wants me to be busy as I progress to a "semi retired" balance of work and home life.

Unfortunately it does mean that we'll be busy and the blog will take time to get back to what it was but bear with us and keep popping back to check for updates.

Madam sends her regards to all readers and is equally annoyed that we haven't got the stability that we had hoped for but hopefully that will change very soon. 

Purging the Wardrobes

 

Its' been a busy old period here in the midshire of England as Madam and I go through the process of trying to sell our current property and look for a new home back in our original home area of Leicestershire.  We have been faced with quite a few challenges least of which has been dealing with estate agents, If we hear one more time about how a specific property will be perfect for us and then promptly find that it is a 1 bedroom former Air B&B located 2 streets from Madam's sister I'm sure Madam will rip the throat out of the agent!  Bless her!

So while I have been very busy with doing renovations, repairs and decorating to make our current house meet all the expectations that a potential buyer might want and playing host to those that come for viewings, Madam has been enduring the occasional stay with her Mother when she is working up in the leicester area.

One of the things that this move has done is force us both to do a serious look at our wardrobes and drawers.  the reason being is that we are down sizing, we know that we are and we are also realistic to accepted that for both of us we will need to reduce the size of our wardrobes.

For me it has been straight forward for my vanilla work wear, there has been a few items into the Charity bag but generally it isn't too big a collection.

For Madam, she has had to look at what she needs for her work wear, in terms of Office smart and Office casual.  what has become clear is that she has had a clear out of quite a few shoes.  Her casual and social wardrobe is the one that has taken a serious hit as she went through it being quite ruthless and she thinks that she has quite a sensible clothing collection now.

What has taken quite a cull for both of us has been the FLR wardrobes and in particular has been my underwear drawer.

There has been a reappraisal of things such as thongs - when did I last were those? and anything that has a heavy lace front to it.  why the lace front? well the current Chastity cage allows my foreskin to pop out the end of it and it is like wearing a bloody cheese grater!  so those have gone!

We have also been realistic enough to look at some of the other items, particularly the Basques, for both of us that don't fit anymore.  Both Madam and I have lost weight and as such there is a few of the basques that just don't work anymore.

We have also looked at some of the outfits and also done a bit of rationalisation on things and got rid of things, either due to wear and tear, not fitting or in Madam's case "Did I really used to wear that? Oh no, time for that to go!"

It has been quite good to have this clear out and also to understand better what we have.  it also means that we also now have a better handle on how much stuff we have to move or to store (there is a real risk that we will be moving out before we have our new place so things will be going into storage.)

The other side of this selling your home process is the fact that we have people coming around the house to view it for a potential sale and as such we have had to make sure the place is "very vanilla" and that the overt signs of our FLR have been discretely tucked away.  I'll be honest it is a bloody pain but we are making head way.

We just need to find the right place to move to....and the chances are we'll do that without the overly helpful advice of the bloody estate agent!  

Update from both of Us

 From Madam Alice,

Evening everyone, we thought we would give a short update as we are a little behind in posts and blogging.

As many of you will know I moved into my new job full time at the start of April and this has seem me become a very busy bee, with a mix of travelling between various client and project locations and also with me working back in Leicester.  

What this has meant for billie is almost a reversal of roles, with him staying and working from our home in Milton Keynes.

Over the last 6 months we have been really looking at our life and the changes - in terms of work -  and we have decided that we are at a stage where we do need to change.

For billie it is a case of him slowing down and progressing towards retirement.  so this means a bit of a transition to semi retired and phasing out the high intensity work that has been his speciality for many years.  The phase out will allow him to finish commitments and work contracts and try and create a new routine for himself.

For me I am now full into my new job and an significant part of it is client engagement with their project teams and this means lots of the working week away from home in the Leicester, Derby, Nottingham area, while up to now I have been in temporary accommodation there is a need to become more settled.

So we are moving, currently we are house hunting in the Leicestershire area, with the aim to sell and move north from our current home.

While this is a move that eliminates a 1 hour drive for me, there are times on a Monday and a Friday that this becomes a 3 hour frustration of a commute.  We have also had to look at this in terms of the fact that it will move us closer to the family, my mother in particular and also nearer to Ellie and David.

We have been spending a lot of time over the last 18 months traveling up and down to Leicester for family matters and now with work that it was becoming obvious that we would be moving.

What does this mean for our FLR - well really no change.  Both Mick and I are both in agreement that the core part of our marriage is that of our FLR, so billie and Madam will remain and continue as the main part of the way that we live.

For our relationship with John, while there is now physical distance between us, it appears that this may well be a bit of a blessing for him as it means that he will be able to have less "formal" relationship with Myself and billie, and the distance may help to calm the "relationship questions that he has with one of his daughters.  so it will still work for all of us, it's just that John will not be a regular at our new place every Friday.

So at the moment mick/billie are being kept very busy with the preparation works for getting our house ready for sale.  He has already had a detailed survey done and is well on with everything that was highlighted as being required either for the sale or to help with the price.  Unfortunately it does mean that we have more of "Mick the builder" and not quite as much of "billie the maid".

The other aspect is that we have started the search for a new home and that comes with it's own trials.  We are downsizing as the current home was originally purchased as a place where we could continue to bring up our nieces if required (as my sister was still in remission for cancer at the time).  Well we don't need that amount of space now.  So long as we have some space for billie to sleep when John or Carole visit and I have a work area.  billie has already looked at what is required for an office in the garden so we know what we are looking for.  The bit in all of this that will be the challenge is finding a place that has the right amount of privacy.  So we are being quite selective on what we go and look at.

So that is an update from us, there is lots going on and we will try and get back into a productive and settled routine for posting, but just bear with us as we try and find that routine. 

 

Good News - Poppet's Back!! Now Back Up, Back Up, Back Up!

 After a very nervous few weeks, Poppet has received the the good news that her numerous appeals have finally been successful.

So her blog page is back and Poppet hasn't delayed with creating updates, so please go to her site and let her and Owner know that you've missed them

https://poppetsubslut.blogspot.com/

I know that Poppet will now be backing up her blog and getting that stored safe just incase there is another problem with the Blog, but my advice to everyone who has a blog is back up your blog so that if you do need to find a new blogging home then you can get that set up and then import your blogger posts into the new site.

I'm going to look at providing a dedicated post on the process that we followed when we lost our blog in the past.  Also there is a few other thoughts that I have on how to create a "back up bolt hole" for your blog.  Hopefully I can get that that pulled together and posted at the weekend.

But overall it is really great news that we now have Poppet back!  

Poppetsubslut's Blog site

 Dear All,

On Thursday we got some bad news and that was that Poppet's excellent blog had been taken down with no warning.

Poppet contacted me to let me know that there was a problem.  Blogger seems to have taken the site down on the ground of "Violence and Gore" with no notice or warning.   Now for those of us that have long been fans of the blog it doesn't fall into those categories.

Poppet has lodged an appeal and is waiting to see what the response will be.

However Poppet has asked that I let everyone one that both she and Owner are OK, somewhat Annoyed/angry/ confused etc, but they are both OK and hoping to get the appeal approved.

So to everyone, keep your fingers crossed and hopefully poppet will get the blog back.

For those of you that have a blog, please please please do regular back ups so that you have your site saved, so if you do need to move it can be imported to a new site fairly easily.

Should anything happen to this blog please book mark my back up site:

https://madamssubhub.com/

I will keep you updated with progress as and when Poppet passes the information onto to me.  Please keep your fingers crossed for Poppet and Owner and that they get the blog back.

 billie xxx