My Dad Fred with my Mum Grace on their 50th wedding anniversary this year
My Dad Fred with my Mum Grace on their 50th wedding anniversary this year

Daniel’s friends came over to swim in our pool on a very hot day as I had news of my Dad’s cancer taking a turn for the worse and was thinking of him when I was working on John Grosvenor’s election address this evening

I started the day with a fried breakfast and was the only member of the family to have an egg! The ducks have been roaming free lately and we have been unable to get them in at night to produce enough for the others. Daniel worked on the cars, cleaning them and intended to go across to Gary’s in Cambridge for the day, but he missed one bus after another. In the end, his friends came over here to go swimming on a very hot day. I worked all day on the backlog of press cuttings, pasting them into the Little Paxton scrapbook and my career book of cuttings. I have several envelopes full of items from the end of last year and I also had to sort out my fireproof safes to find them all. I telephoned my Mum and Dad today and learnt of the distressing deterioration of my father’s ear and jaw. His ear is virtually closed and now he has a swelling by the jaw which has to be investigated by scanning prior to further operation or radiotherapy. I worked on my press cuttings this evening until John Grosvenor came around quite late and I drafted out and printed on election address for him for next Thursday’s Parish Council By-Election