The Times the other week had a column on the instances of mistreatment of works of art by drunken or careless owners. For example -

While a house guest at Rousham Park in Oxfordshire, the young James Lees-Milne was horrified to witness his drunken host, Maurice Hastings, slashing the portraits of the Dormer family by Sir Godfrey Kneller with a hunting crop.

Eventually satisfied that several generations of dead Dormers had taken a good whipping, he stalked around the William Kent landscaped gardens with his gun, taking aim at the statues and blasting away at the private parts of Apollo.

I imagine a party of schoolgirls being taken on a trip to a country house hotel. They stash away bottles of booze, and, when sufficiently drunk, they rampage through the corridors and gardens, bringing a personal touch to statues and paintings.

They roll a condom onto Apollo’s, erm, arrow, stick a bottle into the jaws of Samson’s lion, and draw moustaches on portraits in the hall.

I also imagine a line of girls in the hotel lobby, bending over with their bottoms on display, as their teacher walks along the line with the cane. The hotel manager walks alongside her, witnessing that each stroke is precise and effective.

The view from the check-in desks would not be at all obstructed.

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