Elaine Boyes
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157 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Sometimes you've got to trust your gut instinct, and my gut instinct said he was involved. In what shape or form, I didn't know, obviously, I wouldn't know, but he was involved and he was covering it up. And I have to say, I don't like people getting away with things.
Going in February, it was something like minus 30, 35. And it was absolutely freezing.
Yeah, well, the move to Canada was difficult, to be honest. Calgary was going through a recession at that time, which we weren't really aware of. I have to say, some of the areas we looked at looked a bit rough. And Ron wasn't very comfortable. He said, I don't like this area. I don't like this. So he wasn't really very happy.
We had enough money to buy a secondhand car because we thought, well, we're going to need a car. And he did his driving test and he failed it. So we were walking everywhere, which was crazy. Yeah, that was hard. And then I managed to get myself a job doing cash in hand as an au pair. That was long hours. I would go to work 7am in the morning till 6pm at night.
It just seemed like a drudgery and a struggle.
This is the difficult bit talking about my time in Canada because Ron got quite depressed and he got quite morose and it did affect our relationship.
I just thought, I can't cope with this anymore, I can't do it.
Leaving Ron in Canada was really, really difficult because we both went to the airport together and we said our goodbyes. But he didn't know that I wasn't coming back. And that's why I feel really bad because he had no idea. Yeah, it was difficult.
I actually looked at him and I thought, I don't think I'm ever going to see you again. And that's what I thought. That's just the thought that passed through my mind. I thought, I'm not going to see you again. I didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't know what the future had. And I just didn't want to break his heart by saying I'm not coming back.
I was not in a very good state at all. I'd lost an awful lot of weight, and I was a bit like a zombie, to be honest.
Mr. Davis knew that I was coming back and he agreed he would meet me because he was actually coming with me and taking my mum down to my sister's wedding in Norfolk.
I thought we were all going, including Noel, but Noel was otherwise engaged when we got back. He said she was up in Scotland doing a course in Scotland, so she wouldn't be coming to the wedding.
And said, I'm not going back to Canada to Mr. Davis.
He wasn't very happy and he said, no, you've got to go back, give the man a second chance.
And he really tried to persuade me and I did consider it. But then I thought, no, I've had enough. I just wanted to be on my own, I think, to be honest. Then when he realizes that's not going to happen, he says, right, we need to find you somewhere to live.
So he's driving me around these bedsits in Harrogate, and it's like, what a bizarre experience. I'm thinking, is this really what's happened to me in my life? I'm ending up in a bedsit.
We communicated by letter because there's a lot of letters going backwards and forwards where he was trying to persuade me to go back and he was really broken hearted and I felt really, I do feel bad about that.
I'd get these boxes with pans and pots and all sorts and think, why has he sent these back?
So we'd find out from my mum, how's Elaine? What's she doing? That sort of thing.
Can't cope with the winters. And I've decided I'm coming back to England for good.
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