Still nursing my injured thumb which had been bleeding overnight, I returned calls to the local papers over our LibDem stance on the Tories using council tax reserves to soften the unpopular Poll Tax as Percy joined me to plan our forthcoming election campaign. Poor Amy stayed with us ill today as her parents had to work and Della brought two friends home prior to ballet to add to the mayhem.
This evening writing and filing press cuttings as a Welsh weightlifter is found guilty of taking drugs at the Commonwealth Games, an airliner Avianca Flight 52 that crashed recently was left circling until it ran out of fuel and the CBI are now predicting that manufacturing investment is at a long-term low and that we are on the brink of a recession
Back to my own bed but a slightly disturbed night as I had trouble getting comfortable and then Della came into the room and tried to get in our bed after having a bad dream. I showered and washed my hair this morning, favouring my left hand to try to allow my thumb to heal. When I had left the boat, my sleeping bags were covered in bloodstains! I read this morning's mail and then had the job of trying to go through all the last few days' messages and action items and to try and deal with them. Quite a problem to keep my desk in order. I returned phone calls to the Hunts Post and Express and received another from the St Neots Weekly news all about our local Liberal Democrat position on the unpopular Poll Tax. My press release of last week was well-received and has already been covered by Chiltern Radio and the Cambridge Evening News.
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Then Percy Meyer came over and we discussed the forthcoming election campaign and other matters whilst he did some photocopying. Once he had left, I decided that I was unhappy with the extent of the questionnaires returned from my activist newsletter and so I word processed personal letters to all those who had not replied and put them into bundles for Michael, Percy and Derek, keeping some more for me to post directly. This afternoon, we had Amy Law come to stay in the Playroom wrapped up in a duvet and looking sorry for herself. She was not well, and her parents had been to work after using up their holiday entitlement. She was happy watching the Sooty videos. Then later, Della came home with two other friends to change for ballet and there was much commotion and rows until I intervened and settled Della down. Di was running backwards and forwards getting nowhere today! Later, I completed an exercise of clearing my desk to leave a few big action items and then successfully wrote up these last few days' journal of the time spent on the boat.
The evening, taking press cuttings from the local newspapers for two of the past four week's backlog. I sat in the lounge as Diana watched one of her favourite romantic films which I found quite disturbing. The news is of scandal at the Commonwealth Games as a Welsh weightlifter is found guilty of taking drugs to increase his performance. The airliner that crashed recently was said to have been circling and waiting to land at ground control's insistence until it ran out of fuel. The CBI are now predicting that manufacturing investment is at a long-term low and that we are on the brink of a recession.