Nigel's notes

Random thoughts on the world of kink

We’re volunteers, not the help

BLUFcommunity / September 4, 2016

As most of the people reading this will know, I run BLUF, and I spend a huge amount of time on it – probably a couple of hours a day most days, and when there’s a new feature being rolled out on the site, or an update to one of our apps, that can easily extend to several hours a day, for a couple of weeks at a time. Around the world, BLUF and other clubs rely tremendously on volunteers. These are the people who sort out your memberships, and post your newsletters, and talk to bars, and arrange events, and try to make people feel welcome, and all the …..

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Notes on a scam

fetish sitesscams / August 26, 2016 / 2 Comments

As a user of various online dating / community sites, I’m quite used to receiving unsolicited messages from people with a certain air of spam about them. It seems from anecdotal evidence that you’re much more likely to get these if your profile indicates you’re submissive. Typically, the messages come from someone with a profile that claims they’re looking for a slave, with photos that seem too good to be true, and they state that they’re seldom on the site, so it’s best to communicate by email. So, in a spirit of enquiry, I decided to play along with one of these and see what happens, and work out what …..

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Well, hello there

Uncategorized / August 26, 2016

Welcome to Nigel’s Notes. I’ve created this as a place to post things that are kink related, that I think deserve an audience, but don’t actually fit within the remit of the BLUF Blog, and can’t be shoehorned into my main blog, for fear of sending readers running to the hills. So, come on in, but don’t expect a massive volume of posts.

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