Late for School
From Blushes Supplement 2. I’ve always loved this photo-set, which was used for several Blushes stories. I'm not sure if I’ve previously posted any others here. ‘Look, I’m awfully sorry but I really must go,’ said Nicola, ‘otherwise I’m going to be late for school.’ It was a fact and one not to be viewed with any equanimity. The consequence of missing Morning Assembly when you were a Sixth Former at Southfield County School for Girls was dire in the extreme. At the same time it was a decidedly humiliating thing to have to say when you were 17 and therefore grown up, and your companion was older still and thus very grown up, with such juvenile considerations as school assemblies long forgotten. They were seated in a green van which bore the legend R Bulpitt & Son — Plumbers Merchants on either side, parked in a quiet little cul-de-sac. Nicola Winfield, prettily blonde, and one Kevin Hicks,...