We’ve just rejoined the National Trust, which looks after historic old buildings around the country. Not, of course, that any of our visits to said old buildings are purely for pervy pleasure, as we imagine life upstairs and downstairs. One of their properties caught my eye, and sounds like a must-visit location: The Workhouse at Southwell, apparently the best-preserved workhouse in England.
As ever, the Trust has tried to bring the history of the place to life. So, according to its website, visitors can:
Play ‘The Master’s Punishment’ game
OK, so I’m now wondering what this might entail. Will Haron be given a quiz to complete as she tours the property, a stern uniformed workhouse master marking her script, and applying the birch for every wrong answer? (Now there’s a job I’d enjoy for the summer season).
Maybe there’ll be a list of offences committed by the residents; visitors have to work out what the punishment would have been. Or perhaps the ‘game’ is more of a ‘guess the implement’: the girl’s tied down and whacked with the birch, cane, strap and more, having to work out which is which.
“whacked with the bitch”
sorry, i’m not being one of those irritating typo-pointing-out people but i had to mention this as it made me p*ss myself laughing!
really random visual image in my head now… 😛
The Masters’ Punishment Game indeed. Well I’m betting that those Masters tend to be the types totally disinterested in fairness, making up rules to suit their own purposes. God knows they could use a comment here to punish a girl. Any excuse will do. So visitors should expect punishment for just about anything.
But like Blue Fairy I couldn’t resist getting whacked with the bitch myself. Giggles.
Hey Abel,
Thanks for that link! I’ve sent it to my Master — we will definitly be heading over there to go on that tour!!!
ROFL that’s the best (worst!) proofreading error I’ve made on this site. (Now corrected, for those of you who wonder what the eagled-eyed Blue Fairy is talking about).
I do love spotting errors like this. My two favourites in documents I’ve seen at work over the years have been a website that described a supplier’s “pubic training course programme”, and an IT manual that explained that “this puts the anus on users to be careful when entering data”. Do share any examples you’ve come across!
I told once MSN-ed someone saying that I was really worried about failing me “spankish” GCSE.