Hi theoccupier,

I do like your idea of scene-setting. I use this a lot and have two incidents that you may like to consider.

I took my wife to London for a few days. We visited several shops in Soho and in one I bought a new cane. I asked the salesman to wrap it securely as I intended my wife to carry it separately for the rest of the day. I dropped the notion that as it was so springy it could unwind at any moment and break out of the bag! My wife blushed furiously but not entirely from embarassment, and I knew she was getting a kick out of it.

For the rest of the day she carried soooo carefully! She got it home in one piece and couldn't wait to try it out.

On another evening we had some of the family over to visit. I made my wife spend the entire time chatting and socialising as she wore a pair of rubber knickers. These were the loose-fitting kind that have a tencency to be very noisy! She moved around very gingerly and on a number of times I noticed our guests looking around for the source of the sound.

Mixing playtime with the mundane certainly cheers up the day for us.