night dinner. At that time none of the ladies went to the golf at all. It was not until some years later that we had ladies up there. I think it was in 1964. Stan Gunary was taken ill up there. It was in 1964 that I started to play golf and joined them. Lawry wasn’t a great sportsman, but he and I were great tryers. When we played cricket, he would have us in fits of laughter. He was a nice chap, but a real worrier.
A Sad Occasion for a Vet……………
I think one of the most upsetting things that happened during my work was that Lawry was very fond of shooting and he had a spaniel that he thought the world of. I had seen it quite a lot of times way back before I was President and I had to perform a big operation on him. I forget what it was, but I recall that our anaesthetics in those days were not as good as they are now. The operation went well and the dog woke up afterwards. I rang Lawry and told him the dog had come round nicely and everything had gone very well. I left him for a couple of hours. We used to operate in the surgery in those days in Jean’s warm kitchen in our first house, and I came back and found the dog had collapsed and was just about breathing. I quickly opened him up again and he haemorrhaged. He died and I had to ring Lawry and tell him I had lost his dog for him. However, Lawry remained a great pal of mine for years after that until he died.
……..but Cartoons also
One of Lawry’s cartoons in Punch was a vet looking round the waiting room door with the crowd all sitting there, and one was trying to get up and go into the surgery, but sitting next to him was a man with an octopus sitting on his lap, so the poor chap could not move. It was most amusing. My partner, Dick Coulton, who had a surgery in Hornchurch had that cartoon and it didn’t need any comment.
One Christmas, Lawry did a cartoon for every member in the Club. My cartoon showed the vet in bed with the ‘phone ringing. The next showed him standing beside a big cow and the next showed him with his arm inside the cow. The last page was standing in a proud position with three little calves. I have still got the original cartoon of the octopus, but cannot find the other one. We thoroughly enjoyed Lawry’s year.
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