A Life in the Day of Nixdown Nixon - The Woody Back to School Unit

3Thrashed by a GoddessAlthough my father maintained a beautiful seashorehouse in Somerset he and Petron spent muchof the year in Paris and other European locales. So atthe age of eleven I was shipped off to boardingschool. After a childhood of travelling with my fatherand living on an unpredictable timetable I was notbest suited to the rigors and regimen of boardingschool life.The first of the schools I attended wasconsidered amongst the most prestigious in thecountry and was certainly amongst the mostexpensive. It was filled with members of thearistocracy and the daughters of the landed gentry.As the off-spring of a self-made film director I waslooked down upon as a parvenu. The gals were aprissy and self-important lot and none more so thanthe four gals who were known as ‘The Goddesses’.The four Goddesses were comprised of theHead-Gal and her Deputy and the Captains of the twohouses. We were expected to address them as