I was a real chatterbox in school, particularly during my primary years, and my talking in class frequently got...
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Not so long ago, I lost my parents, and I had the unenviable task of clearing their lifetime’s possessions....
The phrase ‘Fun Slippering’ sometimes occurs in messages to this board. I have not heard the expression before, and...
It was 1959. I was eight and in my last term at primary school before moving on to the...
What is the longest anyone has had to wait between the announcement of punishment and its ‘execution’? I read...
I attended a boys’ grammar school in the North of England in the 1960s.Corporal punishment was widely used.Most of...
A Friday caning was a real spoiler for me. If you could have postponed a caning you received on...
Here’s a shopping list from the county of Bedfordshire Ashton Middle – Dunstable Claire – b1971 – Slipper across...
Do not know if anybody else encountered punishments at school apart from slippering or canings. But I used to...
Hello everybody, I’m still deployed, but thankfully, it is proving to be pretty quiet. I’ve been working on my...