Secrets

To say Enid Blyton wasn't an influence on me would be to miss something that overlapped the other big thing in my life boarding school life as I read one while at the other and a good number of her novels I read were about communities of children in boarding school like me, living in the country or as this series starts with children running way from uncaring and abusive even by the standards of the time adults who were responsible for them, making a new life with amazing resourcefulness.

 I did eventually get the Secret Island in hardback which isn't really an adventure book in the way all the others are but more an account of their lives giving you the background to the adventures to unfold as we learn about Jack, Peggy, Mike and Nora.

The Secret of Spiggy Holes is the first adventure proper  introducing us to important people such as Prince Paul.
As with the first one it took ages to find a serviceable hardback and like the other, it didn't come with the full colour dust jacket although the images in both are replicated as frontalis so it's just an irritant not to have the actual jacket.

This is a more modern edition, the 1991 omnibus published by Mulberry of the last three novels, the Secret Mountain, Secret of Killimooin and Secret of Moon Castle being held captive in the Secret Moutain, travelling the the Killimooin Forrest where they feel a ferocious band of robbers  hangs out and exploring Moon Castle looking for ghosts at the end of night.

When things go wrong adults take over..

The warm up before the serious action

 Strapping tends not to be mentioned so much as the slipper or the cane but is keenly felt.

Stopping the pouting and dress as the sissy you are

Quite often we talk other things on this blog such as "being little", interests that align more to that such as children's books, cartoons and given some of our issues with regulating emotions, spanking  although it's not by any means a focus.

This week we're going to talk something else that does matter as a part of my identity, being a Sissy, part of the mix of me.

If you are a sissy, then it's not a matter of dressing as the kid you were, often you were prevented from expressing yourself at school, in various youth movements and at home so it was all very secretive.

Now most of those constraints are over, just where do you begin in being you?

We wore rugged and sometimes itchy attire having memories at 14 wearing very itchy long trousers at school that were so irritating to my skin because they were' "the rules" but what we wanted and if we could find a moment alone we did was were girls attire because it felt softer, more comfortable and, yes very pretty.

Once we did it, we knew deep down that was what we wanted to wear.

Personally I feel as a Sissy we need to start with something like soft, satin babydolls and slips and definitely matching panties, making them a permanent part of our lives because you feel so much better in yourself for dressing the way your head always wanted.

Now of course as a Little Sissy you won't dress like your older sister might going out, but you may wear soft vests and matching patterned knickers and either plain tights or socks, knee length for school looks and ankle with cute motifs when watching tv, playing or having fun.

While you love skirts and dresses and I have lots, you'll have girls sports shorts too which if you're a bit concerned about being seen out, aren't noticed by most going about their business.

In a stew

Sometimes I get in an almighty strop shouting and pouting away for ages were no amount of words will actually stop it and why this life includes measures that bypass the funk I'm in to ensure I stop there and then

The deal

The youngest girl in the Fifth

Having gotten Christmas out of the way, here's the latest instalment of a series of short bits on the stories I read at boarding school and this edition dates to 1970 and isn't in quiet so good a condition as the others apart from having the price in the old UK money that was changed February 1971.

The story is is set at a all girls boarding school where fourteen and a bit Gwen Gascoyne, is moved in the middle of the term from the Upper Fourth to the Fifth Form as her Principal, Miss Roscoe feels the work in the Upper Fourth is too easy despite her years.
In the World of the school girls she is seen as stand-offish, treated very much as an outcast by all except Netta whose malicious scheming nature leads Gwen into trouble and deceit.
All of this isn't helped by a spell of bad luck either!
Gwen comes into her own during an accident during an accident in her forms geology expedition and from then on begins to earn the respect of her classmates.

Yes Sir. Here's the cane, Sir

Involving you in your own punishment such as fetching the implement helps in making it the more memorable and therefore most effective in stopping the behaviour that lead to it.