Last night I dreamed about skipping school; going off to do something else – just to wander around, probably, like I sometimes did in my real school days. I returned to my dream-father (who looked a lot like Abel) waiting in the living room.

Why, he wanted to know, had my classmate just called the house to ask whether I was feeling OK? When I hadn’t turned up at school, she was worried I was sick, apparently, and wanted to cheer me up. And got my father on the phone.

In the dream this went no further than the certain knowledge I was about to get a spanking with an enormous bath brush. After waking up and sharing this with Abel, and took a few swats just to sweeten the disappointing lack of dream-spanking.

And then we figured out that, after that dream-girl went to school the following day, she was certain to get a caning on top of the spanking her father had given her. An interesting reversal on the usual concept of “double trouble”, wherein the parental spanking will be delivered on top of the fresh cane stripes.

P.S. I thought the father might be nice enough to write the girl a note for school, to save her from the caning, but Abel didn’t agree. Typical.