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Childhood memories of Doreen Gail Bancroft (nee Maisey)Originally written in spanish 1998.translacion by DoreenGail Bancroft.
BIRTH ANYBODY ELSE BORN IN A PUB?
Edited by - Doreen on 01/01/2008 11:45:22 PM
Dordygail 
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Stanley
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Posted - 29/03/2008 : 08:12
Get well soon Dot, I've been missing you.......
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Doreen
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Posted - 05/04/2008 : 18:04
thanks Stanley i miss you too
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Posted - 05/04/2008 : 18:47
Word soon got round, and the house soon filled with lodgers, there were at times 16 people in the house, and two shifts for eating
giant pots simering on the cooker filled with spuds, roast beef and yorkshire pud every sunday.
Another 5 man gang joined the houshold they were from all parts of England , Scotland a two from Durham,one trainee manager for wolworths , and one very cold exchange student for the acrow engineering company who came from India.
so you see life was very interesting at that time, never a dull moment,
the partys in the dining room at weekends became a fixture
ahealythy mixture of irish jigs ,and rock and roll, the Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem, Buddy Holly chuck Berry who was and still is my king of rock and roll, at 84 he still does gigs.
One of these lads took my attencion shortly after my second christmas in the new house.
I had been given a nurses outfit, a pinny and hat, syringe , audiophone,
and thefirst time being a novelty several of the boys let me nurse them,
I kept the instruments in a cardboard box with some nivea cream,
a bottle of water and a spoon , to be administered as medicine .
one of the boys was George the belt , named that way because he never took his heavy work belt off full of tools , and the others all took the mickey out of him because he was a little diferent from the rest,
he was 38 years old , a lonely sort of man nobodys child ,his skin suffered a little from nerves
he peeled a lot, and was a bit pink at times.
George loved being loved
so he let me carry on nursing him, this was a daily routine temperature , chest , medicine, and a face massage with nivea cream
that seemed to be doing his skin a lot of good.
This was to be my first experience as a spiritual healer, i could feel some sort of energy emanating from me to him,
and he cried the first time he felt it ,and kept coming back for more .
There was a sort of inocent love about it all.
The others in his gang took the mickey out of him even more, i think they just did not know how to understand , so if it moves laugh at it , and hope it goes away.
I was 8 or nine 9 but i remember very well how this love feeling felt,
And how the energy whirled through , and
round us .
Dordygail
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Stanley
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Posted - 06/04/2008 : 07:34
Yippee! Dot is back! Go to it lass.......
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Posted - 26/04/2010 : 19:13
Times changed for the up till then happy household,my mother started having 3 week migrains,in an attempt to remove herself from the world ,and that which did not please her (my stepfather) but it didnt work very well because he was still there afterwards .During this time at age 9 i suddenly had to take over the kitchen,and lodgers,i remember the first time ,it was on a sunday and had to tackle the roast beef gravy and yorkshire pudding,i did it ,it all got eaten ,and nobody complained,so it must have been edible,one of these migrain attacks lasted 3 months,that was the last one,after which my mother decided to face things,and break up with my stepfather ,there was a blazing row behind the locked living room door ,and i heard thumps,and screams, this horrified me so i ran to the neighbors and dialled 999,they came because i was a 12 year old in distress,but it was all over when they arrived,my baby brother 7 years old at the time was taken to gran Leggs (auntie Viloets) far away where he and my stepfather were to live from then on. This really broke my heart as i had virtually brought him up ,the town considered him my son as i was always seen with him,i had even cajoled my parents into letting me take him with me when i went to my fathers for the summer holidays,he was a gentle child ,and i loved him .
During my mothers 3 month migrain absence,the finances of the house were not looked after by anybody, and such a debt occurred that the house was to be sold
Dordygail
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Posted - 27/04/2010 : 15:04
nice to see you back.
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Posted - 27/04/2010 : 17:31
Ditto Belle, I caught her on another topic. Lovely to see such a good correspondent popping back in.
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Posted - 27/04/2010 : 17:32
PS. For anyone who hasn't seen this topic before it's well-worth a serious read.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 28/04/2010 : 13:58
Thankyou all for the kindness and welcome,i will strive to get to the Barlick bit ... with some caution...smiles
Edited by - Doreen on 28/04/2010 2:17:13 PM
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Posted - 28/04/2010 : 17:19
Huh! When were you ever cautious!
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Posted - 30/06/2010 : 10:10
 Well yes Stanley,
i can remember being cautios at least on 4 occasions,i always made sure that none of my husbands liked football before i would go on the second date,or if they did they had given me the correct answer,in that case they would spend their free time in front of the pub telly, especially in world cup season.
What a releif,
caution pays off sometimes,other times it just ties your shoelaces together, to stop you living.
Edited by - Doreen on 30/06/2010 10:13:31 AM
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Posted - 01/07/2010 : 06:42
Hello Dot, nice to see you popping up. Tell us how life is treating you, your fans are starved of input!
I'll repeat, if any of you haven't read this thread from the beginning, take some time out and do it. I promise you'll not regret it, wonderful honest stuff and at times quite harrowing. Same applies to Maz and Cathy's story, well worth having a dig for that as well. There is good stuff buried in the archive.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 01/07/2010 : 17:31
Thankyou Stanley, im having bad trouble sitting at the moment,thats why theres no imput here recently,
but the good part is that i can walk ,and do lots of things now.
I hope you are all fit and well
Dordygail
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Posted - 02/07/2010 : 07:13
Try altering the height of your sitting position Dot. I have a similar problem and solve it by altering the height of my chair frequently. Lower is often better, takes pressure off the back of the thighs dearie!
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BIRTH, any body else born in a pub?
