From a pupil’s point of view, I enter Tommy’s mindset. When you’re taken to the head teacher, you’re in trouble. It’s about being a child again.” At Christmas, Geoffrey and Marie came over with the children, and Mrs Pike had once again to stomach the sight of that great fat belly all swelled up to bursting - a third one was expected in January. The instant the last stroke is laid on, the officer shouts "habis" ("finished"). In one case we can hear one of the attendants positioned closest to the prisoner at the frame telling him to "take a breath, take a breath" ("tarik nafas"). She could not think. She felt silly. She felt she shouldn't be told such a big thing while wearing a shower cap. You're all right," she said brightly, "you're just not the marrying type, that's all. Never have been. I should have spotted it."

New Grange Manor is part of the ‘adult school role play scene’. There are ‘schools’ throughout the country although New Grange Manor is one of the more structured ones. If they are punishing anyone there’s always a senior teacher there to make sure the play is safe,” she adds. She's turned them against me," Geoffrey told her. "The doctor's given me something. For depression." For some reason, that word - "depression" - sliced through Mrs Pike's heart. Made her want to catch her breath. March 2021. I’ve notice that people are starting to find this post. I love it when that happens. If you’d like to read more about the experience of being whipped here are a few links;But now he was going to show off the nineteen year old to the assembled worthies, caning her hard enough to ensure she wriggled wept and pleaded for their entertainment. Three of them had already made enquiries as to what might be an acceptable fee for the girl to be taken into service and the workhouse Master had no doubt that she would be the highest priced sale for some time. On the Thursday after he actually told her, Geoffrey came over for a late soup and cheese supper. Soft white rolls, Lurpak, Dairylea spread. Mrs Pike had stomach trouble on and off for days after Marie's outburst. "Is it such a sin," she wrote in a letter to Marie, "to want to have my own son close at hand? In case anything untoward should happen?" My son is 19 and he knows about it,” says Miss Livingstone. “I don’t really talk to him about it but if he wanted to ask anything I’d tell him. People in my business life don’t know though. I don’t think they’d be comfortable with it.” In fact, the neighbours did their best, she had to admit that. Hairy Mrs Lesley brought round a piece of apple pie on a plate, even bothered to put on a doily. "Don't worry about returning the plate," she said. "There's no hurry, you take your time."

I'm sorry," said the man, who was ever so young - even younger than Geoffrey. "Would you like to sit down. Only we've some very bad news for you, I'm afraid." Is that you, Mrs W? I have a naughty boy here - could you come and take him away please? What's that? Oh, yes, you'd better bring the spanking strap - oh, hold on a moment, Mrs W, I think he's apologising _ it's all right, Mrs W, I won't be needing you to come, not for the time being, thanks anyway..." I’m 6’2”, a big man, and I feel small; insignificant in the face of the overwhelming flows of emotions arising from having been whipped by my Mistress. Well, after all, the Workhouse had to support itself, he reasoned, and had to pay him sufficient to keep himself in comfort too. Why does being whipped affect me in such a different way to being caned? The sensations are certainly very different, but this is not about sensations for me; it’s about the emotions, especially the day/after emotions.

Don't you think Geoffrey deserves a bit of freedom now that he's in his forties?" Marie snapped at her one day. Mrs Pike went white. "He lived with me until he was 32," she reminded her. "He's always been a good boy." You married beneath you," she told him during Sale Of The Century. "You want to watch out That Woman doesn't take you to the cleaners." I hated giving birth to Geoffrey," Mrs Pike said, when Marie helped herself just like that to more bread sauce. "It was just like going to the toilet, only worse." For full information about JCP in Malaysia, see the feature article Judicial caning in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, and these additional notes.