“Now there’s a nappy and a nightie under your pillows.” Mum said.

“What?” I yelped.

“Even girls don’t wear nappies!”

“No, but petticoated boys do.” mum replied.

“Now I bought you both pull on ones because you’re not babies…

but if you act like babies,

we’ll just have to put you in a proper babies nappy instead.”

With the threat of being put in a nappy like a baby, and the fear of going to school dressed as girls,

Peter and I reluctantly lifted our pillows to find a pull-on nappy,

a pair of rubber knickers,

a pair of cotton over-knickers

and a white frilly nightie each.

Peter started to cry as he pulled on the frilly white over-knickers.

I completely empathised with him,

but there was no way I’d let them see me crying like a baby…

or a girl for that matter.