Magna Carta, my ancestors

The Magna Carta of 1215

British Library Cotton MS Augustus II 106

The Photo: one of only 4 known copies of the 1215 Magna Carta a charter agreed to by King John of England with his Barons at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. The charter set down for the first time rules governing what the king could and could not do. Two copies are held by the British Library and one each by the cathedrals of Lincoln and Salisbury.

 

My ancestors and the Magna Carta: There is only a very tangential association with any of my ancestors and the Barons who signed the Magna Carta in 1225 and possibly the original in 1215. I was interested in the possible connection because June 15, 2015 was the 800^th anniversary of signing the original document. There is no known list of the original signers, but there is a list of the names of the 25 Barons who were delegated to oversee the terms of the agreement in the copy revised in 1225. In the brief biographies of these men, by Professor Nigel Saul, Royal Holloway, University of London, only two families seem to have any connection with Wales and both were Welsh Marcher Lords: 1) Richard de Clare and Gilbert de Clare, Earls of Hertford and used interchangeably with that of earl of Clare. 2) The younger William Marshal (c. 1190-1231). On his father’s death in 1219 he succeeded him as earl of Pembroke and marshal of England, while on his mother’s death in the following year he succeeded to the lordships of Chepstow in South Wales and Leinster in Ireland.  For Professor Nigel Saul’s brief biographies of the 25 see the article HERE 

Marcher Lords power: From the Wikipedia article ‘Marcher Lord’: “The Anglo-Norman lordships in this area were distinct in several ways: they were geographically compact and jurisdictionally separate one from another, and they had special privileges which separated them from the usual English lordships. Royal writ did not obtain in the Marches: Marcher lords ruled their lands by their own law—sicut regale ("like a king") as Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester, stated (Nelson 1966), whereas in England fief-holders were directly accountable to the king. Marcher lords could build castles, a jealously guarded and easily revoked Royal privilege in England. Marcher lords administered laws, waged war, established markets in towns, and maintained their own chanceries that kept their records (which have been completely lost). They had their own deputies, or sheriffs. Sitting in their own courts they had jurisdiction over all cases at law save high treason. "They could establish forests and forest laws, declare and wage war, establish boroughs, and grant extensive charters of liberties. They could confiscate the estates of traitors and felons, and regrant these at will. They could establish and preside over their own petty parliaments and county courts. Finally, they could claim any and every feudal due, aid, grant, and relief" (Nelson 1966, ch. 8), although they did not mint coins. Their one insecurity, if they did not take up arms against the king, was of dying without a legitimate heir, whereupon the title reverted to the Crown in escheat. Welsh law was frequently used in the Marches in preference to English law, and there would sometimes be a dispute as to which code should be used to decide a particular case.” The complete article can be read HERE.

My family appears to have been an offshoot of the Marshal family through an attempt to bring peace with the Welsh nobility by exchanging daughters in marriage the records for which seem to have disappeared in the mists of time. However, in legend an illegitimate son of the Welsh Prince Llewelyn who was helping his father fight the English seems to have been involved in building Blackthorn Castle.

Expressing/evacuating the dome for dive-sex: During the several days interval between the Autumnal Equinox and the total lunar eclipse of the Harvest moon I had the first real opportunity to work with Bryony and Claire and Ashley on their use of a latex flat spring diaphragm for upper reproductive tract protection (flood insurance) to minimize the likelihood of PID not for contraception as they both have stringless GyneFix copper IUDs implanted. Ashley is Jack, Viscount Sandbach’s fiancée, a RB ballerina from a noble family. She was newly preggers at Christmas 2014, but had a miscarriage at 12 weeks while she was still dancing. She was unfamiliar with ballet-sex as well as dive-sex so I’m teaching her along with the Dryads when she is available. The basics are rather simple; it’s just that becoming accustomed to sex while in scuba gear or on pointe being entered from behind with all our muscles clenched can take some getting used to.

Expressing the dome of a flat spring latex diaphragm prior to entering the water for dive-sex will increase the strength of the seal and remove almost all the remaining air in the dome so that stretching the thin highly elastic membrane over the cervix and glans when a partner thrusts in to the anterior fornix doesn’t force air into the uterus. Expressing is quickly and easily done: 1) Insert the diaphragm as usual making certain that it is correctly positioned. 2) Then squat and push down as though having a BM which will push the cervix closer to the entrance to the vagina where the wearer can easily get her fingers into her anterior fornix. 3) Insert two fingers and push the dome into the anterior fornix and all the way to the bottom. You should feel upward pressure on the crevice from the dome stretched tightly over the cervix and the fingers all the way to the bottom of the anterior fornix. If the diaphragm is sealing well the strong vacuum of the seal will cause the dome to cling to the cervix. The same steps can be used to express the air from a silicone diaphragm. However, the domes of silicone diaphragms are not nearly as elastic and so can’t be expressed as completely.

Stud service in the cistern: I pressed Jack, Viscount Sandbach, into service to help partner the Dryads (Bryony and Claire) during dive-sex. It wasn’t difficult to get him interested since Ashley was menstrual and not feeling well and Jack needed an outlet for his sexual needs. So I had him help Nikolai with Bryony and Claire’s dive-sex training in the cistern beneath the undercroft of Crag Abbey. It was only the second time the Dryads had scuba-sex and they felt far more confident that air or water wouldn’t be forced into their uteri since I showed them how to express the air and increase the strength of the seal.

 

 

Hidden treasure, dive-sex soirée

A ten Kilo unmarked gold bar

The photo: A ten kilo unmarked bar of Scottish gold from the mine on one of His Grace’s estates.

The Duchy on the eve of World War II: His Grace’s Grandfather who became Duke in 1935 was, according to Jack’s father the current Duke, very concerned that there would be another war and that London would be bombed far more thoroughly than it was during the 1914 war. As a result he moved half of the gold bullion from his Scottish mine from the vaults of the bank of England to a secret location and didn’t begin depositing gold in the BOE again until 1947. The gold that was moved from London and the production of the mine for the twelve years between 1935 and 1947 has never been found, according to the family’s oral history.

His Grace says that’s partly attributable to the secrecy of his grandfather and partly to the fact that the workman who helped hide the gold were sent to war as part of the British expeditionary force that was trapped on the beach at Dunkirk. During it’s evacuation in late May and early June of 1940 the boat in which His Grace’s estate workers were being taken off the beach was hit by artillery fire and they were all killed. There was also a shaft collapse at the mine in 1947 which killed the two supervisors who took the gold from the smelter to His Grace at the Abbey to be placed with the other gold. And lastly his grandfather had a massive heart attack and died w/o telling anyone where the hiding place is. The old bull, (Jack’s father) says that his father searched for years and supposedly never found the hidden gold, but that after a while seemed to take the loss in stride as the family is still extremely wealthy. However, the current Duke believes his father eventually found the gold as he would spend weeks at a time at the Abbey and then suddenly his personality improved markedly and he stopped spending so much time there, leading the current Duke to think his father finally located the treasure. If so the location was never shared with Jack’s father, as he tells the story.  This story has passed into legend in the UK financial community as a cautionary tale of do-it-yourself security going badly wrong. It also has fascinated bankers about Crag Abbey since that is where everyone thinks the gold was hidden.

Cistern bottom debris: When the Abbey cistern was first converted to a swimming pool / aqua-dungeon of sorts, in the mid 1970s it was thoroughly cleaned of bottom debris. Things like bits of armor and equipment, the bones of small animals that found their way into the vault and fell in and drowned and buckets that fell apart and sunk. However, since then it hasn’t been touched as far as bottom debris is concerned. So I got permission for Bea and I to see what was on the bottom and give it a good cleaning – similar to what I do periodically for The Well, Adolph’s 216 ft deep dive training facility.  We used a vacuum hose connected to an electric pump that Jack had been using to drain a fishpond on the abbey grounds to deposit bottom debris into a huge screen filter to search it for interesting bits dropped over the last 40 years.

I operated the suction hose wearing an old heavy rubber Avon drysuit which belongs to Alice, the wife of His Grace, who returning readers will recall is my dear friend who lives on Virgin Gorda and is my size, to protect me from the cloud of sediment stirred up by the vacuum and it took us ten hours over three days to vacuum the bottom. In the process we came across some bottom paving stones in an area against the cistern’s north wall that had become loose, but since they posed no hazard left them untouched except to vacuum the sediment off them.  It wasn’t that on a whim I decided to do a little late spring cleaning in the aqua-dungeon it was because we were expecting visitors who might be pushed into the bottom during play and I didn’t want Jack to have to try and explain how some of the bits and pieces might have gotten there.   

Among the things we found were 3 old style copper coil IUDs, 4 latex Ortho White (coil spring) diaphragms, 5 very old dark rubber Schmid coil spring diaphragms, 2 silicone Milex wide seal Omniflex (coil spring) diaphragms and 11 NuvaRings (etonogestrel/ethinyl estradiol) and since NuvaRing became available in the UK in 2002 none are more than 12 years old so were from His Grace’s or Jacks sexual trysts in the cistern. Of course with NuvaRing it can be easily pulled out by a thrusting penis, especially if the wearer has very little to no post-pubic vault in which the NuvaRing normally rests to prevent its expulsion and during dive-sex so much else is going on that diverts a woman’s attention it is very easy to miss feeling the ring being pulled out.  That might help explain the high turnover rate in young, long haired, hard bodied, girls in domestic service at the Abbey a situation that continues today. However the senior staff has been with His Grace for a minimum of 20 years and has come to understand his need for a hot, tight, deep, piece of an afternoon, which is especially the case on rainy days when he enjoys tension release by congress with an obliging female sprawled across his desk penetrated from behind.   

An Abbey dive soirée: So when Jack organized a Solstice soirée for five of his closest city friends who dive and shoot to welcome in the summer and, and as a weekend entertainment offered dive-sex in the Abbey’s fabled aqua-dungeon his friends in the financial community with their trophy wives or arm-candy rushed to accept to slake their curiosity about staying and playing in the legendary Abbey as well as an opportunity to have dive-sex in the only medieval aqua-dungeons in the UK and perhaps the only one built in the 12^th century still in existence. Additionally, Jack invited to the party four of his Oxford grad student friends who happen to be some of most accomplished cocksmen in the UK supposedly as partners for my wards. However, the girls and I knew we would all be swapping partners the whole time the guests were here. It was an amazing opportunity to meet nine new lusty men!

The guests came up on His Grace’s private railroad car with sleeping and dining accommodations for 20, which was attached to the regularly scheduled night train from London, Euston, to Inverness leaving at 9:15 PM and arriving at Inverness at 8:36AM. His Grace provided hunting trips into the surrounding mountains for red deer and skeet shooting off one of the Abbey’s tower terraces and cards in the evenings, but the ladies and I diverted the men in groups of two for more intimate pursuits.

For the ladies my girls and I offer shopping excursions into Inverness to sight see (no one has sighted Nessie, yet) buy woolens or gold jewelry made from the output of His Grace’s mine. We are also teaching the delights of Ben Wa balls as a vaginal toning tool and invite them to take our morning and afternoon ballet classes for those who want them. I’m pleased to say they all take our class since as a trophy wife or arm candy a girl needs to keep in top shape to minimize the chance she will be replaced. It’s no surprise when that they all have ballet backgrounds of one sort or another as you don’t get and keep the slim well muscled body and a well toned vagina w/o a good daily exercise regimen. We also have sessions – and wager who can last the longest before orgasming - riding one the two Sybian machines in an encounter salle off the tower ballet studio.

Feminine dive protection: Fortunately Jack had given me a few days warning so Chris, our male Gyn, could order 6 each of all the sizes of Reflexions flat spring diaphragms from Lamberts and we were able to determine while checking that they are all free of STIs that none of the invited guests were allergic to latex since I was going to have to fit the ladies with flood protection regardless of what other contraceptive method the girls were using.

When I mentioned to the female guests that for dive-sex we strongly recommended wearing a latex Reflexions FS diaphragm be worn for flood insurance the women asked questions from What is a diaphragm? To why should it matter?  And the universal statement we get from newbies to dive-sex, I’m on an effective method of birth control so I don’t need a diaphragm. And they all were, on hormonal contraceptives. Three had the single rod implant Nexplanon (releasing etonogestrel) in an upper arm while the other two were on the progestin-only-pill (POP) Cerazette containing desogestrel which is metabolized into etonogestrel. Of course the problem a diaphragm is used to protect against during dive-sex is not pregnancy (in their cases) but to protect their fertility and minimize the possibility of an air embolism.

So I went through my standard explanation about dive-sex protection. Which is that during dive-sex the vagina tends to flood.  Should that happen with a large hard man and a tight vagina some of the water and occasionally an air bubble or two can be pushed through the cervical os and into the uterus by the hydraulics of a thrusting penis. The bacteria in the water could cause PID leading to scarred tubes and sterility or an air bubble might cause an embolism and possibly death.  A properly fitted and correctly placed flat spring diaphragm can almost eliminate the possibility of having water or air forced into the uterus during dive-sex so it not only protects the wearer’s fertility but adds an intimate element of dive equipment to the wearer’s erotic wardrobe. Learning of those possibilities the trophies and arm candy were anxious to be fitted and then let their men know they were wearing such specialized intimate protection.

The dive-sex seminar is still underway and everyone is having a marvelous time.

Arrival at Crag Abbey, sensory deprivation

The ruins of Urquhart castle on Loch Ness

The photo: Once one of Scotland’s largest castles, Urquhart’s remains include a tower house that commands splendid views of the famous loch and Great Glen. Urquhart witnessed considerable conflict throughout its 500 years as a medieval fortress and its history from the 13th to 17th centuries was particularly bloody.

Lost Cove porn shoot ending: Anya is staying at Lost Cove for another few days to make sure nothing is missing after the video crew finishes shooting interior shots. Then the Duchess will take her around to St Thomas aboard Wanton Lass to catch a plane back to DC for a new assignment.

Juicy, Long Tom, the mermaids and the rest of the cast sailed away to finish the video on a set somewhere on the outskirts of London. Anya said their divemaster supervised two scenes with couples having intercourse when the woman’s K-valve burst disc ruptures and her tank vented. The actors survived the experiences, but were severely shaken and one actress, not Juicy, who panicked and couldn’t find her partner’s buddy reg nearly drowned and is in hospital on St Thomas being treated for aspiration pneumonia and an emotional breakdown. After that the director decided she had enough tank venting scenes.

The flight: At Dulles we said goodbye to the Gemini (the Swan Twins partners) who were to meet one of their father’s K-street lobbyists before flying home commercial and we picked up Fiona and Colin Tree who will be spending time with His Grace, her father, at the abbey (they aren’t participating in the Solstice celebration as they are non-believers) before going to London. … Just another service of JillAir…

It is 3,411 mi from Dulles to Inverness and at about 550 mph it should take about 6.1/3 hrs. We left Dulles at about 3:00 PM + 6.5 = 9:30 Eastern daylight time + 5 hrs to convert to British daylight time = 2:30 AM ETA at Inverness. We actually landed at 2:00 AM BDT as the jet stream helped a bit. The trip was uneventful, if you don’t count the girl-girl sex – with dildos - and Terry getting repeatedly blown. Fiona doesn’t share Colin so he had to make do with just one woman on the flight while the rest of us were moaning and mewing in ecstasy from G-spot orgasms given with textured Pyrex dildos.

Our arrival: Jack and Chris our Gyn were at the airport to meet us with three Land Rovers for Bea, Willow, the Swan twins, Terry and me. Fiona rented a car (on Her Majesty’s dime) at the airport for herself and Maj. Tree as they were only staying two days and then plan to take the train to London. Jack says the forecast is for rain and temps in the low to high 50s at Ullapool. That’s at sea level so it will be in the 40s F at Location Z. Which means we will be in shearling robes and using the massive peat braziers again and hopefully be warmer than at the Winter Solstice. We had coffee while the Land Rovers were loaded then the two hour trip down the loch and up into the mountains to the Abbey. It was 4:30 by the time we got to the abbey and the sunrise was at 4:18. It was a cloudy but dry morning.

The Abbey cistern: After a full English breakfast the girls, Terry and I took our regular morning ballet class in the tower studio.  Then I suggested that we plan another dive-sex video using the heated cistern as an aqua-dungeon. Returning readers will remember that the cistern was last mentioned in my 4-1-2014 post when I held a dive-sex training session for the Gyns attending the Inverness reproductive technology seminar. There I described it this way:

“The pool was converted from the Abbeys original medieval drinking water cistern. It’s a circular room 60 ft diameter and it is 40 feet deep with columns every 10 feet.  Ceiling and underwater lights have been installed as well as a shelf and platform for putting on equipment and conveniently entering the water. There is also a new circulating system that heats and purified the water. The cistern is kept full from the spring that flows through the temple and chapel. Even when well lit it still seems a bit claustrophobic to me because of the shadows cast by the columns. And at 40 feet it’s too deep to comfortably wear a FemCap to the bottom w/o the discomfort of dome squeeze on the cervix, but of course my Oves works well. However, when properly sized and correctly inserted the latex Reflexions flat spring rim diaphragm is perfect for flood insurance while providing the advantages a thin stretchy latex membrane can offer an experienced couple.”

Sensory deprivation: Leaving a diver tethered to the bottom while all the lights are off is an exercise in sensory deprivation and air conservation. During effective air conservation training the tank should provide just enough air to last until the dungeon-master makes her rounds and releases the captive or switches his or her tank. Sensory deprivation is something that is totally disorienting and terrifying to most, but there are a few of us who find it relaxing. I love the silence, just the hiss of my demand valve and the roar of my bubbles rushing toward the surface. With hands bound behind your back there is no hope of replacing a reg if for some reason a trainee expels hers and drowning follows shortly afterward if her dungeon master isn’t paying close attention and comes to her rescue.  Even though I’m sensory deprivation dive qualified I always dive an OTS Guardian FFM to eliminate the chance of an expelled reg during sensory deprivation sessions.

 

Dive-sex training at the Abbey

An OTS Guardian FFM with ambient breathing valve

The photo: An OTS Guardian FFM the type used for dive-sex training in the Abbey cistern/pool. Opening the ambient breathing valve (ABV) the black knob on the right side, allows ambient air in the mask while on the surface to save compressed gas.

The Abbey Pool: The pool was converted from the Abbeys original medieval drinking water cistern. It’s a circular room 60 ft diameter and it is 40 feet deep with columns every 10 feet.  Ceiling and underwater lights have been installed as well as a shelf and platform for putting on equipment and conveniently entering the water. There is also a new circulating system that heats and purified the water. The cistern is kept full from the spring that flows through the temple and chapel. Even when well lit it still seems a bit claustrophobic to me because of the shadows cast by the columns. And at 40 feet it’s too deep to comfortably wear a FemCap to the bottom w/o the discomfort of dome squeeze on the cervix, but of course my Oves works well. However, a properly sized and correctly inserted latex Reflexions flat spring rim diaphragm is perfect for flood insurance while providing the advantages a thin stretchy latex membrane can offer an experienced couple. More about that later.

Beavertail jackets: The women wear long sleeve black 2mm neoprene (modified-retro) beavertail twist-latch jackets and hoods into the pool even though the water is heated. The jackets are to protect us when we are pushed up against a column during sex.   For readers wondering WTF a modified-retro beavertail jacket is it has a higher cut leg and twin twist lock latches that allows rapid full frontal access to the pelvis when the beavertail is unlatched and wrist zippers so convenient, but now missing from most current jacket designs. That way we can be penetrated from either the front or back (if wearing a short tank or if the tank can be hung at a convenient depth with the woman out of her tank harness. Gepetto’s fetish shop makes modified-retro beavertails specifically designed for dive-sex. As you might imagine there aren’t too many sales for this specific jacket except for high-end escorts and adventuresome trust fund girls.

The use of dive computers:  Altitude corrections for diving shorten bottom time and increase decompression intervals for a dive at altitude (considered any altitude 1,000 feet or more above sea level) compared to one of the same depth at sea level. Altitude corrections are necessary when diving many of the locations I and my circle frequent and are easily calculated with a dive computer. The locations I dive requiring altitude corrections and their altitudes are:

• The surface elevation of the water in the cistern at Crag Abbey near Loch Ness, Scotland is 2,300 ft. above sea level.
• The surface elevation of Lake Tahoe is 6,225 ft. above sea level
• The surface elevation of Lake Mead is 1,221.4 feet above sea level
• The elevation of Las Vegas, NV is approx. 2,200 above sea level
• The surface elevation of my 64 ft. deep pool (the pit) in the hills outside Las Vegas is 3,000 feet above sea level
• The surface elevations of Adolph’s 216 ft. deep training facility (the well) and the pools in his Spa, The Lorelei, in the hills outside Las Vegas are 2,800 and 3,100 feet respectively above sea level.

Emma as a water sprite: Emma is relatively new to SCUBA diving and has had just the basic qualifying course and a hand full of dives all in the Red Sea while on holiday.  Given that she is fertile and is using a Reflexions flat spring for both contraception and flood insurance she is using a correctly sized Reflexions with DiveGel+ in the dome. Her cervix is perfectly positioned to make it extremely unlikely the diaphragm will dislodge while she is aroused and properly sized and positioned it is impossible to dislodge it with a penis when her vagina is quiescent so she is as safe as she can be and still engage in dive-sex.  She is not into pain just like the five student Gyns so no one is going to attempt to under-thrust the rim during the encounters included in this seminar. And she is very aware that she has no back-up method as the rest of us do with the girls having GyneFix IUDs implanted and me using an Oves.

I began her training with ballet-sex. Returning readers will remember that ballet-sex is where the woman is bent over with her trunk parallel to the floor holding on to the barre with both hands while standing sur les pointes a la seconde to provide easy access from behind with the man holding on to her hips. This is the position that she needs to hold continuously for a minimum of 15 to 20 minutes while the man penetrates her from behind and works on her G-spot with his glans while he can reach around and caress her clitoris or more likely its shaft to move her more quickly to orgasm.

It is to ease the strain on her toes during these 25 minutes continuously en pointe that I had Emma get several pairs of hard shanked Gaynor Minden pointes and she has been wearing them for our daily ballet classes. There is little that can be initially done about leg cramps from keeping the calves contracted for that length of time except to ensure her electrolyte levels are good, having leg massages and doing plenty of stretching. Even so, she could be in a lot of discomfort as her legs tire until she builds up stamina from being repeatedly taken from the rear while on her toes. Ballet-sex introduces her to the tightest contraction of her pelvic muscles from balancing on her toes which when she orgasms and her muscles spasm tighten even more. From a trained ballet dancer it’s a grip so tight most men never have the opportunity to experience it and once experienced all of them long for more.

The fornix grip: While en pointe and with Chris, our male Gyn, as her partner I taught her about taking her partner’s glans in her anterior fornix – her pelvic anatomy is ideal for this - while en pointe wearing a latex Reflexions flat spring diaphragm. This allows him to squeeze his glans by pushing the stretchy latex dome as deep as it will go into her anterior fornix squeezing it between her cervix and the wall of her vagina as he thrusts deeper and the latex dome stretches tighter. Men say it is an amazing sensation and very addictive, but it causes rapid ejaculation and can leave the woman unsatisfied so is best practiced after giving his partner her pleasure first.

One cause of rapid ejaculation by a partner thrusting into the anterior fornix is the ‘stimulator’ in the center of the convex side of the Reflexions dome. The ‘stimulator’ is the raised diameter size in mm inside a triangle and van be often felt by the frenulum when penetrating in missionary and by the top of his glans when he enters her from behind. Sometimes the man is so large or sensitive that the stimulator bothers him. If that’s the case then the Reflexions can easily and effectively be worn with the convex side against the cervix so then the stimulator is on the cervix side.

I taught her the ‘fornix-grip’ – the trick is to move your hips to guide him to the spot you want him to thrust into - while on her toes so she can use it during dive-sex. It is especially effective for men who are very long when being taken in the ballet-sex position (on pointe bent over and entered from behind) as gravity pulls the uterus and cervix deeper which can make taking a large man more comfortable and Chris is long and quite thick, about 6.25 in. in circumference, so about 2 inches in diameter, which really stretches the dome tight across his glans. Stretching the dome also puts upward pressure on the cervix forcing the whole uterus deeper, a feeling most of us enjoy far more than having the tip of our cervix rammed by an erect penis. Emma was fertile and her cervix high, soft and open so the dome didn’t stretch as much as it would at other times during her cycle. Even so both she and Chris enjoyed the fornix grip immensely.

Dive-sex: Once she knew what to do during ballet-sex and could do what she needed to do fairly well we moved on to dive-sex. She had never dived an OTS Guardian so the Divemaster went over how the spider is adjusted, the quick releases and the regulator adjustments and how to purge the mask should it become flooded and we both practiced that several times as I needed the refresher.  The divemaster also covered the need to take complete breaths inhaling and exhaling completely. Otherwise you are liable to hyperventilate - not exhaling completely before inhaling again and doing that repeatedly which will result in becoming short of breathe and overcome by CO2. Hyperventilating on a dive is very common among new divers and we really wanted to avoid that. The five student Gyns were no more experienced in diving or with the Guardian than Emma so they also got a class on wearing the FFM as well as how open the twist latches of the women’s beavertail jackets

The latex Reflexions flat spring rim diaphragm is a vital piece of safety equipment when used for flood insurance during dive-sex. And worn by Emma who was still fertile it is needed for birth control as well as she is relying on the Symptothermal method of contraception. She used a 10ml disposable applicator of DiveGel+ in the dome and another 10ml applicator in her vagina after her D was placed as an underwater lubricant and she, like the rest of us, carried 10ml disposable applicators with us on our dives in case we needed more lube between encounters..

Bottom patrol: The evening before we were to meet the men in the pool, just to familiarize her with her Guardian FFM and the beavertail jackets and hood we would wear during dive-sex encounters, I had her accompany me to the bottom of the cistern and help clean up the debris off the bottom. Like the bottom of Adolph’s deep water training facility the bottom was littered with bits of dive equipment all from women divers. Two bikini tops, two Ortho white (coil spring) diaphragms three  Prentif cavity rim cervical caps (all 22mm indicating they were probably from young unmarried women) and three Milex Omniflex diaphragms in various sizes. As well as three pairs of rotting satin Freed pointe shoes the ribbons of which were still knotted and which had been cut off the wearer’s feet. I thought these items were from years ago when His Grace was much younger and in far better health. Emma looked rather surprised, but asked no questions. At least we found no skeletons still strapped into dive gear. After we got up the large pieces I tool down a vacuum and sucked up the sediment that had been collecting on the bottom for ages so when we fastened ankle leashes to the rings in the bottom to tether ourselves for an encounter we wouldn’t stir up a cloud of sediment.

Delayed departure: I had meant to write about how the dive-sex went with the student Gyns but that will be for another time. The seminar went on far longer than I expected because it was so successful and the men were learning so much. So now we are all packed and it’s after 8:00 AM GMT and we should be leaving for Inverness in about an hour.  The girls can’t tell their friends everything but they had some remarkable sex and met some really nice men.