1. A Ribbing Regular, Asian customer-mistress – miss Thi Oo – likes to give me a bit of a ribbing as she sits triumphantly above me on the public-shoelick throne of female power in her somewhat unflattering, thick-round-toed, black-ribbed-knit, crocheted, buttoned-up, Ugg-style boots beneath her plain black, polyester trouser-hems. They are 'unflattering' only in so far as they make her dainty, female feet look much bigger than they actually are – for miss Thi Oo is a truly stunning-looking but somewhat petite, Burmese girl in her early thirties. She is recently married, and happily so – though desperate, by all accounts, to fall pregnant and start a family. I actually mean 'by all her accounts', as she quite unabashedly likes to describe to me in great detail her various lovemaking techniques with her husband whom I have never met, but of whom she has insisted on showing me numerous photographs, including their wedding photographs – and whom I must confirm, under ...