His wife threw a scowl as she continued knitting. Ann's recall of her recent spanking caused her face to flush but she persisted with her assurances. ... And there's Dick and George and Timmy too, so I ll be double safe father!"Karen Cottage, set in a quiet Dorset village next to the sea, had been a holiday haunt for the family over past years. Now they were older, Julian, Dick and Ann wanted to rediscover it independently for themselves. Naturally their cousin George and her dog Timmy also,. I had twenty mounted scouts and four teamsters aboard two mule drawn wagons. The wagons did the double duty of carrying provisions for our trip and hauling important or interesting things back home. I started small because I was working out procedures and training my scouts as we went.We explored and remapped a twenty mile square (four hundred square miles) section on the first ten day trip. We used old, pre-catastrophe maps as a starting point. We plotted the limits of the area to be explored. I stood in the mark, beamed a huge smile at him, the camera flashed,and I picked up Veiny again, heading upstairs. I must have fallen asleep at about midnight, my phone by my bed, with happydreams of how me might be smiling when he saw mypictures. I was just coming to a point in the dream when he was in a hotelroom, unzipping his trousers, when ? BEEP! My phone started buzzing. I shot upright, startled, and looked at it. "Naked,and covered in flour. Two minutes," it read.I blinked and frowned,. Lisa was sobbing as she pressed on behind me.And then there was an awful, pitiful cry of despair. I looked down myself to see Lisa sliding backwards into waiting arms. I paused before realising that Lisa was caught. There was nothing I could do except save myself and fetch help.I reached the top edge and I pulled myself up, immediately glancing down the rock face to see a youth climbing after me. As I scrambled up I saw an old tree branch. Without any hesitation I picked up the branch and.