A call last week from a colleague, pleading for assistance. He’s running an away-day for his team next month: would I mind helping with some of the coaching?

Happy to store up favours requiring future reciprocation, I agreed. The note popped into my inbox later in the day from his PA, comfirming my role as a ‘mentor’ for the event.

Little do they realise that that particular term has entirely different connotations in the circles in which I move! I wonder if I’ll be allowed to deploy any traditional techniques?

Rather naughtily, I then sneaked a peak at a pack of PowerPoints for the course, that had been abandoned next to a printer. It seems that the opening exercise is to include that old training cliche,

“Tell the other attendees something that none of them could know about you.”

OK, where to start?

“I want to cane Jenny”, the cutest member of his team?

“I spank my wife”?

“I write a naughty blog”?

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