I’d love to.” Melanie replied. “But do you have any nappies?” she asked.

“I don’t but Peter does.” Audrey proudly replied, causing her little brother to blush something rotten. Melanie’s brother Paul dropped his jaw and stared at his friend as Audrey explained that he still wets the bed occasionally, and therefore has plenty of DriNites. With a photo of the boys kissing each other as leverage, they took little persuading. With their nappies on, they were given a nightie each; one with Tinkerbell on the front, the other with Barbie on it. And if that wasn’t humiliating enough for the two ten year olds, they were not only put in the same bed, but in the same sleeping bag too… and when they woke, there was even more lovely photographs to blackmail the boys with.

The girls had them over the proverbial barrel for years. Audrey had her brother Peter tidying her bedroom and polishing her school shoes whilst Melanie’s little brother Paul was brushing his sister’s hair and putting it in plaits every night, painting her toenails, running her baths and fetching her snacks. Then, on the rare occasion that the opportunity of a double sleepover arose… the girls would relish in humiliating their little brothers. It’d always start with a slide show on one of their smart-phones…