May 5th Steve preaching.
7th Presbytery
12th Steve preached
19th Led in morning. Elliott preached.
24th Session.
26th Elliott preached.
Jun 2nd Steve preached.
9th Steve preached
13th IPC AGM.
16th Joe preached.
23rd Joe preached.
28th Session
30th Elliott preached.
Jul 1st Congregational meeting.
6th IPC international food fair
7th Steve preached. Cartmels to lunch.
14th Elliott preached
21st Elliott preached
24th Session retreat for planning
27th Life picket outside the abortion clinic.
28th Paul Clowney preached
Aug 2nd On holiday in Wilmslow.
5th To Alton Towers. Deb was afraid of the Corkscrew until late in the day. Then she loved it and went on continually for the queues had gone.
10th Back home.
11th Joe preached.
12th My diary is incomplete but by this time I believe I was manager for a new pharmacy in store at the supermarket of International Stores, Brentford. The post was advertised and it did not offer me more than my present employment but in such circumstances one would tell one's employer hoping he would make it worth one's while to stay. My manger advised me not to try that with my employer Dawes. But I did and at first he offered me a little more money. I accepted but after a couple of days Dawes told me to go. He scared me because he had just lost a manager to another company. But this pharmacist was immediately unhappy and asked Dawes for his job back. He earned less than me so Dawes took him back and told me to go. I did get a little sweet revenge as I recruited two of Dawes good dispensers to work with me in Brentford.
But the move was not straightforward. International Stores needed to move the drinks sales area in the store to accommodate the new pharmacy. It was a simple case before the licensing magistrates; or so they thought. But the chairman of the magistrates bench was Stockwell an Ealing pharmacy owner and the license change was refused. As a result I had no job to go to. I approached Andrews, superintendent pharmacist at Moss and he gave me a temporary job in Feltham. International appealed and had a barrister presenting their case. Stockwell excused himself from the bench. The license was approved and I was manager of the pharmacy from the day it opened. My manager was a larger than life orthodox Jewish last, Sandra Walters. She was the best boss ever. The only one who would praise you fro a job well done. Unfortunately she left for Selfridges and her replacement was not half the man she was not having the weight of personality to argue the case for pharmacy among the grocers of International. So some of my best and worst employers were Jewish. In store pharmacy was fine except the regular stock takings. Normally they are annual events in pharmacies and done by professionals employed for it. Supermarkets have frequent stock takes and if their 'shrinkage' is deemed excessive, they mat be sprung on you any time. Dispensary stocktaking was still done by outside experts bu one had to do the rest of the stock with ones own staff out of normal hours, a right bind.
18th Raju preached.
25th Elliott preached.
26th IPC Discoverers.
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