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It was going to be a busy week; As soon as I had eaten 
breakfast I would be meeting Dick and Liam at the 
workshop to meet the new apprentices. I had got up with 
Nick and Becky when they woke Mandy and Jim up. I 
listened to them dressing for their riding practice and then 
quickly leave the house. I got up, showered, made a cup of 
coffee and took it across to the milking parlour with me to 
see how the herd was settling down. I could hear the cows 
before I saw them. It was a new sight for me, the collecting 
area full of milling cows. I went into the parlour and all the 
bays were full of cows being milked, standing there chewing 
on their dairy nuts. 

"Morning Dave, how is it going? Are we getting good 
yields?"

"The output is picking back up. I had the records which 
came with the new beasts and the records of the original herd 
and all of them dropped markedly in output." "I nearly 
missed it as I just entered the figures on the new sheet and it 
was when I looked back I picked it up."

"What you need is a program to monitor trends, especially 
now the herd has tripled in size." "I will have a look to see if 
anything is available commercially and then get you a laptop 
to use." "Anyway I have to go as I have 6 apprentices 
starting this morning and I want to be there when they start. 

I picked up my mug and headed back to the house. Natalie 
was in the kitchen cooking our breakfasts. I looked at her 
skirt; it was 6 inches above the knee. It still made her legs 
look lovely. Mandy's skirt had also been lengthened over the 
weekend. 

"Thank you for sorting out your skirts, it would have been 
embarrassing for me if you had been disciplined for your 
skirts, especially as I helped the head write the letter you 
brought home on Friday. I would have been most upset if 
you had been sat on the chair in the hall during assembly 
with your knees against the wall having your skirt length 
measured from the wall to your hem over the top of the 
thigh. I think you would have found it very embarrassing as 
the length was called out.

"Did you say sat on the stage against the wall and measured 
during assembly?"

"Yes Mandy I did say that." If it were too short you would 
have been brought home to have it changed.

"Oh dad I would have died of shame."

"Well you had until Wednesday to get it sorted. You have 
done it so you have no worries." "If your friends haven't 
done it they have until Wednesday morning."

"Breakfast's ready." Natalie had served out our breakfasts 
and we carried our plates through to the dining room. Kate 
as usual had sat herself beside me Natalie was on the other 
side. "I rang the taxi company this morning when I got up, 
they are sending the minibus, I will take Kate in and pick her 
up tonight."

"Thanks Nat, it makes it easier for me as I have the new 
apprentices starting today." We cleared the table and loaded 
the dishwasher. It would be run after Gill had her breakfast. 
With 8 people having a meal the dishwasher had to be run 
after each family meal. What a change from the start of the 
year when it only used to be run every other day. I watched 
them all get in the taxi and waved them off. I then picked up 
my file on the new apprentices and walked down to the 
workshop. Liam was waiting for me and we went through 
the files again. They were due to start at 8:30 and it had just 
turned 8:25 when a car pulled up with Steve and Jodi. Steve 
told me the others were just on the path from the gate. As he 
said that I saw them turn into the workshop area. I saw their 
lunch boxes and showed them the fridge to keep them fresh. 
Jerry and Liam had built a small office with drawing 
machines, a rest room with fridge, kettle and table and 
chairs. In the corner alongside a changing room had been 
built complete with toilets and shower. Most importantly all 
the machine tools had been installed. A lean to had been 
built on at the side, which housed the forge and a covered 
inspection pit to work underneath the tractors. 

The pit had washout facilities built in so the first task of the 
day after the paperwork had been sorted was to move the 
engines over the pit and wash out the ploughing engines, the 
roller and the showman's engine. Liam had arranged for the 
boiler inspector to visit this afternoon to check out and pass, 
we hoped, the one ploughing engine and ascertain what 
repairs were needed to the other engines. Both the ploughing 
engines looked good from our inspection but the inspector's 
was the important one. The showman's needed a complete 
re-tube and possibly a new firebox. It took a while to scoop 
out all the sludge from this boiler and then wash the barrel 
clear but finally it too was ready for inspection. The roller 
certainly needed some new tubes. The six apprentices had 
joined in the work with a will. Liam was telling them what to 
do and why and they were doing it. It would take them all 
morning. I had left after the first engine was washed out and 
went to the dairy to see how things were progressing. 

Dawn and Gill were busy making cheese; they had just got 
to the first cutting stage when I interrupted. Dawn and Gill 
carried on working as Dawn spoke with me. Our cheese 
production has increased hugely as has the butter making, 
We are still putting out about the same amount of milk but 
the increased supply has gone into butter and cheese. 

"I have started making some test batches of yoghurt to see 
how it goes. I am taking the pots up to the shop and the 
computer company to try them out on our staff. The general 
consensus is when will you stock them in the shop." "Go 
over to the fridge and get some out and we will try them out 
for our elevenses. I pulled out samples of the full and low fat 
yoghurts, Strawberry, raspberry and honey flavours. I 
spooned them out into bowls and got the teaspoons. Dawn 
and Gill left the cheese to drain and taking off their hats and 
gloves sat down beside me. I picked up the tasting sheets and 
took my first spoonful. 

They were gorgeous, the flavour of fresh strawberries cutting 
through the yoghurt. The strawberries still had some bite left 
and the flavour; well it was 10 out of 10.

" Roy, I can't see us being able to sell these at more than 
cost price in the village."  

"What happens if we don't make the yoghurt?"

"We will increase the amount of cheese we make."

"In that case how about we try some bulk batches and sell it 
loose with the fruit of choice?" "That way we sell it at our 
cheapest price and don't have to buy the pots or fill them. 
We just get a refrigerated dispenser, which serves a 
measured shot of yoghurt	and then put in the required 
fruits or even supply them separately."

"It's worth a try Roy." "If Lucy could do some samples and 
try selling it by using the dipper for measuring. We can then 
see if it is worth getting a dispenser." "If it doesn't sell then 
we wont have made a huge investment in it Roy."

"Any way it is time for lunch." "Are you coming Gill?" 

"Yes Roy I will," "I will have to think about my hours as 
doing 4 to 8 in the morning on picking and then 9:00 to 5:00 
in the dairy is just too much." 

"When you put it like that it is too much," "my intention was 
for you to do the morning picking and then a half day in the 
dairy." "Not a whole day in the dairy"

"The thing is Alex is on the picking Team and I also want to 
work in the dairy, Dawn says there is enough work to keep 
me busy all day."

"When does Alex start back at college Gill?"

"Oh, I had forgotten that, he wouldn't be on the picking 
Team much longer will he?" "Can I just work with Dawn 
please?"

"Of course you can if that is what you want."

"Oh yes, I am glad I have been with the pickers because I 
met Alex, but it is very hard getting up at that time of the 
morning."

"Especially when you haven't been to bed."  "Dawn you 
now have a vacancy on the picking Team and a full time 
member of staff for the dairy and curing room."

"That's no problem Roy." "Gill I think you had better take 
the rest of the day off. Then start with me tomorrow 
morning."

Gill and I walked back up to the house for an early lunch. 
Rachel had done a mutton salad, using up the rest of the 
mutton joint along with some cold beef. It was as ever 
delicious. We had just finished our fresh fruit salad when the 
phone rang. It was Liam.

"I know we weren't expecting him until 3:00 but the boiler 
inspector has arrived 2 ½ hours early and would like to get 
started."

"Ok that's no problem, just make sure he is aware that I need 
to be there to hear any results. I will be with you in 10 
minutes. Can you get a brew of coffee on as I was just about 
to have mine when you rang."

"Sorry Roy."

"Stop apologising it was not your fault."

I told Gill I would be back shortly, and for her to rest. 

"Roy, can I ring Alex to tell him I am not working with the 
picking team?"

"Gill apart from your mobile phone have I ever made any 
comment about you using the phone."

"No Roy." 

"Well I had hoped you knew that so long as someone else 
wasn't already on the phone you could use it."

"I know Roy but it was just me working for you, do you 
understand?"

"Yes love and thanks for your thoughts but you are in many 
ways another daughter for me. Even though you are older 
than my wife." "Come here." She came over to me and I 
gave her a hug and a kiss. 

I left the house and returned to the workshop. Jodi was 
standing there with a big smile on her face and a mug of 
coffee in her hands.

"I am the youngest apprentice so it fell to me to give you 
this." I looked at the mug and it had a picture of a man 
washing up and a big woman sitting at the table. There was a 
speech balloon and he was saying. "I am the boss in this 
house, my wife has given me permission to say so." I looked 
at Jodi and burst out laughing. Liam came across to me. 

"I hope you like the mug, I saw it when I was buying mugs 
for the workshop and couldn't resist it." 

"It's great Liam, it will foster a good atmosphere here which 
is important." "I want all my staff to feel that they can ask 
their bosses anything and more importantly that the bosses 
listen. Jerry should have been here this morning to do the 
welcome speech as I forgot all about my open door, open 
phone policy." "I'll try and get him down this afternoon." I 
dialled Jerry's mobile.

"Jerry I forgot to organise you to do your welcome aboard 
speech for the apprentices, and I forgot half of what I should 
have said. Can you be her for 3:00?"

"No problem Roy, see you later."

I walked into the wash out shed and saw the inspector on the 
boiler of Sampson his arm and head apparently in the wash 
out hole. I could hear him tapping on the inside of the boiler. 
I stood there drinking my coffee. I wouldn't disturb him. I 
could see all the other engines were standing ready for him. 
We left the inspector working on the boilers and returned to 
the workshop. In the pile of odds and ends was an engine; 
well the cylinders pistons and valve gear all in bits. Liam 
had made a stand for them and cleaned and oiled all the 
parts. He was talking them through the workings of the 
external combustion engine. Then they set too and working 
as a Team they assembled the engine. Then they turned to an 
old injector. That was taken apart to show them how that 
worked. I could see the rapt look on their faces. This 
morning had been wet and dirty cleaning the boilers ready 
for inspection. They had all showered and changed before 
lunch into another set of overalls. I could see the wet 
overalls hanging up outside the workshop to dry. I looked 
into the washout bay and saw the inspector on the last 
engine. We would soon find out what work needs to be done 
to the boilers. 

I went out the barn doors and looked across the valley. 
Down in the bottom I could see the builders at work on the 
trout farm, a couple of the farm hands were grubbing up the 
trees that would have been in the new lake. The trunks and 
branches were being cut into fire sized pieces ready for my 
wood stove. Looking further round away from the house the 
site of the new vineyard was covered in rough cover. After 
the lake had been finished the men would move onto the 
vineyard. There was a lot of clearance work on this side of 
the estate. Beyond the vineyard I could see the roof of the 
new dairy shining in the afternoon sun. 

I saw Jerry walk up the lane. He brought with him the 
welcome packs he had designed; it gave all the information 
that new staff would need. Phone numbers, passwords for 
farmnet and their e-mail accounts. Details of holiday 
entitlement and how to book. Details of pension fund 
membership. Where the first aiders were and all the other 
odds and ends. On the back page were my personal mobile 
phone and my home phone number, along with a message. 
"If you need help or advice beyond that which can be given 
by your line manager then my office is always open, please 
ring me in advance so that I can arrange to meet you. I went 
out into the wash out shed as I could see the inspector climb 
down from the boiler. I went with him into Liam's office and 
the three of us sat down. 

"I have some good news and some bad news." "The good 
news is the boilers on Sampson and Delilah are fine. My 
only worry is on Delilah, the safety valve looks suspect." 
"With a new safety valve it will be fine, I would suggest you 
swap it with the one from the showman's engine as that is 
fine but won't be needed at present." If you can remove both 
safety valves and then have both boilers filled right up I will 
get the hydraulic pressure test done this afternoon. If those 
are satisfactory I will come back tomorrow for the steam 
test." "The bad news though is the Showman's engine, it will 
need all the tubes replacing and a new firebox." "The firebox 
tube plate will have to be renewed within the next 3 years 
and I would suggest you do it now as so much else is being 
renewed." "The roller is between the two, that just need 
retubing." 

"On the whole they are not bad. The water tender on Delilah 
is very flaky, it certainly needs some major repairs, It looks 
like it will hold water but not for much longer. The engines 
both turn over on the ploughs as I have no doubt you have 
already found out." We had. "The showman's looks as if the 
generator will have to be rebuilt. The rest looks to be 
cosmetic. If the ploughs pass their steam test tomorrow you 
could run steam lines into the engines of the others to check 
they are working properly and see what has to be repaired.

 Liam went into the workshop and took the apprentices out 
to Sampson and Delilah to fill their boilers. Liam started the 
pump and they were filling the engines through the 
inspection plate holes with a 2-inch hose. Once the boilers 
were filled to that level the plate would be bolted back on 
and the rest of the filling would be done through the safety 
valve tapping. Once they were filled to the brim the 
inspector would fit his rig into the safety valve tapping and 
pressurise each boiler in turn to its test pressure. A 
fragmentation mat would be placed over the boiler and tied 
in place to cut down the speed of flying shrapnel if the boiler 
should burst. The first part of the pressure test would be 
done remotely as the pressure built up and was held for half 
an hour. Then would come the visual inspection. The smoke 
box door and the firebox door were both open. My video 
camera had been set up to watch the test rig, Liam's was 
looking into the firebox and Jerry's was looking into the 
smokebox. The pictures were being displayed on a TV in the 
office. The test on Sampson proceeded smoothly then came 
Delilah. The test pressure was reached and a weep could be 
seen on the front tubeplate. It was only to be expected. After 
the 30 minutes was up Liam went through with the tube 
expander and worked on the offending tube. Round and 
round went the expander and the weep stopped. The 
inspector wanted a further 30 minutes to double-check. 
Finally he gave the nod and released the pressure. The water 
levels on both were then reduced by draining and they were 
left ready for firing tomorrow. 

"I will be back by 11:00 tomorrow for the steam test. The 
roller and the showman's engine were both moved into the 
barn and chocked in place. I looked at my watch, it was 4:00 
the apprentices were flagging, and they had worked harder 
today than they ever had. Liam asked if there were any 
volunteers to come in at 6:00 tomorrow to help get the 
engines ready. They all wanted to come in. I let them all go 
and arranged with Liam that I would come in and bring 
breakfast with me for the apprentices to cook in the firebox. 
I left Liam to clear up and went up to the house via the 
stables. I spoke to Nick and told him about Friday.

"Do you and Becky want to come with us, neither of you are 
being called as witnesses so if you want to go off to your 
riding that will be fine." "Please don't discuss this with 
anyone as I do not intend to tell them until Wednesday 
afternoon." "Dawn and Jerry will stay in the house with you 
on the Thursday night and you will be off with Lisa on 
Friday. 
 
"Ok dad, no problems."

I went into Lisa's office and looked up hotels in Dorchester I 
rang the grand and asked about a family suite for 6. The 
nearest they had was a double room and a family room for 3 
adjoining with a connecting door and en-suite and a second 
double room next to that. I booked from Thursday evening to 
Sunday morning. They would set us a table for 8 in the 
restaurant in case anyone joined us for meals. I thanked Lisa 
for the use of her office and walked back to the house. 

I walked in to a quiet house. Natalie was working in the 
study and I joined her. 

"Hello love, missed me?"

"Yes darling, where have you been?"

"Down with Liam and the boiler inspector. 

"Well I have nearly finished my homework, Kate is in the 
lounge, she did have the TV on but she fell asleep and I 
switched it off. Jim and Mandy are upstairs doing homework 
and Nick and Becky are riding and I am not sure about Gill."

"Whilst you are finishing I will check on the rest of them." I 
went into the lounge and Kate was sleeping on the sofa. I left 
her and went upstairs. I walked along to Jim's room. I could 
hear Gill speaking on her phone. I put my head into Jim's 
room. They were both working at Jim's desk. They heard me 
come in and Mandy jumped up to kiss me. 

"How are you doing?"

"Oh Jim and I are nearly finished, 10 more minutes will see 
us done." 

"That's good, I will be going downstairs in a few minutes to 
the study." I went on to Gill's room and knocked on the door. 

"Come in." I went in and Gill said into the phone, "I will 
speak to you later" and hung up. 

You didn't need to hang up." "How are you anyway?"

I had a good sleep this afternoon and I feel refreshed. I am 
going out with Alex after dinner." "What's happening about 
Friday?"

"I have booked us into the grand in Dorchester on Thursday 
night and we leave on Sunday morning." Nick and Becky 
aren't coming as Becky has another important competition. 
It is a preliminary for the Olympic selection competitions." I 
went down to my study. The paperwork for the 6 apprentices 
was there. I re-read their CV's. Having watched them work I 
could match up their photographs with the real person. They 
all looked promising. They would be registering at the 
college for their NVQ courses. I took out the summary of 
each CV, which had been prepared for me. Liam had a 
similar copy only his was on the front of an assessment 
book, which would be completed as they progressed through 
their apprenticeship. I heard Rachel come into the kitchen; 
then there was the waft of hot rich gravy coming through the 
house. Rachel came through to the study.

"Dinner will be ready in 30 minutes."

"That's fine, everyone will be back by then." I filed the 
summaries and put the CV's into Dick's tray. I then set to 
completing my paperwork.  I heard Nick and Becky return 
and go upstairs so I went to the lounge to wake Kate up. I 
bent down over the sleeping girl and kissed her.

"Time to wake up sleeping beauty." I kissed her again lightly 
on the lips. Her arms shot round my neck and pulled me into 
her mouth. Her tongue bored into my mouth reaching for the 
tonsils I would have had if they hadn't been removed when I 
was a teenager. I returned the favour kissing her deeply.

"Time for dinner little one. Have you had a good sleep?"

"Oh yes dad. I feel much better."

"Good because after dinner the scout leader is coming to see 
Natalie and I about being involved as leaders." "We spoke 
briefly about it when we got engaged and decided to wait till 
after the wedding."

"Can I rejoin cubs dad?" 

"And scouts," Mandy added.

"I should think that was possible." "Do you have uniforms? 

"I have but Kate doesn't she was only able to go a few 
times."

"I will ask Keri when she comes tonight."

"Thanks dad." 

We went through into the dining room for dinner. It was a 
very tasty beef casserole with jacket potatoes and veg. After 
we had eaten Jim went up to his room to do homework, Nick 
and Becky went up to their suite to do homework, Mandy 
and Kate went to play outside and Natalie and I went in to 
the study, homework for Natalie and paperwork for me. It 
seemed to be only a short while when the doorbell rang and 
Keri was there.

"Hello Keri." "Come on in." We went through into the 
lounge and Natalie joined us with the tray of coffee. We sat 
and talked about the scout unit, all the changes that had 
taken place since I was a leader in my 20's. Finally we 
agreed that we would come down on Friday week, as we 
would be busy next Friday. Natalie looked at me with a 
puzzled look on her face. I went into the study and picked up 
Natalie's envelope and brought it in to her.

"This came this morning after you had left for school. I was 
going to tell you about it on Wednesday as you will only go 
in for Thursday morning." 

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want you worrying about it all week."

"What am I going to say?"

 You can only tell the truth about what you discovered. How 
you got soaked in a downpour in a storm and you offered 
Gill a hot shower. You saw the scars and asked her about it. 
She broke down in tears and told you what had happened." 

"Gill knows about it and knows why I am keeping it secret, 
she is also over 18 so legally I had to pass her letter on 
without delay. Nick knows because I had to check whether 
he wanted to come with us or go riding, It is an important 
competition for Becky this weekend; so they will be riding." 
"We are booked into a hotel in   Dorchester, a double room 
and a double and triple room family suite. Officially it will 
be you and I in the double room part of the suite, Jim in the 
other double room and Gill, Mandy and Kate in the triple 
room."

"Ok Roy I understand why you kept it quiet." "Sorry about 
this Keri but we have to go to court on Friday about my 
foster children." 
 
"Foster children? But you have only just got married."

"It's like this Keri. Did you read about the father who 
whipped his children and abused others?"

"Yes Roy," "well I am looking after the two girls and two 
cousins who were his victims." "The two most abused 
victims want to rejoin cubs and scouts respectively. The 12 
year old has a uniform the 8 year old doesn't but that is no 
problem as if you have room I can get her a uniform."

"Well I have room for them both, will they need any special 
care?"

"Kate will possibly still be wearing her body protector as her 
back is very sore, very being the operative word." "The whip 
cuts are still healing, they only took off the Nu-skin on 
Thursday. A lot of your cubs probably know about it if they 
go to central primary. 

"About you becoming leaders you will both need to be 
interviewed by the district commissioner and you will have 
to have training. The DC had pencilled in Friday evening but 
of course that will have to change, if I give you his phone 
number can you ring him and make your arrangements. I 
will ring him tonight."

"The phone is here or you can use the kitchen phone if you 
want some privacy." "Then I could speak to him afterwards 
and arrange a date.

"Stuart, Keri here, Roy and Natalie won't be able to make 
Friday they are tied up in Dorset," "Wednesday, I'll just 
ask." "Would Wednesday of next week be all right?"

"Yes that will be fine."

"Yes that's fine, they will meet with you on Wednesday at 
cubs." She hung up and said.

"If you bring Kate to cubs on Wednesday night at 5:30 then 
you can meet Stuart at the same time." "I had better check if 
any of the cubs don't know Kate through school." She 
opened her briefcase and got out the records. "That's good 
only 1 boy doesn't go to central primary so the chances are 
all the rest know, or at least have seen her in her protector." 
"I'll ring his mum when I get home."

"You can ring from here if you want."

"Oh thanks." Keri dialled the number and was soon speaking 
with the mother. 

"I'm glad you rang Keri, Larry came home from the church 
parade with a crazy story about a girl at central primary who 
had been badly beaten and had to wear body armour. It 
seems some of the kids from central were talking about her. I 
didn't think it was very good for cubs to be telling stories 
like that. I thought cubs were supposed to be truthful" 

"Actually the cubs were telling the truth. " "Her name is 
Kate and she is joining our cub pack. Her foster parents are 
concerned that every parent should know what happened to 
her as she has a very painful back and does have to wear a 
horse riders body protector." "She has been taken from her 
parents by social services as she and her sister were badly 
whipped by her father."

"Is that the little girl from Dorset who was in the papers?"

"Yes that's the one."

"Oh the poor mite."

"You understand why we have to make sure all the parents 
know because if their children saw her back and tried to 
explain to you what they have seen you would be horrified. 
The whip cuts are still healing and her bruising is only just 
fading." "If you want further information Roy will be at cubs 
on Wednesday, he told all her classmates parents about it 
when she started school. Keri then hung up.

"She had heard from her son about Kate, it seems children 
from Kate's class were talking at the church parade and then 
Larry told his mum and his mum wondered what on earth." 
"I'll see you on Wednesday then." We saw Keri out and 
returned to the lounge.

"Natalie I'm sorry if I hurt you by not telling you about 
Friday. I just didn't want you to spend all week worrying 
about it."

"It's alright Roy, I do understand and thank you for being so 
caring, it just hurt a little finding out the way I did." "If you 
had told me as planned it would have been alright." "Come 
here you Group scout leader, I want a cuddle." I drew her 
into my arms and as we kissed I heard the back door open, it 
was Mandy and Kate. 

"Can we go to scouts dad?" 

"Yes there is no problem, both of you can start next week." 
We will see about the uniform after you have been to your 
first meetings and then if you enjoy yourselves I will get 
your uniforms. Mandy said she was going up to see Jim; I 
looked at Natalie and smiled. Kate came over and joined us 
on the sofa; She put her arms around us and kissed us both. 
Her right hand went to Natalie's tit and her left hand to my 
cock. It was so erotic as she played with my cock through 
my trousers. 

"I think it is time we went up and had a shower and then got 
you ready for bed."

"I'm not tired daddy, I had a nap this afternoon."

I put on my evil grin and asked her if sleep was the only 
thing we could do in bed.  

"Come on daddy," she jumped off the sofa and grabbed both 
of us by the hand and pulled us to the stairs. Natalie and I 
laughed and followed behind meekly. Natalie and I then 
undressed Kate and then each other. I turned on all the 
showerheads as Natalie put shower caps on her and Kate. 
We could feel the warmth of the floor as we walked into the 
torrent of hot spray. I picked up the shower gel and started to 
wash every inch of Kate. I knelt down to wash her feet, I 
picked up each one in turn to wash between the toes and all 
over, then washed my way up the leg. Kate was gripping my 
head to hold herself upright. I then washed her other leg. I 
took the hand spray and washed the soap off before turning 
my attention to her bum. I took her oil to wash her bum; I 
could feel the individual ridges from her whipping. I felt her 
wince rather than heard her then Natalie started to kiss her 
and washed her cunt with shower gel. She massaged her to 
draw her attention away from what I was doing to her bum 
and then to her back. I very gently washed her back and as 
she became more accustomed to my contact I increased the 
pressure as I had been told to massage the oil well in to her 
ravaged back. The surgeon had got a plastic surgeon in to 
advise on Kate's back and the best treatment was start 
massaging her back today after the removal of the Nu-skin 
on Thursday. This would help the skin to grow and reduce 
the effects of scarring. Her back would have scars 
permanently but the scars from her last whipping would not 
be so visible. I knew what I was doing was hurting Kate, we 
had both been told what it would be like but the more 
scrupulous we were in massaging her back the better the 
results would be. I moved us back out of the shower spray 
and finished massaging the oil into her back. When I stopped 
and stood up Kate gave a huge sigh of relief.

"I'm glad that's over for today. It hurts." 
 
"I'm sorry love but this is what the doctors told me to do."

"I know it is dad, I am not complaining." 

I rubbed the last of the oil in and washed my hands. Kate's 
back glistened in the bright lights of the bathroom. The 
network of cuts shone redly against the white skin of her 
back. 

"Can I have a look dad?" 

Natalie went through to our room and picked up the large 
hand mirror and carefully angling it showed Kate her back. 

"I could never see properly what he did to me." she turned 
away and kissed me. Then taking me by the hand she pulled 
me through to her bed. "Love me daddy, love me." 

"Of course we will darling." I started to kiss Kate and 
Natalie started to work on her nipples. We soon had her 
panting with pleasure. I saw Natalie go down on Kate and 
lick her nude pubes. She was sucking on where her clit was 
and then licking through her slit. I nuzzled on her nipples. I 
felt them harden between my lips. Kate was starting to buck 
as her orgasm started. I felt her shuddering with pleasure. I 
rolled onto my back and lifted Kate onto my lap. She was 
facing my feet. Natalie helped me to position her on my cock 
and she slid down me until I was fully in her. Kate folded 
her knees under her so she was kneeling on me and started 
bouncing on my lap, my cock sliding in and out of her hot 
tight cunt. Natalie moved between my legs and bent down to 
suck on Kate's clit. Kate was rapidly brought back to the 
peak of pleasure. I moved myself back on the bed until I was 
resting against the bed board. Kate untangled her feet from 
the sheets and Natalie shuffled forward to remain in contact 
with Kate's clit. 

I was able to bring my hands around Kate and gently 
massage her nipples. I could feel Natalie's tongue sliding 
along my cock as I slid in and out of Kate's cunt. Finally I 
could hold back no more and my cock started jerking as I 
pumped my cum into her tight cunt. Natalie sucked harder 
on Kate's clit. Suddenly Kate gave a scream of pleasure and 
slumped back against my body. 

"Roy look at this." Natalie picked up the mirror and angled it 
so I could see Kate's cunt with my cock piercing it. Natalie 
then pointed to Kate's clit. It had come unhooded as Natalie 
sucked it. That was why Kate had so much sensation. We 
watched as the clit slowly shrunk back into its sheath. Kate's 
breathing slowed down and she passed into normal sleep. 
Natalie helped me to lift her off my shrinking cock and 
between us we laid her down in her bed and drew the quilt 
over her. Her hair spilled over the pillow and she was sound 
asleep. I turned off the main light and went through to our 
own room. We put on our robes and went down to have a 
nighttime drink. 

"Roy, I was ever so surprised when Kate's clit popped out 
like that, I was sucking away and suddenly there it was 
between my lips."

"Well she certainly enjoyed herself, I could feel the pressure 
on my cock as she orgasmed." We finished our drinks and 
went back upstairs. I popped my head into Jim's room and he 
and Mandy were fast asleep on the bed. He was still inside 
Mandy; sleep had evidently overtaken them. I went along to 
Nick's room and disturbed their kissing. Nick looked at me 
and asked.

"What was that shriek about 15 minutes ago?"

"That was Kate cumming. I was fucking her and Natalie was 
sucking on her clit when it suddenly popped free of its 
sheath and received direct stimulation for the first time." She 
had the most massive orgasm I have seen in a long time. She 
fell back against me and has been asleep ever since."

"Lucky Kate, it certainly sounded impressive."

"We are going to bed now, I have to be up early tomorrow as 
we are steaming the ploughing engines for the boiler 
inspector. I went along to our room and reset my alarm for 
5:00. I then joined Natalie in bed. She drew me to her and 
kissed me. 

"Just fuck me, I'm sopping wet already." She bent her legs 
and took her ankles in her hands, exposing her cunt for my 
attention. I moved forward between her legs and slid my 
cock into her cunt. I pushed all the way until I could feel her 
cervix in contact with my cock. I put my arms around her 
legs until I was hugging her completely, I was squashing her 
legs into her body and as I leant back my cock slid another 
inch into her as her cervix dilated. I dropped the remaining 
distance into her womb. Her breath rushed out. I started 
sliding in and out of her cunt my cock forcing its way into 
her womb. It was only minutes before her excitement was 
raised to orgasmic pitch. I could feel her cunt trying to milk 
my cock and it brought me to my orgasm, I slammed 
forward and pumped my semen into her womb. I could feel 
the cervix spasming around the head of my cock as she 
continued to cum. Suddenly I was too sensitive and I started 
to withdraw, I felt the cervix closing as my cock head pulled 
free.   

"Can you get me a pillow to put under my bum Roy?" "I 
want to keep your cum in my womb. I don't know if you are 
producing sperm but when you do I want to save it all." I 
fetched 2 spare pillows and as Natalie raised her bum I 
pushed them under. I turned the light out and cuddled up to 
her. We were soon fast asleep. 

The alarm woke we and I quickly switched it off before it 
woke Natalie, I reset it to 6:30 to wake her up for school. I 
put on my overalls and picked up my work boots. They 
didn't often get an airing these days. I went down to the 
kitchen and put the coffee on and switched the grill on. I 
went out to the bread store and got the new bread. I quickly 
cooked myself bacon and eggs on toast and sat in the quiet 
kitchen eating my breakfast. I hoped Natalie wouldn't be to 
disappointed if she didn't fall pregnant. That just had to be 
left to wait and see if the operation had been successful. 

I put my dishes in the dishwasher and put marmalade on a 
second piece of toast and butter. I put my boots on and 
walked down to the workshop chewing on the toast and 
marmalade. I was just unlocking the workshop when I heard 
footsteps approaching from Home Farm. It was Liam.

Morning Liam already for the steam test?" 

"Yes I went off yesterday afternoon to get some coal. Jerry 
left a tractor down here for us to pull the engines out this 
morning; it is in the workshop." "If we wash down the 
engines before we pull them out of the shed then we can 
clean them and at the same time see what needs to be done to 
them. I went into the rest room and switched the water boiler 
in the rest room on and the immersion heater for the shower. 
Today was likely to be a dirty day. Liam was hosing down 
the boilers with the pressure washer, taking off a lot of old 
clag. He switched to clear water and rinsed them off. We 
went into the workshop and picked up the push pole and 
carried it out to the ploughing engine and attached it to the 
hook. He then fetched the tractor out of the workshop and 
brought it to me. I lifted the free end of the push pole and 
dropped it in the jaws of the hook and slid the pin in. I 
climbed onto the steam engine and released the brakes. I 
waved to Liam and he started to draw me out of the shed and 
round to the front of the workshop. I unhooked from the 
steam engine and walked in front of the tractor with the push 
pole. I walked carefully along the edge of the pit and when I 
reached the 2nd engine carefully straddled the pit. I lined the 
push pole up and Liam moved slowly forward, it was inch 
by inch until contact was made. I dropped the pin through 
the eyes and waved the stop signal to Liam. He stopped 
whilst I got up into the cab of the second engine. In no time 
both engines were standing on the forecourt outside the 
workshop. I fetched out the wood for lighting the fires whilst 
Liam brought out the sacks of coal. He fed a sack into the 
bunker of each engine. We were laying the fires when the 
apprentices started arriving. The first two came up into the 
cabs and I would show them how to start the fires, the rest 
were with Liam on cleaning duties. They would swap jobs 
later.

I had soaked rags in paraffin and stuffed them into the 
wooden firelighters Liam had made. These were put into the 
firebox, 3 for each engine then dry logs were placed on top. I 
made a torch from a stick and another paraffin soaked rag 
and lit it and with it the firelighters. The rags soon were 
blazing smokily and the wood was well ablaze. More wood 
was fed in and then I got Gemma to start spreading coal over 
the flames. I went over to Delilah with Graham and got him 
to place the firelighters and wood. I then lit them and 
oversaw Graham adding more wood and finally the coal. I 
stuck my head into Sampson and checked on the fire. Some 
of the coal had caught and so I told Gemma to concentrate 
the new coal where the fire was already going, not too much 
too quickly. Finally both engines had a good bed of coal 
starting to burn. I closed the firebox doors and opened the 
bottom dampers. Smoke was curling lazily from the 
chimneys.

I took Gemma and Stuart into the workshop to get the oil 
cans. I took them round Sampson oiling all the points, first 
the wick was dipped back into the oil and then the reservoirs 
were filled. They took a lot of oil, as they had been standing 
idle for so long. Whilst we were oiling I got them to check 
the fireboxes every so often and sprinkle another shovel full 
of coal. I could hear the boilers singing as the fires heated 
the water. Mark and Graham were next in the cab firing the 
engines. The first bag of coal was in the engines so I took 
them to the pile of bags and they brought another 2 bags to 
the engines. I lifted the first bag up and poured the coal into 
the bunker of Sampson, I repeated the process with Delilah. I 
didn't want to overfill the bunkers, as they would have to be 
emptied before they could be worked on.

The pressure gauge was slowly moving off the stop. I looked 
at my watch it was 8:30 time for breakfast. I opened the 
firebox door and checked the temperature. It was hot 
enough. I took Mark and Graham through to the rest room 
and picked up the bacon eggs and bread, the oil and egg 
slice, the plates and tomato ketchup. I cleaned a shovel off 
and then called all the apprentices. They took it in turns to 
make their bacon and egg sandwiches on the shovel in the 
firebox. When they had finished Liam made ours. Delicious 
with the extra flavour of coal smoke and a greasy thumbprint 
on the white bread. After we finished breakfast I turned the 
steam blowers on to draw the fire up.

We weren't cleaning the engines as we would for a show, so 
no oil on the paint, rather they were using paraffin to remove 
the caked on oil and grease. I watched the minutes tick by 
towards 11:00 when the inspector would want them up to 
pressure. 10:00 came and the pressure was rising steadily. 
Liam came over to me.

"Haven't you got a field that needs ploughing with these 
beauties?"

"Well more the side of a hill, why." 

If the inspector passes these we could take them up and do 
it."

"Good idea Liam. We just have to wait and see."

"I will go and get the plough ready in case we can, Steve and 
Jodi get up on the engines and keep firing, Roy will be with 
you; the rest of you come with me, and bring the oil cans. As 
I watched Steve and Jodi firing the engines I could hear 
Liam and his crew at work. I could hear hammers ringing 
out as seized parts were freed. 10:45 and Sampson blew off 
through the safety valve. I turned the injector on to cool it 
down a bit and reduce the pressure; I closed the dampers and 
turned off the blower. I went over to Delilah and watched 
her pressure rise to the line. There was a roar of steam 
through the safety valve, I turned on the injector and turned 
off the blower. I cleared the footplate then put a piece of 
rubber hose with a flattened copper pipe on the injector 
overflow cracked the injector open and washed down the 
footplate with steaming hot water. I did the same on 
Sampson and then put the hose away. I checked the water 
level in the tanks they were both half full. They were as 
ready as they could be. I wanted to start the engines and 
allow them to turn but the inspector had given us strict 
instructions. Don't start the engines. 

I left Steve and Jodi and went into the workshop. Liam was 
moving all the bits that should move on the plough. He had 
oiled the carriage and the plough and all was ready. I heard a 
car draw up and went outside. It was the inspector. He 
greeted me and then went over to Sampson. He checked all 
the wash out manholes and inspection openings. He opened 
the cylinder drain cocks and blew the cylinders through with 
steam. Then he closed the drain cocks and got down from 
the footplate. He opened the smoke box door and checked 
for leaks. Then he went to the firebox and deflecting the 
flames with a shovel checked the firebox tubeplate. All clear. 
He re-opened the drain cocks and slowly opened the 
regulator. Chuff, a blast of steam went up the chimney and 
the great flywheel started turning, the drain cocks were 
hissing in time with the blasts from the chimney. There were 
slight leaks around the piston rod where the gland packing 
had compressed over time.  He closed the drain cocks and he 
left Sampson ticking over whilst he turned his attention to 
Delilah. He went through the same checks. With similar 
results, there was more steam blow by on the piston rod and 
so Liam slipped up on the running board and tightened it 
down. The leak was almost completely stopped. He turned 
on the blower a ¼ turn and watched Delilah blow off at the 
set pressure. He coupled a pressure gauge to the test point 
and checked the engine pressure gauge. It was Ok. He then 
returned to Sampson and repeated the final tests. I was very 
grateful to receive the certificates of worthiness for Sampson 
and Delilah. I phoned the insurance broker to tell him the 
happy news. He changed the policy to a working engine 
policy and as I did this Liam was checking the plough 
cables. He gave one end to the apprentices and told them to 
walk away as he unwound the drum. I was checking the 
cable for damage. It was finally all unwound. Liam stopped 
the engine and reversed it and started to wind the cable back 
in. We repeated the process for Delilah and then wheeled the 
plough carriage out of the workshop. It was hooked up to 
Delilah and Liam drove Delilah and I drove Sampson. Liam 
drove to the bottom of the new vineyard and started 
positioning the plough and attaching it to Delilah's cable. I 
drove further along the track until I came to the far edge of 
the field. Jerry joined us and helped Steve and Jodi carry the 
cable across to the plough. Liam hooked it up. 

Steve and Jodi returned to me and helped with the engine. 
Finally the whistle came from Delilah, I replied and started 
Sampson. The cable sung as I reeled it in and the plough 
came smoothly across the field. So it continued through the 
day, run after run the 5-blade plough tore through the rough 
land. Turning it over into neat furrows. Once the ploughing 
was finished then a cultivator would be run through to break 
up the clumps. Finally pathways would be rolled for access. 
Jerry drove back to the workshop to get the apprentices 
sandwiches whilst the apprentices took turns riding the 
plough back and forth across the field. Jerry returned with 
the water bowser and more sacks of coal. Finally it was all 
done; both engines were at the top of the hill. I backed 
Sampson down the hill a little way paying out the tow wire. 
We unhooked Delilah's cable and it was wound in. Liam 
came across as I towed the plough onto the headland. Its 
brakes were put on; the cable was wound in and the tie bar 
fixed between the plough and Sampson. Then it was gently 
down the sloping field. The plough was then pushed onto its 
trailer and we returned to the workshop. The plough was 
washed down and put away. The fires on the ploughing 
engines were cleaned and banked up. The water tank and 
coalbunkers were filled up. They would be in use again 
tomorrow finishing off the field with the cultivator. 

Jerry came across with me as we were putting the engines 
away for the night. 

"Unless I had seen that I would not have believed that you 
could plough that hill side in half a day and across the hill. 
Up and down yes but not across."

"Liam here a minute." He came out from the workshop. 

"Now we have broken up that land could we tow the dozer 
blade across to make terraces and then cultivate on the flat 
ground?" "We need enough space on the terrace to run a 
tractor through 2 rows of vines."

"Yes we could do it. I will check the rig tonight but I can't 
see a problem." "If we start at the top and do two runs. Three 
foot gap and then continue with the next terrace and so on 
down the field." It had been a dry day; I think the 
apprentices have enjoyed themselves today. A taster of what 
they will be working on. I made my way home for dinner. I 
was tired beyond words. I got to the back door and took off 
my boots then moved across to the kitchen chair pausing 
only to slide the kettle onto the boiling ring. I sat there 
waiting for the kettle to boil. Rachel came in from the dining 
room.

"What are you doing sitting there, go into the lounge and sit 
down I will bring you a coffee. I went into the lounge via the 
study. Natalie was there. She looked at me.

"I will get you your clean trousers." She ran up the stairs and 
was down before I had got to my chair. She slipped my 
overalls off and put me into my trousers then helped me to 
my chair. I sat down and before Rachel could bring my 
coffee I was asleep. 

"Wake up Roy, your dinner is ready." I struggled to surface 
from my dream. Kate is kissing me and trying to get me 
awake. I see my mug of coffee and pick it up and swallow 
the cold coffee. It gives me that wake up call and I manage 
to stand up. My stomach thinks my throat has been cut I am 
so hungry. I realise that apart from my two breakfasts I have 
not eaten today. I walk through to the dining room. Rachel 
has done me an enormous mixed grill. The others are eating 
a small grill, steak, chops and mash. I have got that plus 
sausage, black pudding, bacon, mushrooms, eggs and 
onions, with a side salad. As we are eating Kate is relieving 
my plate of those morsels she fancies. A piece of steak, half 
a sausage, some bacon and a piece of my egg. 

"I am going to have an early night tonight, I haven't worked 
as hard as that for a long time." I finished my dinner and 
went up and had a long bath, getting all the soot out of me. I 
looked at the water and it was black so I finished off under 
the shower. I dried off and went to bed. Natalie and Kate 
came up when they heard the shower switch off and came 
and cuddled me in bed. My eyes were drifting closed as I 
fought to stay awake. Natalie saw the struggle I was having 
to stay awake. 

"Goodnight love, have a good sleep." I was gone even 
before Natalie finished speaking to me. I woke up once in 
the night and I had Kate tightly wrapped around me, with 
Natalie alongside. The alarm woke me I was so stiff. I went 
through to the bathroom and set the shower to pulse. I picked 
up the shower gel to invigorate and restore. Then I turned on 
the shower and was hammered by the pulsing needle jets. I 
used the shower gel and the combination of that and the 
needle jets soon had me alert and refreshed. I picked up my 
overalls and went down to the kitchen in shirt, pants and 
socks. I made my breakfast and then put my overalls on and 
went to the workshop. It had just turned 6:00 when I arrived. 
The tarpaulins were off the engines and smoke was curling 
lazily from the chimneys. I walked round the engine and saw 
Jodi and Steve filling the oil cups. 

"Gosh you are in early, couldn't you sleep."

"Yes Roy, we set our alarm and cycled in, we wanted some 
time with the engines as we were the last ones yesterday and 
so didn't get to do that much on them."

"Can you show me what you have done?" They took me 
onto the footplate of Sampson and opened the firebox; the 
fire was dull. I showed them the blower control and the 
draught picked up. I picked up the slice and raked through 
the fire pulling out the clinker. I shovelled that out then 
spread the fire over the grate. "Put 6 shovels full onto the fire 
and then close the doors." I lifted the back damper and could 
see the firebox brighten. "Go and try that on Delilah." I 
watched them clean the fire and put out the red-hot clinker 
onto the ground; they then turned on the blower and raised 
the damper then fired the box with 6 shovels of coal. I went 
across and looked in the fire, it was turning white hot with 
the added draught. They then took me round the engine 
showing where they had put in oil. I was very pleased, they 
had got all the oiling points and put all the wicks back in the 
oil. I left them in charge of the engines and went and made 
some coffee for us. 

"Roy what do I do it is going to blow off in a minute." I ran 
over and jumped onto the footplate and showed them how to 
put the injector on which would reduce the pressure in the 
boiler and then turned the blower off. I dropped the damper, 
which eased the boiler I went over to Sampson and watched 
as they did the same. We went into the rest room and we all 
poured out our coffees. We then went back to the engine. I 
sat on the bunker and Jodi and Steve stood by the boiler. 
Their free hand was gently smoothing the hot steel. I could 
see that these two loved steam engines. That was shown by 
their dedication in getting into work so early. I saw Liam 
come across the yard. 

"Right I can see you have got the covers off, time now to 
prepare the engines. I quickly slipped the blower on half a 
turn and started talking to Liam about the dozer blade. 
Suddenly there was a quiet pop and then the roar of steam 
escaping from the safety valve. Steve and Jodi were hooting 
with laughter to see Liam jump with surprise. 

"Sorry about that, I couldn't resist it. I got here at 6:00 this 
morning and these bright sparks had already taken the 
tarpaulins off, shot some coal into the firebox and oiled all 
round including putting the wicks back into the oil." "I just 
showed them how to clean the fire on Sampson and they 
then followed suit on Delilah. Very successfully I might 
add." 

"Well we do have a pair of eager beavers. "Why did you get 
here so early?"

"We felt we had missed out on a lot of the engine care 
yesterday and we wanted to have some time with an engine 
to fire it to see it come alive."

"Roy you have a pair of engine fans here. They are now 
down in my book for the first drivers course." "Steve if you 
can clean the shovel I think this engine is ready to cook 
breakfast on." Liam cooked the breakfast and we sat in the 
rest room to eat it. After we finished we coupled the engine 
to the dozer and pulled it out into the yard. The other 
apprentices then started to arrive so we drove the engines 
back to the hill. Liam and I were the drivers whilst Jodi and 
Steve steered the huge engines. We arrived at the field and 
drove up the headlands. I positioned Sampson at the very top 
so that the dozer was in position to take the first run. Liam 
sent the other apprentices across with the cable and I 
connected it to the dozer. Liam moved it off the headland 
and I repositioned Sampson and connected my cable. Then 
we started terracing the field. It was harder work, than the 
ploughing, for the engines and Steve and Jodi had more 
work to do firing their engines. The others were riding the 
dozer blade making sure that the depth of cut was correct 
and the angle of throw was right. We were finished by 
lunchtime so the tackle was made up and we returned to the 
workshop for lunch. I left Liam and his apprentices to put 
the engines away. They would not be steamed again until a 
lot of work had been done to them, getting them ready for 
the show ring.

Jerry had filmed the work yesterday and today. He was 
taking it to show the local TV station, it would be good 
advertising for the home and glebe estates. I went into my 
study and thought about Friday, I would have to tell the 
children tonight that they would be going to court on Friday. 
I rang Elena and asked about Friday.

"Are you going to be there? And how will they do it?"

"I'll be there, you will probably give evidence from the 
witness stand first, then they will call the children they will 
be hidden from the dock but in view of the magistrates and 
the solicitors for both sides. I don't know how far the 
magistrate will take it. But the magistrate will refer them to 
the crown court either for trial or for sentencing or both."

"Can you come round for dinner tonight so we can tell them 
about Friday. Only Gill and Natalie know about it so far."

"Of course I can, I will be pleased to see the children after 
they have had a chance to recover a bit."

Rachel called me to say lunch was ready; I joined her in the 
kitchen. 

"Oh Roy you should see yourself." I went over to the mirror; 
my face was black with soot, coal dust and grease. I went 
through to the downstairs cloakroom and washed, I got most 
of it off. I went and sat down to homemade pork pie, 
potatoes and salad. 

"Rachel, have you planned tonight's meal yet?"

"Why Roy?"

"Well I have Elena coming over as we have to tell Jim, 
Mandy and Kate that they will be going to court on Friday. 
So I would like a very special meal for them all." Tomorrow 
morning we set off for Dorchester. Then Jerry and Dawn 
will be here Thursday night with Nick and Becky then they 
will be off riding from Friday night. We will all be back on 
Sunday evening for dinner."

"That will be no problem Roy." I finished my lunch and 
went up to shower; the water running off me was black with 
soot and coal. It took a while to get really clean. The 
vineyard was ready for Jerry to organise the training wires 
for the grapes. I had at least 2 very keen apprentices; Steve 
and Jodi had proved their enthusiasm. How the rest would 
develop was anyone's guess. 

I got dressed and went downstairs and into the study. I 
started on the paperwork I hadn't dealt with yesterday 
evening. I was steadily going through my in tray. By the 
time I was finished it was 3:00 soon be time for the kids to 
return. I put my papers away and made some coffee. I 
poured my first cup and drank it slowly knowing that unless 
I got my next cup soon it would all be drunk by the returnees 
from school. I had just poured my second cup when I heard 
the taxi arrive. Natalie walked in, the rest rushed. I was 
greeted with hugs and kisses. Nick and Becky were upstairs 
changing for riding.

"You're here tonight dad." With that Kate climbed onto my 
lap for her hugs. I sat them all down.

"Elena Barton is coming for dinner tonight." "She has a lot 
to talk about as tomorrow Natalie, Gill, Jim, Mandy and 
Kate will be coming to Dorchester with me to stay in a hotel 
as on Friday you will have to give evidence in the 
magistrates court."

I could feel Kate tense up on my lap. "Will we have to see 
them?" 

"I shouldn't think so, either you will be behind screens or it 
will be done over a video link. 

"Will they be able to get to me?"

"No love they will be in the dock with 2 prison warders to 
keep them under control."

"That's alright." 

"So Elena will be here for dinner she will be able to answer 
your questions." "Up you all go to get changed. 

"Dad can Mandy and I go riding this afternoon?"

"Of course you can, up you go and get changed."

"Roy I have got some homework to do so I will do that once 
I have changed."

"Dad can we go and watch the riding please,"

"Of course Kate. Go up and change and we will then go 
down to the stables.

I went in to the study with Natalie and gave her a welcome 
home kiss. "You sure you don't mind me leaving you here 
whilst I take Kate to the stables?"

"Of course I don't she may be our daughter soon."

"We may even find out on Friday what is happening."

"Daddy, daddy I'm ready." I gave Natalie another kiss and 
Kate and I set off for the stables. We got down there and 
watched Nick and Becky and Jim and Mandy going through 
their paces. You could see the difference in their riding. 
Becky was smooth and fluent; she almost seemed to be a 
part of the horse. Nick was good and Jim and Mandy were 
obvious beginners, doing well for their experience. Jim and 
Mandy were riding circuits in the riding school. Changing 
pace, changing direction and stepping over a pole laid on the 
ground. There were 2 circuits laid out in the outdoor ring, an 
advanced jump and a super advanced jump for Becky. We 
stood there watching as Nick and Becky took turns in 
jumping. 

"Kate time to go, I have to get home to get ready for Elena 
and I want to stop off at the field we were working on 
yesterday and today."

"Ok dad, let's go." We left the riding stables and I took Kate 
along one of the footpaths, it took us through to Glebe Farm, 
we then followed the farm track until we came to the new 
vineyard. It stretched away up hill from the valley floor. 
Row upon row of terracing ready for the grape wires. We 
walked up the headland and onto the terrace. The topside 
was very hard and would need cultivating; the lower edge 
was ready for planting. We would have to see about getting a 
small tractor up here, now it was terraced the risk of 
problems with the tractor was greatly reduced. We walked 
back up the track to the workshop, Liam was there locking 
up. 

"Roy, I was impressed with Steve and Jodi, they are showing 
the right attitude to steam. To come in like they did."

"Well, as you said they can be the first on the steam engine 
drivers course; they deserve it." "I am not so sure about 
Mark and Graham, they seemed not very interested." "You'll 
need to keep a close eye on them. It may just be that they are 
more interested in engineering than steam engines."

I carried on back to the house. As I walked I rang Jerry about 
the cultivation of the terraces and the grape wires. He had 
been up there and had already organised the light tractor to 
go up there tomorrow with a plough and discs. A man from 
Wroxeter was coming out next week to help put up the 
support wires for the grapes. Then wait for the moment to 
plant the grapes.

We arrived back at the house; Elena had arrived and was 
talking with Natalie in the study. We went through to join 
them.  

                 
"What is the news for Friday then."

"Well Mr Biggs is being charged with attempted 
murder/manslaughter, attempted rape, statutory rape, 
sodomy of a minor, grievous bodily harm, indecent assault, 
assault with a deadly weapon, that was the snooker cue," 
"Mum is charged with aiding and abetting along with 
supplying prescription drugs without a license, assault and 
failure to protect." "From what I am hearing the magistrates 
are intending to hear the case and then remand to the crown 
court for sentencing if they can, but the attempted murder, 
and attempted rape have to go to the crown court anyway for 
jury trial." "Someone has evidently been talking with the 
magistrate. It is very rare to split a trial, but if he does we 
will ask for an order putting Mandy and Kate up for adoption 
now." "There are about a dozen more charges in all, but I 
have given the main ones. They all result from the 
statements made by Gill, Mandy and Kate at Gill's house and 
of Jim at Gill's house and your caravan." Whilst we were 
talking I heard the others come in and change. So I called 
everyone down to the lounge and Elena went through all the 
charges again. She had just finished when Rachel called out 
that dinner was ready. 

We went through to the dining room and glasses of freshly 
squeezed orange juice were waiting for us on the table. We 
drank those and Rachel wheeled the trolley through. There 
was a large joint of beef with individual Yorkshire puddings, 
roast potatoes, honeyed carrots cauliflower and peas. I 
carved the beef whilst Rachel served out the Yorkshire 
puddings onto every ones plates. She held each plate for me 
and I called a name and they said how many slices. Then 
when they had the plate they started to serve themselves with 
the veg. I put Kate's plate down in front of her then served 
her with the veg she wanted. Finally I served myself. The 
gravy jug was circulating and I served Kate a good amount. 
Elena had a surprise look on her face as she started her meal.

"Has the taste surprised you Elena?"

"Yes Roy, why is it so different?"

"The beef is from my Dexter herd, slaughtered here and then 
hung properly. The veg was still in the ground or on the 
plants at lunchtime today. All the varieties of veg have been 
chosen for their flavour. That is why they are so tasty. We 
have the veg available nearly all year now with our 
polytunnels. 

"Is any of this available to buy?"

"Oh yes, the village shop is our outlet for meat, vegetables, 
butter and cheese. Our meats are beef, chicken, pork, ham, 
bacon and lamb and mutton."

"Is it all as good as this?" 

"Oh yes, the only difference is the veg is slightly older. The 
pickers start at 4:00 am."

After our meal we went through to the lounge and Elena 
talked us through the likely procedures. "They are trying to 
set up a video link for the under 18's but failing that they 
will have screens in the court so the witnesses can only see 
the magistrate and the solicitors. Natalie you will go first to 
set the scene as to how this was discovered, and then it will 
be Gill followed by Mandy then Kate then you Roy and 
finally Margaret and Jim. The video will be presented by the 
police; along with my tape recordings and their own 
recordings. Roy you may be asked to talk us through the 
video as although it is graphic it is very short on verbal 
information." "The surgeon could do it but we are trying to 
keep his appearance short as he wants to be back at hospital 
for theatres." "Plus a surgeon only looks at the bit he is 
dealing with, he tries to avoid looking at the whole person."

Elena answered all their questions and tried to reassure them 
that it would not be too much for them. Elena left with a 
cheery see you all on Friday. I said that it was time for Kate 
to go and have her bath and will every one else pack a case 
for the weekend, as we will leave tomorrow morning after 
breakfast. I went up with Kate and ran her bath, I gave her a 
big slosh of bubble bath and by the time the water was deep 
enough there was a huge pile of bubbles, almost enough to 
hide in. Natalie came in and joined me bathing Kate. We had 
hide and seek behind the bubbles and peek a boo around the 
bubbles and tickling games under the bubbles. Then it was 
time to wash her. My hands slid over her soapy skin as I 
washed the days dirt and sweat away then she stood up to get 
out of the bath. She was a mass of foam so I walked my 
snow girl to the shower and turned it on. DUH. I forgot I was 
still dressed so my shirt and trousers were drenched. Kate 
and Natalie thought it was hilarious. I stripped off then 
returned to my duties whilst Natalie went down to the 
lounge. I rinsed Kate off then wet her hair and shampooed it. 
Two shampoos and a conditioner later and I had a mop head. 
I dried her hair and tied it up in a turban. Then I set to with 
her massage oil. Kate held onto the rail in the shower as I 
firmly massaged the oil into her back. I could hear her 
fighting back the tears as I massaged the oil deep into her 
wounded back. I finally got the last of the oil massaged into 
her back, tears were streaming down her face so I picked her 
up and carried her to her bed. Where I sat down with her on 
my lap trying to comfort her.

"Why do you have to rub that stuff in my back?" "It hurts an 
awful lot." 

"The skin doctor said it would help your back to heal 
properly, so that you would not be stopped from doing 
anything you want by the scar tissue. Your father did your 
back a lot of damage this last time. The other whippings he 
gave you were not so damaging to your back but this one is 
appalling. So we have to massage the lotion into your back." 
"I will ring my doctor to see if there is anything we can do to 
help you." We went through to my room and I rang Dave.

"Sorry to trouble you but I have a problem with Kate's back. 
When I massage her lotion into her back it is causing her a 
lot of pain." "Is there anything we can do which will ease the 
pain?" "Kate was in tears tonight by the time I finished."

"Can I ring you back in a few minutes, I'll see if I can sort 
out anything for her." I hung up and waited on Dave. I 
continued to cuddle Kate and as the pain in her back eased 
her smile started to come back. Finally the phone rang it was 
Dave.

"I have spoken with the plastic surgeon and he has told me 
about another cream you can use," "you spread it over her 
back first and leave it for 5 minutes. You then massage it in 
until it is all gone. "Then you massage in the lotion you 
already have." "The first cream is a local anaesthetic which 
numbs the skin. However it will take longer to get a good 
result on her back instead of 2 weeks work it will be 4 weeks 
but it should be pain free." "I have faxed a prescription 
through to the pharmacy at the supermarket. If you can get 
there tonight it will be waiting for you." "You will be able to 
apply it tonight over the lotion, it will make her back more 
comfortable."

"Kate I am just going to the chemist, Dave has faxed a 
prescription through for you. It will ease the pain in your 
back tonight and tomorrow it shouldn't hurt when we do 
your back." "I will tell mum where I am going. You come on 
down with me and sit with Natalie."

"Natalie I have got to go to the chemist for some cream for 
Kate's back. I'll be back shortly." I went out and got the car 
out of the garage. It didn't take long to go and get the cream. 
Dave had organised 4 tubes of it. I drove home and Kate was 
still on Natalie's lap. I got the first tube out and broke it's 
seal and applied 2 inches of cream to her back, I gently 
smoothed it in. I could see Kate visibly relaxing as the cream 
took away her pain. Before I had rubbed it all in she was 
asleep. I washed my hands, which were themselves a bit 
numb and carried her up to her bed. I went to her wardrobe 
and pulled out 5 outfits to wear depending on the weather. I 
took them through to my room and added them to the clothes 
Natalie had got ready, then packed our suitcase and took it 
down to the hall. 

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggg, the 
alarm, I get out of bed and into the shower. The cold water 
soon wakes me up. Then it is time to dress and start 
breakfast. I heard movement upstairs; Natalie has got up and 
is waking everyone else. I put the coffee on so that the first 
cup will be ready for Natalie when she comes down. I go to 
the bread safe and alongside my normal loaves are 3 French 
sticks. I hadn't ordered them. The mystery is solved when I 
see Rachel walking across the yard.

"Morning Roy, I see my French sticks have arrived. You 
need a meal to take with you so I ordered the bread so I 
could make rolls for you. I have brought some salad. There 
are bottles of pop in the fridge so I will fill the cool box with 
those." Rachel took over the breakfast and I made sure 
everyone was up. I was dressed casually but had packed my 
suit for tomorrow. Everyone finally sat down for breakfast; 
there were cases by the backdoor ready to be loaded when I 
brought the van out of the garage. 

We finished our breakfast and I went out to get the van out. 
Whilst I was doing that Jim was taking the suitcases out. He 
loaded them whilst I went in to say goodbye to Nick and 
Becky. Their taxi arrived and I watched them go, picking up 
Ruth and Alex as they left. Rachel brought out the cool box 
and I plugged it in. I picked up all the summonses and we set 
off to Dorchester. I planned to visit Poole first and take the 
ferry to Brownsea Island. The commemoration stone to the 
first scout camp held there in 1907 would interest Kate and 
Mandy. We had a good journey down and I negotiated a 
special trip to Brownsea, going ashore from the boat below 
the original campsite. The boat would leave us there and 
would meet up with us at the landing stage at Branksea 
castle. We splashed ashore and clambered up to the 
campsite. I showed them where I had camped when I 
attended a jamboree many years before. We then walked 
through the national trust lands to the castle and the pier. I 
called at the office where passengers landing paid their 
admission fee and paid ours. The boatman had told them we 
would be coming. We walked onto the jetty and saw our 
boat on a mooring buoy. I waved to him and within minutes 
we were on the boat and heading back to Poole. We drove on 
to Dorchester and arrived at the grand Hotel. The doorman 
called a porter to take our cases then in to reception to book 
in. There was a message waiting for me; DI Chambers and 
Mrs Johnson wanted to see us all at 9:30 tomorrow.  Finally 
we were able to go up to our rooms. 

We were all a little subdued as we thought about tomorrow. 
We had dinner in the dining room and went up for an early 
night. I saw all the others settle down for the night the 
communicating door between our room and the girl's room 
was ajar. I rang down for drinks for Natalie and I. Bitter for 
me and a lager shandy for Natalie. Then we fell asleep. 

"It's blue, it's blue, Roy it's blue."

"What's blue love?"

"Come and see for yourself." I walked through to the 
bathroom Natalie was bouncing around holding a plastic 
wand. I walked across and saw that it was a pregnancy test 
kit and according to the 2 blue lines in the window I was 
going to be a father. Natalie was pregnant. Suddenly the 
bathroom was filled with Gill, Jim, Mandy and Kate.  

"Oh Roy, you did it, I'm pregnant, I'm going to have our 
baby." Natalie had tears of joy running down her cheeks. 
Kate came shyly to me.

"Are you still going to want me when you have a new 
baby?"

"Still want you? I will want you and need you even more." I 
reached over and kissed her. She wrapped her arms tightly 
around me and held me.  Natalie and I headed back for bed, 
Kate joined us. She had a hold of my cock and was leading 
me. She laid me down and climbed beside me. She 
whispered in Natalie's ear and as Natalie sat down on my 
cock Kate sat down over my face. Her smooth puffy slit 
covering my mouth. I stuck my tongue out and into her cunt. 
Natalie was moving up and down on my cock and I felt them 
lean towards each other. I look at the mirror on the dressing 
table. Kate has Natalie's tits in her hand and Natalie has 
Kate's nipples in her fingers and they are kissing deeply. I 
suck on Kate's clit and work my hand round to slide 2 
fingers into her cunt. As I suck on her clit I feel it pop out of 
hiding again. Kate stiffened then I could hear her screaming 
into Natalie's mouth. Fortunately that muffled the sound. 
Kate shuddered through her orgasm. Her cunt clasping and 
releasing my fingers. I can see how Kate's hands have 
tightened on Natalie's tits, squashing and squeezing them. 
Natalie's orgasm is crushing my cock, milking it as her tits 
are being milked by Kate. I explode into my darling pregnant 
wife. My cock stays hard I am so excited. Kate and Natalie 
change position and Kate's tight little cunt slides down my 
greasy pole. I feel her cervix against my cock head. As she 
batters her way down my cock stuffing it all into her cunt. 
Natalie is offering her cunt to my mouth. My cream is 
slowly oozing out as my tongue dips into her honey box. I 
can taste my cum and her lubrication as I gently eat out my 
darling Natalie. Kate and Nat are kissing as I fuck Kate; her 
cunt is so tight and good. I feel her cum and I feel Natalie 
put her hand down between the junction of my cock and 
Kate's cunt and massage her clit. Kate is just cumming 
constantly. I am plugging her depths and Natalie is 
massaging a nipple and her clit. 

Kate slumps down against Natalie and Nat moves back from 
me and gently lets Kate down onto my chest. Her eyes are 
closed and sweat coats her body as I wrap her in my arms. 
Natalie lies down beside us. 

"Thank you Roy, this is my most marvellous day. I'm 
carrying your baby."

"Yes love, but remember a lot of girls lose their first baby. 
But if that happens remember we have proved we can make 
babies." We settled back to sleep I could here interesting 
noises from the adjoining room. It sounded like Jim was 
pleasuring both Gill and Mandy. At 7:45 my early morning 
call came to wake us up. I was still inside my little Kate, her 
legs were either side of me and my cock was growing inside 
of her. I hunched my body and started to fuck her. Her eyes 
opened with a delighted smile and she took over the moving. 
Lifting off me until just the head of my cock was between 
her lips; then dropping back to fully insert my cock into her 
tight cunt.  We were both excited from the constant friction 
of the night and it didn't take long for her to cum. Her 
orgasm triggering mine and I gushed my seed into her cunt. 
After we had kissed I helped her off me and I took her 
through to the shower and washed her. Spraying my come 
from her cunt with the shower. Natalie came through and 
joined us.

"Is it true? Did the test really show I am having your baby? I 
wasn't dreaming was I?"

"Yes love, its true and no love you are not dreaming; we all 
saw the blue lines, you are pregnant."

"Oh thank you Roy, I am so happy." I grabbed my towel and 
started drying myself; I walked across to the communicating 
door and went in. Jim was asleep in Mandy and Gill was 
cuddling them both. 

"Wakey wakey sleepy heads, time to get up so we can have 
our breakfast before we go to see DI Chambers and Mrs 
Johnson. " They slowly stirred and I went across and opened 
their window wide. I went back to my room and opened my 
windows and got dressed in my suit. Kate was in a sundress 
and white socks Mandy also was in a sundress with ankle 
socks. The rest of us were in suits of one type or another, 
tailored skirt and jackets for Natalie and Gill and 2 piece 
suits for Jim and I. I sent Jim through to his room to make 
his bed look slept in and to open his window. He had 
showered and dressed in his room. So by the time he 
finished it looked lived in. 

We went down for breakfast and then headed for Blandford. 
We spent all morning with DI Chambers, Mrs Johnson and 
Elena. Checking through what was going to happen. It was a 
video link for the under 18's. We finally set off for court. 
We were sat in a room away from everyone else. One by one 
we were called into court. Natalie went in first followed by 
Gill, Mandy and Kate. Finally I was called in. I smiled at the 
Gill and Natalie who were sitting in the court with DI 
chambers and Mrs Johnson. I went to the witness box where 
I swore the oath. I then set to answering questions on what 
had happened that weekend in the summer. I was asked to 
commentate on the horror movie, which came up on the TV 
screens. I looked across at Maud and Mick sitting 
impassively in the dock. 

As I commentated I was trying to gauge peoples reactions to 
it. The general impression I got was of rage. Finally my 
evidence was over. Jim then gave evidence and it was during 
this I saw the first reaction by Mick. It was when Jim was 
describing how Mick raped him. There was an explosion 
from the dock. 

"That wasn't me you little cunt, it was your fucking dad. We 
heard the gasp from the speakers and the click as they were 
switched off. Mick was hustled down still shouting to the 
cells. The magistrates called for a 10-minute break. DI 
Chambers leant across to me.

"I knew his parents were involved somewhere. I suspect I 
will be called out shortly to interview him. A court usher 
came out of the magistrate's door and came to me. 

"James Biggs is very distressed, the magistrates having read 
his statement accept there is no more evidential evidence to 
give and are allowing him to stand down," "can you go 
through to him and the others. Natalie Gill and I immediately 
went with Mrs Johnson to the room we had been in. Jim 
threw himself into my arms and we all stood in a huddle 
cuddling each other. Mandy and Kate were best able to help 
him. Mrs Johnson pulled an envelope out of her bag and 
gave it to Jim. He opened it and stood there with a stunned 
look on his face. He handed it to me. It was a statement 
putting Jim up for adoption signed by his parents and a fax 
from Shropshire social services formally approving Natalie 
and I as adoptive parents. 

"What does it mean Roy?"

"It means that once we have sorted the paper work and the 
court case you are looking at your new mum and dad." After 
what we just heard in court the appearance before the judge 
will be just a formality. I have to go back into court. I will 
see you all after. The clerk came through and switched on 
the monitor. The defence solicitor was just closing his 
remarks and the magistrates left the bench. They were only 
gone 5 minutes.

"The charges relating to attempted murder, attempted rape, 
statutory rape, sodomy with a minor, false imprisonment and 
the procuring of prescription drugs have already been 
remanded to the crown court. On all the other charges we 
find you guilty on all counts. We feel we do not have 
sufficient sentencing powers so we remand you in custody to 
the crown court for sentencing. With regard to your children 
Amanda Jane Biggs known as Mandy and Katherine 
Elizabeth Biggs known as Kate. We are signing an order 
releasing them for adoption. You have treated them with a 
cruelty that beggar's belief and we are recommending that if 
at any stage in the future you should manage to have 
children that they be removed from your control at birth.

Mandy looked at me. "Did he just say we can be adopted 
Roy?"

"Yes love he did. I suspect Mrs Johnson will have some 
news for us before the end of the day."  The first stage was 
over, Jim had a nasty surprise but I think none of us were 
totally surprised. His parent's reactions had been too strange. 

Mrs Johnson and Elena came into our room can you all come 
with me. A court Usher led us down the corridor and through 
a door into a formal room. He asked us to wait whilst he 
went through another door. Two more solicitors came in. 
One I recognised as he was representing Maud and Mick, the 
other was a stranger. A Judge came through the doors and 
took his seat. Elena gave me a quick smile. 

The judge said, I have a transcript of the closing remarks of 
the magistrate in this case, I also have signed document from 
Maud and Mick Biggs for the release of Amanda Jane Biggs 
and Katherine Elizabeth Biggs. I also have documents signed 
by Victor and Sheila Biggs releasing James Biggs for 
adoption. Mrs Johnson I understand you have brought 
prospective adoptive parents before me to confirm them as 
parents. 

"Yes I have a fax from Shropshire social services approving 
them as adoptive parents." "The children have been fostered 
with them since this case was brought to our attention." 
"Furthermore the children wish to be adopted by Mr and Mrs 
McGarvy." I could see them nodding their heads. He turned 
to the solicitors.

"You have taken instruction from your clients? Is there 
anything you want to add or challenge?" "No" He turned to 
Natalie and I and formally appointed us as parents to James, 
Amanda and Katherine McGarvy. We signed the papers 
where indicated then the other solicitors left. The judge 
turned to us and said he hoped we would be very happy then 
left. There was a stunned silence. No one knew how to break 
it. I was so happy I could have hugged the world. I turned to 
Mrs Johnson. 

"Our family got bigger twice today, Natalie discovered that 
she is expecting our first baby this morning, then we 
discover that in fact it will be our 4th child." "Dinner 
everyone. Can you tell DI Chambers we will be at the grand 
in Dorchester and to ask her to join us there if possible for 
dinner. We went back through to the magistrate's court; 
Rose and Leonard were waiting for us.

Can we go to Mandy and Kate's home first so we can collect 
any belongings they want. Mrs Johnson said she would meet 
us at the grand at 7:30. We drove to the children's house 
Rose opened the door and Mandy and Kate led us in. Kate 
wanted to show me Mick's special room. The spot where the 
hook had been was circled. I had seen that in court this 
afternoon along with the snooker cue, whip ropes and drum 
of salt. There were spots of blood over the walls all marked 
with red circles and a pool of blood on the floor beneath the 
site of the hook. I quickly left the room. Kate and Mandy 
gave great sighs as they left. I heard one of them say good 
riddance under her breath. We went to their rooms and we 
helped them pack all their clothes and books and toys. We 
stuffed bin bags full of their belongings. Then went out 
locking the door behind us. Kate and Mandy walked away 
without looking back. A neighbour was watching from 
behind curtains, the street was empty and deserted. Mums 
and dads had seen us arrive and rushed their children inside. 
I drove away in a very hushed van. That visit had brought 
back so many memories but also allowed them to shut the 
door on their past, and to look forward to a new future. We 
drove to Dorchester and parked in the carpark of the grand. 
We went up to our suite and I ordered some snacks to keep 
us all going until dinner. There was a knock on the door and 
it was Mrs Johnson, she had a big smile on her face, she 
handed me an A4 envelope and in it were the adoption 
papers. All signed. I turned to Mandy, Kate and Jim and 
said.

"Well you can't leave me now. You are now all officially 
McGarvy's. We exploded in a huddle of delight. Well that is 
apart from Gill. Gill went to her parents and whispered in 
their ears, I saw a look of surprise on their face and then they 
smiled and nodded their heads in agreement. Gill then came 
over to me.

"Mum and dad have said yes, so can I change my name to 
McGarvy also. I feel like Jim, Mandy and Kate are my 
brother and sisters."

"Of course you can. Elena will help you sort it out when we 
go home." Then it was down to dinner. Halfway through the 
main course DI Chambers joined us. Victor Biggs has been 
charged and he has admitted to everything on tape. His 
solicitor tried to shut him up but he wanted to tell all, and he 
has. He will be going to court at some stage. He will 
probably go for a short appearance in the magistrates' court 
and be remanded to the crown court with his brother and 
sister in law. We finished our meal and I asked the waiter to 
fill the younger children's with sparkling grape juice whilst 
the adults had champagne. Natalie asked for grape juice as 
well. Rose looked at her then at me and back to Natalie. 

"Is there something you haven't told us yet?"

"Sorry Rose but in all the kerfuffle today I forgot you 
weren't with us when we told Mrs Johnson. Natalie did a test 
this morning and got a positive result. We are expecting a 
baby." She came across to us and flung her arms about us. 

"I am so pleased for you. You deserve it."  
Leonard proposed a toast. To the McGarvy's; may they have 
a happy life together. We raised our glasses and drank. To a 
new life. 



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