'Next, I applied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room
where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters.
After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong
information to several trolley loads of documents and lumbered the
staff with weeks of corrective work, I was shown the door by a
tight-lipped manageress. I knew what was coming. Over the
relentless, furious din of machinery, I lip-read the familiar
words: "Lacks the necessary aptitude."' Pam Ayres' early childhood
in Stanford in the Vale was idyllic in many ways, and typical of
that experienced by a great swathe of children born in rural areas
in the immediate post-war years. Though her parents' generation was
harrowed by war, better times were coming. Everything the family
needed was within walking distance in the village, and life with
four older brothers and a sister in their crowded council house was
exceedingly lively. In her late teens, Pam grew dissatisfied with
her life as a Civil Service clerk with only the local 'hop' for
scintillating excitement. Having seen three of her brothers called
up for National Service and sent off to exciting destinations, Pam
felt desperate for travel and adventure. She joined the WRAF and
soon found herself in the Far East. There she began to write in
earnest, and develop the unique talent that would make her one of
Britain's favourite comics... Written with Pam's much-loved
combination of humour and poignancy, The Necessary Aptitude is a
beautifully written memoir of her early years.
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