Kinnock and Hattersley eventually became Labour Party leaders
Kinnock and Hattersley eventually became Labour Party leaders

A change of routine for me this Sunday morning as I spent my time outside valeting the range Rover and then wiring up the mooring poles ready for this winter’s floods; all this so that I could take a break from working in my office. All the family by bicycle to the swings on the playing field, but even then I was correcting dog walkers breaking the rules. The TGWU backs Kinnock and Hattersley for the Labour leadership, military coups in Burma and Haiti and the worst hurricane in history is now reported as taking 550 missing in Mexico but the postal service is gradually returning to normal.

Di had to lay in this morning, so I got up to make the morning drinks. Della joined us and then we took a drink to Debbie but Daniel was away with his friend Gary for the night. We enjoyed our fried breakfast and then I spent the entire morning vacuuming, washing and waxing the Range Rover until it looked really good. In fact, I continued after lunch a little while to finish it off as I was determined to stay away from my office until tomorrow for a break. Later, I wired up the mooring poles ready for this winter’s floods. Steven Hicks has taken his boat out of the water and back home. It was a fine and sunny day today and the girls enjoyed the last chance to go swimming before the pool cover goes back on.

This afternoon and evening, I did some work on the lawns top dressing. Sieving and mixing two buckets of loam with one of peat and ½ of sharp sand and then spreading it in the Games Lawn hollows. I mixed three lots to add to the half-dozen or so that Pete did on Friday and, in this way, we should level the lawn over several years. I broke off before tea and we all went by bicycle to the swings at the Parish Playing Field. I had to speak to a couple with a dog in the play area as they take no notice of the rules. Later this evening, I went back and found more owners with dogs off the lead and pulled them up. Even with the sign being put up, we need the new bylaws to control these people as they take no notice of the rules. Another man was playing golf in defiance of the rules. The main domestic news today was of the massive TGWU giving its backing to Kinnock and Hattersley in the Labour Party leadership election. Military coups in both Burma and Haiti with explosions and shots in the former. All but two of Britain’s sorting offices are back to work as the Postal Strike ends gradually. The feared death toll in Mexico is rising with 550 missing after the torrential rain and floods. This ends the worst hurricane in history which is blowing itself out.