Room 2D

From Blushes 26 ‘I’m ready.’ A young girl in navy netball skirt and white blouse stood in the doorway to the office. The receptionist looked up from her typewriter. ‘Right. The Reverend Brown is ready for you; but you won’t need that skirt; it’s a house-rule.’ The girl looked a little embarrassed. ‘I’m sorry… It’s my old school games kit. I thought…’ The middle-aged woman stood up and shook her head. ‘Well, here, we find such heavy garments tend to get in the way. After all, netball skirts are usually for outdoor use, aren’t they?’ Pamela was about to explain that her top and skirt were the only items of sportswear she possessed. ‘Just slip it off. You’ll do fine in just your blouse and knickers.’ To Pamela the words ‘blouse and knickers’, had rather a nostalgic ring to them. She was 18 now, but it didn’t seem too long ago that she could have been seen on the sports field of her old school doing her physical exercises in just that...

From Blushes 26, continued from Teen Queen But what exactly was the situation? With regard to the Bilton Bodstock Teen Queen Contest? What was the exact state of play? Mrs Melanie Simmonds was wondering and so was daughter Tracy. And so also no doubt were various other hopeful mothers and daughters. You knew of course that there had to be a public contest, the contestants parading on the stage in the town hall with everyone watching, and then the three judges making their considered and momentous decision. Oh yes, you knew that. But you also knew, if you knew anything, that that was not how it really worked. You knew that really the girl who won was the one who had most impressed the judges in private beforehand. Anyone who knew anything knew that that was how Beauty Contests were won. More to the point it was the one who had impressed the most important of the judges. Yes. And the most important in the Bilton Bodstock contest w...

From Blushes 26 ‘What shall I  wear ?’ wailed Tracy, the excitement almost too much. ‘Just keep calm,’ her mother counselled. ‘There’s no panic. He wants to see you in your ordinary clothes first of all. But come straight home so I can brush your hair and see you’re looking nice.’ The town’s annual Teen Queen Contest, annual since three years ago at least when  Eldridge Electrical  started up in the town and decided to sponsor the event as a means of getting their name known. So was it any wonder that Tracy Simmonds was excited with the contest now begun, the finals  just a week away ? And Mr Eldridge  coming round to see her after work today . There had been some general talk of Tracy entering last year but of course she was barely 18 then and certainly  too scared . This year though she had been persuaded. And why not: Tracy was an extremely pretty girl, a delightful blue-eyed blonde wit...