As Di and I start our diets, the snow means no riding for Debbie who plays with Della in the snow for a short while. The day for me spent on electronic navigation around the East Anglian coast with PC Wayplanner for which I also bought new charts and a current Almanac from L H Jones. More US air attacks are deemed necessary before a Gulf land offensive.
With the snow on the ground and just about everything cancelled, we had a nice lay in before tackling a fine fried breakfast. Despite this offering, Diana is determined to make me slimmer and remove this gross "tummy" that is hindering movement at the moment. I am struggling to get back below 14 stone but am pleased that she is applying the same rigours to her own weight and figure which means better health for her as well. No horse-riding for Debbie and so she was out with Della playing in the snow with sleds; but that did not last long as it is still bitterly cold.
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I spent most of the day "playing" with my computerised navigational planning programme and, needing some up-to-date charts and a 1991 nautical almanac, I opted to drive over to St Ives and buy them from L.H. Jones who were open today. The roads were much clearer after plenty of salting and gritting by the council and so the journey there and back was quite without incident. This made me confident that the schools would be back open again tomorrow and so I told the family so. After lunch, I worked on at the navigational computer project, first correcting the new charts, and then working out the best routes to follow round East Anglia before keying in all the waypoints. I am still learning the full extent of the Wayplanner facilities and it is quite impressive and useful. To bed very late in the end, after un-winding by watching television in the lounge. The Americans seem to have concluded that a further period of air attacks is needed before launching a land offensive and this could take the Gulf War into the season of hotter weather and an Arab religious festival.