After a great Friday night out on my wife’s office party, I find myself in shackles again today.

I am not normally a drinker and it doesn’t take too much before I loose my way, however I do remember most of the fantastic evening, food, music and dance. I also remember getting home and settling down in the lounge. However I awoke this morning in the lounge still but shackles locked on my ankles, desperate for some water I hobbled into the kitchen to have a drink.

Looking at the clock it was pretty late and my wife had gone into the city centre to do shopping (I should have been with her but I am in no state for that), I have no idea where the keys could be to release myself so I guess I have to wait until she returns. I can only guess she put them on me last night or this morning without me even knowing.

I hope I have not done anything too bad, as this could be a long sentence being shackled again.

4 day’s without the shackles and very happy, I can now walk properly and do the things I could not, while a shackled prisoner in my own house.

I am still in the dark about the prison visit at the end of January, but dare not ask any questions associated with it. I know that I am walking a fine line to keep myself out of being a house prisoner again. Moreover I have now taught my wife how to use the riveting tool and she is very good at using it too, so I could be in permanently fitted restraints at any time.

Unless something happens between now and my prison visit, I don’t think there will be much to report.

I am free, so nice got get jeans on again, I am still walking like I am shackled as I have to get used to long strides. I am going on our cross trainer to get my legs moving properly again and get fit, I have also put on some weight in the last 30 days, that has to go too.

Yes finally I will be free of shackles, this has been the most arduous 30 days in my life. I have to behave to avoid further punishment in December.

Well I had to sign the agreement below, so I could be back in shackles at any time if I do anything wrong or even if my wife desires me to be shackled or handcuffed.

The sight of the electric drill and my drill bits tomorrow is going to be sight for sore eyes believe me.

The only worry I have and I’ve been mulling over, is the prison stay at the end of January as it is shrouded in secrecy as the what’s happening.

Summary of what it’s been like for me shackled:

1. The weight, you always know they are there. you sometimes think you have forgotten about them but you haven’t, you are just fooling yourself and hoping they are not there.
2. Length of chain, reduced length of stride, you have to get used to short strides otherwise it’s pretty uncomfortable when the chain pulls tight.
3. Changing cloths, very difficult and you cannot wear all types of clothing as you cannot get certain cloths between your legs and the shackles.
4. Noisy, whenever you move they jingle and this can be quite annoying.
5. Showering and bathing, really hard to get into the tub due to the short chain between your ankles.
6. Sleeping, can be really uncomfortable. The chain gets cold and when it touches your leg it a bit of a shock, also the chain snags or gets around your toes. I don’t think I had a single night where I didn’t wake up.
7. Painful, At times especially at the start, lots of bruising occurred until I get the ankle pads right.
8. Prisoner, yes you are a housebound prisoner and unable to just pop out at will.

If anyone want to try this themselves, my advice is to stay with your original planned time, but start with maybe 3 days then work up from there. Make sure any tools to remove them are not accessible. Break through the restriction and pain barriers (they do exist in the early days). Try to relax and don’t keep looking at them or fiddling with them as you will become distraught. Use ankle pads to keep them off the ankle bone as this is where the discomfort and bruising generally occurs. Stay strong and positive.

I am beginning to feel good, the final days of being shackled for the month of November. To be honest I will be glad when they are off, last month I managed to endure 20 days but these extra days have been arduous and very uncomfortable and a painful reminder they are there, even though I thought I had got used to having them riveted on permanently early on. I have so much to do that I cannot do while shackled so 1st December couldn’t come quickly enough.

Today my wife presented me a contract for me to agree with and sign for December and January up to the point we go on holiday…

1. She want me to train her how to used the riveting tool
2. If she wants me to be shacked or handcuffed at anytime I must allow this to happen
3. I must not keep probing about the January prison experience

In summary… I am and will be totally kept in the dark as to what the prison experience will involve in January. The shackles will be coming off on 1st December (from experience it will take a few days to adjust to not having them on). I could be in shackles at anytime during December and January. I am accompanying my wife to her office staff party on 7th December (I think I have to behave myself to avoid any sort of punishment).

Time is going very slowly, maybe it’s because I am not that busy with work (this is usual for Fridays), so I have been inspecting and fiddling with my shackles. they are certainly not going to come apart until the rivets are drilled out, but I have to be patient and await for my tools to be returned.

Talking of release I am due to be out of these shackles on 1st December, that has been confirmed by my wife. However before this she wanted to keep me shackled until 7th December, but apparently because I signed the prison agreement without objection she will release me on time. I am now wondering what this agreement contained as I didn’t read it myself, in fact I was not allowed to read it. Oh well I will have to wait and see what I have agreed to, but this won’t be until 27th January.

Day 20, holds some significance as this is how long I was in shackles last Month and this day was my release day. However this is not going to be my release day as I have agreed to be shackled permanently for 30 days (all of November), so I am a bit despondent but I am past the half way point and if my wife agrees for my release on December 1st then I am 2/3 of the way. It is really difficult to explain what its like being a prisoner with your ankles permanently shackled together long term, there are good days, bad days, discomfort, sleepless nights, frustration and regret.

Today I had to sign the contract and disclaimers for the prison stay in January. The dates are now fixed. I will be admitted January 27th at 7pm and released February 2nd 10am that’s 6 nights (3 x longer than my last prison experience). however my wife will not set any further schedule for home imprisonment / shackling until after we return February 2nd.

I do want to experience a longer prison stay, but on the other hand the last short stay which was just 2 days was pretty horrendous. However this is level 2/3 and my wife assures me that its far from solitary confinement and more of an experience like the prison was meant to be. This time I do not have to obtain or bring anything of my own (cloths or restraints) as this is all provided for the entire stay for level 2/3 prisoners, this is good as the skiing kit alone reaches close to the aircraft passenger luggage weight allowance.

I will keep everything as it happens updated here, however with the seasonal break and the skiing holiday / prison over the next couple of Months, blogs may become patchy as that time approaches.

Day 17 of at least 30, getting hard as I am getting bored and I am craving to go out but cannot. A little sore on the ankles today as I have been striding around in frustration.

Updated last post with my wife’s pictures of me being punished last weekend for probing too much into what is to happen in 2019. I’ve leaned my lesson from this and will wait and see, however i did find out some information as a result… My wife and I are going to Europe skiing during the last two weeks of January however my skiing trip is only going to be one of those weeks, as I have been booked into the prison as a level 2/3 prisoner for 6 days. After the last experience I am not looking forward to this at all, perhaps level 2 and 3 are a little better than being in solitary almost all the time.

Day 15 of at least 30. Its be a while since I last posted.

Well My clever move to post my suspicions gave me the answers I wanted as regards to part of 2019 schedule of being shackled and prison. It looks like we are going to Europe for 2 weeks skiing towards the end of January, however one of those weeks I will be in prison for 6 days, 5 days at level 2 and possibly a day (the last day) at level 3. I still don’t know what this entirely means but all that my wife will let on is that there is more fun activities. I come to realize that my wife’s interpretation of fun is great for her but I fear not for me.

Why has it been 6 days, well the weekend was punishment for my Friday post (below) where I was handcuffed and tethered to the leg shackles all weekend, I couldn’t even use the PC like this. My wife took great pleasure taking some pictures of me (I will post them later here). Then I was feeling unwell Monday ~ Wednesday with a cold or suchlike, being shackled when unwell was also not nice. however feeling a lot better now.

As regards to the shackles themselves, all seems to be going quite well, pretty much forgetting they are there most times apart from changing or showering. However when wish you were not shackled, is when there is nothing to do or you really would like to go out, you begin thinking about them and the fact that you are a prisoner in your own home. But overall not craving for release “that’s worrying”.

Day 9 of at least 30 in permanent shackles, I say at least 30 because it’s totally in my wife’s hands. I know we have to go out to her seasonal office party on 7th December so I have to be released then.

Today has been a slow day for my work as I finished up the weeks work on Thursday, the weather has not been good and Ive been thinking about my predicament, fiddling with the shackles to try and make them fall more comfortably and thinking what this return to prison level 2 and level 3 is all about. My creative mind has been working overtime thinking how can this be any worse than level 1, my wife is keeping things very secretive about her communications with the prison and the only thing she said is that there is more activities as the levels increase. Another thing came to mind is that normally towards the end of January or the beginning of February we go skiing for two weeks and I am thinking that I will be one week skiing and one week in prison.

When my wife reads this blog I will see by her reaction if some of my guesses are right.