Room 2D

A marvellous story with lovely Alan Bell illustrations, from Roué 4  Sunlight streams in through lace-curtained windows in a little flat above a tea-shop. The noise of traffic filters up from below, the telephone on an elegant corner table rings in a muted way. Miss Etheridge ignores it for the moment. The thick strap in her hand whacks once, twice more across the reddened and bouncing buttocks. The girl stifles her sobs, with her knuckles pressed against her mouth, and then weeps desperately as the strap cracks across her bare bottom one last, stinging time. ‘Get up girl, and stand there!’ Miss Etheridge indicates a place at the end of the piano. The girl gets to her feet and tugs at her drooping knickers as she hurries to obey. ‘And leave  them  where they are! I haven’t finished with you yet!’ The weeping girl drops her pants, and they fall forlornly to her ankles. ‘And stop that blubbering chi...

Janus model ( The Chastening of Loretta Amaro , The Big Four-O) and Cheek to Cheek actress ( Dance School I , Dance School II —Dancing Discipline , Dance School III —Triple Trouble , Secretarial College ) Luna Winter is interviewed by Will Scarlet. From Februs 20. Well here we are, with a Will again, oh faithful readers. Shortly after New Year, our amazing Lady Editor, Paula Meadows, and her husband, honoured my humble maisonette for dinner. Paula brought me a copy of The Janus Collection in which she looks back over her years as illustrator and model for Janus. The book contains over a hundred of the drawings which she did during her time with that illustrious magazine. There are also photos of Paula herself, in action!! If you haven’t already ordered or bought this from your newsagent, you will of course be wanting to now. Go on! My interview will still be here when you get back. The meal being over, the conversation turned to...