2/3/2018 8:26:49 AM: Dragao Verde Bulletin   I/we have made great progress, but we’re still in the early stages, laying foundations, drains, building walls.   It is a huge project, potentially able to accommodate dozens of kinky folk, but it was not fully ready for winter.   So I went back to the UK, did seasonal work, then a quiet xmas.   Back to Portugal, held a couple of dinner-parties with a lady guest, did chores.   Now I’m back in the UK, touring, meeting dozens of friends and family.   I’ve already been to Yorkshire and the midlands, by coach and train already.   I went to Ishmael Skyes’, The Firm’s, Burns Night Supper, Saturday 27 January.   www.the-firm.org/   He’s always looking for maids to help serve the food at his events, for free entry and free ‘play’ afterwards, etc.   I’m off to Devon & Cornwall next week, again to see friends new and old.   Possibly Glasgow the week after.   I’ll go to the BBB, Birmingham Bizarre Bazaar, Sunday February 18 February   www.brumbazaar.co.uk/   I’d love to meet folk there, whether we have met before or not.   Then on to West Wales 18-20 February. I’ll also meet Miss Prim, of Muir Academy for naughty adult boys, girls and special girls, on that trip.   www.muir-academy.co.uk   I hear that she is looking for maids to help with domestic duties at the day- and boarding schools that she runs!   Then off to Rome 22 February to attend a BDSM conference. I’ll present sessions on adult-school role-play, puppy- and maid training and British caning techniques.   www.romebdsmconference.com/   NB the conference language is English, the web site is in Italian: your browser may be capable of translating for you.   I’d like to hear from anyone going, as I’d like ‘keen volunteers’ to attend school, train as a puppy, or a maid, or be beaten severely!   Then back to Portugal on Monday 26 February.   My first trip is to take a couple of surplus generators, a tarpaulin, and anything else useful that they need and we can spare, to help dear friends.   They are scene veterans, who helped us enormously in the early days of our time in Portugal, without thought of reward.   They spent a decade and a half turning a derelict quinta into a thriving organic eco-farm: then lost almost everything in a wildfire last October.   Others of my friends have helped, or will do so too. I’ll camp up there in my van, to offer what little help I can for a few days.   They’re looking for anybody who wants to live the life of a worker-slave, to help them up and running again, reporting to the lady, living in Spartan conditions.   Then I hope to welcome a builder-type help-mate ‘yard boy’ to Dragao Verde, to help us and others awhile, until he spreads his wings in Portugal.   There’ll be many more through the year, several back for a second time.   There’s plenty to do; extending new wiring and plumbing through the house.   Finish the old kitchen/new lounge, new kitchen, etc. ready for next winter.   There’s fun things too, we’ve built a whipping post and human-puppy cage.   We’ve started the human-pony-stable, tack room and solar-heated hot tub.   Then we’ll then get on with the servants’ quarters, first putting in a ceiling for an attic dormitory, new floor, doors, windows, a bathroom, staff kitchen.   I will also welcome the first of a series of personal slave-maid-pets.   I seek more from mid-June, I’m talking to a few, others may be back.   It’s a role that will be ideal for would-be service orientated slaves!   But if you’d like to serve in a different capacity, that may be possible too.   I hope for support, from both maids and yard boys, through at least most of the summer, perhaps winter too, hopefully more, sometimes.   Visiting ladies tell me it would take two maids to get the place properly clean and keep it that way, especially whilst we are doing building work!   Over time we’ll make each room easier to look after; but we’ll also be bringing more space into use, so we’ll always need a couple of girls.   There are some building jobs too, that need two or more pairs of hands!   There’s a lot of clerical and IT work to be done too.   So I welcome anybody who’ll lend a hand, in one way or other.   People ask, ‘what’s normal’? Up to now that hasn’t been clear.   It’s hard to be as formal ‘upstairs/downstairs’ as both I and staff would prefer.   We’ve no separate staff quarters yet, so that’s high priority for building work.   Domestics can expect a long day, then only in ‘gentry quarters’ as a ‘pet’.   ‘Yard boys’ a shorter day, then an evening as ‘honorary gentry’.   With daily exercise and discipline sessions for those I judge need it.   Either way it will be 5 days’ work a week, one free-, one play-day.   Dominants with subs or slaves may be welcome, but for no more than 7-10 days.   For those who enjoyed our events in West Wales or regret not making one of them, may I draw your attention to this one Saturday 5-Friday 11 May   sfetlife.com/events/575018   Much as I’d like to go, I am not yet sure I can make it.   Anyway, if you are interested in any of this, please do get in touch.

11/17/2017 9:51:36 PM: Laying foundations   Latest bulletin from The Tawsingham Society, Dragao Verde, Guy Masterleigh, November 2017   I’m currently in the UK until xmas eve, I’m in Yorkshire, with friends until Saturday.   Back to West London Sunday 19th, then busy, but keen to meet folk for an hour or three days and evenings there, if they wish.   Then back to Dragao Verde, Portugal with friends, until mid-January.   Then back to UK; I’ll be at The Firm’s Burns Supper, 27 January, Kings Cross:   http://the-firm.org/   Friday 23 February I fly to Rome to present four sessions on each of at a BDSM conference: Human Puppy-play, Adult School Role Play, British Caning Technique and Maid Training, see:   http://romebdsmconference.com   In the sessions I’ll call for volunteer human-puppies, school-girls or –boys, bottoms to be caned, and would-be maids. I also have Monday morning free to meet folk in Rome.   (The conference language is English, but the web site in Italian, so for those as linguistically challenged as I am, it is possible you can get your browser to translate it into English!)   The Tawsingham project, and Dragao Verde, has always been about bringing people together to turn fantasy into reality, so that they can be whatever they want to be, if they can take the consequences.   The time since I arrived in the UK has brought this home. The longer I am away from the day to day nitty-gritty of building work, the more it seems true. I can see the whole project in far better perspective.   The ideas underpinning what I do developed through my life and were first formulated in 1989-1991 in my novella Tawsingham 2017:   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tawsingham-Autumn-2017-Guy-Masterleigh/dp/B009ALLEWS   They’ve been tested as a temporary community in many ways, most notably 'full dress' twice in 2004, and again in 2007, in Devon, and 2010 in West Wales, whilst many other events from 1987 to date have contributed; it is no fantasy borne of my imagination alone.   Every visitor helps me understand better how the community can and will develop. That feeds back into the ‘master plan’ to best adapt the premises to the needs of the people who will live-in and visit.   So I am literally laying foundations for walls, and in a more abstract way, for how the Tawsingham Community will develop at and around the Dragao Verde project in Portugal.   With the building work I am trying to create an environment to suit all the people who’ll use it, rather than force them to adapt to the building, so the ‘hard’ design is evolving in parallel with the ‘soft’ evolution of how the household will work in practise.   Though I do most of the work myself, the amazing progress I’ve made would not have been possible without help from dozens of volunteers who’ve come to help me.   In many ways the project could not have happened as it has without my many friends; I was alerted to the opportunity by a close friend and several others’ help has been crucial to making it a success.   I hope many more may join me from April throughout next year, 2018, on a similar basis as most of those who came this year.   People who came to help were mostly in two broad groups, the ‘yard boys’ and the ‘maids’, though some filled both, day and evenings.   A ‘yard boy’ (who may be a girl of any sort too!) works with me as a ‘tradesman’s mate’ by e.g. mixing concrete, fetching stuff, demolishing walls, helping shift things, footing the ladder so I can concentrate on laying bricks, concrete, drains, wiring, plumbing, etc.   Some want to do it as slaves; which I have found next to impossible. I found I needed to work with them as a colleague, albeit a junior one, as to get the job done we need to work closely together. Their input helps too, which means accepting them fully as people.   So what I offer them instead is for 5 day’s work as yard boy, 1 day in role, as puppy, pony, piggy, prisoner slave or whatever. I already have the human-puppy or prisoner cage built, I’ve started on the human-pony stable and tack room; and the hot tub.   (It may be 24/7 role play, but you won’t have 24/7 attention, there’ll be long periods alone in cage, stable, etc. as I get on with what I want to do, which is wholly authentic!)   ‘Maids’ (who may present as male) work for me as domestic servants, cleaning, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, dusting, doing laundry and ironing, washing-up, tidying, etc. As this is mostly working alone on tasks that I assign and supervise, doing it as a slave or servant is entirely possible and often makes things much easier all round. I have maid uniform if it helps, though not essential.   I still offer other possibilities, of course, to come as a temporary girlfriend, clerk, IT assistant, man or woman ‘gentry’ guest, or a slave or servant to a guest.   If you can’t spare a week or two, and just want the experience of being a puppy, pony or piggy, for hours or a day or two, without earning it as a reward for helping, then you can help more directly by contributing to the purchase of tools or materials for the project.   Those unwelcome there are anybody who thinks it acceptable to disrespect me in my own home, manipulators, narcissists, sociopaths, bullies, drama queens, male (or female) chauvinists, racists, transphobes, homophobes, fascists, authoritarians of any hue, rabid theists, or those fixated on their own particular fantasy.   You don’t have to be obsequious; just able to ‘agree to disagree’ if your view differs from mine, accept the reasonable house rules,  do nothing kinky off-site, get along with everybody else, recycle everything, avoid deliberate provocation, open arguments or other bad manners. It’s my home, my private space, not the public sphere!   Almost all of those who I’d welcome back, whatever their role, enjoyed their time so much they promised to come back next year, or sooner. The rest mostly took the hints and left soon after arrival.   If you need further reasons to join me, there are health benefits too! Just before I moved-in I was strongly advised to lose weight, on medical grounds, as the rest of my family are obese and diabetic.   I chose a healthy diet, almost no sugar and factory-made foods, not much cereal-based, lots of fresh vegetables, pulses, olive oil, red wine, some meat or fish. Whatever was cheap and nutritious locally.   I went from 14 stone to just over ten, 88 to 63 kg. A visitor lost 20 lb in two weeks: almost everybody else reports feeling healthier and sleeping better, but that may just be the hard work I have them do!   If you come as a helper I’ll expect you to eat the same. If you’re ‘gentry’ and want something different, or expect your vegetables peeled, we’ll shop and cook it together, so I know what I’m eating.   Or you can, of, course, invite us to dine at the local restaurant!   I’m enjoying having my own kitchen, organised the way I want it. Experiments with letting others cook in it did not go well, so if you want to eat differently, volunteer as sous-chef. We may both learn from the other, and I won’t have to reorganise it back again.   Anyway, before xmas I’m keen to meet London- and Home Counties based old friends again, and meet new friends who may later join me out in Portugal, where I’m staying in West London; almost any afternoon or evening, but I can’t offer overnight accommodation.   I have some vanilla typing and spread-sheeting for a keen volunteer!   January 15 until February 22 I’ll be often be ‘on tour’, meeting friends, in Devon, Wales, Yorks, etc. If you’d like to meet me, especially if you can put me up on my travels, please get in touch.   I’m meeting old friends to keep the connection alive and help each other, new friends to see if we get along and to make it somewhat less daunting for them to come out to see me in Portugal.   Folk are welcome to come and help in Portugal from March. Settled good weather begins in April through to October. Any time is good.  Late April/early May I’ll have several visitors, again in August, and in early October too.   I’ll usually meet new folk at Lisbon (closer) or Porto airport, going there and back by train: or be brave and independent and work it out for yourself, and I’ll meet you at the local train or coach station.   I can’t tell you in advance what you’ll be working on, even the day before, my style usually involves working across a broad front, doing what I seems most urgent or important at the time, that I have materials for, as and when I can afford them.   But I am largely past the stage where I reduce the whole place to chaos putting in electricity, drains, water supply pipes, ceilings, etc.   In 2018 I hope that I can finish the building work and redecoration in the new kitchen, cozinha (old kitchen, new lounge), sala (dining and day room) and hopefully one or more of the eight bathrooms under construction, so that we no longer have to live in a building site.   (Though other parts will remain a building site for several years.)   I hope too that we can complete the tack room, stable, hot tub and barbecue; they may not seem vital, but I want us to have fun too!   Hopefully we may complete the ‘servant’s hall’ and bathroom too, though I don’t expect to finish the staff quarters until 2019.   I use whatever I already have where I can; rubble, gravel, tile waste, metal reinforcing, powdered render, plus packaging; beer bottles, cans, wine boxes, plastic bottles, bags and waste, and of course scrap wood, cardboard and paper are all burned, if I can find no better use.   Work goes much faster with a team, some work needs two or more, or is safer with two involved, so your efforts will be appreciated!   For background Dragao Verde was built in the 1950s as a taberna: cafe/bar, grocery store, barber-shop, with owner's flat above, barn for pigs, donkey, poultry, etc. out back, an adega to make and store wine, and a garden with a well, ~ 2k sq ft under a roof, plus the same again as yard and garden. It traded for ten years, but has been semi-derelict ever since. Fortunately many of the more essential, expensive repairs and renovations have already been done.   It still needs to be finished as one would expect nowadays, as the evidence is that they ran out of money and moved in as soon as it was habitable, intending to finish it later, and never did.   That, and adapting it to my new vision for it, will take several years, but fortunately I'm getting a lot of help from my wide circle of friends, and expect many more to visit next year.   To suggest the scale of the project, there's my private suite of bedroom, bathroom, study, etc.; plus up to four en-suite bedrooms in the main house, quarters for up to a dozen staff, six self-catering units, each able to accommodate couples or a larger group.   The plan is to be able to accommodate up to 40 or more for long-weekend events. More if some stay as ponies, puppies, piggies, camp, stay with local friends or in hotels.   I’m laying drains for anything up to 20 bathrooms, 10 kitchens, with many more communal rooms and facilities; not that I expect they will all become real; but at this stage I have to consider all possibilities.   I don’t expect more than six semi-permanent residents. It will take several years to build up to that, if ever. No staff will be invited except on fixed-term contract, or perhaps month-on/month-off.    Gentry guests will be short-term only. I don’t want a resident girlfriend or wife; been there, done that, fully inoculated! The only kind of ‘Mistress of the House’ I’ll accept is my kitten, Polly!   There’ll be fun facilities; human-puppy/prisoner cage, human-pony stable and tack room, human-piggy sty, whipping post, solar-heated hot tub, barbecue and outdoor bathroom with bath, bidet, shower, urinal and wash-hand-basin for exhibitionists, all in full view of the communal kitchen and breakfast room.   Long term, the plan is to create a co-operative to take the place forward if/when I am no longer able to do so, through death, disability or move on to a new project.   Anyway, If you’ve got this far, enjoyed reading and felt you’ve learned something, do say ‘hi’, even if it is unlikely we’ll meet.   If you would like to visit, do contact me for more details.   If you want nitty-gritty detail of the building work, it will be posted separately.   If there’s something more you want to know about the project, please ask!

3/22/2017 3:27:16 PM: I was reminded of this today:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1nlZtW4CGYEnjoy!Guy

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1/15/2017 11:43:13 AM: My Tawsingham Vision for Dragão Verde My name my new Portuguese property, from The Green Dragon, the pub in my Tawsingham novella, this gives the inspirations and final objective.   When I first was seriously involved in the scene, organising Muir Academy with Miss Prim, in the late 1980s, I conceived, and I then wrote half a novel, with a co-author. It is called Tawsingham Autumn 2017 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tawsingham-Autumn-2017-Guy-Masterleigh-ebook/dp/B007RGBFCW). Do buy it on Amazon or Lulu, please! It predicted reality TV shows, a pan-European currency, the internet and the fragmentation of the US, not bad for 1991!   In retrospect it was not a great novella, because frankly the two of us were writing different stories that diverged and the published result tried to cobble them together!   However some core concepts, about the place in which it was set, grabbed hold of my psyche.   The ideas sprang from a lifetime of reading voraciously, living life to the full, as an engineer, a politician, a husband and father, reading deeply in fiction, politics, feminism, religion.   The challenge I set myself in writing the novella was to create a world that could work at every level: physical, social, emotional, sexual, financial, etc. I think I succeeded, though the huge level of investment required to create it made it unviable then, and impossible now.   The first influence I can trace would be Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons, read when I was 7 years old, and his accounts of travel in C19 China with his special interest in judicial and extra-judicial methods of corporal and capital punishment and torture, which I read when I was eight years old.   There were many more, fiction and non-fiction, tales of boarding school, slavery, fantasy and science fiction; ones by Harry Harrison, Ursula K Le Guin,  Anne McCaffrey, stick in the memory.   Then there was reading Forum magazine regularly through my early teens, any other erotica I could get my hands on, including Story of O, Venus in Furs, The Beauty Trilogy and countless others.   Ever since, through the years of Miss Prim’s Muir Reform Academy, The Other Pony Club, etc. I had an obsession to create The Tawsingham Community, in which I had set the story, in some form.   So I looked very closely at other such communities in the real world, people and places who created a fantasy world for longer than the few hours a scene club event lasts, looking for their strengths and weaknesses, what lasted and what didn’t.   One of the first, and in many ways the richest culturally, (though not in money terms), was Aristasia (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki./ARG/Aristasia), Miss Martindale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Martindale). We never met, but I read and sold their books and I often spoke with and liked her, and The Wildfire Club (http://www.wildfireclub.co.uk).   Their St Bride’s Boarding School (https://www.gamestm.co.uk/features/how-a-1920s-boarding-school-created-the-c64s-defining-text-adventures-discover-the-mystery-of-st-brides/) in Ireland was the main inspiration for Muir Academy.   There was of course Miss Prim’s Muir Reform Academy (http://www.muire-academy.co.uk), one of the longest-running and most prolific generator of ‘real fantasies’ for pupils and maids alike. I was variously Chairman of the Governors, Bursar, Transport- & Tuck Shop Manager, Head Boy and Milk Monitor, though I am no longer involved, since 2011, but still friends.   There was Ishmael Skyes’ Church, State and Household and Arreton Manor events; not strictly speaking kink, but an alternate reality as Living History.   There have been many other Living History events I went to, most notably the Gosport Living History village, again very much a vanilla place and event.   Then my The Other Pony Club from 1993, until I wound it up in the early 2000s. I ended that as I couldn’t compete with the De Ferre Pony Farm, run by a couple I helped into who pony-play: so I helped them out instead. They ran weekends there; they turned out to be better at running events, making pony carriages, pony harness, had a 17 acre wood and were both attractive women too. After winding up The Other Pony Club I created The Tawsingham Society and ran two several-day, multi-household events in 2004 and again in 2007, each involving a couple of dozen people, under that banner. The events were a great success at every level, people really enjoyed themselves, though I lost money on them, and I’ve been looking for a better formula ever since.   There was Gord; his amazing novels published by Olympia Press, IoW, and his stories when we met, after he heard of The Other Pony Club and came to see me for a pint or three.   I watched The Other World Kingdom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_World_Kingdom), in the Czech Republic from afar, wondered about their excesses, read their books (and sold them on), sold them stuff and talked to folk who went there.   There were Kai and Birgit who ran Pet Week at SISC Camp in Denmark 1999-2004, which I helped with in most years, except 2003, great fun!   There was West Wales, with others, 2008 -2011, then again 2013-2014 with a partner. Malicious arson, etc. put paid to the venture, just after my relationship ended, just before our first season there, just before Easter 2014.   Then there was SISC Camp (https://sisc.dk/), where I’ve been lucky enough to speak to many of the principals, the original owner and several closely involved from the early days.   Aside from Muir Academy, which still continues without me, SISC Camp is the only one still going.   I’ll summarise their story, reconstructed from memories of conversations with those involved. If you were one and it wasn’t quite as I’ve said, do please privately let me know!   Back in the 1980s or so a group of (mostly gay) BDSMers got together to campaign for the acceptance of homosexuality and BDSM in Denmark.   The reaction they got was; ”Why, we already do!”   So they settled for monthly play-meets and organising holidays in the summer, where they could do their often fairly extreme stuff away from prying eyes on an otherwise uninhabited island in the Baltic.   Then one member, Berndt, a sea-cook, retired; and did what many servicemen and sailors say they’ll do. He bought a redundant farmhouse with an acre of land. He lived in it through a winter.   Then he went to the local planners with a proposal to demolish the cowshed, pig sties, barn and stable and recycle the materials to rebuild and extend the main farmhouse.   The planners said in effect, “No it is a traditional Danish quadrangle farmhouse, you must restore it to a standard that it never has been at in its history!”   He couldn’t afford that. So he said to his club: “Come and help me fix my farm up, then you can play there all summer.”   So they did, work-weeks every spring and autumn, running event-weeks June to August for a couple of decades, with the owner acting as cook and caretaker.   The first thing he did, when the club agreed to his proposal, was to go to the local café/bar he frequented and told them what he planned and that he’d try to ensure visitors did nothing to upset, shock or annoy the locals, bought their supplies in the local co-op shop and didn’t do anything illegal or immoral.   So when a tabloid scandal-sheet from Copenhagen came, it was an open secret amongst the locals. Neither the local Mayor nor Priest returned the reporters’ calls, so they door-stepped the shopkeeper at the local co-op shop, asking, “Do you know these guys who wear black leather?   “Ach,” he said, “you mean the fundamentalist Christians?”   They left, no story.   As the shop-keeper later reported to those at the camp, 60% of his annual turnover came from the camp, mostly from the daily re-stocking of the beer and wine fridges, when he collected the empties. Without the camp, he’d probably have to shut up shop.   Another incident I witnessed was that an ex of one of the guys at the camp made some very serious and possibly false malicious allegation about him to the police, who didn’t turn up mob-handed with battering ram, guns, CS gas and dogs, as they would have in many places. They just knocked politely at the door, waited until someone came and then suggested gently that he come and see them, when convenient, with his lawyer.   When I last visited, in 2005, they had accommodation for 60 or so singleton visitors, a half dozen or more rooms for couples or groups, places for touring caravans and tents, a dining hall that could seat 120, a fully certified stainless steel catering kitchen, and being Denmark a sauna, and a wood-fired outdoor hot tub.   For kink facilities, there is a big sand-floored dungeon with two of everything you’d expect, an ‘ecclesiastical dungeon’ for ‘Spanish Inquisition’ witchcraft trial or similar play, a fully tiled wet room with shower for piss and scat play, a full range of cages and cells, a stable for human ponies, a fully equipped leathercraft workshop, (with other tools for maintenance, etc.)   There is/was a lecture theatre come schoolroom, a medical / veterinary ‘clinic’, a harem room, suspension frames out in the farmyard, and probably by now, much else besides.   They run weeks where English is the camp language, German, or Danish, themed weeks like ‘Gay Fisting Week’ and Hotel Weeks when you can do as you please. The only rules are that you don’t do anything that pisses others off, on or off camp, buy local if you can, do your share of the chores and recycle the empties! The place can also be hired by the week too, as Kai and Birgit did for Pet Weeks, though the last of them was in 2004.   When age and infirmity meant Berndt was no longer fit enough to live on site as caretaker, SISC used money they’d put aside for years to buy the premises from him; it is now a co-operative, fully owned by its members.   Anyway, they essentially are the model I take as a guide; though there are obvious differences.   I am not yet, as Berndt then was, part of the local community, though I try to be a good neighbour. I do hope to patronise the local café a lot more, come the warmer weather, and learn Portuguese better. I won’t be announcing what I plan to the locals either; but I do not plan to ask visiting transwomen to pretend to be men either.   If asked about that my reply will be that I am providing a haven for them, from the hassle they get elsewhere. Beyond that, I will point out that the place is for adult volunteers only. What we get up to is our business, and ours’s alone.   Short-term, for the next year or three I won’t have the nerve to charge anyone to come and visit, the place is far too much of a building site, having been semi-derelict for nearly 50 years. Especially if they muck in to help with the development work here, or just to get or help to keep the place clean and the people housed, fed and watered; though I won’t turn donations of money or materials away. I have racks of ladies’ clothes, maid dresses in most sizes, coats, boiler suits and protective gear, a full range of tools and recycled materials, so folk can fly in and travel light.   There are plenty of tasks to be done, unskilled and for all trades from groundwork to roofers, architects to plasterers, bricklayers, joiners, plumbers, electricians, architectural draughtsmen; you name it, I’m looking for that skill set. As well as web site developers, marketing expertise, etc.   As well as maids, gardeners, cooks, etc. for domestic work.   Some of the outdoor work to be done includes: brick-up a window, a wall built higher, fit curtains and shuttering downstairs to ensure privacy, move the several heaps of tile waste from where they are to where I'd like them, gather up the gravel in the yard, sifting it from soil where necessary and putting it in a builders bag for use in concrete, sieve the heaps of soft and sharp sand to get the weeds, fragments of tile and wood out from them, again for use in mortar or concrete, level the remaining soil in the yard, clean up second-hand bricks and blocks for later re-use, demolish a couple of redundant walls brick by brick, for re-use, lay foundations and build new walls, concrete floors, etc. and render walls to protect them from the weather, demolish part of a garden wall to create parking, build an outdoor store for tall gas cylinders, cut up a bar and wine tanks into slabs of concrete to create hard-standing, put in access doors, build the garden walls higher, make the well safe and install a pump.   Indoors, again demolishing redundant walls brick by brick, filling holes in walls where rafters had been inserted, repairing, rendering and painting walls. Rewiring throughout, fully plumbing and installing several bathrooms, a couple of gas water heaters, showers, sinks, double-glazed doors and windows, installing a ceiling and loft and roof insulation, and three wood-burning stoves.   I will try to keep track of who helps, and be able to offer them some kind of credit towards membership of a club or events I hope to hold when I do start charging money to come to events.   Once I have the place in sufficient order I plan to run events, for which I will charge money, as I will provide food, accommodation, service which all deserve repayment. I hope to run them in a business-like way, but not as a profiteering business, though I will charge several times the direct costs, to help cover development and maintenance costs.   I hope too to put some of that income aside, as a reserve under the control of a steering committee of close friends, against the time in 15-30 years’ time when I want to move on, as at SISC Camp.   Perhaps in time, that steering committee may become more actively involved, even a larger committee elected from an electorate of club members who have been to the place and have not been banned.   I make no apology for reserving the right to ban folk for any reason I choose, not even giving a reason if I think that wisest. It is my home and I see no reason to share it with people I don’t respect; or who disrespect me or my friends, in person or online. Or anyone who seems manipulative or seem otherwise disruptive of my, or our, aims or objectives. Those who know of my back history will understand.   The kind of events I’d hope to run would include weekends for pony- or puppy-play fans, (separately or together), for t-girls who want to dress up and be girlie away from the world, another for t-girls who want to meet admirer men to use and abuse them, one for adult babies and littles (again separately or together), for rope and shibari fans and adult school and/or corporal punishment fans.   I’d like to hear from anyone who may bring a party along for one of the fields I am less personally involved-in; naturists, gay men, lesbians, FemDom, rubber fans, suspension play; though not for any illegal or high-risk activity. No real dogs, horses or other animal, high-risk sex, etc. Or perhaps for events where the house language is German, French, Spanish or Portuguese.   There’d be a chance for couples or groups to come for a week, or weeks, perhaps as a base for tourism, with chances to play too.   Or singletons to come as helpers, workers, servants, slaves or inmates of The Tawsingham Workhouse, for a day, a weekend, a week, or longer.   Long term, planners permitting, I envisage a place where in addition to the main house with my bedroom, I have several en-suite guest bedrooms for ‘bed and breakfast’, staff quarters for several semi-permanent maids, etc., plus anything up to six self-contained gites ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%AEte), with kitchenette, shower, toilet and elevated double bed (s), plus two separate dormitories to accommodate a score of maids and male servants.   Plus a large banqueting room for dinner parties and to serve as a common room. Out in the yard a whipping post, stocks, pillory, human-dog run and kennel, human-pony stable, human piggy sty and prisoner cell, barbecue and other associated facilities. As with SISC camp, a hot tub and sauna too. This may require finance beyond my own limited resources and I may look into timeshare or crowdfunding options, closer to the time.   All together it will be The Tawsingham Community, my dream come true, just as for the last 30 years or so, that I have turning other peoples’ fantasies into reality.