“Personally, I like the white nursery print so I think that’s just what we’ll dress you in tonight,” she told me without waiting for an answer, “And anyway, it’s not like you’ll be showing off for anyone tonight in your crib. These plastic panties are good because they have nice snug elastic around the legs […]

“Here you are Jimmy, drink up your num-nums,” she sang merrily. I accepted the 32-ounce baby bottle with blocks and giraffes and reluctantly began nursing the warmed milk. I had begun to suspect it was laced with a mild sedative and diuretic This was in order to better control me it wasn’t for nothing that […]

Wednesday became Thursday and soon it was Friday; the last weekday of the Easter break. On Monday I’ll start at my new school and the closer it gets, the more I’m dreading it. On Saturday Mum took Julia and me into town and bought us some new stationery, a school bag and a raincoat each. […]

Samantha’s a girl, obviously. Paul is a boy with boyish hair. Andrew, like George has longer ‘girls’ hair, Annabel is also a girl, as is Melanie. They tell me about the various teachers, the good and the not so good, the friendly, the strict, and the classes they love or hate. “I can’t stand gym!” […]

I felt a bit more at home throughout my second week attending Endsleigh Comprehensive School. However that’s because I knew where all my classes were held and was less reliant on George telling me where I needed to be. The uniform still feels wrong but the PE kit isn’t quite so bad as the sporty […]

A few days later, Mum said that she’d noticed I’d had a look at the Prom photos on her laptop. Julia and I are fully aware that she could check on our surfing history, so this didn’t surprise me. Then she asked me what I thought about them. “They look horrible!” I replied. “Like little […]

Mum wanted another photo on the stepping stones. In fact it seemed everybody wanted a photo on the stepping stones which meant a small queue had formed on either side of them. We stopped and sat for a while on the river bank before following the river downstream and back towards Thorpe. We stopped for […]