Hi All;

Post 101 – treble figures would you look at me!!

The light-hearted introduction to this post is, I fear, contrary to the overriding melancholy tone of the rest of the post. Why the dark mood? Well why else – Jasmine Sinclair is not modelling for Restrained Elegance again (see Hywel’s introduction page to the site). Whilst I am not entirely sure about my initial motivation for joining the site way back whenever it was, I am sure that seeing pictures of Jasmine probably in the preview section was certainly high on my list of reasons. Back then I don’t think Jasmine had started her own site and so Jasmine Sinclair kind of was Restrained Elegance (I don’t mean to over-do this). Of course things have changed since those days; Jasmine got her own site, Hywel began working with a wider group of models and so the amount of Jasmine on RE had decreased since those early days but the link remained and RE was still the kind of ‘spiritual home’ of Jasmine. To learn that this has come to an end is a big shock and (again not meaning to overplay this) represents something of an end of an era for the site.

I think, for me certainly, the biggest shock of all of this is the apparent nature by which this seems to have occurred (there is an inherent bias here I suppose as we have heard only Hywels account). Those of us who have been around for a bit will recall that Jasmine took the best part of a year off a couple of years back with back problems. Had Jasmine been forced to retire due to a recurrence of these problems (this is an example you understand – I would of course not wish this upon anyone) I would have been saddened, as I was when Belle left the site earlier in the year, but would have understood and wished her well with whatever she went on to do. Reading through Hywels narrative of events (please forgive me if I have got the wrong end of the stick) seems to suggest that relations between the two of you have perhaps become a little strained such that you neither feel that you are in a position to work on each others sites. This is a real shame, as the pair of you (certainly from the videos you have shot together) have always seemed to have a really good working relationship, and indeed friendship and I therefore really hope that this separation (this is beginning to sound like a divorce) does not become acrimonious.

Those of us who are regular visitors to RE can’t fail to have noticed the massive drop in Jasmine sets during ’06 from previous years. Ironically I personally feel that RE is just coming to the end of it’s strongest year ever (again I mean to make no correlation between the two events). Yes, of course we are going to miss Jasmines appearances here but RE has come a long way since those early days when she first appeared and I am thus sure it will continue to go from strength to strength. I must also confess to being an occasional member of Jasmines site and it will certainly be intriguing to see where this goes with a decreased/complete end to Hywels involvement in it. Indeed, it has often been discussed in here how Jasmines site has in the past been criticised for being too much like RE (inevitable given the two sites related histories), perhaps this disentanglement will help towards getting Jasmine the recognition that her site deserves in it’s own right.

I hope my attempts at looking at the positive (above) are not taken out of context. My overriding feeling this evening, and I am sure I am not alone in this, is sorrow that Jasmine will not be appearing here again, and I really hope that she might reconsider. However more then that I really hope that the pair of you can remain friends – heck it’s not worth falling out over.

I will finish by wishing Jasmine well in the future. This long-term member would like to thank you for all of the fantastic sets you have done for RE over the years. You are a fantastic, stunningly attractive, genuinely likeable, sexy bondage model and your presence on RE will be sorely missed.

CD

Ps; Hywel, Given the retirement from the site of Belle earlier in the year and now Jasmine I was wondering if you might consider buying Ariel some flowers next time you see her – perhaps even some chocolates – or a gift wrapped Chanta for a couple of days to play with her!