Elaine Boyes
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157 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Elaine Boyes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I actually said, you don't know me from Adam. I said, you don't know anything about me.
The other thing is we're saving up to go to live in Canada with my boyfriend because he's crazy about Canada and he wants to move to Canada. So if I took a job for you, I wouldn't be working for you for very long.
It would be great, he said, because you could save up. I could pay you more than you're earning a year and you can then save up to go to Canada. You get there quicker. It was just like he wanted me, he wanted to do a business that I would be happy doing. You know, if I'd have said, let's do a sweet shop, I bet you would have done that.
Like he wouldn't leave unless I'd agreed to work for him. It felt like that. So I said, look, I'll tell you what, I'll give you my business card and let me have a think about it. You go back to London, you give yourself some time to think about it. And the next time you're up in Harrogate looking for properties, give me a call and we'll go from there.
And he said, you know, this is a really, truly serendipitous meeting, he said. And he was so full of joy.
When I look back, for him, that was a so intrepid meeting. He saw gold when he walked in the office.
I didn't know what to think, to be honest. And I really thought it was just a bit of a fantasy or a joke. I thought, this isn't really happening. This isn't really true.
I said, you would not believe it. This man's walked in and has offered me a job doing virtually anything I want.
That's what it came across as. And Ron said, oh, you want to be careful. You don't know anything about him. You want to be really careful.
He's gone back to London and that'll probably be it.
And then to be honest, I went back to work and I completely forgot about it. But then... A phone call out of the blue and it was David Davis. Oh, hi, he says, it's David Davis from London. He said, I'm coming up to Harrogate on a week on Thursday. How about we meet up and go for a coffee? So I said, yeah, that'll be fine.
He asked me about the job. Had I considered the job? Did I fancy working for him? What did Ron think about it? So we had conversations around that, and he could tell that I was a bit hesitant, wasn't sure.
He said, well, I think really it would be a good idea if I met Ron and then he could see and meet me and then he might feel more comfortable.
It was amazing, actually. They just clicked, really. They hit it off together. And it was the North American accent. And of course, Ron, actually, I could see he was coming out speaking with a soft North American accent. And it was in his element. They were sat there chatting like buddies.
He just turned to me and said, how do you fancy working for me then? So I looked at Ron and said, what do you think, Ron? And Ron just shrugged his shoulders and didn't really say anything.
So I said, well, why not? What have I got to lose? Why not? Okay. So he said, great. It's great to have you on board.
Just before he went to get the train back to London, he said, how do you guys fancy in a few weeks time coming down to London and we'll put you up in a hotel for the weekend. And he said, you can meet my daughter, Noelle, and we'll go out for dinner. And we said, oh, wow, that'd be great. We went to a restaurant called the Thai Elephant in London, and it was amazing.
The decor was like you were in Thailand.
She was a very polite young lady, very attractive young lady. Didn't say a lot, really. Didn't say a lot. She was sort of a bit in awe of her dad. Her dad did all the talking, to be honest.
He took over. He got the menu and he chose. He said, what we'll do is we'll have the set menu for four.
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