When you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep, what do you do?

Mostly, I listen to audiobooks or podcasts on my iPod, but last night it was out of battery after a train journey. I had to resort to counting sheep.

Hang on, thought I, sheep? Why? I’d rather count something pleasant, that would carry me off to an interesting dream.

At first, I thought about counting cane strokes landing on a schoolgirl’s bottom as she is bent over a trestle. Then the count got a little too high, my schoolgirl was getting too sore, and the fantasy needed adjustment.

I started simply counting schoolgirls as they walked past single-file, imagining each one in every detail. This didn’t particularly work either, because I couldn’t figure out where they were going in such great numbers, and this nagged me, and wouldn’t let me go to sleep.

Finally I got onto the perfect solution.

I had the whole school lined up around a courtyard. This was an assembly following a major riot. In the middle there was a trestle.

Each schoolgirl was going to walk to the trestle, raise her skirt, bend over and receive six stroke of the cane from a gowned housemaster. I would count them to the middle, count the stroke, and carry on to the next girl.

This worked its calming wonders: I got through about fifteen girls and their stripes before I fell asleep. I still prefer my iPod, but now I’m well prepared for any future technical difficulties.

If you wish to try out this method and report back on your success, I’m sure we will all be interested in hearing how you get on!

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