St Neots Museum today up and running as a result of much hard work and fund-raising
St Neots Museum today up and running as a result of much hard work and fund-raising

A dry day, after overnight rain, which allowed Pete and I to complete the painting to protect my steel Riverside quay heading. During the day, I returned phone calls and had conversations with two journalists, and others, and a visit from the local Cubs organiser to plan and agree the timing and content of my little history talk.

This evening, to host and chair a St Neots Museum fundraising committee in my office before catching up on my journal. An exodus of East Germans through Hungary and Austria to West Germany as its German reunification and Europe restructuring begins

There was some rain overnight that it had stopped and dried out by this morning. I went straight out out to organise the completion of our river frontage painting job. I popped over to Ibbett’s for more paint and then completed the first coat by 11am, and Pete followed on to finish the topcoat by the time he went. In the meanwhile, I had the cubs organiser around and met her for a while to resolve when I will be giving a Little Paxton history talk to her pack and the ground I am to cover. There followed a half-dozen phone calls with me returning calls after taking recorded messages.

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I had two separate journalists involved covering my planning motion story and then a number of queries concerning my acquisition of Heronshaw and I now await the contracts in the morning. By this time, it was lunch and then I took a break by walking out, along the Haylings footpath and across to Mill Meadow to see the river frontage from that side and it looked all right. The weather has become overcast and humid and so I was quite comfortable enough in shirt sleeves.

Once back, I had to clear up my office and arrange it for tonight’s meeting of the St Neots Museum fundraising committee. I still had to drive out to Kimbolton and Offord carrying Debbie back and forth to her horse riding; but I was ready for my visitors. I had quite a good meeting, even though the secretary had to send her apologies. There were a range of some quite outlandish schemes, but we settled for a realistic plan and some suggested dates for the campaign to begin. The meeting ended at 9:30pm. Later, I had to write my Journal for these last two days before watching the TV news.

The Democrats have warded off the chances of disagreement on defence policy and financial management. The main story is the continuing exodus of East Germans who travel through Hungary and Austria to West Germany. The development is reopening the spectre of German Reunification and the restructuring of Europe.