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CHAPTER 8
SELF SUFFICIENCY
At last, now I was working for a living and not dependant on
anyone else or so I thought. A strange time, still living at home
and constantly accuse of using it as a “hotel”. The job was
brilliant I was working with a good team at the Boston (Head
Office) of the Lincolnshire Standard Group of Newspapers. Still
family owned, the staff was relatively small in the office but
behind was the main printing works where the entire group of
newspapers was printed every Thursday afternoon and evening.
Major editions covered Louth to the North, Skegness to the
east and Sleaford to the West. The Boston edition was the
largest and total print run for the group in excess of 58,000
copies each week.
My job was as trainee advertisement space salesman but
covered a multitude of tasks; the “ins” and “outs” are well
covered in Lincolnshire Standard Tales to be found in the second
volume.
Everything seemed to come together the year after I was 17.
I was bamboozled by my boss and colleagues to find a partner to
take to the firm’s Christmas Party. They insisted that I must
know at least one girl and was forced to telephone the only girl I
knew at the time and ask her out while surrounded by four male
colleagues.

RUTH
This is where Ruth comes in to the story; she was still a Cub
Instructor with the Sea Scout Unit and I had seen her frequently
there but not to be “familiar” as it were. I knew she was a
student nurse in Boston and I continued to phone all the
hospitals in the town until tracking her down. She was actually
working on a ward and how on earth I persuaded the ward sister
to let her speak to me I cannot remember. However the

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