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FUNERAL TRIBUTES BERE REGIS
SURGERY NEWS
About this time my father started taking the family on river
trips. We went by narrow boat to see Jan in Cambridge and
I am sure Hilly will remember motoring along the Thames, December news
through the Henley regatta, while wearing some rather
strange facial adornments with Groucho Marx aka Mike at It doesn’t seem possible that we are nearly
the helm. John and I have a rather hazy memory of the at the end of another year!
Lancaster Canal trip probably attributable to the potency of Mike’s We would like to wish all our patients a
homemade damson wine. Happy Christmas and Healthy New Year
When we had the three boys Mike became Uncle Mike and a bit of a ledg. He
used to pop in on his way back from Nam – that’s Cheltenham, of course –
and his accounts of the various parts of the world in which he had fixed Christmas and New Year closing:
furnaces, by land and sometimes by sea, were pretty awesome. The Surgery will be closed
As we know Mike was a man of many talents. Last autumn, bringing young Monday 25 December, Tuesday 26 December and Monday 1 January 2024
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Thomas with him, he came to do some arboreal work for us. I have a vivid
picture of him – that’s Mike not Thomas of course – hanging upside down from For any medical advice phone 111, for a medical emergency phone 999
the top of one of our beech trees. I expect that Emma and Andrew were We will open as usual on the following days.
relieved, if surprised, that this time he did not fall out!

In one thing Mike was a total failure. He never managed to get me to
understand the mysteries of the lithium battery, the generation of hydrogen Dorset Property Care Dispensary
energy or the operation of the heat pump. I put it down to the fact that his To assist those collecting medication in
explanations were about as long as the earthworms’ journey. Allan Slater the run up to Christmas, our Dispensary
Based in Briantspuddle hatch will be open for longer on
But, Mike, thank you for trying and thank you for putting up with a frequently
annoying elder sister for the last 73 years. We shall miss you.  Services Monday 18 December. Opening
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 Building maintenance
hours on this day only, will be 9.30 –
From Hilly Menzies, Mike’s wife  General joinery 12.30 and 14.00 – 18.00
 Garden maintenance
Mike was a very talented man he could turn his hand to almost anything and
had a very decorative career. After completing a degree in Chemical  Garden landscaping Please remember we aren’t
Engineering Mike started working in the glass industry. We had many lessons sat  Kitchens an emergency service.
around the dinner table explaining in great detail how to make the glasses we  Man and digger hire
were drinking from, although to us it made no sense, Mike was very proud of all  Waste carrier licence There are times of the day when there
his commissions in the glass industry. isn’t a clinician on site. The clinician
On the 8 of the 8 of 1988 we moved from the west Midlands down to Dorset 07973 158092 may be out of the Practice for a
variety of reasons and there will only
where Mike started working for Davy Mckee. He immediately went up to be non clinical staff available. If you
Rotherham where he spent the next 9 months installing and commissioning an allan@dorsetpropertycare.co.uk have an emergency, always call 999
annealing furnace. www.dorsetpropertycare.co.uk
The next part of his career took him to Madrid where he spent a couple of

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