My fascination with girls and the clothes they wore at prep school continued until I started at the exclusively boys college at the age of nine, but then a new influence began.

My mother was a professional musician and decided that I should learn the violin. As there were no violin teachers at the boys’ school it was decided that I should learn at the Girls High School, known simply as GHS. The music rooms were in the main girls’ hostel, which housed over a hundred boarders from standard 3 to matric. Twice weekly in the afternoon I would enter this holy of holys to have my music lesson. The place was packed with girls heading out to play tennis in their short white tennis skirts and to play hockey or whatever. Some were simply relaxing on the lawns with their gym skirts pulled back to get the maximum of sun on the lovely long legs. The senior girls wore long black stockings during the winter and many a suspender did I see as school-bags were being picked up!…..all very strange and exciting to a young lad like myself, but I loved it!