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MAKING A DATE
Eddie came into our Display Advertisement Department
office one day selling tickets for the firm’s Christmas Dinner
and Dance. It would be the Autumn of 1961.
When it was my turn to be asked I said that it was no good
me buying tickets as I did not have a girl friend. My colleagues
all took this as an immense challenge of immediate importance
and dropped everything they were doing until I had to admit I
did know one girl.
She was a member of our Cub Scout unit and a Girl friend of
my ex Patrol Leader when I was younger. Now she was a
student nurse and working at one of the hospitals in Boston.
I was pressurised to find her and telephones were
presented, together with various numbers for the different
hospitals in the town. While still surrounded by my colleagues,
I did in fact track her down and speak to the Ward Sister were
she was working.
I was told in no uncertain terms that to wish to speak to a
student nurse while at work was virtually unheard of but I was
given the one chance and told by the lady in authority “to make
the best of it”!
After quickly explaining who I was we fixed a date for the
next week and went to see the new Disney film “101
Dalmatians”! Ruth Neave was and still is, over 50 plus years
later, the most beautiful girl in the World.

SETTING UP HOME
We never did get to that Dinner Dance but our friendship
flourished and we eventually set a date to get married just as
soon as she had finished her S.R.N. and S.C.M. nurse training in
1965.
It is worthy of note that the year Ruth and I were married
we actually set up home beforehand which I occupied on my
own, for a few months before the big day.

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