A Life in the Day of Rosemary Booker - The Woody Back to School ...

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Jojo’s lack of response might be disappointing
to Patty but it will not stop her from getting her fix;
she is a whop junkie of the highest order.
My best chum, Debs, is researching a book on
this history of Woodys, dating back to its days as one
of the prestigious boarding schools in the nation.
Thirty years ago Patty somehow finagled her way into
being appointed Red-shirt. Deborah has managed to
solicit interviews with several luminaries of that era;
including her own mother, Penny, Claire Brooks Ma,
and none other than Ms Lawton herself. They all give
chilling accounts of Patty’s reign of terror. She caned
so many gals that she was simply known as ‘the
Thrasher’.
Thirty years on she’s still getting her jollies
whupping arse.
Deborah, Nixdown and I have all assumed the
same pose, leaning slightly forward in our chairs with
our arms crossed on top of the desk lids. We watch
with learned eyes, checking that Patty doesn’t make a
single error that would allow an intervention.
Nixdown is drumming her fingers on her desk.
Her face is a picture of disgust. Nicola Jane may stand
almost a foot shorter that Patty but she would think
nothing of rushing in and hacking the dame in the
shins if Patty starts acting the bollocks.
Sadly as I predicted Patty is delivering a
textbook thrashing and as there is no question that
Jojo left herself wide-open for whops there is little we
can do but observe.