Julia, who was in her mid-twenties, had been my partner for six months. Her previous boyfriend had been a wealthy merchant banker I knew socially, and I had noticed Julia warming to me. Everything changed when I returned from one of my foreign trips looking frazzled and with my hair turned grey overnight, despite being thirty. Terrorists armed with AK47s had chased us and we had narrowly escaped their grasp. Out drinking...

I was eighteen, and in the summer before I went to uni, I was working on garage fuel pumps in the days before self-service. One of our regular customers was a lady in her mid-thirties whom I will call Vera. She always smiled and was very forward and provocative in the way she acted whenever I served her (with petrol, you understand). She would stick her shapely breasts out; make sure I got a good look at her beckoning bot...

I had been a sailing club member since I was thirteen, and I was now seventeen and doing my A-level studies at a local technical college. Joan was the Commodore of the sailing club following the last committee meeting. Joan had divorced and owned an old traditional keelboat racing yacht with a varnished hull above the waterline and wooden decks. There was an enormous amount of work required to maintain these boats every w...

I had been wondering if my young wife, Cindy, had been cheating on me with my best friend when I was away on business. I had been very busy at work and away from home on business for two months. Sometimes she had switched off her mobile phone for a few hours at a time. There was a lack of enthusiasm from her on my return home. I paid the bill for her mobile phone, which was registered in my name. I asked my service provid...

Think back to those days in the immediate aftermath of WW2 and their attendant problems. Not the least of these was tuberculosis (TB). I was an age nineteen student nurse in training at a TB sanatorium in England. The sanatorium had been a stately home and had grown in size with the construction of temporary wards. They built these from specially insulated service barrack huts with gloss-painted walls and a false ceiling...

Life carried on. Carolyn came around almost every week to review her progress at college and go over the past exam paper answers. We usually had sex and a light to moderate caning, if she was not having her period. Carolyn said that the combination of sex and caning was helping her deal with the strain of her studies. It removed all her frustrations! After about two months, I gently asked her, “Carolyn, is sitting on a fr...

I flew to London in business class looking like the spoiled daughter of a local wealthy sheikh. Mother saw me off at the airport. Departing in my abaya and hijab, I was told, once airborne, to change into Western clothes in the toilet before the aircraft landed. When I returned to my seat, I was in a tailored trouser suit. It was very smart but cut for modesty. One of the air hostesses gave me an admiring look. There was...

I spent a little over a year working in a Southeast Asia country, looking after a major project for my company. It was close to the time when I could hand it over to local colleagues and go home. I viewed this with dismay, but a grateful company was letting me hang on there for a few months, partly as a present for doing a good job. Completion of the project was required by a certain date. We were likely to achieve it. Th...

Several years back, I made multiple visits to a major city in SE Asia, often of two to three weeks duration. I was taking part in the planning and pre-mobilisation of an offshore project. This project was to take place elsewhere in the region but the excellent support facilities in the city were vital to get it up and running. The main contractor for the project had a modern office in a new office block. Their office mana...