She also uses a satellite dish for her internet connection, which could be out of action because of the bad weather and her place is very remote. However, this remoteness has an appeal as you know you don't feel the neighbours are watching or you're driving round a city for ages looking for an address, which has happened before to me. Yet I bet very few of the cyclists and walkers that go along that road know what goes on in the house they pass, or what the attractive looking woman they might see in the garden does in her spare time.
I've never been tawsed and even though my first loves are slippers and plimsolls, with the cane coming a very close second, that tawsing was like something else. Being a sassenach, the tawse was something I never experienced until adulthood and I wouldn't say no again.

In Scotland you were usually told to hold out both hands and cross them. That meant one on top of the other. This tended to prevent you drawing your hands away just before the strap landed. There is a real feeling of submission when the command is given to get your hands up. If it is a strap you have felt before and you know it is a stinger you can only put on the brave face because you know the Mistress is watching you to see if you flinch. Some Mistresses give you three on one hand before you are allowed to change it over. If it is a sore belt like a lochgelly XH then the pain can be almost unbearable by the third stroke. You are actually relieved to be able to get the other hand on top. Another danger is to change your hands without permission, that can lead to another two strokes for disobedience. Great fun

Andrew

This is what Mistress Beth told me to do, one hand on top of the other. Apparently in Scotland the tawse was used far more than the cane, which I was told was only used in public schools, and slippering with a gym shoe, very common in North West England, was unheard of in Scotland. However, as she does have a fair number of English clients, she does cane and slipper as well.

Placing one hand on top of the other allows the thumb of the bottom hand to be put across the wrist of the top hand, thereby protecting it from bruising should a stroke go too high. This also heightens the feeling that the hands have to be kept in place

In reply to wanting the strap on the hands. I have never wanted the strap on the hands, but i often get it! when being spanked/caned if I put my hands in the way its called old fashioned disipline! u would think I would have learned by now! been told I NEED to be controled! anybody willing to teach me!!!?

Do they ?

When I was in primary school we only had to hold out one hand.
I retracted my hand at the critical moment so the tawse continued its downwards trajectory and caught the teacher on her thigh
Let's just say that I haven't repeated that trick since then

I share this passion for being belted on the hands with a passion so intense that it dwarfs all my other fetish desires. As a boy I was very frequently belted at school, including a number of ‘sixes’. On two occasions I was reduced to tears and in both the punishments were delivered not by males but by female teachers. My love of the belt has encouraged me to collect school belts and I now have in excess of 75 genuine ex-school belts purchased either from teacher’s or from other collectors. I also have a number of custom made replicas.
No disrespect intended but I have only ever found that getting the belt from a Scottish lady or retired male teacher can truly recreate that school feeling. Whilst I have a number of non-professional cp players, I would be happy to recommend some professional ladies to visit. All I would say is don’t suppress this urge, go out and experience it.
Bob

ROFL so you learned the VERY hard way to keep your hands in place then! The schools I attended didn't use the strap, so I escaped it ... although I did get the ruler across the knuckles a few times!

[quote="Smartarse"
When I was in primary school we only had to hold out one hand.
I retracted my hand at the critical moment so the tawse continued its downwards trajectory and caught the teacher on her thigh
Let's just say that I haven't repeated that trick since then [/quote]

Although I never had the tawse at school - I lived just south of the Scottish border where the cane was king - I had five cousins in Scotland, male and female, who were subjected to hand tawsing on a regular basis throughout their school days in the 1960's and early 1970's. They told me that most teachers employed the two-handed presentation method and that it was often the women teachers who belted the hardest. Because of the risk that a miscreant might pull their hand away as the tawse was delivered women teachers who wearing skirts had less protection from stray strokes than men, often used a whicker waste paper basket to place their right foot in during tawsing sessions. If the recipient moved their hand at the last moment the tails crashed into the basket rather than the teacher's leg. I understand that the belt, or tawse, was usually held in the right hand and was draped over the teacher's right shoulder before being brought down rapidly onto the upraised palm of the miscreant.

All of my cousins were regular recipients of the belt throughout their school days and felt that we English kids had it easy getting just a couple of whacks with the cane over our trousered backsides now and again. They said that beltings were a daily occurrence in their schools and that it was rare for a pupil to go a whole term without at least one belting. One of my cousins had a mother, my aunt by marriage, who was a teacher and she had two pair of tawse available for beltings - one for school use and one for home use! She had inherited the home belt from her father who had also been a teacher and there was much debate on whether or not he'd used it on her! In fairness my cousin was very rarely tawsed on the backside at home but he revealed that it was always a pants down affair. His sister seems to have escaped such punishment despite being a very naughty girl.... in my opinion anyway! lol

I have never been tawsed on the hands but I have had a great deal of experience of having my bare backside tawsed. Among the people to tawse me over the years I would include and recommend Mistress Beth who has great skill with the tawse and a fine selection of belts too including Lochgelly style and MC Customs belts. She is a great Mistress to play with – even if she does take some getting to at the moment the effort will be worth it! Cross-country skis might be the answer at present – there’s more snow forecast for second week of January!

The afterglow generated in one’s backside after a severe tawsing is, in my humble opinion, far superior to that provided by a severe caning. And the resulting marks and bruises can last almost as long as those produced by a good caning. There seems to be a greater tightness / swelling of the buttocks from a tawsing and for about three days afterwards there’s a delicious feeling as one sits and is reminded of the thrashing.

I have often thought that I'd like to try hand tawsing as a punishment for wanking. With a mistress belting the palm of my wanking hand before removing my knickers for a severe bottom tawsing. The nearest I ever came to that scenario was with Mistress Kat in Bolton who once tawsed me severely for the imaginary offence of stealing knickers and wanking with them. Part of my punishment session involved me being supervised by Mistress Kat while I masturbated into a pair of frilly knickers before being tawsed on my bare backside for my dirty habits. It might have been interesting to have my wanking hand tawsed before being made to relieve myself into the knickers. Perhaps we can do that next time I visit her!

Yes, it was usual to bring the belt down from the shoulder (but left shoulder if the teacher was left-handed) onto the upturned palm. Bringing it down vertically helps with accuracy - it is a little harder to control a belt applied horizontally to the backside of a child bending over. Schoolmistresses in those days didn't wear mini-skirts, especially in Scotland which was always somewhat behind the times in fashion, so the skirt would offer some protection to her leg just as trousers would protect a man's. Sobriety and respectability were important to these middle-class (and often middle-aged) ladies, so hemlines were low. Wanking was a term (and a practice) you would not have encountered in a typical primary school playground in the 1950s, although I can't speak for what went on at boarding schools!

We respected rather than feared teachers who used CP. There were some teachers who thought it excessive, but kids were more inclined to take liberties in their classes. We knew the rules, we knew the consequences of breaking them, and so everything was fine as long as teachers were fair (which mine were) and punished for misbehaviour. Teachers are often portrayed as punishing for inability/failing exams - that would be bullying and we would have regarded that as unfair. The point is about respect and dignity. Any teacher who stood in the waste paper bin every time she administered CP to some insolent little horror would soon become a laughing stock in both the schoolyard and the staff room!