Concentrating on the lawns and gardening on this colder day with the north-easterly fresh breeze and removing the cover from The Lady and folding it up so that it is ready for preparing it for sale. I am now meeting Mr Amis to review Heronshaw in a week or two.
The USA/Soviet arms talks agree a new pact that will reduce further the nuclear weapons on both sides after US President Bush first hesitated about the lack of similar agreement on conventional arms reductions
I had been very late to bed last night after having had far too much to eat and drink and what with this and having worn myself out on all that raking yesterday, I felt rather fragile this morning. Nevertheless, I was keen to get on as I had so much to do and so got showered and dressed and just about got down to breakfast before the others had left the table. It was a dull day and colder again. It is getting colder each day with these winds from the north-east. At least it was dry and so I started on the games lawn with the rotary mower.
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Di had to take Deborah to Horse riding and then Della over to play with Caroline, near Cambridge and I asked Di to get some petrol for my mowers while she was out. Unfortunately, she misunderstood me and came back with none and, whilst she went straight out again to get some, I had run out in the meantime! I therefore spent some time at my desk writing another couple of letters and then updating these last two days' journal. Then Di was back to make the morning coffee, and, after that, I carried on mowing. I first used the rotary mower on the games lawn to remove the tough grass seed heads and then went over it with my Atco Clubman multi-bladed cylinder mower. The result was very impressive as I had removed just about all of the weeds with my hand-weeding. I think that all combinations of weed killers and hand weeding will be the answer to containing the weeds. I then broke off from mowing and used the heavy-duty cutters to cut up some more of the branches that are fouling the grass by the riverside. It was then back to the mowing and I did all the lawns of The Hayling View during a long work session before and after lunch.
Daniel also came out to help me and we removed the cover from The Lady and folded it up so that it is ready for my job of preparing it for sale. Later this afternoon and evening, I trimmed all the lawn edges and then tidied up the headless daffodil plants in the formal beds by tying the loose stems and leaves in knots. The beds are now ready for the first of the bedding plants to be put out as soon as I think the weather is going to be frost-free. All this took until dusk and I came in quite shattered at the end of it. I had a telephone message from Mr Amis of Potter Heigham who was responding to my request to quote for Heronshaw. I called him back and have arranged to meet him up there early the week after next. The news from the USA/Soviet arms talks is of agreement on a new pact that will reduce further the nuclear weapons on both sides. After first hesitating about the lack of similar agreement on conventional arms reductions, US President Bush then joined the others in hailing it as a breakthrough.