To Bedford for a shopping trip with the family in the morning and then an afternoon on paperwork before an evening working on the swimming pool and river frontage as I hear of my Dad’s latest illness. The US public seems to adore Lt. Co. North in the Irangate hearings as a cult figure and seem to forget his efforts to compromise the democratic process
A good night, even though the hours of darkness are getting warmer again. We had our balcony doors open again and it made us quite comfortable. Up, shaved and dressed in my best jeans for a day of paperwork. Breakfast of boiled egg, then some honeycomb on a piece of toast, with apple juice to drink. Debbie to school, then Di to take Daniel and Daniella for a shopping trip to Bedford. She bought Dan and I some good clothes for our summer holiday and did well at the shops. Also bought a large bag of bird seed and some chlorine test tablets for me, but was unable to get any more post caps for our moorings.
I worked all morning on some letters to Hunts DC about the sewage overflow and others about the new roof for my parent’s mobile house. Also phoned and talked to them. Dad has not been very well and thought it was another urinary complaint, but the Doctor thinks it is a mild attack of Diabetes. He awaits some more urine tests and must cut down on his sugar intake. Made my own lunch of pork pie salad with apple pie & ice cream to follow. Felt a bit fed up being inside and working on my papers on such a fine day, but the work must be done. Worked on this afternoon, paying bills, reconciling bank and credit card accounts and chasing the receipt of funds for a unit trust sale made two months ago. Updated my investment summary and then waded through my forestry accounts and files to try to make sense of the latest reports before our trip to Wick on Tuesday. Ended the afternoon by filing multitudes of documents and trying to get valuable papers back into the fireproof safe and cabinets. Studied a lawn book today and the job of getting a first-class lawn prepared and sown for the games lawn is a bit daunting to say the least. Tea of sausages and awful tinned potatoes and carrots and ice cream after. This evening I sowed the riverside lawn above the boat harbour with seed (including dwarf ryegrass), then shaped and rammed in three mooring posts along this new bank. Used the dragline (again) to clear away the latest weed shoots, which are trying to get a hold, then watered the riverside lawns to give the seed a chance to germinate. Late in to put the car away and lock up and had to tend the swimming pool, which had stopped heating with a blocked filter. A warm, but cloudy day, getting gradually more humid as dusk fell. We are in the warm sector of a week frontal system, but I think the continental anticyclone is going to win the tussle and give us a few warmer & drier days. Main news story today is of a £1 million plus damages award to a man who suffered brain damage due to surgical malpractice. In the Geoffrey Archer libel case, a prostitute gives evidence that he paid her for sex. More colourful testimony from Lt. Co. North in the Irangate hearings. There is a growing ‘pro-Olly’ fad of US public opinion, that greets his appearances, of people who seem to forget his efforts to compromise the democratic process. A homosexual murderer, who strangled four men he had picked up for sadistic satisfaction, has been given as many life sentences. He had a diary of 700 names of his contacts, including comedian Kenny Everett.