A full day working on the pre-and post-enclosure chapters of my history book whilst welcoming a visit from the triumphant Percy who is making progress in his County Council election plans. Debbie and Della’s colds were not quite bad enough to miss school and Diana returned from delivering my Focus leaflets locally whilst discovering that Mrs Eaton next door has left home as the latest local marital separation. Edwina Currie retracted her egg salmonella statement unconvincingly and barristers look like losing their monopoly of audience in the High Courts to solicitors
I was awake early this morning prior to getting up and dressed in time for breakfast at 7:30am for a change. I learnt then that the girls had already started their meal which accounted for the fact that they had always finished it when I came down! Today I had a good full day at my desk, as I completed spelling check some corrections of my Pre-Enclosure History book section and then printed out and posted on the figures as illustrations. I then organised, started and nearly finished the Post Enclosure chapter on the Enclosure Act itself and the aftermath. By the end of the day, I had scanned for pictures in for minor editing and I just need to assemble the whole and check it for spelling errors before printing it out. I broke off at 10pm to write up my journal and put the Little Paxton Scrapbook safely back into the fire proof safe. I had a few calls and interruptions today including a visit from a triumphant Percy who had been to see the Southoe housing problems and was due his Hunts Post interview.
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His Buckden SDP friend had agreed to be his agent, thus closing off the choice that the party will oppose us, and he gave me the news that his County Council opponent will be an out of ward candidate from Perry which both mean that Percy’s chances of election are increasing all the time. Diana delivered my focuses to round one this morning and learned of even more marital upset in the neighbourhood as Mrs Eaton next door has left home. She then painted the ceiling in the playroom this afternoon. Debbie and Della both had colds today, but we just fit enough to go to school. The US/USSR move to force Israel to the negotiating table with the Palestinians after which the Israeli leader does not rule out the negotiations for the first time in the spring. The former health minister, Edwina Currie, has retracted her statement that most egg production in Britain was affected by salmonella. She now says she meant to say ‘a significant proportion of hens that lay eggs are affected’ which is all a bit incredible. Legal reform proposals published in green papers today call for the end of the Barrister’s right off monopoly on audience so that Solicitors could make court appearances at any level. This comes after the solicitors’ monopoly on conveyancing has already been broken.