Do you ever look at those ghastly "Lifestyle" magazines? The ones extolling the virtues of your local county, packed with adverts for houses only multi-millionaires con contemplate? Or the smug Sunday paper supplements and in-flight magazines parading a hand-knitted lifestyle which none of us actually have time to pursue?

Well I think it is time we started extolling the virtues of our lifestyle. The bondage lifestyle. The Sunday afternoon with your partner tied up on the bed lifestyle. The enjoying each other's company and sexy fun together lifestyle. So here's an early experiment in taking elements from those smug lifestyle magazines' photography and using them for our lifestyle. (i.e. I've stolen the style as best I can!)

Probably none of us get to do this as often as we'd like. You'd imagine Ariel and I had this every day, what with being married and into bondage and all. I don't know about you but we're lucky if we manage to fit in a bondage lifestyle afternoon every few months. Remember to do it and treasure it. And if you aren't lucky enough to have a partner to share your bondage and fetishes with, please don't give up- sometimes it is OK just to imagine and enjoy the fantasy, too!