She held out one hand and touched his knees, still clenched together desperately. “These knees are really going to get you in trouble with me, I can tell. I don’t want to have to tell you again to spread them wide open,” she told him, the smile gone. “NOW.” Slowly, he opened his knees but […]

“Why don’t you go and play in the garden Peter?” she suggested. I haven’t ‘played in the garden for years, and wasn’t about to start doing so any time soon. “The neighbours are away this weekend so nobody will see you… if that’s what you’re worried about,” she added. Granny lived in a semi-detached house […]

In the late 1950s until the early 1960s, we lived in Uganda. We were not wealthy people and so while we lived in Scotland, we certainly never had any household servants, but in Kampala everyone did – so we had a housekeeper (Joyce), a younger maid (Jeanette) and, a couple of days a week, a […]

One summer afternoon, when I was a skinny boy of 15, I took my sister Anne (who was 13 at the time) to one of our secret hideouts in the woods for a picnic. My relationship with my sister had changed a lot before that time. We were playmates growing up and often played ‘undressing […]

I have already written in more general terms about my young, beautiful tutor and how she used a ruler regularly during my evening studies. Now I’d like to tell you about a specific incident when corporal punishment was used. As with most Asian kids, academic subjects were treated with paramount importance in my household. Mum set a […]

When I was growing up, back in the mid 1980s, I was part of a gang of five kids who would dare each other to do silly things. One winter, it snowed and I was dared to throw a snowball at the door of this old lady’s house, and get her to chase me. It […]