The worst spanking I ever got was at the quite advanced age of 17. My father worked on an oil rig in the North Sea, so he was away two weeks in every three, and even when he was home he was out doing, as my stepmother once put it,’ God knows what’.
I have no siblings, so most of the time it was just me and my stepmother, whom I called Mum. She always called me Melinda, my middle name, because she didn’t like Adelaide, which was my first name and what everyone else called me..