Unexpected Night Away

As part of the future plan for our life  and FLR, where I start reducing work load, I arranged to meet with one of my clients.  My current job with the individual and his company was coming to a close and I wanted to let him know that I was reducing my future work load, which I thought was only fair as this individual has given me quite a bit of work over the years.

The guy is fairly busy but could fit me in on Friday afternoon as a face to face meeting.  The distance from home wasn't too far so it would be a short trip out and back.

However on Wednesday I got a call from the company with an invite to a dinner event with the client on Friday Evening.  Apparently the client was hosting a few of his clients and senior management people for a social event and the invite was as a 'thank you' for the work provided.

This is not my normal thing and as such I was going to politely decline the invitation until Madam asked me why I was going to decline the offer of an evening out.  Well it was on a Friday evening, it was near but not near in terms of a taxi ride, and the thought of a late night and then a hour drive back just wasn't what I wanted.

Madam pointed out that I've known this guy  over many years and we've had a very good working relationship, so I should take this offer, almost taking it as a farewell dinner.  Having thought about it I agreed and sent the response back.  An email came back telling me that I would have the meeting with the client at his offices at 4pm and that the dinner would take place at a nearby hotel and that a room for the night had been booked I was also asked if I would like to join everyone for a round of golf the following morning. It was clear that my client was aiming to impress who ever he was inviting from his client side.

I declined the game of golf, as I'm bloody rubbish at it, and didn't want to show myself up or my client.  I was going to decline the offer of the overnight stay, but Madam insisted that I take the opportunity to have a night out and even have a couple of drinks - but only a couple!

On Friday morning I found that Madam had packed my overnight bag for me, with a combination padlock on it. She told me that she would text me the combination once I got to the hotel.

The meeting went very well, the client was happy with my work and slightly disappointed that I would be becoming "semi retired", but hoped that I'd enjoy the evening as a thank you for all of the work we had done over the years.

At the hotel I booked in and then sent a message to Madam that I had arrived, to which I got a reply with the code for the padlock, a smiley emoji and the words "Enjoy your evening see you tomorrow morning".

When I opened the bag there was my wash bag, fresh panties and a set of hold ups clearly for the following morning to replace the ones I was currently wearing, but also a bra, stockings, suspender belt, heels and satin teddie with a note - "something to wear for the evening and to bed, send me some photos later Love Alice xxx." In the bag was the camera phone and also the selfie stick and the small tripod.

Considering that I hadn't been keen to attend the evening, it was really enjoyable evening and while there was some business chat and discussion it was a very relaxed event.  It was something that I hadn't done for a long time.

Having been fed and hosted well I went back to my room at the end of the evening to meet the requirements of Madam.

With my suit and shirt stripped off I went and retrieved the heels from the bag.  These were a pair that I don't often wear and they are not ideal for long term wearing, put them on and secured them on my ankles and then set up the camera to take a few photos.

My room was quite nice with a couple of nice chairs and a fancy table so I thought that would make a good backdrop.  What do you think?

With the photos taken and sent I headed to bed, dressed in the lovely teddie and with the stockings and suspenders making me feel very submissive and wishing I was home with Madam.

Note - I'm still topping and tailing the next post about our Christmas visitors so please bear with me.

billie xxx 

Christmas Part 1 - Discusions, Arguments, making up and uncaging

 Happy New Year from Madam and myself, we hope that you all had a good and festive Christmas break.

this is the first of 2 posts about our festive period, we thought that it was best to break it into 2 posts as there was 2 very distinct parts to our holiday.

The past year for us has had a number of ups and downs, such as Madam's promotion and also my ongoing health issues.  So it was with an element of trepidation that we all went into the christmas period with the view that it would be the first time when all 3 of us, Alice, John and myself would have time to actually sit down and talk about some of the things that needed to be voiced.

For John we needed to understand what is going on with both his work and also with his family.  At the start of the year John's company started a new contract and it was very good news for him and his workers but it took a lot of his time to ensure that things were running properly and everyone was happy.  Thankfully things have gone well and he has been able to settle into a steady routine and work pattern.

What has been a bit of a change for him however is that he has had more "demands" from his daughters, both are adults but with one of them having moved only a few miles from him and being in the process of settling down with a good job and her partner there is an element of pressure to pop round and spend time with her and "oh and by the way bring your lady friend".  As John puts it if he gets asked one more time by either of his daughters of "when he is going to get married to his 'fancy' woman" he is likely to lose his temper!  

this has been a building thing over the last couple of years and has become more of an issue over the last 12 months. Alice has met both of his daughters  at various times but these have been more by chance rather than by design.  The thing that we are all keen to do, and john especially, it to make sure that there is no expectation or assumption that the relationship is more than a physical relationship.   

Before people start to shout...Yes, We know that it is more involved and more complicated than just that, but as John puts it, his daughters and especially his ex-wife are not going to be quite as open minded as the readers of this blog, and he wants to make sure that he doesn't bring problems to us.

So What?  Well the plan is to be a bit more discrete and also to cut down the number of local public trips out. Both Alice and myself were initially concerned that things would be potentially coming to an end but this is a better solution for all of us.  None of us want John to be put in a position or to create issues with his daughters, but by the same token it was clear that John wanted to continue his part in our FLR.

The next discussion was something that I know was coming, I just wasn't quite ready for the level that it would go to.

Alice has been concerned over my health particularly over the last 2 years and the last 12 months have caused her real concern.  There is no dispute that I've had and still have problems, but she is really concerned over things with me.  Alice put her cards on the table and that was that she wants me to retire.  Walk away from everything and stay home and become the homemaker/ house husband/ submissive wife.

Alice's concern is that some of my health issues are due to me driving myself too hard, and pushing things too much. With her promotion she viewed  it that this would compensate some part of the loss of earnings and that we could manage.

Now she's right, we could get by....however there is a number of issues.

I don't want to retire.

Now this caused a bit of shock to Alice.  she thought that I would be onside with this, she had crunched the finances and she was sure that she had a solid case for me to retire once she is fully into he new job in April.

Well it's not a case that I don't want to retire, it is down to a number of things that need to be done before I can retire and with several of them they still need me to be working.  I had to explain to Alice about a number of things that needed to be done over the next 12 months, the important point is that there is some significant work that needs to be done to our house, we've been in it over 20 years and there are parts of it that need work doing to it.  Yes this is a project that is important and it will need me to be at home but it will need me to work to cover it.

There is also a couple of other things that need to be covered financially that had not be factored in by Alice, such as I was covering the costs for her Mothers home.  I explained some of the other things that I was dealing with which she was not aware of.

Finding out about these things created "a bit of an argument", while this conversation started as a Madam and billie type of chat, with Madam telling me what I was going to do it had certainly changed to a Mick and Alice heated discussion.  I think John was a bit uncomfortable with this but I managed to get things to settled down and laid out what i saw as a sensible compromise.

I have contracted work to see me through to April and early May, at that point I will wind down/close out most of my Project management roles and consultant work.  From the second half of the year I will then become Semi Retired, this will allow me to deal with the renovations and repairs that need to be done to our home.  It will also mean that I can focus on some of the less stressful elements of work while staying professionally active - training delivery, marking assessments, helping individuals with professional development.  A lot of this can be done from home or locally, it is significantly less involved and less stress.  And it also means that I can be more physically active and do more exercise locally.

I also explained that going to a "dead stop" technically and professionally would probably cause me more damage.  A managed "glide" out of work into retirement would mean that I could be better prepared for this.

Alice wasn't happy especially finding out that I was covering bills and costs for her family. it took a couple of hours to go through everything, to add context to and rationale to my plan.  Yes, I had been thinking about this and I had worked out what needed to be done.  

Yes I want to retire, yes I accept I need to change my lifestyle and this last year has involved significant changes already, but we think that we have a plan that might work.

We even discussed this blog, we all agreed that it was something that we wanted to continue doing. Will it change?  well we hope not, we don't have a plan for it to change.  So guess what? you are still going to get our mad ramblings...well as long as someone wants to read it.

The discussions took a fair bit of time and filled a lot of time for us.  we needed it and it was clear that 2024 was a year of change for all of us, but we have come through it with an outline of a plan going forward.

After such a heavy day of discussions, arguments, raised voices and compromising and lots of listening we all sat down late in the day with a couple of bottles of wine and actually realised that we had fixed and sorted most of the issues that we had.

All this was on the 23rd december and just as we finished the second bottle of wine Alice disappeared to her study and came back with the key to my chastity.  I was told to stand up and to present myself and she unlocked me.  This was a surprise, normally this would happen on Christmas morning or on Christmas eve.

But unlocked I was.  Alice then announced that she was going to bed and that she would like "both of her boys" to accompany her and to "make her feel loved." Well that isn't a request that you turn down.

I think that both John and I made sure that we made sure that by the time she fell asleep she was quite well "loved".

The following morning after Breakfast John had to leave as he was expected to be at his eldest daughters house for the Christmas period.

Alice kept me uncaged until the 28th, just before we had our first visitors - Ellie and David.  It was lovely to be uncaged and cuddling in to my wife, making sure that I looking after her needs but I knew that I would be caged and back into a more Madam and billie role before our visitors arrived.  We were also going to have Carol and Kerri visit as well and they would overlap with the young couple for the 30th and 31st December, so we had a busy house for a few days.  The next post will have more details on our visitors and what happened over that few days.  I should have that post up in the next few days.

We appreciate that this is probably one of our serious posts but we thought it was important to give some of the background to why things have been happening and why changes will be happening for us in 2025.

No matter what, we are still here and still enjoying things and enjoying our FLR, even when there are serious discussions and the occasional arguments and the making up.

  

Have a very Good Christmas everyone

 Well we are about to go into the festive period but before we do we, Alice and myself, would like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy New year.

It's been a real mix of a year for both of us and 2025 is going to come with some changes and hopefully be a little bit more settled.  We have accepted that our lack of stability in out life and the need for routine is going to be important.

At the moment John is staying with us until tomorrow and he will head of to spend Christmas and New year with his daughters.

We then have a few days of time for just the 2 of us until the 28th when Ellie and David will come and stay until New Years Eve.  And finally we will have Carol and Kerri come and stay from the 29th through to 4th of Jan.

We are looking forward to having some quiet time to ourselves but also can't wait to have our friends come and visit.

Hopefully we'll have plenty to tell you about come the new year but until then everyone look after yourselves and especially the ones you love. See you all in 2025.

Thursday Review - Spanked and humiliated

Currently I'm home alone and doing catch up with chores, house work, home related emails and added to the mix I have to do this blog post.

Madam is currently out doing some Christmas Shopping and then she heads over to Sir's as it is his company's christmas function this evening.  I may have to go and get them this evening or they may get a taxi as the venue isn't far from Sir's house.  If they stay over at Sir's then I'll go and pick them up tomorrow to bring them home for sunday dinner.

As explained in the last post we are trying to get our normal routine back and running, and to be fair we are managing it.

Thursday night was review night.  I had been back from work late in the afternoon but early enough to get changed and to be waiting for Madam with her bath ready.  I was in one of my maids uniforms and I already had the evening meal prepared and ready to go once I knew when madam wanted to eat.

When Madam got home the instructions were straight forward.  I was to change into my short maid's dress and Madam would eat before the review, I would serve her as I should and then I would eat after the review was completed.

At 8pm I presented myself at Madam's study.  I was dressed correctly and with the tutu underskirt as it holds the skirt higher and further exposes me.

As is the normal, I went through my book with the points that I had picked up and noted, faults and what I thought might get merits.  Madam made notes and ticked of in her book where things matched.  It was then the reckoning.  Madam decided that there was a need for a spanking and also 20 strokes with the paddle. Madam also pointed out that since I hadn't felt 100% earlier in the week, probably due to me trying too hard with my diet and not getting eating in balance, she viewed this as a self inflicted situation and as such I should be reminded that I need to take better more care of myself. Madam also stated that she wanted to take a few photos of my punishment.

So with the punishments decided I presented myself and received the hand spanking first, madam uses this as a way to warm my bum up first so that I'm ready for the slightly more heavier punishments.  This was followed by the 20 with the paddle.

I was told to kneel so that Madam could get a good feel of how warm my bottom was and also she played with my plug a few time.  She told me to stay in position and left me while she went to get something.

When she came back I was told to turn round and then she started to tell me off about not looking after myself properly.  I sat there while she stood over me and I was scolded in the way that a parent might tell off a child.  I simply answered with "Yes Madam", "No Madam" and "Sorry Madam".  It was pointed out that since i still hadn't fully learned my lesson from the previous weeks I would spend the night again with 'my friend David' secured in me.

Madam handed me 'David and I was told to lift the hem of dress and the underskirt and to give a comparison of my caged clit compared to the 7" of David.  Madam pointed out that if I continue to ignore her direction she may show this photo to Miss Ellie.  I was made to explain to Madam the difference between 'David' and my cage clittie and why I am cuckold.  Madam had decided that i would also have to endure some more verbal humiliations alongside my physical punishments.

I was told to turn around and present my arse to Mistress.  I was told to remove my plug and to set it to one side.  Madam had taken 'David' and was applying lube to it as I knelt and I expected her to insert it into my recently emptied hole.  That was not going to be the case.  Madam handed me the dildo and I was told to put it into myself.

As I started to insert it, Madam told me to take my time with putting 'David' into my arse, I should take time to slowly fuck myself with 'him'.  As I put 'him' into my hole I followed the instructions given by Madam, and was constantly reminded that it was me that was mounting David, that I was fucking myself with David.  

Once Madam was satisfied with my efforts and as she pointed out she didn't want me getting too carried away but just enough to be excited and frustrated, she handed me the harness that I would wear to ensure that 'David' stayed in place for the rest of the evening.

I put the harness on and adjusted it.  Madam checked that 'David' was seated correctly on the harness pad and I was then told to turn around.   

Madam made me sit down and this made 'David' push fully into me, she checked the front straps and then fitted the padlock.  I was now secure.  

I was told stand and Madam gave me a further inspection and was content that the harness was fitted correctly.

Madam handed me the keys to the padlock and I was told to take them to her bedroom and place them on the nightstand next to her bed, and that I was not to dally!

When i returned back downstairs Madam was in the kitchen and she had placed my dinner on the worktop and one of the stools next to it, she had removed the cushion from the stool and I was told that I was to sit and have my meal.  Again as I sat  down the harness pushed 'David' fully into me.  As I had my meal Madam would chat with me, she would suggest that should get up and go and get something and then come and sit back down.  Once i finished dinner I was made to wash my plate at the sink but again do it by sitting on the stool.

this was the pattern for the rest of the evening.  I would be doing some of my tasks and then be summoned to the living room and then made to sit of the stool while Madam would chat with me.  This continued until bedtime when I had to go up to her room and turn down the bed and then wait until she was ready to go to bed and only at that point was the harness unlocked.

Throughout the evening Madam continued with her verbal humiliation of me, and I'll admit I was a bit of a leaky mess by the end of it.  Madam knows exactly what she is doing and it is a fine art the way that she can humiliate me knowing what will turn me on. Is it wrong that I so love her doing this to me?

As for her showing the photos to Ellie and David?  Well it is possible, but she may not tell them the significance behind each photo...or the whole significance of it.  I probably need to be on my best behavior, and also make sure that I look after myself.

It is Madam's Orders after all!

Normal service has resumed - back to plugs, panties stockings and curtseys

 So how has the week been? well back to a routine, pretty much.

Now that is a good thing for us, due to the turmoil over the last few weeks and months.

As per Madam's last post I can assure everyone that I was thoroughly buggered and fucked with the dildo named David. By the end of my punishment Madam was remarking how easily it was in inserting into to me.  Poppet would be quite please with me I'm sure. But that ended on Friday the 29th November when we turned into vanilla people (makes us sound like the FLR equivalent of werewolves...) and  headed up to leicestershire so that Alice, her sister and Mother could have a weekend sorting things out with reference to the impending marriage of the young couple.

My job was to take my Brother in Law out of the house so that we could leave things to the women folk, I also suspect it was also to stop 'Mick the Bastard' from being too honest and being brutal when he can no longer bite his tongue!

The weekend went well.  The highlights were that my Brother in Law knows where to get a good curry.  Also it appears that he really likes David and thinks he is ideal for his Ellie, which is great news.  It seems like there was some good progress with Ellie's mother and the "hatchets", while not buried they have been put back in cupboards.  Ellie even managed to arrange a hack out (horse ride) for Ellie, her sister, mother and Alice.  It was really good to see them all go riding, almost like when the girls were youngsters, the only problem was that Alice's mother quite up to join them.  the weather even played ball and they managed to dodge most of the rain.

Back home on Sunday evening and I was back in my Maids outfit and Alice was back being the Lady of the house.  I had all of my chores to catch up with and Madam felt that I had spent too long out of lingerie.

Madam also checked to see that I had tightened up and decided that I should be plugged again so I had one of my normal butt plugs added to my uniform.

Monday was a steady day with Madam working at the local office in Milton Keynes and I was playing catch up with some of the paperwork in my office.  Madam was home at a sensible time and her maid was waiting to greet her on arrival and to let her know that her bath was ready for her.  It seems like an age since I had done this for her.  Once she was bathed, changed and down for dinner I was told to change and join her for dinner.  we chatted and then spent a good part of the evening cuddled together on the couch.

Tuesday was a steady day again with me heading out to do some work locally, thankfully none of the journey involved the M1 or M25 Motorway.  Madam had to go into London for a meeting but again we were back home at sensible times.

wednesday found me being released from my cage.  Don't panic, it was only for a couple of hours and it was for a medical appointment.  As soon as I was home I went and replaced my chastity and sent a message to Madam that I was once again caged and that the key was on her desk in the study.

 I also put myself back into panties and stockings, it is one of those things that as much as I want to be out of chastity I don't feel comfortable without being caged.  it more about desiring Madam to release me and it isn't about just getting out of the cage.  I wear the cage because Madam wants me caged and I want to please her, I only want release from the cage when she wants me out of it.  Does that make sense?

Thursday was a day with me spending the bulk of it online but working from the house as my office in the garden was bloody freezing!.  I suspect that my heater is not quite working properly, so I have have plans to deal with that next week.  But as it was I was able to catch up with emails and prepare for a few online presentations and interviews for the next couple of weeks.  Thursday also saw us having the weekly review again.  The result was that Madam decided that I should be paddled for several elements of slack work and also to spend 20 minutes in the corner while she had some Tea and read her book.

Madam is considering setting me some targets after christmas.  As part of my changes to my health and well-being I have to try and get down in weight, having lost 8kg, I'm now stuck 4kg from the target that the doctor wants.  So Madam is considering a target of a kilo a month, so that I can hit the target weight by the May bank holiday weekend.

Friday was really back to routine with Madam working local, no need to get up early for a train to London and I was focused on doing the weekend shop in the morning.  Sir was coming over for the evening and this hasn't happened for several months, mainly due to all of us being all over the place.  but as it was, Madam came home and her bath and a glass of wine was waiting for her and about 20 minutes later Sir arrived and I greeted him at the door and welcomed him in.  

He dropped his bag at the bottom of the stairs and we went into the Living room and he made me display myself to him, where he checked that I was properly caged.  he wanted to know if I was in the right frame of mind for his visit.  I told him that I was and I bobbed a curtsey to him.  I was told to get on my knees and explain to him why he had to come and spend time looking after my wife.  I knelt there and explained my inadequacies as madam's husband and that she needed the services of a man such as Sir and that I am a cuckold for my wife.

now, there is an element of theatrics but it is still humiliating kneeling in front of the man that will be fucking your wife and you have to explain to him why you are not upto the job and as such you have your small clit kept in a cage.  Just to make the point Sir told me to remove his trousers and to fluff him there in the living room so that I could get him ready to go up to meet Madam.

Yes, it was good to get back into the normal routine.

I think we all needed it and it has been a really good weekend, the weather has been rubbish but none of us have really left the house.......I wonder why?

Humiliating a Husband

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So much has been going on

 Afternoon to everyone, over the last few weeks I've been trying to get blog posts done but never got them finished before time and events have taken over. So my aim is to try and bring all of the bit posts into one and bring everyone upto date.

Madame and Sir are away this weekend, I've stayed at home so that I can catch up with things domestically and also in work terms.  but more on that later in the post.

From Mid September - 

Almost 2 weeks ago we received a phone call from Ellie asking if we would be free for the coming weekend, it appeared that David's parents were going to visit the young couple on their way back from their Holiday in the North of England.

While we had some plans they were were not that important and the decision was made to go to Leicester and meet the parents.

We had always said that we would not meet them until Ellie's mother and father had met them and that had happened early in the summer.  Having made the decision on the Monday that we would go there was follow up phone calls to get the plan for the weekend.  

The outline was that they would be arriving early Friday Evening and Ellie wanted to have that as an evening with just Ellie and David with his parents (it would be their first visit to their house, so we supposed that the aim would be to make a good impression on the future "in-laws").  Ellie wanted us to come over late Saturday Afternoon and stay into the evening, this would be just us, the Young Couple and the Parents.

We were a little concerned that this might be a bit long (just incase we and/or they don't get on and it may become a bit awkward.) but Ellie was most insistent. So we agreed as this is Ellie's moment.

The sunday would be a bit more of an open event with a lunch/ buffet/ BBQ being laid on (subject to the weather) for friends and wider family.

The final part of the call got both myself and Alice looking at each other "Oh Can you make sure that you pretend to be normal!"

The response from me was "What are you implying with that comment Young Lady!?" the answer was just a giggle from the other end and "you know, just be normal".

well I get the feeling that since we have allowed Ellie to look into the "pandora box" of our world her view of us is forever changed!

How difficult can it be to define 'Normal'?

Nevermind, as it is we can do a very convincing normal - what ever that is meant to mean.

The rest of the week was busy for Alice at work and I found myself on the road a lot, I had booked accommodation for us over the weekend as we are still not staying with Alice's sister as that is still just a little too uncomfortable.

The Friday evening saw us travel up late and we arrived at the hotel (nothing fancy - functional was the order of the day) and went for some food and simply just had a very relaxed evening with our own company.  Saturday morning saw us dodging showers to try and do a walk in some nearby woods that we used to walk when we were "Courting" each other, so many years ago.  Coming back to the accommodation we had a light pub lunch and then headed back to the room to get changed before heading to Ellie and David's house.

Now the thing to bear in mind is that for both of us our vanilla personas are such that we do have a fashion style that does on occasion make us stand out and our niece may not have realised that while she is used to it, it might cause a second look by david's parents....

So for me it is straightforward - relaxed fit chino type trousers (comfort while caged is very important), waist coat and a light weight tweed Jacket.

Alice was taking a look that was some what "vintage" or retro with long line bra, deep 6 strap suspender belt, tan fully fashioned stockings, creme satin blouse and a pleated knee length skirt.  A pair of 3" heels finished the outfit to perfection.  It also helped that she had styled her hair in a slightly retro fashion as well.  I have to confess she looked bloody stunning and it was most definitely her type of style!

Arriving at the house was interesting, we were meet at the door by David and he looked a little stunned with Alice and I had to quietly say to him to close his mouth and stop staring at Alice.  I also whispered to him that yes they were stockings that she was wearing! as that seemed to be his focus as she walked into the house. Clearly the lad has the same weakness for stockings as I have.

Ellie greated us really warmly and I got a full hug from her and I could tell she was doing a check to see what I was wearing, I had to admonish her and told her to behave!

We were walked through to the living room and were introduced to David's parents. While I initially thought that we might be a little over dressed it looked like we were just fine.

The introductions were easily made and now with drinks in hand we were able to sit down and chat.  The plan was to have dinner early in the evening and just see how it went. The conversation was fairly straight forward and the kind of things that you would expect - what do you do, where do you live, etc.  they seemed interested in the fact that we had been surrogate parents to Ellie and her sister for a period of time.  I think this was them trying to understand the dynamic why this Aunt and Uncle were such an important factor in young Ellie's life and Relationship.

Things got better when we all got up to help set the table for dinner and help with the meal - even if ellie and david didn't want the help.

During a conversation with David's father he commented that he could see where Ellie got her dress style from.  I asked him what he meant and he pointed out that Ellie's style seemed to follow a pattern similar to Alice's.  He pointed out that he had never seen her not wearing a skirt and tights, even when she was fully made up in Goth mode.  I had to laugh and told him that yes that did probably come from Alice but I did point out that that if he wanted see them in trousers then he would probably have to see them when they went horse riding!  I'm not sure if he could cope with the thought of seeing Alice and Ellie in Jodphurs, Riding boots and Riding Crops, the poor lad might have a heart attack!

the chat for the evening was fairly straightforward and easy going, the one thing that did come up was david's mother was quite keen to have them married sooner rather that later, but it was good to see David cut in and make it clear that they would have the wedding once they had everything save up and paid for, also he made it very clear that the wedding would be paid for my him and Ellie, so that no one from either side of the families could take credit or influence the marriage.   I liked the fact that the lad was standing his ground and it was clear that his parents were trying to get us to influence the young couple. - No, we fully supported the pair and we also agreed with them that if they wanted to keep it a small wedding that was good with us as well.

That was about the only contensciencous part of the meeting and evening.

A few days later I had a phone call from david and he thank me (and Alice) for the weekend and meeting with his Mum and Dad. However he did mention that his mother mentioned when Ellie wasn't about that she thought that we had both dressed ready to go to the wedding, he had a bit of a laugh when he told his mother that this wasn't Alice "dressed up" this was just Alice being "Normal".  David mentioned that he thinks his mother may need to up her game so that she isn't out done on the day!

We've mentioned it before but Alice has no intention of turning up dressed like the Mother of the Bride but she certainly will be looking "Classy!", I suspect retro shape wear, Fully Fashioned Stockings and stilettos that would peirce a foot if anyone gets in her way!

From 2 weeks ago -

 I've found myself in a spot of bother this week and I have incurred the wraith of Madam.

On Friday I got home after another week of travelling back and forth to my current project.  I'd made a point of booking a room at a local B&B for Tuesday and Wednesday night as I wanted to get a break from the traveling back and forth as the motorways are a bloody nightmare at the moment and I'm almost spending more time on the road than I am at the project.  On Thursday I arrived home later than I had hoped and Madam had gone to bed due to her having an early start, so not wanting to disturb her I slept in my room.

Friday morning actually saw me being up and going out the door just as Madam was getting up. It dawned on me that I hadn't seen Alice since bringing her her morning coffee on Tuesday morning, so I quickly dashed upstairs to say good morning and to tell her that I love her and that I would see her when I got back.

It was a quick dash in and out but she stop me in my tracks, "Are you alright?", "Yes just a bit of a cold, but nothing drastic."  and with that I was off and on the road!

That evening I got back and found that Alice wasn't waiting for me but Madam.

"You lied to me this morning! Didn't You?"

Well I couldn't bluff it.  No I wasn't well.  I'd spent 2 days on the project site sorting out a bit of a "clusterfuck" and as a result I had been soaked to the skin.  spending most of the day outside and with limited kit meant that I was wet through.  That evening a quick visit to a local big supermarket I got a cheap sweatshirt, Tee shirt and a pair of jogging bottoms, so that I could get out of my clothes and hope that they would dry for the morning.  while they were a good bit drier, they were still damp.

Long story short, I now had a cold/ flu and probably not helped with the lack of sleep and travelling back and forth.

So Madam was some what pissed off with me, for not looking after myself.  I was ordered to strip right where I was in the living room, totally naked and Madam ordered me to my knees and to bend over and to kiss her shoes and apologise for lying to her.

As I bend over to kiss her shoe She took her riding crop from behind her back and whipped me on the arse, down on one of my buttocks.

I was now told to kiss the other shoe and apologise once more.  Again as I did so The crop came down on my other buttock.  

I could tell that Madam was really pissed off with me, there was no warm up, no preparation, these were 2 very hard and stinging cracks with the crop! 

I was ordered to stand up and with that Madam took hold of my ear  and then directed me up stairs to her bathroom.  "Get in the shower, don't you dare come out until I say that you can!"

Madam turn on the shower and adjusted the temperature and I was told to get in and get washed  and to stay until called.  Still slightly stunned I got in and gave myself a good wash and soaked with the shower.  Some time later I was called out of the shower and handed a large bath towel to dry off with.  Once dry I was directed into the bedroom and on the bed some clothes had been laid out.

There was a pair of black tights and my red sleep suit, next to it was my pink pyjamas.  I was told to get dressed all under the stern scowl of Madam.  I quickly dressed and put on the Satin Pyjama trousers and then the jacket.  I was then ordered into Bed.

As I got into the bed it was clear to me that Madam had changed the quilt from the Summer Quilt to the heavier winter quilt.  Once I was in bed and Madam was content, she laid out the rules to me.

"You will stay in the bed until I say otherwise, you can go to the toilet and back into bed, no further.  I will bring you your food and drinks. Do you understand?"

"Yes Madam."

once I had said that she sat down on the bed and my stern Mistress had gone. "I swear to god Mick, I'd bloody kill you for your bloody minded determination at times, if you weren't trying to kill yourself on your own!"

"Sorry!", well it was all I could say really.  she had a point, it wasn't the first time I'm become ill from stepping into projects to get them fixed.  I wasn't too bad this time but Madam wasn't pleased with me and that is a situation far worse than any discomfort or illness could cause me.

Alice was concerned that I was ill with not just the soaking that I had sustained but also being worn down with the travelling and the reduced sleep all added with the other background health issues that I have going on so I totally get why she was pissed at me.

So the result was that I was confined to bed for the next 4 days. meals were brought to me as well as regular black tea with honey and lemon.  No TV or laptop.  She allowed me to have my phone on the sunday to check emails but other than that it was sleeping and reading books.  I had a visit from John who also too time to call me an idiot, but in reality he spent an hour with me chatting and catching up with what I had been upto.

On the Monday I was under orders to stay in bed (I could go to the kitchen for my meals) but had to contact the Project team and let them know that I was not going to be available for the day and that I would be working from home for the rest of the week.  Not Ideal but I was not prepared to incur Alice's wrath again!  so orders were orders.

To be honest I needed it as I didn't realise how run down I actually was.  I also managed to "avoid detection" by Alice mainly due to my early departures and late returns.

However Madam is watching me like a hawk now! 

Present time - End of Oct

Well I've recovered, or as healthy as I can be at the moment.  I've been working from home more often now and hopefully that will continue.  We've been invited to visit some old friends (vanilla life) in the coming weeks and I'm hoping to get in touch with them to make arrangements so that will be good to have a bit of a break.

We have started to get back into our normal routine, I had my backside thrashed last Thursday as there was quite a few misdemeanors to catch up with on my review, hopefully we can start to get more settled  going forward.  Also I hope that this will mean that I can get back into a regular habit of posting to the blog.

so with that I will finish here and get on with the last of my chores before Sir and Madam get back.

Take care of yourselves!