Miss Buck

Miss Buck

Now, if my memories serve me correctly, and believe me, it does as and when i need it to, I can think back to a certain dinner lady who ruled The Peters ham Russell Infants School with a wooden spoon of cast iron, (well perhaps not ,but solid wood at least). Though she never actually […]

Peters School Days Part 2

  In infant school, there was only ever one instant where a teacher threatened to whack a boy with a plimsoll for leaving them lying around. I would think that was even back then a little over the top, bearing in mind the boy had a disease, which actually killed him when he was sixteen. […]

Peters School Days Part 1

The first time I saw a teacher actually put someone over their knee and spank them was in my nursery school. Mrs Pegram was in charge of the running of Ham Newman House Nursery. From what I remember she wasn’t a goddamn awful woman in fact I always thought she was actually very kind and […]

Aunt Sheila Part 2

Aunt Sheila Part 2

I remember this Saturday I went to see Aunty Sheil,a we had been shopping in Kingston and I had bought “The Great Rock’ in Roll Swindle” by the sex pistols. When we got back to Aunty Sheila’s in Chessington, I played it to her F words as well. During the shopping trip the subject of […]

Aunty Sheila Part 1

Aunty Sheila Part 1

  I always find it quite amazing the shifts in attitudes. Where parent’s teachers, Aunties, uncles, Grandmothers, neighbors, friends of the family all used to talk openly about smacking bottoms, say 30 or so years back, they wouldn’t dare today because they know there is an element that is undoubtedly dare I say it, sexual. […]

Aunt Janet Babysits

Aunt Janet Babysits

We had an ‘aunty’ who was really a young work colleague of dad’s, whom our family befriended. We loved Janet dearly and she was super-indulgent of us boys.One night she agreed to babysit us while our parents went out. We behaved appallingly, and would have tried the patience of a saint, let alone an unofficial […]