Reorganising The Hayling View dining tables so that we could use them better in the kitchen and then writing to all of the houses featured in the book to invite their response and eventually gain their support before a meeting with a local journalist and then a joint visit with Percy Meyer to known electors to support my nomination. The Queen Mother is distressed that award she opened a year ago now closes due to NHS cutbacks and ken Baker and Thatcher disagree over education policy. Bush leads the race for Republican nomination for the US presidency
Slept well again and then up for breakfast. After dressing, I insisted that Diana and I sorted out the tables in the kitchen. We put the Ercol refectory table back in position, changed our newer seat cushions onto Mr & Mrs Jackson’s old chairs and the combination was far more suitable for the kitchen. Now there is sufficient space with five people sitting so that you can walk through the room. We put the extending table in the dining room temporarily and then I phoned the restoration firm and cancelled Friday’s collection. The job they were to do was expensive and it would have been unsatisfactory as a partial job anyway. This morning, I typed up letters to all of the Little Paxton properties featured in my book, enclosing a section with their house featured and inviting their response. This will fulfil a dual function of getting any further input for the publication, and acquainting the owners with me for later help in the local election. Lunch in our new table configuration, which was most satisfactory, and then I continued my letters after. Then the meeting with the St Neots Weekly News journalist, who I helped considerably with the article she was writing on the village. I will expect some election coverage in return, when the time comes.
Then, later, I started printing out the letters and collating the history extracts that were to go with them. This lasted half before and after tea, but I changed and got myself ready for my evening’s task. Percy Meyer was late, but phoned to say so and then we went round all known Alliance supporters to get their signatures for my local election nomination. We got 5 tonight and would have got 7, but two supporters have left their houses. Little Paxton has such a transient population that it makes things quite difficult. News today is of a government order to outlaw the sale and lease-back of council properties. The Queen Mother has expressed her distress over the closure of an old people’s ward that she only opened a year ago. To save £30,000 the beds are empty and ward closed, due to NHS cutbacks. There has been a leak of an embarrassing letter that shows a major split of views between the Prime Minister and Kenneth Baker. She did not like the plans for testing pupils and the role of the Local Education Authorities. US Vice President, George Bush, is leading the race for Republicans, but the race is wide open for the Democrats.