My time

This was the era I arrived into the world in  and one that certainly including cats as we had several including Siamese cats that I loved to pet, one the few things that actually helped calm me down although furniture was old fashioned even for the time.
We lived pretty much for stories be they in comics, books or being read on radio or new fangled television that has pride of place in front room.

Team games III

Here go in the last of the current Team Sports series looking at the the time sports I loved  from Junior and High school.
Field Hockey

We're on the case of the ball!

Fielding, what you need to be good at

Overall view as the match is well underway. 

It's no wonder I've always followed the NHL don'tcha think?

Too old for a spanking?

During my mid teens I as asked about "what do you want to us to do if you get into trouble" by Mom who as you noticed side stepped completely the word 'discipline' and actually I said I was quite happy with a spanking not least as grounding when I was even home wasn't a sanction where I couldn't go out by myself  anyway so I was kinda grounded anyway and I preferred to be given a consequence and have the rule I'd broken enforced on me to help me learn it.
It wasn't long before with all that stuff about grown up interests that people started to think I was past childhood to the point that although I longed for adults protecting and correcting me, I became accustomed to the idea that wasn't going to happen.
This may of been okay for a good number of people but the post childhood ways of dealing with me involving lots of talking and reasoning didn't cut it as those were thing I struggled with so I felt more and more 'lost' while having a strong sense of entitlement  because I didn't know where the boundaries were.
The thing that came from the events of the last year and half, is that that attempt to mask over with an adult wrapper  what is in reality a child still and for medical reasons will always be so proved just how wrong that approach was. It ignored who I was for what Others wanted me to be.
A Child.
I AM A CHILD WHO'S AGE IS JUST OLDER BY THE CALENDAR, THAT'S ALL.
Am I too old for a spanking?
I AM NOT TOO OLD TO HAVE MY BOTTOM SPANKED BECAUSE MY NEEDS ARE THOSE OF A CHILD AND I NEED CHILD-LIKE DISCIPLINING THAT INCLUDES BUT NOT NECESSARY RESTRICTED TO IT.
I want you to it clear to me that any manipulation, pouting, and defiant behavior will no longer make an impact at home
I want you instead of over-talking, debating, or explaining, simply give me a consequence and enforce the rule.
Like if I cannot turn off the computer when it is time for bed, there will not be any computer time for me tomorrow night. And until I can show me that I respect the rules, you'll see to it  I will be unable to use the computer.
I don't  want you to entertain any debating, begging, or caving in to tantrums and whining with me
I want you help me realize that I am responsible for my decisions and behaviours. 
I want you to not over-indulge me so I learn to appreciate everything I have, the value of hard work, saving up, that material things are not what truly satisfies me.

 If I'm in need of a spanking, I want you to give me it.

Getting set for Spring 2008 style!

Although this blog is entitled "Joanne's Dorm", the dorm is  the main place I am sent to when I'm really naughty and that's just a part of my life this blog is about cos it's all about how I feel, what kind of a girl I am really.
And seeing it is my birthday, I think I can start by saying I like traditional flower prints on things like skirts and dresses which what my girl friends tended to wear more especially in the Spring and Summer months cos it's good to let your skin breath a bit and  get some sunlight after Winter.
I like socks more than tights though from my teens I got used to wearing them but they work well with skirts like this and aren't much for really going sleeveless which may be to do with my issues with body image.

The day before the edition

For me with just one day to go this is so apt a playful Tomboy can become that refined pretty young lady even if chunks  of how I'm wired mean I can't do everything you expect and I still require your love  and support.

The Girl (Comic)

A special offshoot of The Eagle but for Girls:

The Eagle was a iconic British boys comic from the 1950's when boy were boys full of beans, heros and daring-do but girls then were regarded more as dainty, fragile things best kept for marriage and being of use to boys and men.
It was interesting that this comic taking some inspiration from what Women contributed during World war Two when the menfolk were on the frontline helping the War, effort showed a woman at the helm of an important role.
Girls can be aviators too!

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.