A very warm day for February that caused me problems for my Koi over-heating in the isolation tanks whilst I had constant interruptions and computer problems before successfully backing up my files and taking the AppleMac over to Cambridge for repair. Charles Frost visited and agreed that the conservatory struts needed to be changed and neighbour John Law came to make photographic copies of all my remaining plates from the Little Paxton scrapbook and the Norris Museum loan set
I had a fair night sleep but was still struggling to make breakfast on time. Today was the last day with my computer before putting it in to be repaired and so I spent the day trying to work on it. Unfortunately, I had been working until 10:30am when it crashed, and I lost my morning’s labour. I had been interrupted by Joan wanted to know how Pete should set up the mole trap and, when I did a demonstration, it snapped and vibrated the desk so that the computer crashed! I spent an hour retracing my footsteps and then Charles Frost arrived to look at the conservatory struts and agreed that they needed to be changed. Then, at lunchtime, the builders arrived and spent this afternoon relaying four or five of the pool coping stones. Finally, John Law got here at 2:30pm and we spent two hours together photographing all of my remaining plates from the Little Paxton scrapbook and the Norris Museum loan set.
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It was a very warm day today, for February, and the strong sun heated up the conservatory and I was not watching it because of all the above. My poor carp, in isolation tanks, had their water above 80°F before I realised and so I had to phone for advice which meant that I had to cool them down steadily to get the temperature below 75°F. I eventually got back to my history work and I ended up working on this tonight instead of going to the planning committee (at least I phoned Percy instead and he went to hear about the Buckden Marina application). In the end, I had trouble with my computer getting all the hard disk backed up onto diskettes. It was 10:30pm before I could get the job done and could take the machine over to Brian Witt’s house in Cambridge for repair tomorrow. I was back home late to bed again but Di was still awake after midnight and so we went to bed together. I had no time to monitor the news tonight.