Browsing a spanking personals site, searching for phrases that might trigger my kinky creativity, I giggled at one particular entry:

“Lad in need of the can”

Each to their own, of course, when it comes to fetishes. But I did wonder whether he has any particular type of can in mind – “it must be Heinz for the punishment to be authentic”? And picture the dread when the disciplinarian tells you that you’ve been especially naughty and are to be spanked with a full can, rather than one emptied of its contents…

I shouldn’t be mean. Anyone can make a typoh. And I just feel sorry for those young ladies commuting into London from Canning Town: should their tube trains be fitted with extra-soft cushions?