Tired after recent late nights and arduous gardening sessions, I managed some correspondence before two salesmen from the office fitters arrived and spent an hour and a half presenting their portfolios and incorporating my requirements. Lunch with Di and Daniel, after Dan had been studying for his exams in a chilly room and then preparing my tax information for my accountant this afternoon before popping out to post letters and adverts and get gardening equipment sharpened and spares collected.
Another late evening, this time my last at Priory Doom now that Sally Guinee can take over from me. Frantic efforts in Europe to end the boycott of British Beef, another IRA bomb kills an ex-RUC man near his north Belfast home. And Gorbachev faces a renewed explosion of ethnic violence in the troubled Central Asian republic
I was again tired this morning - mentally and physically - after a series of late nights and arduous gardening sessions. At least I am fit and my weight is well under control now. I typed some correspondence before two salesmen from the office fitters arrived and spent an hour and a half presenting their portfolios and asking what my requirements were. They then took plenty of measurements and sketches so as to go back to their office and get their designers to do some plans for me to see in a week of two's time. After this, I fed the doves and fish but did not need to do any watering in view of the rain we had yesterday.
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I spent the rest of the morning updating my journal before an early lunch with Daniel and Di. Dan had been studying this morning and was getting a bit fed up with the work and the fact that the weather was a bit chilly and the rooms were uncomfortable without the house heating on. This afternoon, I prepared my tax information for my accountant and some other items of correspondence and then went out to do a number of chores. I posted letters and delivered some others by hand, put details of our gardening position in three newsagents and also on a public service notice board, dropped in on my accountants and the job centre and finally went over to Great Paxton to get some mower blades sharpened and collect the parts to repair my strimmer so as to be ready for the gardening work this coming weekend.
Back at teatime and joined the family for the meal. After this, I rested for a while reading this month's Motorboats Monthly before I updated my journal and got ready for this evening's meeting of Priory Doom. This will be my last as I will now hand over to Sally Guinee who is resident in Priory and is also a District Councillor. It was raining today and quite chilly and June has been a complete change from the dryness of May. The Priory meeting did not start until 8.00pm and then went on until nearly 10.00pm and so I did not manage to catch up on any sleep tonight.
There were frantic efforts in Europe to end the boycott of British Beef and, in the end, the government had to agree to issue certificates for cattle in BSE-free herds as the only ones good enough for export. Now other European countries will be getting safer beef than that for home consumption! This was something of a climb-down for the British government, but it might yet provide the means of bringing back consumer confidence if they carry the same system through to domestic sales. Another IRA bomb kills an ex-RUC man near his north Belfast home. Gorbachev faces a renewed explosion of ethnic violence in the troubled Central Asian republics as the death toll in two days of rioting in Kirghizia rises to 40.