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on Sun 30 Jul 06, 11:30 PM to Fractal's blog.
Cycled up there on Friday morning, wanting to ensure the workshops were going to be ready for the following day. This was the first chance I had to actually see the part of the venue that I was responsible for. Except for some lunch out in the sunshine and a meander on the familiar Southbank, I'd spent five hours mostly waiting for nothing much to happen, until I'd felt sure enough of things to leave. I cycled back home feeling like I could have spent the day doing something more constructive instead.
When I got there subbie was out so I cycled about some more instead until I met up with her coming out of the hairdressers, she'd had her hair done by some clueless person, it was very different but after some moments I though yes it looked good, oops subbie noticed this. She said that she had had about the same reaction when she'd first seen it.
Then expecting to be not so entertained by the cabaret and the theatre show not sounding like it was going to be that interesting we managed to get ourselves off to the London Munch instead; arriving there rather late. It's the first chance I've had to attend the munch in a year so I had expectations of a friendly sociable night out. Soon as we'd finished our small drinks we left again rather than hang around talking to no one, people didn't seem to be mixing at all. Then we ended up talking to someone outside, who arrived and left around the same time, for the same reasons as we did. With hindsight we should have done that which was a one off event.
Not that late, said to subbie let's walk instead through Covent Garden. We stopped to drink some iced water, under the trees, outside a cafe. I enjoyed that.
Saturday got up early to be there in plenty of time to prepare and to meet up with all the volunteers. Arrived there instead to a general sense of my part being not as organised as I'd expected it to be. Maybe everything was under control but a couple of issues still remained unresolved from yesterday. As it turned out only one more drape was needed to mask off one of the arches, already organised by T', if I'd known that was how the layout was going to be before we could have had more chairs. So we left the venue and had ourselves some sunshine and fresh air, drinking refreshing teas next to a pleasant fountain while I tried to settle my annoyance with things not going smoothly.
Only one of the intended volunteers had showed up. So after things had started I left the workshops area to see what I could do about it. Then I saw that C' had just arrived, he said that if he wasn't required elsewhere he would help out. I found four more volunteers and hopefully had arranged things for the rest of the day. This was of some relief. My plan from the beginning was to have this part running smoothly and with enough people involved so that we all could still enjoy the day.
By early afternoon I'd had enough of managing things, and the stuffiness was getting to subbie. When she asked if we could get outside, I was pleased with that idea, and we had a quiet lunch outside enjoying the break of light and air.
When back inside, having handed over to C'. To our surprise nawashi M' had arrived, we offered to show him where the bondage workshop was. I enjoyed watching a fem subbie get a gentle caning to one side of the room. We had a bit of an explore of the venue and ended up at the bondage and impact area again, where there seemed to be the least noise and some interesting play happening. A boi asked if she had just missed something, I said that I thought it hadn't started yet and hoped to see something severe, I'd forgotten that there wasn't supposed to be anything more than transient and trifling. Meanwhile subbie had gone off to watch the bondage. I watched the caning of someone for whom it was the first time, which was lovely and it was interesting to see how easily she was lightly welted.
Went over to see how subbie was getting on, it was clear that she especially liked the leather head harness the demo bunny had on. We went off to buy a leather head harness with gag and found one that was fairly cheap but which we both liked enough.
Went back to the workshops, to watch one of the last ones. This workshop seemed to really cheer us up. C' was doing a great job and I left him to finish off.
Went home had a hot bath and good meal before returning refreshed for the night ahead. I had decided to take some of my canes with.
Already outside we could hear the noise reverberating through the antique Victorian brickwork. Arrived to have our water taken off us at the door. As I had been drinking water almost constantly throughout the day this was a bit worrying. Went to the bar, got subbie an orange juice with ice and for myself a small bottle of water both at an extortionate rate, as a consequence of which we spent the rest of the night buying as little to drink as we possibly could. Said hello to few friends we hadn't seen for a while, but as usual with not enough with enough conversation.
We had a quick play but I didn't really get into the right space just then. Wandered about, wading through a thunderous din in one vast and empty dance space to arrive at a nice and atmospheric dungeon. Looked at some stalls again, then as subbie was keen to see the slave auction, we watched that. Afterwards I had to buy subbie some water and was relieved to find somewhere relatively quiet to sit and enjoy the atmosphere.
We decided to go back to the deep dungeon and settle into enjoying ourselves properly where we knew that we would like the music. Sat around some more then talked to Z' which was interesting, a pity that s' wasn't with him just then but we seemed to have caught the moment anyway.
After some hesitation about which piece of furniture to use, without apparently bored but subtly hostile venue staff looking on and without dazzling lights shining into my eyes, I tied subbie's wrists to a St Andrews cross and gave her a better flogging than I have done in a little while, followed by about as hard a caning as I thought she could take. She was a bit spaced by the end of it and we went back to sit down for a cuddle.
Then someone I'd seen presenting one of the workshops earlier, quite apologetically asked to borrow my canes. I said that as long as it's for use on a woman he could use them. I wanted to see this so we went to watch. To my pleasant surprise it was the boi from earlier. It was a pleasure to see the canes being put to such good use.
Today, what did we do? Woke up late, then in blurred and mellow way, wandered around on the bikes trying to trace remnants of the history of the local urban desert, looked at bugs and things in ponds, browsed bric-à-brac stalls in Greenwich market and enjoyed lunch outside of a cafe.
Feeling rather relaxed and nice now, if maybe just a bit burnt out.
Edited Tue 1 Aug 06, 10:26 AM by Fractal
