This is a story which I have posted elsewhere but which I hope you might enjoy. All the characters in this story are entirely fictional and the rights to them are vested in the author. Any resemblance to real persons, living or departed, is entirely coincidental.
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At 35 Anne Sullivan was what one might politely call plain. She wasn't - and never really had been - what one might call centrefold material. Even allowing for the fact that most of the entrants would be little more than half her age, there would be little point in her entering the "Miss Luton 1967" contest. She'd met Alec, her husband, at teacher training college back in the Fifties. It wasn't for her looks that he'd married her though. Oh no. Alec was attracted to her wit, humour, cheekily rebellious nature and liberal values which he shared.
Having begun her teaching career at one of Mr Butler's bright new secondary modern schools, Anne had taken a lengthy break for family reasons, this time returning to the profession in a very different role in the primary school of a sleepy Home Counties village.
Painfully aware of her all too plain features, Anne had decided that with the arrival of the mini skirt the time had come to show off her best assets. Despite the plainness of her facial features and the smallness of her breasts, she had long, shapely, creamy-silk legs and the arrival of the mini skirt (or rather the capacity of her domestic budget to afford one) presented her with the perfect opportunity to show them off to the best advantage. Perhaps the thought that wearing that mini skirt to school might not be the best thing to do, hadn't entered her head. If it had, she'd dismissed the thought.
As she handed in the completed attendance register at the secretary's office that bright, cool, Tuesday May morning, Miss Brown, the secretary, removed her spectacles and gave Anne a sharp look.
"The headmaster has asked me to tell you that he wishes to see you straight after assembly. Miss Eaton will cover your class for you."
Anne didn't particularly like Miss Brown but she understood well enough the old maxim about not shooting the messenger.
"Does he indeed? I wonder what for?"