With overnight frost giving way to a nice and sunny 9degC day, I spent another full day of time spent on Party matters after trying unsuccessfully to arrange some family chores and choreography ahead of parties. After sorting out my archives and inserting my Little Paxton History Bookmark Adverts into FOCUS's, and arranging delivery rounds I failed to find my helpers at home.
The news is of undercover soldiers in civilian clothes shooting three men dead in Ulster during a bank raid when they were using replica guns and then pumping further bullets into them whilst they were on the ground in a government shoot-to-kill policy. The widow of a man who died for lack of ambulance cover in Crawley does not blame the striking ambulancemen as 30,000 of them demonstrated in Trafalgar Square today and were joined by opposition politicians. Confusion in Rumania as first the provisional government ban the death penalty and then say it will be decided by a referendum. Then they say that the communist party is to be banned and then it is not..... and nobody knows where these revolutions will end.
Another full day of time spent on Party matters. This time I was later than the family to breakfast but dear little Della is so slow that she is always company for my late arrival. I started by trying to plan our family movements. The news from Carol Cranston is that they are not able to transport Debbie to and from her friend's Disco Party next Saturday and we can see no other way of getting her there with Ivy and Arthur's 50th anniversary on the same evening. They prefer to favour their arrangements for a dinner party with a political rival of mine. Then I wanted Di to get the dove and duck food from Sandy as she was going there later, but there was no way that she could get there in the morning and they are closed in the afternoon. None of my plans were working out! I had to leave the doves to scavenge on their own in the garden and I hope that they will be all right.
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This morning I printed out the rest of my Little Paxton History Bookmark Adverts and then inserted then individually into FOCUS's. I then tried to raise certain of my deliverers but the fine weather had them out shopping or something. I then had to sort out my archives before I could go much further. By the end of the day, I had the job done and the leaflets arranged into delivery rounds. This afternoon, I compiled and produced copies of my latest FOCUS copy on disk to send to other MAC-based LibDem activists and packaged them up ready to go. It was all a full day's work and I was shattered as a result. The news tonight is of three men being shot dead in Ulster during a bank raid when they were using replica guns. It seems that undercover soldiers in civilian clothes fired the bullets and witnesses say that the soldiers went over to the injured men and pumped further bullets into them whilst they were on the ground. This revives the fears of a government shoot-to-kill policy. A man died in Crawley today after the arrival of an ambulance was delayed and a Red Cross vehicle did not have resuscitation equipment. The local branch is one of the few that are on strike, but his widow does not blame the ambulance workers. 30,000 ambulancemen demonstrated in Trafalgar Square today in a rally and were joined by opposition politicians. A new-born baby Alexandra is missing after being abducted two days ago in hospital by somebody posing as a Health Visitor. Gorbachev is completing "an extraordinary" visit to Lithuania, arguing with the public and the country's leaders alike and asking them to think a thousand times over before taking a plunge into the dark. Confusion in Rumania as first the provisional government ban the death penalty and then say it will be decided by a referendum. Then they say that the communist party is to be banned and then it is not..... The result of all this is near to anarchy and who knows where these revolutions will end. Today frost giving way to a nice and sunny 9degC day and this will evidently become more cloudy windy and showery later tomorrow after another still and frosty night.