New Year's Eve
I didn't get to spend New Year's Eve the way I wanted.
For a start, I wasn't able to be with both my boys. Tom works in the hospitality industry, and he had to stay at work past midnight. I decided to go along and keep him company, but we were surrounded by the other guests, and his boss and co-workers, so there was no opportunity for privacy.
What I'd have liked, if we could have stayed at home, would be to ring in the New Year with twelve cane strokes. Each in time with the chime of midnight. Perhaps, for extra dramatic effect, we'd have the BBC on in the background, and the strokes would fall in time with the ringing of Big Ben. Or perhaps he'd keep time himself. I've written about the concept of a caning clock before, and I like the idea of using the emotional curve of a caning to more powerfully mark the changing of the years. How much more acute would the anticipation be, in the countdown to midnight, knowing what was coming? How intense would it be, flying into the new year on a wave of endorphins, snuggled and content in the aftermath of a punishment well-taken? What better way of cleansing oneself of those aspects of 2008 one would rather leave behind?
Sadly, this year it was not to be. At midnight we enjoyed a toast and a kiss, and saved the play until the next day, once we'd had some sleep. I'm hoping to write about that in more detail tomorrow, but until then this should give you an idea of how much fun we had: 
I'm not the first person to think the idea of a midnight caning is hot. Abel from the Spanking Writers had a similar idea, and Prefectdt posted a cute caning clip to mark the ten-second countdown to midnight. And if you're interested in cleansing rituals, Olivia has written a beautiful post about her own personal traditions.
I'm looking forward to being able to start my own.
Indeed you are not alone, Miss Pandora. Why, I have caned many a girl on the stroke of midnight as the chapel clock strikes down the hour, and in rhythm with the chimes too!
ReplyDeleteThe caning clip was a last minute idea and I did it in a hurry, I will try to do better next year.
ReplyDeleteI have a fantasy that is not dissimilar to your caning clock fantasy. To be sentenced to report to the Headmistress's office five minutes to the hour, every hour, for a twelve hour period so that I can be caned to the chimes of the clock. An extreme extended punishment fantasy.
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Prefectdt - Mmmmm. A lot of my fantasies follow a similar theme, that of recurring or ongoing punishment. It's the relentless normality that makes it hot. I've never really got the appeal of isolated punishment scenes. Glimpses into daily rituals are much more my type of thing. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of seeing in the new year with a caning to accompany each bong of Big Ben. It would be quite an intense experience given there's not much of a gap between them so I think you'd be seeing your own fireworks. How about a synchronised event for next New Year with sponsorship along the lines of the Bums on the Run event?
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