The shortest day - After a slow start, I was taken by an Ekins land agent to look at an investment opportunity in Little Paxton, after which I had morning coffee with Diana and the girls in town and then purchased more electrical components for my conservatory wiring. Then a visit to Avenue Fisheries this afternoon to buy another Koi, a fishy character which soon settled into the pond and calmed the others down too. Then some time wiring the conservatory and finally appalled by the tragic news of hundreds dying in a plane crash in Scotland with a fireball engulfing the area of Lockerbie.
I slept soundly last night, and Diana had to wake me up twice as I dozed off back to sleep this morning. I just got dressed, had breakfast and fed the Koi before the land agent from Ekins arrived and collected me for a visit to see some local land which was for sale. We went to the other side of the A1 in Little Paxton and looked at the 11 acres owned by the ‘Hippy Commune’ who lived in moored boats on the River Kym and got power from a windmill etc. We met the group leader (who was personally ‘dead against’ selling but had been instructed to ask our price by the others who were getting fed up with the venture). The land agent estimated about £20,000 and will formally confirm a fair offer price to me after doing more research.
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I got home in time to join Diana and the girls for a trip to town. We had morning coffee first and then both did some shopping, as I purchased the electrical components I needed to complete the conservatory wiring. We came home for lunch and then, this afternoon, I went to Avenue Fisheries in Sandy, this time to buy a 22 inch Ohgon Doitsu which had been there a year and is quite a character. I call it Harry, or ‘Old Harry’, and it settled quickly into my pool once I got it home. It was soon acclimatised better than any of them and encouraging the others to get over their nervousness. After tea, I worked on the conservatory, putting up two spotlights in the lantern and then connecting a light switch by the doors into the lounge to remotely operate them. I could connect in a circuit breaker or two tomorrow to complete the job. To bed a little late. Horrific news on the TV tonight was of a jumbo jet crashing into the Scottish town of Lockerbie, setting fire to a petrol station and row of houses. There were 258 passengers on board and so the death toll might be closer to 300. A huge rescue effort is in progress and witnesses tell of a fireball that engulfed the scene as the plane slewed for three quarters of a mile along the A47 blocking it in both directions and cutting off communications. This Pan Am flight was full of US service personnel with their families.