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Paul Martin 07788 185048

OBITUARIES Electrics 01929 289323
paulmartinelectrics@outlook.com
he was delighted by this, rather than bearing any rancour towards this
second family who had the benefit of the father he had never known Local BH20 electrician, with over forty years’
himself. experience offering:-
After the collapse of his marriage to our mother, and a romance or two, some Small load - £75 Large load - £160
of which turned into great friendships, he found what can only be described as  Consumer Unit (fuse
the love of his life in Heather. It was a love story which meant the world to him, board) Replacement
something that Marki and I were very much aware of, and inexpressibly happy  Emergency call-out
about. Service
 Additions and
Our father was a very tolerant man, at whose very core was a belief that all Alterations to Existing
mankind was born equal, and of equal value, and who accepted people for Installations
what they were. At a time when punk used to drive “squares” into apoplexy, I
could quite easily find him chatting to some creature with pierced cheeks and  Portable Appliance
a colourful Mohican. Over the years, in bars and pubs, I’ve seen him chatting Testing
away happily to clergymen and gangsters, to warriors and pacifists, to No VAT – Fully Insured
academics and street sweepers and everyone in between. They all had equal Part P Compliant
value as humans to him. Free Estimates
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Anyone who was sadly familiar with his impoverished state in his later years,
because of the Equitable Life pension whose value, after a lifetime of his
contributions, was criminally destroyed and never compensated by the sleazy
charlatans, of all parties, running this country…well, this could have been very
different.
Dorchester
In the 80’s when Marki and I were still at school, Hamworthy asked him to work
in South Africa. It was a job he would have excelled at, he loved travelling and Framing
discovering cultures, and he was offered the best package of his life. Pay,
pension, school fees and flights home, it was all laid out for him. But it was Picture and framing service
with a wide selection of
during the apartheid years, Mandela was still in jail, and he just couldn’t do it.
mounts and frames.
It was NOT some dark night of the soul, where he had to make a decision
balancing self-interest with conscience. He was almost in tears as he kept Open most days but best
apologising to Marki and myself: “I know we’d have much more money, and in call first before making a
many ways you two would have a much better life, but I just can’t bring myself special trip.
to work there while that lot are in charge”. He said no.
The company increased the offer. But the no was final. joan@dorchesterframing.com

We all have our memories of him. I think we’ll all miss The Old School House
him.
Tincleton DT2 8QR
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