I have written before about Ingrid, the Jamaican housekeeper and nanny who was in full charge of the younger ones discipline in our house, and how she spanked me with both her hand and the belt whenever I was naughty enough to have earned a whipping. As I mentioned before, she had spanked her own […]

One evening, both my parents had to work late, and so I was left in the care of my sister Rebeca, who is only four years older than myself. Early in the evening, I went out for a while to play with some of my friends. Unfortunately, I lost track of time and I got […]

I grew up in a fairly rural area of the UK in the 1960s, and a lot of the properties in my village had large gardens with apple and pear orchards. I was really never the sort of lad to get into trouble, but still I was vulnerable to the odd bully – I guess […]

In 1941, I was in a day school for boys in Oxford. I had no siblings, and my father had been killed in the war in late 1939. Lots of others who lived nearby had also lost their fathers, and many more men were away fighting. Everything in Oxford, though, was much more peaceful than […]

    My sister and I are what’s termed fraternal twins – the product of two separately fertilised eggs, rather than the conventional divided one. My sister Cassie is slightly older according to our mother – who should know of course, because she was there to welcome us! We loved each other, still do, and […]

In addition to parental punishments, the young are sometimes spanked by someone closer to their own age, most commonly an older brother or sister or a babysitter. In my case, it was my older sister Cathy who introduced me to the pain of a sound spanking. Cathy and I were best friends growing up. Some […]