The above may be a spoof Christmas card (or a real one) as actress Toyah Wilcox was not entirely unknown to the spanking life. For those who remember, back in the early 1980s she was a punk rock star usually to be seen adorned in leather and wielding whips.

Also early in her acting career she appeared in a TV version of Jekyll and Hyde and Dr Jekyll’s maid. The opening line in Mr Hyde’s seduction of her was “have you ever been spanked?” “Yes” she lisped.

Later on she appeared in a travel show herding camels if all things. Except the hapless Ms Wilcox lost them and is sternly told off and sent to find them. After a fruitless search in the desert she is heard to mutter something like “I am so going to be spanked.”

Both spankings, if they took pace are off camera, but Toyah has the rare distinction of being one of the few actresses to do a nude scene with Lawrence Olivier.

Merry Christmas.