Spending time in the conservatory becoming alarmed at the biggest infestation of black-fly and green-fly yet on the hibiscus
Spending time in the conservatory becoming alarmed at the biggest infestation of black-fly and green-fly yet on the hibiscus

The morning after a very busy day, equally occupied catching up with administrative matters and also spending time in the conservatory becoming alarmed at the biggest infestation of black-fly and green-fly yet on the hibiscus. This evening, progressing my local election campaigns.

Today felt very much like the morning after the night before and I had lots of catching up to do and not much chance of doing it. The main problem was the financial planning and accounts that had not been attended to in recent times. I gathered together all of my receipts and statements and then paid outstanding bills before reconciling my Abbey National and VISA accounts. I discovered that there was a deficit in my cheque account, and this then triggered a flurry of transfers and transactions that took me into St Neots to bring them back into balance. A new action list and sequence of priorities, a few letters and other items of correspondence, and then the inevitable filing to try to bring my affairs back to some sort of normality.

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During the day, I also spent some time in the conservatory and, becoming alarmed at the biggest infestation of black-fly and green-fly yet on the hibiscus, I found some ladybirds in the garden and introduced them inside to try to control them. I dared not use chemicals for fear of hurting the fish. It was another mild day and these little red and black-spotted beneficial insects were out in force on the privet and similar shrubs of a yellow/green colour. Several calls to my colleagues today, tussling with the organisational problems of this May's Local Election campaign and also with the lack of progress on the printing that we need to get out before the election starts. Up late this evening, resuming work on more election artwork as I tried to make sense of the joint Town and District campaign so as to enlighten rather than confuse the electorate.