The slippering incident happened one day after hockey. Me and two friends were the last off the pitch by a long way as we had been busy chatting as girls do. When we eventually got back to the changing rooms all the others were either naked from the showers or getting dressed again. Miss F, the sports mistress, told us to hurry up and told us off for dithering and awarded each of us a detention – one of the four I got.
Although we started to undress we sat around in bra and knickers gossiping again. Miss F came back some considerable time later to find us three were the only ones there. She told us to stand facing the bench where our clothes hung on pegs while she fetched her leather soled slipper. Once again I was feeling very vulnerable and just knew we were going to get some form of corporal punishment.