Pointe shoe quiz and Blog access changes

Who is the maker of these shoes?

 

The photo: This should be an easy one for readers familiar with the fore-sole traction patterns of pointe-shoe makers.

To readers following my blog and other interested readers:

Blog access changes for my readers: Google is changing its terms of service (TOS). effective on Monday March 23 to ban “content that's sexually explicit or shows graphic nudity” even in Adult content blogs.

I had first thought that if it was only sexually explicit images I could delete them and continue as a public blog. However, there is so much other sexually explicit content that just deleting photos wouldn’t suffice.

Given the forthcoming TOS change I will be changing my reader access permission from Public to Private.  This means that anyone wanting to read, or continue to read, my blog will have to have given me a valid email address I can enter into a permitted readers list. The control permissions rules for private blogs are:

“For each address entered, the Google Account associated with that address will be given access to view your blog. If an address is not associated with an account, that person will be sent an invitation email with a link allowing them do one of three things:

Sign in to an existing account

Create a new account

View your blog as a guest (no account required)

In the first two cases, the reader will be given permission to view your blog whenever they are signed in to their Google Account. As a guest, they'll be able to continue viewing your blog through the link in the invitation email, but this will expire after 30 days. After that, they'll need a new invitation.”

Reader sign-up: Readers wishing to be included on the permissions list can send me the email address for which the permission should be granted. A free Google gmail account email address is preferred and will save both of us trouble once established.

Permissions are limited so I’ll be accepting friends I know first. If I don’t know you already you will need to tell me a bit about yourself in the email containing the address you want the permission for.  Email requesting access permission and the access email address may be sent to me at: jill.lav71@gmail.com Friends can use the email address we normally use.

I regret the necessity of these changes, but with Google going mainstream with a higher profile in the tangible internet infrastructure (think Google fiber) you can understand why they are changing the TOS.

Jill

 

Circe’s Lair, Google/Blogger TOS changes

Circe by John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917

The Photo: Here we see Circe consulting her spell book while one of her tame leopards looks on. Readers may recall that in Greek mythology Circe was a powerful witch, Homer called her a Goddess, who transformed her enemies or those who offended her into tame animals.

Circe’s Lair: Several years ago I started a small gathering spot in my club Naughty Pleasures in Las Vegas called Circe’s Lair, which was a private costume encounter club, giving women an opportunity to act out their fantasies with men by giving them so much sex it drains the men of their energy. Rather like Delilah cutting off Sampson’s hair, but a club member’s weapon of choice is her vagina not shears. A talented woman with stamina could turn a man who thought himself a tiger in bed into an exhausted tabby during a single encounter.

I’m thinking about upgrading part of one of the newer wings of Blackthorn Castle to make a small getaway destination for aristocratic vanilla women who want to improve their sexual skills and call it Circe’s Lair. It won’t be specifically to exhaust men sexually, but if that happens more power to the women. It is an achievement devoutly to be wished! From what I’ve seen of young aristocratic British women they are generally quite sexually naive so there should be quite a market for a course that teaches my seductive techniques and pelvic skills.

An Oscar party: Marvin and I hosted a small gathering at my place in Eaton Square for Alexei, his rubberist friends and their wives to watch the Oscars. I had it catered by an amazing private outfit. We had salmon, roast beef and rack of lamb. I tailored the menu to appeal to the men who always want meat.  Since the show started at 5:30 PM Pacific time (eight hours behind GMT here in London) this was a really late party. Fortunately none of the girls had to get up early Monday. The men came because their wives wanted to come so they were rather quiet and talked among themselves while we girls all talked about the lovely gowns on the red carpet.

The 2015 Oscars: Host Neil Patrick Harris I thought was flat as an MC and his monologue was poor. At the very least they needed a different writer! Where is Ricky Gervais when we need him? Harris also tried a Michael Keaton impression (from Birdman) at one point in the show, walking across stage in his tighty whities which seemed to me to be stretching mightily for a laugh. And in an apparent attempt to make up for the supposed slight to black actors not being nominated for Oscars, the presenters seemed to be mostly black.

The Oscar for best documentary in 2014 was won by CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras’ documentary about Edward Snowden's efforts to shed light on various surveillance techniques used by the United States government and its partners. I think it was a far left political statement by members of the Academy w/o having to put their own reputations on the line. I think the U.S. and its allies are less secure because of what Edward Snowden has been able to get away with and he needs to pay dearly for the crime of treason.

Blog access changes in the near future: Google is changing its terms of service (TOS) effective on Monday March 23 to ban “content that's sexually explicit or shows graphic nudity” even in Adult content blogs.

I had first thought that if it was only sexually explicit images I could delete them and continue as a public blog. However, there is so much other sexually explicit content that just deleting photos wouldn’t suffice.

Given the forthcoming TOS change I will be changing my reader access permission from Public to Private.  This means that anyone wanting to read, or continue to read, my blog will have to have given me a valid email address I can enter into a permitted readers list. The control permissions rules are:

“For each address entered, the Google Account associated with that address will be given access to view your blog. If an address is not associated with an account, that person will be sent an invitation email with a link allowing them do one of three things:

Sign in to an existing account

Create a new account
View your blog as a guest (no account required)

In the first two cases, the reader will be given permission to view your blog whenever they are signed in to their Google Account. As a guest, they'll be able to continue viewing your blog through the link in the invitation email, but this will expire after 30 days. After that, they'll need a new invitation.”

Reader sign-up: Readers wishing to be included on the permissions list can send me the email address for which the permission should be granted. A free Google gmail account email address is preferred and will save both of us trouble once established.

Permissions are limited so I’ll be accepting friends I know first. If I don’t know you already you will need to tell me a bit about yourself in the email containing the address you want the permission for.  Email requesting access permission and the access email address may be sent to me at: jill.lav71@gmail.com Friends can use the email address we normally use.

I regret the necessity of these changes, but with Google going mainstream with a higher profile in the tangible internet infrastructure (think Google fiber) you can understand why they are changing the TOS.

Rubber fetishists and the latex diaphragm

A latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm in its case with an introducer

The Photo: One of my 80mm Reflexions latex flat spring contraceptive diaphragms I wear to introduce rubber fetishists to the delights of sex using a latex diaphragm. The diaphragm introducer was used as an insertion aid for new users, but introducers are no longer being made.

Rubber fetishists and latex cervical barriers: My current primary partner and therapist, Marvin or ‘Morning Wood’ as I teasingly call him for obvious reasons (if you saw him when he wakes up in the morning), was asked to give a talk about the psychology of fetishes to an elite group of male latex fetishists. Marvin and I had met most of them and their wives at Alexei’s. Returning readers will recall Alexei and his daughter, Veronika, who is a ballet dancer with a major London Company, are a neighbors of mine living two homes down in the same terrace on Eaton Square.

The men’s fetish group is actually a small club that meets at member’s homes in the west end of London. My fitting one of the member’s mistresses with a latex diaphragm at Marvin’s suggestion (she is his patient) as a way to increase pressure on her lover’s glans and the experience with it inserted was so positive for the member that Marvin was asked to give a talk to the members and their mistresses about the pleasures of penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI) and the psychology behind use of a latex diaphragm both for protection and the subconscious desire to impregnate the wearer. 

I was asked to accompany Marvin to demonstrate diaphragm preparation, insertion, removal and sterilization and even fit a few mistresses with Reflexions if they had suitable anatomies and weren’t allergic to latex. Or even take a few of the members for a ‘test drive’ myself to let them see for themselves how it feels from a male prospective.  Only one member, one of the younger ones, asked to have sex with me while I had a Reflexions inserted. All this past week I have been fertile – I ovulated yesterday (2/20) - so I ‘double bagged’ and wore an Oves cervical cap screwed down tight on my ripe cervix under the latex diaphragm.

It was quite an honor for Marvin as a psychiatrist and rubber fetishist to be asked to speak before the group as the important men and women in the group can open doors and increase the positive profile of the latex diaphragm not only as a latex fetishist’s toy, but as an effective contraceptive alternative for women with hormonal and copper/nickel allergies.    

The latex Reflexions diaphragms and the Prentif cavity rim cap are under appreciated devices that are useful for a rubbrist with a latex fetish. When hormonal birth control became generally available in the mid 60s use of latex cervical barriers began to decline so that now about 0.2% of women using birth control use a diaphragm or cervical cap.  So a young rubber fetishist today may have no knowledge that his or her grandmother probably wore a diaphragm (if she was in the U.S.) or a Prentif cervical cap (if she was in Europe) for contraception. A cervical barrier can be a thrill when clandestinely worn by a woman partner needing one for contraception or willing to wear a latex cervical barrier as a latex fetishist herself or for a fetishist boyfriend.

Pros and cons of latex barriers: On the cons side; the wearer and her partner should not be allergic to latex and the device must be correctly fitted for effective use. A diaphragm that is too large can pinch the urethra and contribute to a UTI while if wearing one too small her partner can hit the rim which is uncomfortable and could cause to him under-thrusting the rim and ejaculate in the dome which is a problem that can lead to pregnancy when it’s being used for birth control.  In addition a latex device has a shorter useful life as it is susceptible to accelerated deterioration from oily lubes and meds. Too, a latex diaphragm that has been continuously inserted for longer than twenty-four hours will develop a strong odor that many find unpleasant.

On the Pro side some few hard-core rubber fetishists find the strong odor of a latex diaphragm marinated in the wearer’s vaginal secretions for more than a day highly arousing and have their girlfriends insert them Thursday night so the scent will be ripe by Friday evening where the couple (well, perhaps only he) can enjoy the scent for the weekend. Additionally, the heat transfer and elastic properties of a latex Reflexions diaphragm are far superior to that of the silicone Milex. The elasticity of the latex membrane makes it possible for a man with a long penis to stretch the latex dome into his partner’s anterior fornix filling it and squeezing his glans while the stretched dome pushes the cervix upward and deeper into her abdomen..

The fetishist’s wives: The wives of the members are all in their forties or fifty’s and know about, and in some cases are friendly with, their husbands mistresses. Their children are grown and as long as there is no divorce all seem willing to accept their status as the wife of a rich and powerful man with a lovely home, a chauffeured car and credit cards with very high limits. Some have the occasional boy-toy, but many seem to be glad there is a mistress to sate their husband’s sex drive and are glad that the trouble getting into and out of  latex clothing and the mess of sexual intercourse is over except when they want it. 

Through my introduction at Alexei’s party the wives know I train ballet dancers and a few other hard bodied young women to perfect their ballet and pelvic skills. I thought for a while I might be looked on as being sympathetic to men wanting mistresses and ostracized as a trainer of escorts for their husbands. Instead they were fascinated with what I do and interested in toning up their own pelvic anatomies and getting recommendations on the pros and cons of Boy-toys and the precautions to take with them before and after menopause.

Circe’s Lair: I’m thinking about upgrading part of one of the newer wings of Blackthorn Castle to make a small getaway destination for vanilla women who want to improve their sexual skills and call it Circe’s Lair.

In mythology Circe was the powerful Witch/Goddess who would make men do her bidding or turn them into animals. From what I’ve seen of aristocratic young British women there should be quite a market for a course that teaches my seductive techniques and pelvic skills.

Vamp extensions, ballet-sex, Valentines Day

Alexandra Ferri’s feet in customized Freed Classic pointes

The photo by Fabrizio Ferri: Ballerina Alessandra Ferri stretching and warming up for a performance. You can easily see the vamp extensions sewn into the throat on her Freed Classics. The extensions cover the lower part of her insteps allowing her to work safely far over the blocks w/o the danger of her toes ‘overflowing’ the vamps of her shoes. She is particularly known for doing that when dancing the title role in Manon.

Vamp extensions: Pointes made with traditional materials – hessian, leather, satin, cardboard and paste - worn for ballet-sex by women just learning about and unfamiliar with the lack of muscle control experienced during orgasm while en pointe (ballet-sex) should sew vamp extensions into their shoes.

During a major orgasm a girl’s bones feel as though they have turned to jelly and the only way she can remain en pointe is by locking her knees and keeping her feet pointed at which time she may well balance well over the front of the blocks on the top edge of the platform where she is more likely to overflow the vamp even if her shoes are a good fit. Most women with strong feet and a few months experience having frequent orgasms during ballet-sex learn to retain some control during strong orgasms so they will be able to remain fairly centered over the blocks. Even so, for younger escort/dancers and trainees vamp extensions are a recommended safety feature.

Women wearing Gaynor Minden hard shanked shoes for ballet-sex, even those who have high arches, like me, or who are tall, should not need vamp extensions as the hard shank or custom double hard shanks in a correctly fitted shoe should prevent the wearer going too far over the block.

Tanaquil offers me a job: My good friend Tanaquil who is based in Munich and runs an elite Escort service serving Western Europe has asked for my help. The ballet teacher who was doing the pelvic training for Escorts in her UK school in London was killed in a skiing accident last week in France and she asked if I was interested in taking her place.

Since I was still looking for something rewarding to do I accepted. Being able to train young women to experience the most toe curling sensations from their hard sculpted bodies while preparing themselves to be exquisite mistresses or marriage partners for adventuresome men is immensely rewarding for me.

As a Fetish Escort trainer: I will screen the girls for entry into the program so I can ensure I have young women with the looks, talent, and initiative and clean STI histories needed to be an elite level fetish escort. Tanaquil recruits from the colleges and universities in the London metropolitan area and the women must have strong ballet backgrounds as well as being good students academically. I can use the vacant ballet studio above the dance costume and shoe shop in the building owned by the Blackthorn Trust. That will save Tanaquil from having to find new premises as the lease on her present studio is up in April and the rent increase in the new lease is exorbitant.

I will take them for fittings of pointe shoes made of traditional materials aa well as being fitted with Gaynor Minden pointes. In addition I will take them to have stringless GyneFix frameless copper bead IUDs implanted and to be fitted for contraceptive diaphragms: the latex Reflexions, silicone Milex and the single size Caya arcing diaphragm – which fits women who take traditional diaphragm sizes from 65mm-80mm) and which requires a pronounced/deep post-pubic vault. The candidates are also fitted with sports plugs and menstrual cups. A fetish escort candidate must have regular menstrual cycles and periods that are not painful or that can be easily managed with 800 mg of Ibuprofen since sex during menstruation is a service offering of a fetish escort. 

The current escort trainee class is six women with six straight males with good sexual stamina needed for ballet-sex and two substitutes all drawn from local ballet companies as partners for classes needing dance or sexual partners. Tanaquil said the men have been a problem as they keep dropping out as ballet partners from injuries or performance schedule conflicts although the sex for them is marvelous. So new men are having to be continuously screened and introduced into the program, but not as often as the girls whose classes last about eight weeks. I screen the men as well so after the STI tests to ensure they are safe I’ll take each one to assess his sexual technique and coach him to hone his skills, a not unpleasant aspect of introducing new men to the program. Tanaquil assures me keeping enough screened men available is how I will get to know many of the rising young male ballet dancers in southern England.

Surprisingly there is no shortage of well qualified female applicants for fetish escort training. Candidates must be in the top third of their class academically; eighteen years old or older so there will be no problems associated with training underage girls and free of romantic attachments. And of course have normal pelvic anatomies, pass physical stress tests, not use narcotics and have negative full panel STI exams as well as pregnancy tests.

While I’m in London escaping the noise of construction at Blackthorn-on-Summit working as a ballet and pelvic coach for fetish escort trainees (a job I did while in Vegas) will be a great way for me to keep fit and get to meet a lot of the players in the London fetish Escort scene and Veronika should be able to take my classes with the trainees when she isn’t dancing.   

Valentines Day: Yesterday was St. Valentines Day and my psychiatrist and lover Marvin, fondly known as ‘Morning Wood’ because of his massive morning erections - which I have great fun helping him take care of before he gets out of bed – took me to see Fifty Shades of Grey and I rather liked it though it’s a bit mainstream. But then it is supposed to introduce the vanilla general public to BDSM.  So a bit of slap and tickle is about as rough as it got as they were trying not to have it rated any more risqué than an R in the U.S.

Then we went back to Blackthorn House and I let him watch me prepare to be taken. I changed from ballet-boots to Gaynor Minden hard shanked pointes, preparing my toes by taping them and pulling on ouch pouch toe-pads before pushing my toes into the blocks. Pulling thr backs over my heels I walked around on my toes to make sure they were comfy (ha, ha) before tying my feet in the shoes with the lovely pink ribbons. Then I washed my hands and prepared my latex Reflections diaphragm stretching the translucent membrane of the dome checking for cracks, thin spots and pin holes before adding an acidic spermicidal gel. Then I let him insert it for me, being sure to check afterward that it was properly positioned and my cervix was covered since I was CD8 and fertile and don’t want him to accidently get me preggers. I took him astride, then ‘Doggie Style’ entered from the rear with me on my hands and knees.

For our third encounter before going to bed to sleep we had ballet-sex with me holding on to the bedroom barre, trunk parallel to the floor, feet en pointe a la seconde with him penetrating me from the rear again. In that position most men would thrust into the posterior fornix, but with training and thrusting at a slightly downward angle a lover can force the soft stretchy dome of the Reflexions to surround his glans and penetrate my anterior fornix where the latex dome is stretched to the maximum forcing the cervix deeper and squeezing my lover’s glans the hardest. That is an extremely quick way to get even the most problem prone lover to orgasm.  He is such an amazing lover!

Veronika begins BDSM training

Veronika channels Anastasia Steele

The photo: The poster for the film Fifty Shades of Grey from E.L. James 2012 runaway best seller of that name. It will be released in the U.S. and UK on February 13^th just in time for Valentines Day.

Veronika’s baseline: While Nika isn’t quite a virgin she is very inexperienced in the ways of men with women. So Alexei, her father, asked me to take her in hand, since he no longer has women in his family to help guide her through a series of broadening sexual experience in relative safely. She has been vaccinated against the common childhood diseases: Polio, Whooping cough, Mumps, Measles, lockjaw, Chickenpox and has had her full series of three shots to protect against the most common strains of HPV. She has had a pregnancy test, negative. She has had a full panel STI test and all tests were negative. And her pelvic grip has been measured with a Peritron for pelvic floor assessment.

No leave of absence: I have decided to stay in London for a while as the noise level at Blackthorn-on-summit from the construction of the new dance studio and the dive tank foundation test borings is far too loud to allow me to do much productive work. I thought it wouldn’t be that bad, but I was wrong. 

Also, I have rethought Alexei’s idea of having Nika request a leave of absence from the company so she can train with me. It’s not as though there is any time certain by which she must be proficient in the skills I teach. Furthermore, it’s very short notice and bad timing to ask for time off during winter performing season and while her request would probably be granted (given who her father is) that sort of thing is remembered by management and the other dancers and competition is fierce under the best of circumstances so it would not be a smart career move. As a member of the Corps she will be dancing quite a lot, more than 30 performances and associated rehearsals for two full length ballets for the next several months. The current schedule for Onegin and Swan Lake are:

Onegin: By John Cranko Music: Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky John Cranko’s adaptation of Pushkin’s verse-novel, set to music by Tchaikovsky, trembles with emotional charge. Performances will be on:

24 January at 2pm and 7pm; 27 | 28 | 30 January at 7.30pm; 31 January at 12.30pm 2 | 4 February at 7.30pm; 7 February at 12.30pm; 11 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm; 16 | 18 February at 7.30pm; 27 February at 2.30pm and 7.30pm  13

Swan Lake: By Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, additional choreography by Frederick Ashton and David Bintley Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Anthony Dowell's production of the greatest romantic ballet draws upon the opulence of 1890s Russia. Performances will be on:

10 | 13 February at 7.30pm; 14 February at 7pm; 19 February at 2pm and 7.30pm; 21 February at 1.30pm and 7pm 13 | 16 | 17† | 18 | 19 | 25 | 26 March at 7.30pm; 14 March at 12.30pm; 21 March at 1.30pm and 7pm 2 | 7 | 9 April at 7.30pm  19

Living in London is far more convenient for now as I can provide ballet therapy during the day in the studio at Blackthorn House for those patients of Marvin’s who need it. Then I can work with Nika schooling her in the art of seduction when her schedule permits. Given her heavy performance schedule its imperative she wear Gaynors to protect her toes during ballet-sex training.

Veronika and hormonal contraceptives: She was on the Progestin-only-pill Cerazette, a 28 tablet packet with each pill containing 75mcg desogestrel. So there were no hormone-free days. I suggested she change to a copper IUD, to get away from having to remember to take a pill at the same time each day. But she was very pleased with how well Cerazette had worked for her and has painful periods and irregular cycles and wants to continue on hormones so she agreed to try a Mirena Levonorgestrel releasing device. The initial Marina release rate of levonorgestrel is 20 mcg/day; this rate is reduced by about 50% after 5 years which is the useful life of the device. Chris, our male Gyn. Inserted one with the strings removed so she can safely wear cervical barriers for flood insurance during dive-sex w/o the danger of possibly pulling the IUD out from the strings sticking to the barrier. As long as she doesn’t take meds or supplements that reduce the hormones efficacy she should be ok. She can slip by the clinic monthly for an ultrasound to make sure the IUD is still positioned correctly like Escorts do who have had framed stringless IUDs placed.

Stocking Nika’s Slit-kit: While we were at the clinic I had Nika fitted for a latex Reflexions diaphragm, she got three in her size, for flood insurance during dive-sex and a sports plug, for grope protection while clubbing. She already uses a Diva menstrual cup for flow control. We added some Nitrile FC2 female condoms and a 12-pack of super-sheer Japanese male condoms and six 10ml prefilled disposable applicators of DiveGel+ the lubricant spermicide-biocide used primarily for dive-sex. The six were put in her kit and she got a carton of twenty-four 10ml prefilled applicators to backfill her kit.

In the clinic’s toy store: We bought her several sets of Ben Wa balls. First a pair of 1.0 inch 316 surgical steel balls weighting 2.3 oz. each for a total of 4.6 oz. or quarter-pounder McBalls. And a 1.0 inch set of borosilicate (Pyrex) glass balls weighing 0.63 oz. each. We finished her initial purchases with several suction cup mounted silicone and Borosilicate glass dildos. The suction cup base ones for sticking to the mirrors in the studio and backing on to them while en pointe to train solo for ballet-sex.

Pointe-shoes: Veronika wears Freed Classics for training and performing with her company, but if she is going to train for ballet-sex she really should wear hard shanked Gaynor Minden shoes. Returning readers will recall ballet-sex is defined for purposes of this blog as penile-vaginal intercourse to orgasm preferably by both partners while the woman is en pointe a la seconde bending over holding on to a barre or other suitable support while being penetrated from the rear. The pre-arched hard shanks allow a wearer to put a significant portion of her weight on her heels to rest w/o crushing the shanks, during the extended interval she is continuously en pointe during ballet-sex.

While allowing the tightest pelvic grip possible ballet-sex can injure the woman’s feet by bruising her toes from thrust-drop, especially if the man is taller than the woman when she is on her toes. Some few women don’t find GM pointes comfortable and with polymer blocks and shanks they are hot, but the thick platform pads as well as the usual toe tape and toe-pads provide the best protection against bruised toes which are very painful and look terrible as well if you’re a sandals girl. Fortunately Veronika found a size in GM that fit properly and were comfortable, relatively speaking, and she bought six pairs, making sure to try both shoes of each pair on so to ensure there were no manufacturing defects.

Nika in ballet-boots: For any rising fetishista ballet-boots for clubbing are a must-have. So we went by Blackthorn Fetishwear to have her fitted. Cleo, Gepetto’s 26 y/o daughter is working at Blackthorn Ballet shoes and Fetishwear to fit his custom titanium unitized toe-box and shank leather ballet-boots as well as Gaynor Minden pointe shoes. Cleo had been working in Gepetto’s Vegas shop for five years and is an expert fitter. The cost is $2500 USD (about 1655 GBP) for a basic pair and she bought three more expensive pairs - all lightly armored as I don’t want her injured from a heel in her calf or instep by a jealous competitor - in black leather with lace splitter rapier heels, spider filament laces and three sets of Inman heel guards for use while wearing them at her home and mine and if we shop in them to protect the floors and carpeting from punctures. It’s best to have a pair of heel-guards for each pair as in a scramble where you have to release your guards to fight it is easy to lose one or both in the melee.

I bought an addition two pairs as well since with so much rain here it is more likely that they will get wet. Even though heavily oiled if you are caught in a downpour or have to wade to a taxi they can get soaked and take a while to dry properly.  

Old business: First it’s 25 miles (or so) from St. George’s Channel,  the south entrance to the Irish Sea on the west coast of Wales to the Cumbrian Mountains not the 50 that I wrote an earlier post.

And a frequent reader [thank you Eric] corrected me as I had misidentified one of the teams in the 2015 AFC playoff. It was the Indianapolis Colts that the New England Patriots cheated (in my opinion) in Deflate-Gate to get a spot in Super Bowl XLIX.

Super Bowl weekend in London

Eaton Square Belgravia, Westminster, London

The photo: Eaton Square, London SW1W Terrace to the north side of Eaton Terrace looking west. Part of the Grosvenor Estate in Belgravia. The photo is by Paul Leonard 2006. Eaton Square is one of the three garden squares built by the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia in the 19th century, and is named after Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor country house in Cheshire. Blackthorn House is one of the few freeholds privately owned by others in the square.

An Invitation: Morning Wood, who is living at Blackthorn House while he practices psychiatry at Blackthorn Clinic during the week received an invitation on my behalf to a Super Bowl XLIX party at a neighbor’s home a few doors down from Blackthorn House.  I was surprised and pleased. Not because I care about the game, I don’t, but because a London neighbor invited us. It is a marvelous neighborhood, but a lot of homes are owned by foreign absentee owners and it is very quiet so I was looking forward to meeting some of the owners who actually live on the square.

Our hosts who I’ll call ‘Alexei’ and ‘Veronika’ were a widowed Russian expat businessman, and his 18 y/o daughter who dances with a prominent local ballet company.  Alexei is very handsome (think George Clooney) and local gossip has it he is an attentive lover and expert swordsman. Assuming that to be true I wore a latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm even though I was CD23 and Luteal so if we had a sexual encounter and neither of us were protected I should have been safe from pregnancy. A bigger concern on my part was that I had no full panel STI test for him so I wouldn’t have taken the chance on him penetrating me w/o using a condom. I needn’t have worried; he didn’t make a serious attempt to seduce me.

Dress was casual so I wore pink seamed tights over a long sleeve, turtleneck, and thong-back aquamarine leotard with pink suede tipped GM pointes. Over my leo I wore a toasty warm cowl collar canary yellow woolen sweater as a tunic which came a bit above mid thigh. It was an ensemble to display my legs and be noticed in and I was.

The weather was cold and damp with light rain. Fortunately Alexei lives in the same terrace row less than 100 yards away so it was a short dry walk for Marvin and me under the covered terrace walkway to his door where we were greeted by two large security men and after showing our invitation were shown in. We were warmly greeted by Veronika who was acting as hostess.  She knew us by name and said she had been looking forward to meeting me as her father had told her about me. I smiled and said I looked forward to being good friends with her while I wondered what her father, a I man I had never met, had told her about me. Her remark did alert me that the invitation might have been more than to a friendly neighborhood gathering and I wondered what he wanted.

Veronika introduced Marvin and me to other guests, mainly young Russian men and gorgeous Russian women with one or two older business acquaintances of her fathers. No one was wearing wedding rings. There was a table with caviar from the Caspian Sea on toast points and Champagne and single malt scotch which I avoided since I suspected Alexei had some business he was going to ask me about. It turned out many of the young men work for Alexei and the women are ballet dancers either in Russia or other European countries and England who had time off and had been invited for their looks and pelvic skills.

Alexei: As soon as we had something to drink, Marvin had a Macallan 40 y/o single malt scotch, Veronika guided Marvin away to introduce him to her ballet girlfriends and I found Alexei immediately at my elbow. He must be in his mid 50s, but has a lovely hard chiseled body, is 6 feet tall, about 165 lbs. and steel gray eyes. He is in the energy business, natural gas from Russian fields which he has the rights to, among other things, and is a patron of the Mariinsky and Royal ballet companies. He said he learned about me from Maya, the Russian ballerina from the Mariinsky who returning readers will recall had the termination and spent her recovery with me at Blackthorn Castle after her German Medusa IUD failed during her stay with the Duke of M**** at Crag Abbey over the Christmas and New Years  holidays.

Training Veronika: Alexei Said he had heard what an amazing job I have done in training my wards; Bea, Willow, and the Swan twins and asked that I coach Veronika in the ways of men as there is no woman in the family to take her in hand to counsel her and to improve her seductive and pelvic skills. I was pleased that he asked as I had taken an immediate liking to Veronika and I have been missing the interaction between myself and my other wards. I’m not sure how much time Veronika would otherwise have away from the ballet company she dances with, but since Alexei is a patron she can probably get a leave of absence with no harm to her career.

Super Bowl XLIX: In a drawing room there was a huge flat screen TV and soft couches and chairs in a semicircle around it where we all gathered to watch the game. The New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks, the defending champion, 28-24. I watched very little of the game as I’m not a sports fan. I accepted the invitation so I could chat up my neighbor and his friends which I thought worked out quite well.

Though it was hard fought and a tight contest In my opinion the New England team had no business playing in the Super Bowl as they cheated with an under-inflated football to win over the Indianapolis Colts to get there. A ball condition that team members must have known they were playing with, but in hindsight no one seems to have any knowledge of. Imagine that!   If you don’t understand the last sentence Google ‘deflate gate’. I thought the Commercials were less interesting this year and my fave was the one for Budweiser with the lost puppy saved by the Clydesdales.

It was three AM when the game ended and many of the guests paired up and retired to rooms at Alexei’s place. Marvin and I said goodnight to Alexei and Veronika and walked home and to bed briefly before Morning wood took me doggie style before showering, dressing, having breakfast and going to the Clinic for his first patient at ten AM while I slept in.